The Knoxville Museum of Art collects, exhibits, and interprets outstanding works by artists of regional, national, and international significance; provides diverse audiences with opportunities for learning and personal growth; and serves as a community gathering and celebration place. The museum is strongly committed to providing experiences that enable people to enjoy and value the visual arts as an expression of the best of a civilized society. The KMA’s landmark facility, designed by renowned architect Edward Larrabee Barnes and opened to the public in 1990, overlooks World’s Fair Park in downtown Knoxville. For more on the museum and its exhibitions and other programs, go to www.knoxart.org.
Ruth Cobb Brice (1899-1972) was born in Knoxville, TN. She was an elementary school teacher, published poet, and a self taught artist. This is her story through the eyes of Knoxville native, Robert Booker.
Lindsay Mican Morgan, curator of the Thorne Miniature Rooms at the Art Institute of Chicago, Dine & Discover lecture at the Knoxville Museum of Art, August 3, 2011. Ms. Morgan's lecture is supported in part by the Virginia M. Raskin Docent Enrichment Fund and Laura and Jason Bales. The restoration of the Thorne Rooms at the Knoxville Museum of Art has been made possible by the generous support of Sherri Lee, in honor of Mrs. McAfee Lee. http://www.knoxart.org
Jack Neely, Dine & Discover lecture at the Knoxville Museum of Art, July 6, 2011
University of Tennessee Scholars Suzanne Wright and Mark Pitner explore the work of Chinese artist Ai Weiwei at the Knoxville Museum of Art
Valerie Cassel Oliver, Sarah Jane Hardrath Kramer Lecture 2011 Valerie Cassel Oliver, is senior curator at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston. Cassel Oliver has organized numerous solo and group exhibitions including the acclaimed Double Consciousness: Black Conceptual Art Since 1970 (2005), Black/Light/White Noise: Sound and Light in Contemporary Art (2007), and, with Dr. Andrea Barnwell Brownlee, Cinema Remixed and Reloaded: Black Women Artists and the Moving Image (2008/09). Prior to her ...
Steve Cotham on 19th Century East Tennessee Artists. Lecture at the Knoxville Museum of Art, April 6, 2011. Steve Cotham is the manager of the McClung Historical Collection located in the East Tennessee History Center in downtown Knoxville. Cotham holds three academic degrees from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, including advanced degrees in history and library science.
Exhibition curator Dan Mills talks about the exhibition "Xiaoze Xie: Amplified Moments" at the Knoxville Museum of Art
Xiaoze Xie talks about his work and the exhibition "Xiaoze Xie: Amplified Moments" at the Knoxville Museum of Art
Peter Sarkisian talks about his artwork at the Knoxville Museum of Art. For fifteen years, Peter Sarkisian has explored the parameters of video installation, always relating themediated experience of video to our actual tactile experience of the world, working in an area between cinema and sculpture. However, this new body of work constitutes a break-through, in that he has invented a new hybrid of video-object using three-dimensional vacuum formed thermal plastic screens. This technology give...
Peter Sarkisian Hover 1999 Mixed media and video projection 35 x 35 x 30 in. (89 x 89 x 76 cm.). On exhibit at the Knoxville Museum of Art during the exhibition "Peter Sarkisian: Video Art, 1996 - 2008" February 11 – April 24, 2011.