An artist talk will take place on Saturday, May 6, 2023 from 2:00- 3:00pm at Tri-Star Arts, Candoro Marble Building. Kenturah Davis and Rubens Ghenov will share about their work and interview one another in a dialogue not to be missed!

Tri-Star Arts is pleased to present Tennessee Triennial: RE-PAIR in their main gallery at the historic Candoro Marble Building. A two-person show, Tennessee Triennial: RE-PAIR - part of the Tennessee Triennial for Contemporary Art, is composed of mixed media works by Kenturah Davis (Los Angeles, CA, USA / Accra, Ghana) and Rubens Ghenov (Knoxville, TN, USA). It opened on Friday, January 27, runs through Sunday, May 7.  A closing reception will be held the prior evening on Friday, May 5, 2023 from 5:00- 8:00 pm (with both artists in attendance).

Tri-Star Arts is pleased to present Tennessee Triennial: RE-PAIR in their main gallery at the historic Candoro Marble Building. A two-person show, Tennessee Triennial: RE-PAIR - part of the Tennessee Triennial for Contemporary Art, is composed of mixed media works by Kenturah Davis (Los Angeles, CA, USA / Accra, Ghana) and Rubens Ghenov (Knoxville, TN, USA). It opened on Friday, January 27, runs through Sunday, May 7. 

A closing reception will be held on Friday, May 5, 2023 from 5:00- 8:00 pm (both artists in attendance). Additionally, there will be an artist talk on Saturday, May 6, 2023 from 2:00- 3:00pm.

The evening reception at Tri-Star Arts on Friday, May 5 will feature a screening of Ingrid y el mar, a film by 2021 Current Art Fund grantee Johana Moscoso (Memphis, TN, USA), in the carriage house of the Candoro Marble Building.

A1LabArts presents Re-Pair/Re-Connect 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.

This year’s Kramer Lecture speaker is a recent addition to the KMA Collection and a featured artist in the Tennessee Triennial. New Jersey based artist, Willie Cole is a contemporary sculptor, printmaker, and conceptual artist known for his innovative and unorthodox arrangements of disparate elements inspired by African and African-American histories and traditions. Cole is a nationally recognized artist whose work has exhibited in many museums including the Museum of Modern Art, NY, Bronx Museum of Art, and the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University; he is represented by Alexander and Bonin Gallery (NYC), Maus Contemporary Gallery (Alabama), Gavlak Gallery (Los Angeles/Florida), and Kavi Gupta Gallery (Chicago). Free and open to the public!

Guided tour of Tennessee Triennial works on view by Chief Curator Nandini Makrandi and Curator of Education Adera Causey

Visible Mending Workshop with Jessica Wohl

Join February Resident Jessica Wohl and learn patching and stitching techniques to mend tattered garments with visible needlework. Bring your own worn garment, and we will provide assistance and materials. Woven fabrics like cotton, denim, or flannel – instead of knits – will work best for this session.

Open hours at the Institute of Contemporary Art Chattanooga

The Institute of Contemporary Art Chattanooga, as participating in the inaugural 2023 TN Triennial under the theme RE-PAIR, presents the complete opus of Stacy Kranitz’s body of work As it was Give(n) to Me (2009-2022): an expanded artist-based archive of photographs, collected images, text, and sculptural objects that traces exploration and extraction in central Appalachia over the past decade. These documents reflect on our relationship to representations of reality and the inherent flaws and ruptures in constructed notions of truth.

Working within the documentary tradition, Kranitz makes photographs that acknowledge the limits of photographic representation. Her images do not tell the “truth” but are honest about their inherent shortcomings, and thus reclaim these failures (exoticism, ambiguity, fetishization) as sympathetic equivalents in order to more forcefully convey the complexity and instability of the lives, places, and moments they depict. Poised between notions of what is right and what is wrong, she uses photography to open up narratives that confront our understanding of culture, especially focused in the Appalachian region of the American southeast.

Kranitz’s exhibition will feature images from all four sections of her artist archive, as well as a special artist study room that highlights research materials and sculptures that accompany the series. The study room will be a key conduit to connect to the academic course that accompanies the exhibition and conversations around RE-PAIR. Kranitz’s exhibition will feature images from all four sections of her artist archive, as well as a special artist study room that highlights research materials and sculptures that accompany the series. The study room will be a key conduit to connect to the academic course that accompanies the exhibition and conversations around RE-PAIR.

