Lonnie Holley sculpture: Big Ears 2023 Tennessee Triennial project

The Big Ears exhibition for the Triennial will be a site specific installation, created during the week of our annual festival (March 27 - April 2, 2023) by artist Lonnie Holley (Atlanta, GA). Lonnie will conduct site visits with UTK sculpture students and K-5th grade students at Beaumont Magnet Academy on March 27 - 28 to introduce the project and share about his own artistic process. Following these visits, students will choose their own found object using the prompt “something that used to hold importance to me but no longer does”.

On March 31 - April 1, Lonnie will reconvene with these students and their objects to create a collaborative sculpture that will be installed and come to life in view of the public at the Southern Railway Station (306 W Depot Ave.), a Big Ears venue hosting a variety of free community concerts and programming during the festival (March 30 - April 2).

Also a highly acclaimed musician, Lonnie Holley will perform twice during the Big Ears Festival. Learn more at www.bigearsfestival.org

Lonnie Holley, in the studio