Knoxville Museum of Art

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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.

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    77 episodes

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Episodes of Knoxville Museum of Art

    • Play Knoxville: The Fragmented City by Dr. Bruce Wheeler - Knoxville Museum of Art on Blip Knoxville Museum of Art episodes on Blip

      Knoxville: The Fragmented City by Dr. Bruce Whee...

      Author and Professor Dr. Bruce Wheeler presents this lecture on Knoxville: The Fragmented City. After World War I, Knoxville began a period of impressive economic growth and vitality. Yet, even as the city grew, its citizens seemed to grow farther and farther apart. In such an environment, it was difficult for intellectual and artistic life to flourish. In a city with a major state university, that institution should have provided leadership for performing, visual, and print artists. Why didn'...

      • Release date
        May 25, 2012
      • Runtime
        34:16
    • Play Dine and Discover: Emma Bell Miles The Idea of "Appalachia" and East Tennessee's Elusive Past - Knoxville Museum of Art on Blip Knoxville Museum of Art episodes on Blip

      Dine and Discover: Emma Bell Miles The Idea of "...

      Steven Cox and Mark Banker's presentation builds upon the background provided by Steven Cox's words and sketches from Emma Bell Miles' Spirit of the Mountains (1905) that present a complex Appalachia. Miles was a 20th Century Chattanooga-based painter and writer. Presented for Dine and Discover on March 7, 2012 by the Knoxville Museum of Art.

      • Release date
        May 25, 2012
      • Runtime
        01:00:38
    • Play Joanna Higgs Studio Visit - Knoxville Museum of Art on Blip Knoxville Museum of Art episodes on Blip

      Joanna Higgs Studio Visit

      The Knoxville Museum of Art docents visit Joanna Higgs Ross, one of the Knoxville Seven, in her home studio. The Knoxville Seven are a group of progressive artists connected to the University of Tennessee who transformed and energized the area’s artistic climate. In this video, she shows several pieces of art from her young adulthood to current pieces and answers questions from the docents along the way.

      • Release date
        May 22, 2012
      • Runtime
        25:39
    • Play Higher Ground: A Century of the Visual Arts in East Tennessee by Dr. Patricia Rutenberg - Knoxville Museum of Art on Blip Knoxville Museum of Art episodes on Blip

      Higher Ground: A Century of the Visual Arts in E...

      Patricia Rutenberg is the author of Justice in the Valley, a history of the federal courts in East Tennessee. Since receiving her doctorate, she has served as the founding director of the Tennessee Presidents Trust and research assistant professor at the University of Tennessee Knoxville, chair of the history department at the Webb School of Knoxville, as a lecturer at area colleges, and is now executive director of Blount Mansion. Rutenberg's talk will offer and in-depth look a Catherine Wile...

      • Release date
        Apr 24, 2012
      • Runtime
        38:15
    • Play Paintbrush for Hire, The American Odyssey of James and Emma Cameron by Frederick C. Moffatt - Knoxville Museum of Art on Blip Knoxville Museum of Art episodes on Blip

      Paintbrush for Hire, The American Odyssey of Jam...

      Dr. Frederick C. Moffatt talks about James and Emma Cameron at the Knoxville Museum of Art's Dine and Discover Program. 10-5-2011.

      • Release date
        Mar 20, 2012
      • Runtime
        50:24
    • Play Robert Booker speaks about Knoxville teacher, poet, and painter, Ruth Cobb Brice - Knoxville Museum of Art on Blip Knoxville Museum of Art episodes on Blip

      Robert Booker speaks about Knoxville teacher, po...

      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.

      • Release date
        Dec 7, 2011
      • Runtime
        33:03
    • Play Lindsay Mican Morgan, Thorne Miniature Rooms Lecture - Knoxville Museum of Art on Blip Knoxville Museum of Art episodes on Blip

      Lindsay Mican Morgan, Thorne Miniature Rooms Lec...

      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

      • Release date
        Aug 9, 2011
      • Runtime
        50:49
    • Play Jack Neely, Dine & Discover - Knoxville Museum of Art on Blip Knoxville Museum of Art episodes on Blip

      Jack Neely, Dine & Discover

      Jack Neely, Dine & Discover lecture at the Knoxville Museum of Art, July 6, 2011

      • Release date
        Jul 7, 2011
      • Runtime
        01:02:31
    • Play Ai Weiwei Discussion - Knoxville Museum of Art on Blip Knoxville Museum of Art episodes on Blip

      Ai Weiwei Discussion

      University of Tennessee Scholars Suzanne Wright and Mark Pitner explore the work of Chinese artist Ai Weiwei at the Knoxville Museum of Art

      • Release date
        May 26, 2011
      • Runtime
        57:00
    • Play Valerie Cassel Oliver, Sarah Jane Hardrath Kramer Lecture 2011 - Knoxville Museum of Art on Blip Knoxville Museum of Art episodes on Blip

      Valerie Cassel Oliver, Sarah Jane Hardrath Krame...

      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 ...

      • Release date
        Apr 25, 2011
      • Runtime
        50:29
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