Art briefs for Jan. 29

Lil Clinard's watercolor "Valentine Poppies" is among the Valentine-themed works showing in a new exhibit coming to the Art Market Gallery.

Maryville students perform with KSO

Students from the Maryville High School orchestra and band and string players from the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra will perform together in a 7:30 p.m. Jan. 31 concert. The concert is at the Clayton Center for the Performing Arts on the campus of Maryville College. The free program includes music by Edvard Grieg and Franz Schubert.

Fisk Jubilee Singers perform at museum

The Fisk Jubilee Singers perform at 7 p.m. Feb. 3 at the Museum of Appalachia in Norris. The concert is held to recognize Black History Month.

The concert is free to museum members, $15 for nonmembers. Before the concert, dinners of beans and cornbread will be sold. Concert seating is limited; those wishing to attend the concert or the meal and concert should call 865-494-7680.

In addition, the a cappella ensemble will present a program for area school groups at 12:30 p.m. Interested teachers should call the museum to register and for ticket prices.

From Nashville's Fisk University, the vocal artists and students travel worldwide, performing traditional African-American spiritual music.

The Museum of Appalachia is located off Interstate 75's Exit 122.

Two exhibits open at Emporium

Two exhibits open next month at the Emporium Center, 100 S. Gay St. Both are presented by the Arts & Culture Alliance.

The exhibit "Forward" will feature the work of the studio art faculty at Pellissippi State Community College. Works by nine artists — Randy Arnold, Jennifer Brickey, Jim Darrow, Brian Jobe, Anne Kinggard, Jeff Lockett, Alison Oakes, Herb Rieth and Mike Rose — are included.

"Forward" will be shown in the Emporium's balcony exhibit space Feb. 3-214. The second exhibit, "If Not Now, When?" shows the work of artists Jake Livesay and Victor Schmidt.

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This sculpture of forged steel is called "Wish Port." Created by Nashville-based artist Victor Schmidt, it is part of an exhibit opening in February at the Emporium Center.

Livesay, who lives in Knoxville and is a nuclear nonproliferation researcher at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, will exhibit acrylic paintings. Schmidt, a former New York resident who lives in Nashville, will show forged steel and brass sculptures.

An opening reception, held as part of downtown Knoxville's First Friday activities, is 5-9 p.m. Feb. 3. Gallery hours are 9 .m.-5 p.m. weekdays, with additional hours of 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Feb. 4.

Valentine exhibit opens at Art Market

A Valentine-themed exhibit, "Great Art with a Heart" is on display Feb 1-26 at Art Market Gallery of Knoxville.

The two- and three-dimensional art was created by member-artists of the gallery, located 422 S. Gay St. A reception, held as part of downtown Knoxville's monthly First Friday events, is 5:30-9 p.m. Feb. 3.

The gallery is owned and operated by more than 60 regional artists. It's open 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday, 1-5 p.m. Sunday.

'Sustainable' show opens at AMSE

The American Museum of Science and Energy is opening an exhibit about home building technologies and strategies called "Sustainable Shelter: Dwelling Within the Forces of Nature."

The exhibit is at AMSE, at 300 S. Tulane Ave. in Oak Ridge, Feb. 1-April 20.

"Sustainable Shelter" focuses on ways dwellings extract, use and discard energy, water and other natural resources. The exhibit uses cartons, computer games, model homes, graphics and mock shelters to show how activities from reading a book to drying clothes impact the water and carbon cycles of Earth.

The exhibit also compares dwellings that humans live in with those that shelter animals.

The museum is open 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday through Saturday, 1-5 p.m. Sunday. Admission is $5 for adults, $4 for senior citizens age 65 and older, $3 for students ages 6-17, free for children age 5 and younger.

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