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Exhibition Tours
Higher Ground: A Century of the Visual Arts in East Tennessee
Stephen Wicks, KMA’s Barbara W. and Bernard E. Bernstein Curator, and other local artists, historians and curators, offer an insider’s perspective on the exhibition.
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Public Talks and Lectures
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Joanna Higgs Ross: Higher Ground artist
Dine and Discover
May 23, 2012 Watch Video
Mark Banker and Steve Cox speak about Emma Bell Milest
Mark Banker and Steve Cox speak about Emma Bell Miles: The Idea of “Appalachia” and East Tennessee’s Elusive Past
March 7, 2012 Watch Video
Knoxville: The Fragmented City
Dr. Bruce Wheeler speaks on "Knoxville: The Fragmented City"
February 1, 2012 Watch Video
Joanna Higgs Ross
Joanna Higgs Ross Studio Visit
November 8, 2011 Watch Video
Robert Booker speaks about Ruth Cobb Brice
Robert Booker speaks about Knoxville teacher, poet, and painter, Ruth Cobb Brice
November 2, 2011 Watch Video
Paintbrush for Hire: The American Odyssey of James and Emma Cameron by Dr. Frederick C. Moffatt
Paintbrush for Hire: The American Odyssey of James and Emma Cameron by Dr. Frederick C. Moffatt
October 5, 2011 Watch Video
Higher Ground a Century of Arts in the East Tennessee by Dr. Patricia Rutenberg
Higher Ground a Century of Arts in the East Tennessee by Dr. Patricia Rutenberg
September 7, 2011 Watch Video
Valerie Cassel Oliver, Sarah Jane Hardrath Kramer Lecture 2011
Valerie Cassel Oliver presents the 2011 Sarah Jane Hardrath Kramer Lecture at the Knoxville Museum of Art
April 12, 2011 Watch Video
Steve Cotham on 19th Century East Tennessee Artists
Steve Cotham is the manager of the McClung Historical Collection located in the East Tennessee History Center.
April 6, 2011 Watch Video
Xiaoze Xie: Amplified Moments
Curator Dan Mills talks about the exhibition "Xiaoze Xie: Amplified Moments" at the Knoxville Museum of Art, organized by the Samek Art Gallery at Bucknell University.
March 10, 2011 Watch Video
Xiaoze Xie, Artist Lecture
Artist Xiaoze Xie talks about his artwork and his exhibition at the Knoxville Museum of Art. Sponsored by the University of Tennessee, Visual Arts Committee.
March 9, 2011 Watch Video
Peter Sarkisian: Video Works, 1996-2008
Artist Peter Sarkisian talks about his artwork and the exhibition at the Knoxville Museum of Art, organized by the Wyoming Art Museum.
February 9, 2011 Watch Video
David Bates: The Katrina Paintings
Artist David Bates talks about his exhibition David Bates: The Katrina Paintings on exhibit at the Knoxville Museum of Art, organized by the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art.
October 29, 2010 Watch Video
Baldwin Lee
Artist Baldwin Lee talks about his work in photography and the exhibition Vision, Language, and Influence at the Knoxville Museum of Art.
May 19, 2010 Watch Video
Glenn Adamson, The End of the Line: Art at the Margins of Industry
2010 Sarah Jane Hardrath Kramer Lecture at the Knoxville Museum of Art
April 6, 2010 Watch Video
Uncertain Terrain: Selections from the KMA Collection
Stephen Wicks, KMA Curator, walks through Uncertain Terrain: Selections from the KMA Collection
April 16, 2010 Watch Video
Anne Wilson: Wind/Rewind/Weave
Anne Wilson talks at the Knoxville Museum of Art about the exhibition Anne Wilson: Wind/Rewind/Weave.
January 23, 2010 Watch Video
Marilyn Kushner
Marilyn Kushner, curator and head of the department of prints, photographs and architectural collections at the New York Historical Society, discussing the art of Devorah Sperber.
November 18, 2009 Watch Video
Anton Vidokle
Anton Vidokle talks about Exhibition as School at the Knoxville Museum of Art. Presented in collaboration with A.S.A.P. - The Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present.
October 22, 2009 Watch Video
Linda Weintraub
Linda Weintraub is the author of Avant-Guardians: Texlets in Ecology and Art (2006 – ongoing), In The Making: Creative Options for Contemporary Artists (2003), and Art on the Edge and Over: Searching for Art’s Meaning in Contemporary Society (1995).
September 24, 2009 Watch Video
Alice Aycock
Alice Aycock is a sculptor who builds "large semi-architectural projects which deal with the interaction of structure, site, materials, and the psychophysical responses of the viewer ..."
September 10, 2009 Watch Video
Public Art in Knoxville
Public Art Panel Discussion at the Knoxville Museum of Art with artist Alice Aycock and the
Public Art Task Force with
David Butler, Jason Brown,
Liza Zenni,
and Norman Magden.
September 10, 2009 Watch Video
Dine and Discover: Mark Banker
Mark Banker presents a discussion titled "Viewing the TVA / Kingston Coal Ash Spill from Higher Ground or Why East Tennesseans Are Appalachians All" at the Knoxville Museum of Art
August 5, 2009 Watch Video
Conserving a Culture:
Post-Katrina New Orleans
Nationally-recognized painting conservator Richard White and Ogden Museum Curator David Houston present a talk titled Conserving a Culture: Post-Katrina New Orleans at the Knoxville Museum of Art.
February 1, 2009 Watch Video
Tobi Kahn: Art as Transformation: Thinking Visually
Tobi Kahn is a painter and sculptor whose work has been shown in over 40 solo exhibitions and over 60 museum and groups shows ...
January 25, 2009 Watch Video
Dine and Discover: Steve Cotham on artist Catherine Wiley
Steve Cotham is the manager of the McClung Historical Collection located in the East Tennessee History Center.
November 5, 2008 Watch Video
Dine and Discover: Frederick Moffatt
Frederick Moffatt discuss the history of art in Knoxville, and explore how the development of Knoxville’s art communities changed in relation to Knoxville’s growth.
October 8, 2008 Watch Video
Dine and Discover: Jack Neely
Jack Neely discuss the history of art in Knoxville, and explore how the development of Knoxville’s art communities changed in relation to Knoxville’s growth.
October 8, 2008 Watch Video
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Higher Ground Exhibition Tour
Higher Ground: A Century of the Visual Arts in East Tennessee is a new permanent installation celebrating the art and artists of Knoxville and the surrounding region.
The fascinating and complex story of our area’s rich artistic heritage and its connections to the larger currents of American art are largely unknown, and certainly underappreciated. Highlights of the new installation include important works by Catherine Wiley and Lloyd Branson, pioneering artists who introduced Knoxville audiences to Art Nouveau, Impressionism, and other international art movements of their day; Joseph and Beauford Delaney, two of America’s most significant African-American artists; and works from the 1950s and 1960s by the Knoxville Seven, a group of progressive artists connected to the University of Tennessee who transformed and energized the area’s artistic climate.
Art from more recent decades includes mixed-media objects by visionary sculptor Bessie Harvey along with a selection of works by leading area artists whose creations represent the quality and diversity of art-making in the region today.
Stephen Wicks, KMA’s Barbara W. and Bernard E. Bernstein Curator, and other local artists, historians and curators, offer an insider’s perspective on the exhibition and comment on the artistic and historical importance of many of the featured artists and their works.