An Art History Scavenger Hunt in the City
A lot of us have found ourselves in similar predicaments in recent days: An extra child or two is lurking about underfoot when they, by all rights, should be at school. Whether because of ice, snow,...
Knoxville Museum of Art
Downtown Art Wraps by the Knoxville History Project Appear Around the City
This past summer as the Urban Clan drove around the wild west, we stopped over in Missoula, Montana. I snapped a photo though the car window as I drove (don’t do this at home, children) of...
Art Market Gallery: Downtown Jewel Hiding in Plain Sight Celebrates 35 Years
The 400 block of Gay Street is probably the most active block in downtown Knoxville that isn’t called Market Square. If you asked downtown visitors to name the businesses they frequent off Market Square, many would...
“The Man Who Lives Here is Loony,” Explores Psychological Depths with Jazzy Wordplay
It’s the kind of artistic encounter that inspires extended rumination and conversation. It rolls around inside your head for days, shifts shapes and turns again, rearing its head at unexpected moments. A quote comes to mind....
What Makes a City Beautiful? Keep Knoxville Beautiful Finds the Answer in Downtown Buildings
Keep Knoxville Beautiful is a local organization devoted to just what their name would imply. Their mission statement indicates that they love all things “clean, green and beautiful.” To keep it clean, they organize major litter cleanups,...
New Year’s Eve in the City: 2015 into 2016
I know there are other stories which have already broken around downtown for the new year – and I’ll get to those, but this being a marathon of stories and not always a sprint, I’m going...
East Tennessee Community Design Center Honors Ashley Capps
I’ve written pretty extensively about the East Tennessee Community Design Center in previous articles. Their work helps Knoxville be a better city. Their projects to assist organizations have helped over 100,000 children. They estimate $18 Million...
Urban Churchill Ghosts
The title is a mash-up because the day was a mash-up. It’s the kind of juxtaposition that enriches an urban environment and sometimes leads me to connections I wouldn’t otherwise make. Days like this past Tuesday...
Bar Marley Throws a Party, Plus More from the Weekend
It was a crazy active weekend downtown. Urban Woman pointed out on Saturday that she’d had a hard time walking through the Market Square/Krutch Park area. One of the ripple effects of having game weekends in...
Knoxville Museum of Art Unveils Richard Jolley’s “Cycle of Life”
This past weekend, the Knoxville Museum of Art offered the first glimpse of what must be the most anticipated work of art in Knoxville’s history. Months in the making, the massive series of sculptures by Richard...