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Market Square District Association Announces
Knoxville, TN -April 4 Market Square, Gay Street, & Old City art galleries and businesses are celebrating another First Friday with specials and events.
The 2008 Dogwood Arts Festival will be featuring its annual Gallery Walk during Friday Friday. The Gallery Walk participates will be highlighted with dogwood blossoms inside windows as well as balloons outside. DAF Gallery Walk Participants include: Abode, Arts and Cultural Alliance, The Basement Gallery, Art Market Gallery, Bliss, Bliss Home, Deka Bakari Gallery, Three Flights Up, Unarmed Merchants, Vagabondia, World Grotto Gallery, and Yee-Haw Industries
For more information about the Market Square District and special events, visit www.knoxvillemarketsquare.com.
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bliss home will host a reception for artists Terrie Boruff-Yeatts and Stephanie Turpin. Snacks and beverages will abound as bliss home will be celebrating its 3rd year in business, bliss will be celebrating its 5th year in business and owners, Lisa and Scott, will more than likely be welcoming baby Oliver into the world.
Terrie Boruff-Yeatts' tribal
and urban archetypes are combined in her paintings to create a
conceptual workspace merging dream and nature in a unified artistic
sphere with many destinations. These destinations, or dimensional
intersections, are starting points for stories that pose questions
concerning the junction of dream life and the workday world. Layered
totemic symbols drawn from life are used as guides through dreams and
reality driving toward a threshold or epiphany fraught with drama,
anticipation and apprehension.
She
envisions this body of work as a symbolic narrative. The allegory is
told through the systematic application of broad strokes creating a
labyrinth of depth with colors that are active and still. The paintings, as a group and individually, portray a passage or progress from one stage of life to another.
Stephanie Turpin's drawings are the result of a media exploration course that she took at the University of Tennessee. They are comprised of organic forms rich in color and texture that emerge from an additive and subtractive color process. She enjoys creating them on a small scale that is intimate and invites the viewer to take a close look.
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The Arts & Culture Alliance presents "Illumination: Works of
Vibrant Imagination", a new exhibition featuring the works of Katie
Gamble, Jessica Gregory, and Zophia Kneiss. At the opening reception
on First Friday, March 7, Gamble's impressionistic oils and Gregory's
colorful acrylics, coupled with Kneiss' metal art, create an elaborate
garden on the first floor of the Emporium through which visitors can
wander. The artists hope to inspire imagination and personal
interpretation of works in everyone who views the exhibit, which will
be on display March 7-28 at the Emporium Center.
The opening reception on Friday, March 7, from 5-9pm, is free and open
to the public, and complimentary hors d'oeuvres will be served.
For more information, please contact the Arts & Culture
Alliance at (865) 523-7543 or visit our website at www.knoxalliance.com.
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bliss 24 Market Square (888) 809-2424
bliss will feature the pottery of Bill Lee, a member of the Southern
Highlands Craft Guild. Bill creates functional art pottery with a
sculptural twist. All of the work is made from slabs of earthenware
clay, cut and assembled into bowls, teapots, vases and even right- and
left-handed mugs. |
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Specials on First Friday! ALL WINE 10% OFF Sake Sale 15% OFF ALL Bacardi Rums 20% OFF $8.99 Fire Sale: Segura Viadus Cava Castano Monastrell Yecla La Playa Merlot Roncier Pinot Noir Primaterra Pinot Grigio Primaterra Primitivo Dyed-in-the-Wool Sauv Blanc Gnarly Head Old Vine Zinfandel In Fine Cotes-du-Ventoux Red
No additional discounts or promotions available on these products
Downtown Wine + Spirits is close to the corner of S Gay and Wall Street across the street from Mast General Store.
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Unarmed Merchants - 129 S Gay Street (865) 549-5769
Unarmed
Merchants would like to welcome you to our April First Friday Event.
April's First Friday showers us with talent from
our featured artists Teresa Arrington and Al Mercenkus . Teresa Arrington creates magic with color and
light through her stained glass work as she brings her beautiful glass panels,
sun catchers and lamps to our gallery.
Al
Mercenkus , former President of the Tennessee Artist Association, captures the
beauty and simplicity of everyday life on canvas with vivid oil paints. Also on
display are the works by Elaine Carpenter, Calvin Chappelle, Wes Rader, and
Caleb Wilson, as well as the regular faire of functional art from around the
world, featuring special pieces from Tennessee artisans.
Unarmed Merchant's
First Friday will be catered with food from Pasta Trio and wine from Downtown
Wine and Spirits. |
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Oodles Uncorked - 18 Market Square - (865) 521-0600 Sara Schwabe & Her Yankee Jass Band will be playing at Oodles for First Fridays! Enjoy great food and great music.
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April 4- April 27 the Art Market
Gallery in downtown Knoxville spotlights two members as Featured
Artists: Pat Delaschmit-woven tapestry, and Jim McGie, wood. The
Gallery will host a First Friday Reception, 6-9pm, on April 4 for these
artists and to launch several events. Regular Gallery hours are 11-6,
Tuesday - Saturday, and 1-5 Sunday. www.artmarketgallery.net
Other April events at the Gallery: A Silent Auction featuring members art will be held at the Gallery April 1-April 13.
The Art Market Gallery will be open
until 9pm during the Rossini Festival on Saturday April 19. There will
be a special drawing for a gallery gift certificate that day.
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Tomato Head - 12 Market Square - (865) 637-4067 "Broken Show" by Jason Oaks, an exhibit of new works on wood panel,
created during his recovery from a shattered arm will be on view at the
Downtown Tomato Head Restaurant from April 5th thru May 2nd, 2008. |
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The UT Downtown Gallery will host Fabrication on exhibition by Crystal Wagner, MFA candidate in Printmaking. Opening First Friday, April 4th with an Artist's Reception from 5:00pm until 9:00pm. The exhibit will be on display through April 10th.
Join us at the gallery April 4th from 6-9pm as we host a reception for artist Crystal Wagner.
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Abode 15 Market Square - (865) 523-5090
Abode is featuring the art of Meghan Watermeir from Memphis Tennessee.
Meghan uses multiple paint mediums and often paints on wooden panels
rather than paper or canvas.
Her subject matter deals with man-made
patterns. Stop by and say hello to Meghan and check out all of Abode's
new merchandise for Spring. As always, the wine is on the house and
the home goods are on you. |
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GO HOG WILD!
Yee-Haw Industries invites you to our Spring Super Sale from 2pm-9pm during First Fridays in April and May. Sale items include $10.00 clearance tee-shirts and discontinued stationery starting as low as $1.00.
Items perfect for spring gift giving include Spring Trees, Feathered Friends, Lumberyard, Sprig, Flowering Trees of Appalachia, and Farmer's Market note cards. New apparel items featured include Novelty T-shirts, Tree-T shirts, and Carnival Food Tote Bags.
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and planning for next Friday...
Here is something to be happy about! The Dogwood Arts Festival would like to invite
you to help us kick off the Market Square festivities on Friday, April 11, 2008 from 4-8.
We will be offering free alcohol wristbands as well as $1 off all drinks! Kick back and
stay a while as you enjoy music by The Coveralls on the Market Square stage.
Please bring this announcement or your business card/employee ID to receive the
special offers!
About First Friday:
The highly
successful First Friday event, now downtown-wide, began in October of 2003. On
the first Friday of every month the Market Square
District, Gay St including the 100-Block and Old City merchants offer something special for all
downtown residents and visitors. Promotions include artist receptions, gallery
openings, special food and drink offerings and more. Enjoy First Friday every month.
Market Square District Association
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