Reception:
Friday, Feb. 5, 5:30-8pm*
Feb. 5 - 26, 2010
*Joint Reception
with the "Hot Mess" show in the AVA Main Gallery
AVA Landis
Gallery, 30 Frazier Avenue, Chattanooga
Calling all artists! Take Art
/ Leave Art is a collaborative AVA exhibition that asks participants to
donate as much work as they wish to have displayed, appreciated, and
potentially taken away. We encourage submissions from all areas of
expertise—nothing is too good, too bad, or too weird. If you have a
really nice painting that you would like to give us, that's great, but
we also want your sketches and doodles. It’s not about being the best or
the worst, it's about being a part of an artistic community. All
submissions will be shown, and when the exhibition is over you will get a
goodie bag of art to pay you back for your work. You can even create
art at the reception and hang it up! Don't miss this unique artist
event.
Pay My Rent Art Show
Feb. 12,
2010, 6-10pm
The Rivoli Art Mill, 2301 E. 28th Street, Chattanooga
Rivolian
& other regional artists offer their affordable art for sale in a
"clothesline" format: nothing over $200! Refreshments &
entertainment. For more info, or to inquire about exhibiting YOUR art,
call Niznik at 423.394.0716. Plans are underway for doing this sort of
thing every 2nd Friday of the month...
Pecha Kucha Night Chattanooga, Vol. 5
Feb.
18, 2010, 6:20pm
CreateHere, 55 E Main St, Chattanooga
Pecha
Kucha Night was devised in Tokyo in February 2003 as an event for young
designers/artists to meet, network, and show their work in public.
Free, open to the public. For more information, contact Jessica at
423.413.0392 or jessica@zuddhiyoga.com.www.pecha-kucha.org/night/chattanooga/
Love Supreme
Nov. 20, 2009 - Feb. 20, 2009
Bessie Smith Cultural Center, 200 E.
Martin Luther King Blvd., Chattanooga
Love Supreme, titled after John
Coltrane’s musical masterpiece, showcases more than thirty original
sketches and giclee prints created by Chicago native and emerging
artist, Kevin O’Keith. For more information, contact Carmen Davis at
423.266.8658 or carmenjdavis@bellsouth.net
HOT MESS: AVA'S JURIED MEMBER EXHIBIT
Jan. 8 - Feb. 24, 2010
Reception: Feb. 5, 5:30-8pm
AVA will kick off the 2010 exhibition
season with a juried AVA member show. Annette Cone-Skelton, president
and co-founder of the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia (MOCA GA),
served as the juror for this exhibit, which features thirteen artists
working in the fields of painting, drawing, mixed media, and sculpture:
Chad Adair, Gay Arthur, Clay Binkley, Harriet Chipley, Peter Ewing,
David Fox, Michael Holsomback, Melissa Krosnick, Mary Britten Lynch,
Glenn Merchant, William Payne, Gabriel Regagnon, and Brent Weston.
Photographic Society of Chattanooga
Member's
Choice Photography Exhibit
Dec.15 - Feb. 25, 2010
Reception: Jan. 22, 6-9pm
The Gallery
at Blackwell, Blackwell Automotive, 71 Eastgate Loop, Chattanooga, TN
The
new show features selected framed prints in our newly renovated display
area.
For more information, contact Milton McLain at 423.344.5643 orinfo@chattanoogaphoto.org
Gallery
Hours: Mon-Fri 8am-6pm, Sat 8am-1pm. chattanoogaphoto.org
Charlie Newton Exhibition
Dec.
14, 2009 - Feb. 28, 2010
North River Civic Center, 1009 Executive
Drive, Hixson, TN
The heavily impasto oil and acrylic paintings of
Charlie Newton will be featured at the North River Civic Center. Mr.
Newton states, "I am making paintings that psychologically de-construct
the diaspora for me producing imagery that appears fractured as well as
frenetic. The support consists of found and created objects organized
in such a way as to imply ritual and spirituality. Color and brush
stroke create passages throughout the surface and composition.
