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.
Knoxville Museum of Art Executive Director David Butler gives an update of the future plans for the museum in this Dine and Discover from November 6, 2012.
Contemporary Focus is the Knoxville Museum of Art's annual exhibition designed to recognize, support, and document the development of contemporary art in East Tennessee. Each year, the exhibition features the work of artists who are living and making art in this region and exploring issues relevant to the larger world of contemporary art. Mark Bradley-Shoup produces intricately crafted paintings and works on paper based on his own manipulated photographs of local urban environments. The artist...
Gallery talk at the Knoxville Museum of Art on July 18, 2012 on "Streetwise: Masters of 1960s Photography" by University of Tennessee Photography Professor Baldwin Lee. Lee's photographs are in many permanent collections including Museum of Modern Art, New York; University of Michigan Museum of Art; University of Kentucky Museum of Art; Yale University Art Gallery; Museum of the City of New York; and the Knoxville Museum of Art.
Greer received his BFA in Photography from the Maryland Institute College of Art and his MFA from the University of Georgia. Greer's work has been featured in publications such as Smithsonian Magazine, Photographer's Forum Magazine and Flash Forward 2010. He has received grants from the Maryland State Arts Council and was a Critical Mass finalist in 2011. He is currently living in Johnson City, Tennessee, where he is a visiting assistant professor of photography at East Tennessee University.
Beverly Semmes, a Brooklyn-based artist, is known internationally for her unique multi-media installations. She works in contradictions, challenging the conventional definitions of craft and "woman's work" by creating completely non-functional pieces out of traditional materials such as clay and fabric. Treading the line between fantasy and reality, she evokes visions of fairy tales with her massively lush silk and velvet dresses; pieces that evolved from costumes the artist designed for her p...
The Sarah Jane Hardrath Kramer Lecture is an annual event that celebrates the life of Sarah Jane Hardrath Kramer and her passion for the visual arts and learning. It recognizes her many years or tireless, enthusiastic, and dedicated service to the Dulin Gallery of Art and the Knoxville Museum of Art. The endowed fund, established by Sarah's family, friends, and others committed to the arts, supports lectures by a prominent artist, art historian, or expert in a related field. Dr. Don Bacigalupi...
The KMA presents Joanna Higgs Ross, a Higher Ground and Knoxville Seven artist as she talks about her work on May 22, 2012. Shortly after Higgs Ross's arrival in Knoxville, TN in 1956 to attend the University of Tennessee, she became the youngest member of the Knoxville Seven and remained active in the group until returned home to Middle Tennessee in 1961. She currently resided in Nashville, TN and maintains an active studio practice.
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'...
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.
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.
