A1LabArts presents Re-Pair/Re-Connect

This new exhibition features dozens of artists who invite viewers to experience a variety of interpretations of the theme "Re-Pair/Re-Connect", including but not limited to: ongoing post-pandemic renewal of public interaction and community events; renewed interpersonal relationships and communication; individual renewal of sense of self, values, creative vision, and role in society; and the roles and functioning of organizations and institutions. The variety of interpretations will be emphasized by a variety of media employed.

“Resist Repair Reclaim” is a community exhibition of The Bottom’s ceramics class. Over the course of the last 6 months students have been coming together every week to make, explore creative expressions, and grow the Knoxville Black Creative community through the ceramic art form. The very existence of this class is a testament to the power of individual and collective imagination to resist expectations, repair our ever-expanding souls, and reclaim our creative voices and the culminating exhibition is a celebration of that.

Exhibition Grand Opening

Friday, February 3, 6 - 9pm

image: Jalynn Baker

The mission of the Bottom is to build community, celebrate culture, and engage the creativity of Black Knoxvillians. Conceptualized as a justice and equity project centered on reclamation and transformation, The Bottom does work that supports and encourages ideation, experimentation, healing, dreaming, artistic expression, and relationship building. Through The Bottom's Black Creatives Meetup program, artists in particular are provided with valuable resources and a safe space to connect, develop and create regardless of medium or type of work.

Artist: Lonnie Holley

In Collaboration with the Big Ears Festival, March 30 – April 2.

The gallery will be open from 12-8pm Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, and 12-6pm on Sunday of the Big Ears Festival weekend.

All events are free and open to the public.

image: BAD NEWS IN BIRMINGHAM © Lonnie Holley / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, Courtesy of the artist and Blum & Poe, Los Angeles/New York/Tokyo

Gallery 1010 is the University of Tennessee Knoxville’s fully student-run, non-profit, off-campus gallery that strives to provide space for the School of Art students to experiment and develop innovative ideas through exhibiting their work, curating exhibitions, and collaborating across disciplines.

Director Hanna Seggerman and Associate Director Landin Eldridge curated this group exhibition titled RE-SEARCH & RE-PAIR to bring forth the voices of Tennessee's next generation of contemporary artists. The eleven selected artists include: Abigail Rose Hedley, Danqi Cai, Eliza Frensley, Emily Rice, Francis Akosah, Gino Castellanos, Griffin Allman, Kathryn Lamb, Kyle Cottier, Megan Wolfkill, and Ruchi Singh. Representing both undergraduate and graduate students currently attending the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Their personal artistic RE-SEARCH stems from a wide array of concentrations to be represented in the exhibition including: painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, printmaking, fibers, art history, and time-based arts. RE-SEARCH & RE-PAIR was foundationally structured from the suffix RE- meaning again and again. Placing emphasis on the repetitive acts of RE-PAIR taking place within the RE-SEARCH of each artist individually and as a collective whole.