Psychological content is established via the organization of geometric
shapes and designs, which I refer to as ‘cultural chips’. These chips
are condensed archetypes that are historical, sometimes personal but
always universal in nature. The figure, be it human or not, creates an
open dialogue about spirituality and emotion. Each painting is a
meditation, or prayer - and speaks to the prophetic in art." For more
information, contact Linda Rugina at 423.870.8924 or 423.870.8045. The
center is open Mon-Sat.
New Spin: the Work of Camille Engel,
Brent Funderburk and Emily Reason
Feb. 1-28, 2010
Opening Reception: Feb. 5, 6:30-8pm (snow
date scheduled for Feb. 6, 2-4pm)
River Gallery, 400 East Second
Street, Chattanooga, TN
In February our exhibiting artists
celebrate beauty, whether found in form or nature’s wonder. The oil
paintings of Camille Engel are an invitation to enjoy the beauty of
creation-all the composition, color, and detail of each object. Her
work seeks to capture the splendor and richness of all that is life.
Artist Brent Funderburk uses a combination of watercolor and acrylic in
his paintings. His rich use of color and form puts a new spin on the
reflection of nature. The functional pottery of ceramic artist Emily
Reason maintains her devotion to quality craftsmanship along with visual
and tactile beauty. Gallery hours: Mon-Sat 10am-5pm, Sun 1-5pm & by
appointment. Open to public, no charge for admission. For more
information, contact us at 423.265.5033 x5 or details@river-gallery.com.www.river-gallery.com
The Gifted Eye of Charles Eames
Feb.
4 - Mar. 4, 2010
Reception: Feb. 4, 6-9pm
Smart Furniture Studio,
313 Manufacturers Rd., Chattanooga, TN
An exhibition of 100 rarely
seen images from the Eames family collection. Charles Eames, together
with his wife and design partner, Ray Eames, are among the most
influential American designers of the 20th Century. They are best known
for their groundbreaking contributions to furniture design,
architecture, industrial design and manufacturing, textiles, and the
photographic arts. Smart Furniture will host a reception for the exhibit
which will feature a presentation by Eames Demetrios, principal of the
Eames Office and grandson of Charles and Ray Eames. For more
information, contact Karen Liwanpo or giftedeye@smartfurniture.com. www.smartfurniture.com/eames/giftedeye.html.
Studio Hours: Mon-Sat 10am-8pm, Sun 12-6pm.
Icebergs and Moonwalks
Feb. 2 -
Mar. 16, 2010
Reception/lecture: Feb. 2, 2010, 5:30-7pm
UTC Cress
Gallery of Art, 752 Vine Street, Chattanooga
This exhibition in the
Cress Gallery of Art features work from two of Nicholas Kahn and Richard
Selesnick’s multi-year photographic projects: The Apollo
Prophesies (2006) and Eisbergfreistadt (2010). Both projects are
whimsical yet topical elaborations upon actual events of history:
respectively, the 1969 NASA Apollo Lunar Mission; and the 1923 arrival
of an iceberg on the shore of the German port city of Lubeck. The
exhibition will include photographs, panoramic photographs, video,
objects, sculpture, costume, and ephemera all created by the artists,
along with documentary video of their process. Free and open to the
public. Hours: Mon-Fri 9:30am-7pm. www.utc.edu/cressgallery.
Talk Portraiture
Feb. 4 - Mar.
31, 2010
Shuptrine Fine Art Group, 2646 Broad Street, Chattanooga, TN
Featuring
portrait artists Mia Bergeron, Dale Crawford, Tom Root, and guest
student artist, Caroline D'Andrea. The artists represent several
different styles and mediums of portraiture and present wonderful
options for those interested in portrait commissions. The gallery will
also exhibit an array of portrait frames by Alan Shuptrine to
complement any style portrait and decor. For more information, please
contact the gallery at 423.266.4453 or for appointment, 423.280.2403, or
visit www.shuptrinefineartgroup.comHours: Mon-Fri 9am-5pm, selected Sat by appointment. In February,
we are open Sat, Feb 6 and Sat Feb 13, 10am-5pm.