Open hours at Stove Works

Worst of all, I am ashamed of being alone. Or is it my loneliness that I am ashamed of? I have closed the shutters so that no one can see. Me. Alone. Sitting at the typewriter on Easter Eve, brooding; alone. Upstairs I will keep the drapes drawn. No one must know these hurts. Why? I shall wash my hair. It is helping my skin. I shall be beautiful this time next year; long hair and clean skin. And I shall still be lonely. On Easter eve. At the typewriter… 

Lorraine Hansberry, 1962 (excerpt from To Be Young, Gifted, and Black) 

And I Shall Still Be Lonely is a collective meditation and dialogue of artists’ relationships with solitude, isolation, and the creative process. Inspired by the writings and life of playwright, artist, and activist Lorraine Hansberry, the exhibition and its companion zine feature the voices of artists conversing with Hansberry’s reflections as they resonate in the present. Through engaging and re-imagining text, artists will also explore our relationships to loneliness in our historical, social, and technological contexts.

Open Hours by appointment at Wavelength Space feat. Apothecary by Ali Waller and Ayo Janeen Jackson. More info here.

Booking link for appointments: https://booking.appointy.com/visitwavelength?sr=1050631

Open hours at the Hunter Museum of American Art

“In honor of Tennessee Triennial: RE-PAIR, we are reinstalling the Hunter’s contemporary gallery with artworks that speak to repairing, and examine ideas of identity, of healing fractured bodies, of community and relationship. Artists include Nick Cave, Deborah Luster, Dawoud Bey, Fabiola Jean-Louis, Sanford Biggers, Smith and others. The majority of these are new acquisitions to the collection, and forward our mission to support women and artists of color.”

tickets required

Chattanooga Noise Night: Vol. 11

For those looking for a late evening event following the Chattanooga Party, stick around Stove Works for Chattanooga Noise Night: Vol. 11.

Local and regional noise musicians. Organized by Chattanooga Noise Night. Lineup TBD.

Tennessee Triennial Chattanooga Party

Celebrate the Tennessee Triennial in Chattanooga at Stove Works! This event is the reception for RE-PAIR themed Stove Works exhibition, And I Shall Still Be Lonely, and will also mark the presence of numerous Tennessee Triennial exhibitions in town, including at official venues the Hunter Museum of American Art and ICA Chattanooga and at community venue Wavelength Space. Refreshments provided!

Stove Works Artists-In-Residence Spotlight

The February artists in residence will introduce themselves and their works from 5:30-7:00pm.

Open Hours by appointment at Wavelength Space feat. Apothecary by Ali Waller and Ayo Janeen Jackson. More info here.

Booking link for appointments: https://booking.appointy.com/visitwavelength?sr=1050631

Open hours at Stove Works

Worst of all, I am ashamed of being alone. Or is it my loneliness that I am ashamed of? I have closed the shutters so that no one can see. Me. Alone. Sitting at the typewriter on Easter Eve, brooding; alone. Upstairs I will keep the drapes drawn. No one must know these hurts. Why? I shall wash my hair. It is helping my skin. I shall be beautiful this time next year; long hair and clean skin. And I shall still be lonely. On Easter eve. At the typewriter… 

Lorraine Hansberry, 1962 (excerpt from To Be Young, Gifted, and Black) 

And I Shall Still Be Lonely is a collective meditation and dialogue of artists’ relationships with solitude, isolation, and the creative process. Inspired by the writings and life of playwright, artist, and activist Lorraine Hansberry, the exhibition and its companion zine feature the voices of artists conversing with Hansberry’s reflections as they resonate in the present. Through engaging and re-imagining text, artists will also explore our relationships to loneliness in our historical, social, and technological contexts.

Open hours at the Institute of Contemporary Art Chattanooga

The Institute of Contemporary Art Chattanooga, as participating in the inaugural 2023 TN Triennial under the theme RE-PAIR, presents the complete opus of Stacy Kranitz’s body of work As it was Give(n) to Me (2009-2022): an expanded artist-based archive of photographs, collected images, text, and sculptural objects that traces exploration and extraction in central Appalachia over the past decade. These documents reflect on our relationship to representations of reality and the inherent flaws and ruptures in constructed notions of truth.

