Knoxville’s Public Arts Committee is taking concrete steps to provide a $15,000 aesthetic upgrade to a pedestrian staircase near World’s Fair Park. It’s one of a handful of current projects …
Underground Art: Arts and Culture Alliance Unveils New Knox Mural Under Gay Street
The silhouettes of buildings in downtown Knoxville and the city’s mountainous skyline are suggested in bright geometric shapes and faux-photographs in a new mural buried under Gay Street. Painted last …
Local Organizations Team Up to Acknowledge the Life and Work of Knoxville-Born Painter Beauford Delaney
Beauford Delaney left Knoxville in 1924, when he was 23. He went to Boston, then New York, and finally to Paris, where he lived from the early 1950s until his …
UT Sculptor John Douglas Powers’ Big Spring Includes Guggenheim Grant, KMA Show
It’s already been a big spring for John Douglas Powers. Powers, an assistant professor of art at the University of Tennessee since 2013, was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in early …
UT Art Prof Jason Sheridan Brown Makes Sculpture Out of the Landscape
A bucket of coal sits next to a bucket of rock candy in sculptor Jason Sheridan Brown’s studio. Perhaps nowhere outside Santa’s workshop would you find this combination of work materials. …