CLASSES / WORKSHOPS
The Winter / Spring 2010 schedule of
classes and workshops at AVA is now online! Art Documentation,
Beginning Video, Intro to Flash, Social Networking, and more! Visit www.avarts.org/education
for detailed information.
Mac 101 Workshop (3 hours)
Sat.,
Feb. 13, 9am-12pm
AVA Media Lab, 30 Frazier Avenue, Chattanooga
Macintosh
computers are the preferred platform for professional artists, graphic
designers, photographers, and videomakers around the world. With the
recent switch in the art world from film to digital, knowing how to use a
computer to promote your artwork and prepare materials for festival and
gallery applications is essential. This 3-hour workshop will introduce
participants to the Macs available at our Media Lab, which AVA members
can now use for FREE. Students will learn how to navigate the Mac file
system, organize files, create file folders, play and burn CDs and DVDs,
and use basic Mac and Web applications like iTunes, iPhoto and more.
This is a great class for everyone from complete beginners to people who
just want to brush up on their skills. This course was rescheduled due
to snow--a few spots are available. $45 AVA
Members / $90 non-members
Slide Scanning Workshop (2 hours)
Sat.,
Feb. 27, 10am-12pm
AVA Media Lab, 30 Frazier Avenue, Chattanooga
This
workshop will allow participants to breathe new life into their
antiquated slides by demonstrating how to properly scan both negative
and positive film images to produce a usable high-quality digital image.$30 AVA
Members / $75 non-members. Class limit: 12
Life Drawing Class
Feb. 7 - Mar.
28, 2010,
Sundays 10am-12pm
The Rivoli Art Mill, 2301 East 28th
Street, Chattanooga, TN
With Portland Artist Daniel Liam Gill
Learn
to draw the human figure from a live model in an 8-week introductory
course for the beginner and intermediate alike. Students will work with
gesture (the foundation of figure drawing), contour and form, exploring
the basic steps to better life drawing. Registration required.
Cost:
$397 per person ($350 + $47 model fee) $50 deposit will hold your spot
with the balance due first night of class (this deposit is non-
refundable within 1 week of class). 10 students maximum. Call
423.653.6565 or register online www.figuredrawing.net/register.
For more information, contact Daniel Liam Gill at daniel@figuredrawing.net.
Intro to Web Design (5 weeks / 10
hours)
Tue., Mar. 2-30, 6-8pm
AVA Media Lab, 30 Frazier Avenue,
Chattanooga
This 5-week class will introduce beginning Web
enthusiasts to the pillars of Web design, using Adobe Dreamweaver CS3.
The course will cover the development and proper use of cascading style
sheets to create a design structure, formatting of elements with CSS,
image preparation and optimization, hyperlinking, incorporating text
into a design, file management, and simple HTML coding. Students will be
encouraged to develop and work on a design of their own throughout the
course. $145 AVA
Members / $225 non-members. Class limit: 9
Introduction to
Illustrator (4 weeks / 8 hours)
Thu., Mar. 4-25, 6-8pm
AVA
Media Lab, 30 Frazier Avenue, Chattanooga
Adobe Illustrator is used
widely by graphic designers to create logos and other artwork for
printing and Web use. This introductory class will provide students with
the skills necessary to successfully explore the wide range of
possibilities Illustrator offers to graphic and fine artists. Students
will learn to create vector drawings, work with type and glyphs, and
utilize paths and filters. $125 AVA
Members / $200 non-members. Class limit: 9
Glass Editions: Printmaking from Glass*
Mar. 5-7, 2010
Ignis Glass/Hunter Museum
Join the Hunter Museum
of American Art, AVA and Ignis Glass for this innovative workshop,
taught by Bruce Benefiled & Juanita Tumelaire. The workshop includes
a Friday evening private tour of the Hunter Museum with curator of
education, Adera Causey, which will focus on prints in the museum’s
collection. On Saturday, participants will work in Ignis’ hot shop to
develop a glass plate using a sandblasting method. Participants will
return to the Hunter Museum on Sunday to run their plates through the
traditional printing press. All supplies for this workshop are included
in the registration fee. Participants will walk away with 4-8 limited
edition prints on paper and their glass plate. Two sessions are
available--morning or afternoon. $120 AVA
or Hunter Museum Members. *This workshop is only available
to members of the Hunter Museum of American Art and/or AVA.