Working within the documentary tradition, Kranitz makes photographs that acknowledge the limits of photographic representation. Her images do not tell the “truth” but are honest about their inherent shortcomings, and thus reclaim these failures (exoticism, ambiguity, fetishization) as sympathetic equivalents in order to more forcefully convey the complexity and instability of the lives, places, and moments they depict. Poised between notions of what is right and what is wrong, she uses photography to open up narratives that confront our understanding of culture, especially focused in the Appalachian region of the American southeast.

Kranitz’s exhibition will feature images from all four sections of her artist archive, as well as a special artist study room that highlights research materials and sculptures that accompany the series. The study room will be a key conduit to connect to the academic course that accompanies the exhibition and conversations around RE-PAIR. Kranitz’s exhibition will feature images from all four sections of her artist archive, as well as a special artist study room that highlights research materials and sculptures that accompany the series. The study room will be a key conduit to connect to the academic course that accompanies the exhibition and conversations around RE-PAIR.

Open hours at the Hunter Museum of American Art

“In honor of Tennessee Triennial: RE-PAIR, we are reinstalling the Hunter’s contemporary gallery with artworks that speak to repairing, and examine ideas of identity, of healing fractured bodies, of community and relationship. Artists include Nick Cave, Deborah Luster, Dawoud Bey, Fabiola Jean-Louis, Sanford Biggers, Smith and others. The majority of these are new acquisitions to the collection, and forward our mission to support women and artists of color.”

tickets required

Stacy Kranitz: Artist Talk and Reception at the Institute of Contemporary Art Chattanooga

The Stacy Kranitz artist talk will be at 6pm, in the Card Family Auditorium, EMCS Engineering Building, Room 201. Reception follows until 8pm at the ICA Galleries.

Note: Card Family Auditorium in the Engineering, Math and Computer Science Building at UTC (EMCS, Room 201) (map) 735 Vine Street, Chattanooga, TN, 37403

The Institute of Contemporary Art Chattanooga, as participating in the inaugural 2023 TN Triennial under the theme RE-PAIR, presents the complete opus of Stacy Kranitz’s body of work As it was Give(n) to Me (2009-2022): an expanded artist-based archive of photographs, collected images, text, and sculptural objects that traces exploration and extraction in central Appalachia over the past decade. These documents reflect on our relationship to representations of reality and the inherent flaws and ruptures in constructed notions of truth.

Working within the documentary tradition, Kranitz makes photographs that acknowledge the limits of photographic representation. Her images do not tell the “truth” but are honest about their inherent shortcomings, and thus reclaim these failures (exoticism, ambiguity, fetishization) as sympathetic equivalents in order to more forcefully convey the complexity and instability of the lives, places, and moments they depict. Poised between notions of what is right and what is wrong, she uses photography to open up narratives that confront our understanding of culture, especially focused in the Appalachian region of the American southeast.

Kranitz’s exhibition will feature images from all four sections of her artist archive, as well as a special artist study room that highlights research materials and sculptures that accompany the series. The study room will be a key conduit to connect to the academic course that accompanies the exhibition and conversations around RE-PAIR.

Open hours at the Hunter Museum of American Art

“In honor of Tennessee Triennial: RE-PAIR, we are reinstalling the Hunter’s contemporary gallery with artworks that speak to repairing, and examine ideas of identity, of healing fractured bodies, of community and relationship. Artists include Nick Cave, Deborah Luster, Dawoud Bey, Fabiola Jean-Louis, Sanford Biggers, Smith and others. The majority of these are new acquisitions to the collection, and forward our mission to support women and artists of color.”

tickets required

Open hours at the Institute of Contemporary Art Chattanooga

The Institute of Contemporary Art Chattanooga, as participating in the inaugural 2023 TN Triennial under the theme RE-PAIR, presents the complete opus of Stacy Kranitz’s body of work As it was Give(n) to Me (2009-2022): an expanded artist-based archive of photographs, collected images, text, and sculptural objects that traces exploration and extraction in central Appalachia over the past decade. These documents reflect on our relationship to representations of reality and the inherent flaws and ruptures in constructed notions of truth.