Session 1:
Mar. 5, 5-7pm
Mar.
6 & 7, 9am-12pm Session 2:
Mar. 5, 5-7pm
Mar. 6
& 7, 1-4pm
Talk Portraiture Workshop with artist
Mia Bergeron
Mar. 13, 2010, 10am-5pm
Shuptrine Fine Art
Group, 2646 Broad Street, Chattanooga, TN
Artist Mia Bergeron will
provide a portraiture workshop and will concentrate on painting
portraits from life. The workshop is for anyone who is curious to
further their understanding of portrait painting. Students will be
working with a live model. Seeing proportions, color mixing,
composition, lighting, edge treatments and values will all be discussed.
A supply list will be provided and the cost is $150 per person.
For
reservations or more information, please call 423.266.4453.
Collage Mosaic Weekend Workshops
Feb.
27-28 / Mar. 27-28 / Apr. 24-25
Renowned mosaic artist Steve
Terlizzese teaches his unique collage method in intensive workshops
offered on three different weekends Feb.-Apr. Complete 3 mosaic
projects! All meals, materials & use of tools are included. Learn
how to free up your creativity, & silence the voice of the inner
critic. Hotel discounts for out-of-towners. Class size limited to 12
students. Credit cards & barter accepted. See more info at www.mosaicguy.com or contact
Steve at 423.883.7825 or steve@mosaicguy.com.
Intaglio Printmaking @ UTC Wednesdays,
Apr. 7-May 5, 6-8:30pm
University of Tennessee Chattanooga
AVA,
in cooperation with the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, presents
a 5-week intaglio printmaking class for beginning and intermediate
students, taught by Juantia Tumelaire. This class is designed to teach
participants how to apply traditional etching techniques to create a
sequence of related prints. These could take the form of book pages or
comprise a portfolio. Students will receive a materials list, and a fee
payable to the instructor will cover etching plates and proofing paper. $125 AVA
Members / $145 non-members.
George James Intermediate Watercolor on
Yupo Workshop
May 17-21, 2010
Chattanooga State Community
College Humanities building. The workshop is sponsored by the Tennessee
Watercolor Society (TnWS) during their 32nd Biennial Exhibition. Cost is
$350 for TnWS members, $375 for non-members. Deposit of $200 due Mar.
15, balance due Apr. 15. Space limited to 20-25 artists. Register now.
George James is an internationally acclaimed artist from California. He
teaches composition, color, and pattern, using innovative techniques and
tools with watercolor on synthetic paper. Contact: Leslie Dulin at
423.886.6256 or magileslie@comcast.net
Weekly Open Figure Drawing Session
Sundays,
2-5pm
The Rivoli Art Mill, 2301 East 28th Street, Chattanooga, TN
Join
the artists at the Rivoli Art Mill on Sunday afternoons for an open,
non-instructional Figure Drawing Session. A live model will be posing in
fifteen 1-minute gestures, three 5-minute sketches and one 15-minute
pose. Three 30-minute poses will follow with breaks in between for the
model. Cost: $10.00 per person. Please provide your own materials and
easel. The space can hold 10-12 people comfortably. Please arrive 15-20
minutes early to reserve your spot. For more information, contact Daniel
Liam Gill at daniel@figuredrawing.net.www.figuredrawing.net
FESTIVALS / FAIRS / PERFORMANCES
3rd Annual Bar Harbor Fine Arts Festival
Aug. 20 - 22, 2010
Bar Harbor Inn, Newport Drive, Bar Harbor, ME
This unique show in the beautiful heart of Bar Harbor's waterfront begins with a Friday afternoon “artists preview” during which the artists will be available for “up close and personal” meetings—giving customers a chance to get an advanced look at the weekend’s offerings. All work is original and created by the hands of the artists, and many different media will be offered for viewing and for sale. Now accepting artist applications at zapplication.com. For info call Chattanooga artist Marc Fink at 423.266.1300.