Working within the documentary tradition, Kranitz makes photographs that acknowledge the limits of photographic representation. Her images do not tell the “truth” but are honest about their inherent shortcomings, and thus reclaim these failures (exoticism, ambiguity, fetishization) as sympathetic equivalents in order to more forcefully convey the complexity and instability of the lives, places, and moments they depict. Poised between notions of what is right and what is wrong, she uses photography to open up narratives that confront our understanding of culture, especially focused in the Appalachian region of the American southeast.

Kranitz’s exhibition will feature images from all four sections of her artist archive, as well as a special artist study room that highlights research materials and sculptures that accompany the series. The study room will be a key conduit to connect to the academic course that accompanies the exhibition and conversations around RE-PAIR. Kranitz’s exhibition will feature images from all four sections of her artist archive, as well as a special artist study room that highlights research materials and sculptures that accompany the series. The study room will be a key conduit to connect to the academic course that accompanies the exhibition and conversations around RE-PAIR.

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. Our eleven selected artists include: Abigail Rose Hedley, Danqi Cai, Eliza Frensley, Emily Rice, Francis Akosah, Gino Castellanos, Grin 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.

“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.

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. Our eleven selected artists include: Abigail Rose Hedley, Danqi Cai, Eliza Frensley, Emily Rice, Francis Akosah, Gino Castellanos, Grin 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.

Ronda Wright will be conducting a Creating Artifacts of Home workshop organized by Social Action For Equality, a platform for creative social justice initiatives. These workshops began in response to the overwhelming rate of LGBTQ+ homelessness and bullying, the premise of these workshops is that we all have a relation to home; and that iron is an element necessary to sustain life. While engaging in conversation, each participant is given a brick of wax to create a symbolic artifact that reminds them of home as they share stories with one another. The artifact is then cast in iron, and installed as part of a larger collection of memories that reflect relations of Home. Participants’ artifacts link themselves not as “others” but to others, and their artifact will be added to a list of growing creators displayed during the exhibition. Workshop participants will receive an Fe= For equality patch that links them together in a shared experience. To date, there have been approximately 1,500 participants across the country.

Materials will be provided. Artifacts sculpted at this workshop will be cast in iron at a later date by Wright assisted by University of Tennessee sculpture faculty and students.

Artists: Ronda Wright and Kay Dartt

Join us in welcoming numerous participating artists in the Tennessee Triennial for an artist panel discussion. Led by guest curator Dr. Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons, we will learn about the concepts behind this state-wide art initiative. Artists who are featured in the Knoxville Museum of Art and Tri-Star Arts exhibitions will discuss their work and take questions from the audience.

Free and open to the public. Reservations are requested—no promo code required: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/artist-panel-tennessee-triennial-tickets-511857568767

Open hours at Tri-Star Arts!

Located at the historic Candoro Marble Building, come by to see their RE-PAIR themed show feat. Kenturah Davis (Los Angeles, CA) and Rubens Ghenov (Knoxville, TN) indoors and an outdoor sculpture by Hank Willis Thomas (New York, NY).

Open hours at the Knoxville Museum of Art

Responding to the Triennial RE-PAIR theme about art designed “To heal, suture, and recompose fractured bodies”, “re-pair, patch, rebuild spirits, bodies, cities, political institutions, economic relationships,” the Knoxville Museum of Art presents works emphasizing the transformative power of art to propose new solutions to recent global discord.

The KMA’s Triennial presentation features a thought-provoking selection of objects created by a diverse, intergenerational slate of 13 international artists from across the U.S.: Willie Cole, Bessie Harvey, Lonnie Holley, Katie Hargrave & Meredith Laura Lynn, Kahlil Robert Irving, Suzanne Jackson, Mary Laube, Annabeth Marks, Rosemary Mayer, Althea Murphy-Price, Betye Saar, and Faith Wilding.

The exhibited works address a broad range of conceptual concerns ranging from the intersection of the personal and the political, to environmental, cultural, and spiritual. They express artists’ deep interest in material as a means of interpreting and amplifying these concerns. They are touched and pressed, deconstructed, constructed and made anew. They embody histories that sensitively embrace contradiction and complication, and that challenge diverse audiences to look both forward and backwards towards “new sites of encounters with yet undefined edges, borders and territories” in search of RE-PAIR.