LECTURES / MEETINGS / SCREENINGS
Help Launch Chattanooga's Film Future
AFFT / Chattanooga Film Commission Joint Meeting
Feb. 9, 6pm
Choo Choo Centennial Theater, 1400 Market St., Chattanooga
The general public and the creative community of Chattanooga is invited to the next AFFT meeting where the results of a months-long film visioning process will be announced. Last November a public film visioning process was launched to ask the question: “How can we build and sustain a viable film culture in Chattanooga?” At our initial meeting, over eighty attendees broke into small working groups to begin answering this question. Three months and several follow-up meetings later, over 150 citizens have contributed to this process – a mix of filmmakers and film lovers. The result of their collective input is a list of six film initiatives which will be unveiled to the public for the first time. Immediately following will be a panel discussion with representatives from leading local arts agencies on how to best implement the initiatives. Among those represented on the panel will be Create Here, the Arts and Education Council, the Association for Visual Arts (AVA), Allied Arts, the City’s Department of Education, Arts and Culture and the Chattanooga Writer’s Guild.
ChattItUp
Chattanooga Theatre
Center
Tue., Feb. 16, 5:30-8pm
Present yourself or your
organization at ArtsChatt's first open mic night! This is your chance to
share with the commmunity who you are, what you do and how you do it!
You can talk about it, sing about it, or act it out, it's your chance to
shine. To reserve your spot to share, please email peggy@boyd-design-group.com.
Lunch and Learns
Tuesdays/Thursdays
in February, 12-1pm
Bessie Smith Cultural Center, 200 E. Martin
Luther King Boulevard, Chattanooga
In celebration of Black History
Month, the community is invited to bring their brown-bagged lunch to the
Bessie Smith Cultural Center every Tuesday and Thursday throughout
February to view Eyes on the Prize series. This award winning 14-hour
television series produced by Blackside and narrated by Julian Bond
highlights all of the major events of the civil rights movement from
1954-1985. For more information call 423.266.8658.
Soul Cinema
Fridays in February,
7:30pm-midnight
Bessie Smith Cultural Center, 200 E. Martin Luther
King Boulevard, Chattanooga
In celebration of Black History Month,
the Bessie Smith Cultural Center will host SOUL CINEMA every Friday
evening from 7:30 pm - midnight throughout February. For just $10,
moviegoers aged 21 years and older will have an opportunity to view a
classic African American movie, enjoy popcorn, and relish the evening’s
signature drink. The movies scheduled to show at the SOUL CINEMA
include:
Feb. 5: Cadillac Records, starring Adrien Brody and Beyonce
(2008)
Feb. 12: Dream Girls, starring Jamie Foxx and Beyonce (2006)
Feb.
19: Five Heart Beats, starring Robert Townsend and Michael Wright
(1991)
Feb. 26: Michael Jackson’s, This Is It (2009)
The party
begins after the movie, as the SOUL CINEMA will be converted into a
mainstream disco hall. 25% of the proceeds raised from Soul Cinema will
be donated to the Haiti Relief Fund. For more information call
423.266.8658.
Artist Gathering @ Porker's
Second Tuesday of every month
Porker's BBQ, 1251 Market Street,
Chattanooga
Attention: Visual Artists, Sculptures,
Printmakers, Poets, Writers, Jewelry makers, Composers, Pottery makers,
Photographers, etc., There will be a non- political open gathering at
Porker's BBQ. The atmosphere will be one of an open relaxed dialogue
amongst artists of intent, which are encouraged to share their
passionate visions and find fellow artists of like minds, hopefully
developing a common ground for an exciting interaction and meaningful
friendships. Contact Moe Mitchell for specific information or just show
up and take part. Please spread the word! We will be the only people
in the restaurant--he is opening just for us. Twenty people are needed
for a free room.
