EAST
Knoxville
Highlight Events
March 26 - 29, 2026
Chattanooga
Highlight Events
March 5 - 8, 2026 16-18, 2026
The highlight events will include receptions and celebrations at select participating venues.
KNOXVILLE
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In Spring 2026, the KMA will present a solo exhibition by the Chattanooga-born provocateur Wayne White – a multi-faceted artist, designer, and musician who has charted a kaleidoscopic path through multiple frontiers of art and culture. From Emmy award-winning work as Art Director for Pee Wee’s Playhouse and orchestrating pioneering music videos by acts like Peter Gabriel and The Smashing Pumpkins, to crafting illustrations for The New York Times and singing lead in the art band Username Password, White defies convention to revel in the fray of pop culture. He has also been the subject of the epic 2009 monograph Maybe Now I’ll Get the Respect I so Richly Deserve and an eclectic 2012 documentary titled Beauty is Embarrassing, but the breadth of his work still feels under-appreciated. At the KMA, in concert with a wall painting and a wide-ranging survey of his canvases, drawings and sculpture, White will create a newly commissioned, room-sized kinetic puppet inspired by his memories of the South. This show will be a magnet for collaborators, and will open in conjunction with the Big Ears Festival in 2026 – furnishing a marquee platform for White to unleash an especially unique rendition of his idiosyncratic enterprise.
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February 20 - April 25, 2026
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Solo Exhibition by Brittney Boyd Bullock, a Memphis-based visual artist whose practice traces the intimate relationship between craft legacies, material labor, and identity. Working through textiles, beading, and collage, in slow, modular processes, she builds abstracted worlds that honor both personal and collective memory. Her work is grounded in repetition - stitching, beading, spinning, cutting, arranging - each functioning as a form of embodied research and ritual. Bullock draws on archival photographs, family histories, and Southern craft traditions to examine what has been preserved, overlooked, or obscured within Black American life. Rather than reenacting memory, she reframes it by treating materials as carriers of cultural knowledge. Her signature use of grids, layered images, textiles, and fiber reflects her interest in labor as a site of beauty, resistance, and renewal.
CHATTANOOGA
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The Hunter Invitational, conceived by Hunter Museum Chief Curator Nandini Makrandi and launched by the museum in 2007, highlights emerging trends and current events through the work of artists practicing in the Southeast. Opening January 2026, its fifth iteration will present new or expanded works by eight artists – including Anna Carll, Corrine Colarusso, Craig Drennen, Amie Esslinger, Jerushia Graham, Katie Hargrave with Meredith Lynn, and Althea Murphy-Price – offering audiences a chance to discover some of the region’s most innovative talent.
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Paradise, Curated by Jen Sova and Graham Feyl
Friend of a Friend, Works by Brooke Frank and Bucky Miller
Hard to Handle, Organized by Jackson Hussey
Feb. 27- June 6, 2026
1250 E 13th Street, Chattanooga TN 37408
Wed - Sat, Noon - 6:30
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We have three exhibitions on view: "Paradise," curated by J Sova and Graham Feyl, which explores how do those historically pushed to the margins build their own worlds and sense of paradise in order to survive, connect, and seek pleasure. Other exhibitions on view include "Friend of a Friend," organized by Bucky Miller and Brooke Frank, and "Techno-animism" organized by Jackson Hussey.
Artists in "Paradise" include: Hannah Banciella, Michael Childress, E. Saffronia Downing, Nicholas V. Elbakidze, Angie Jennings, Aaron McIntosh, Jorge Palacios, Lyra Purugganan, Kit Rutter, Brian Smith, J. Sova, Lisa Waud, Yu Yan.
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GLIMMER & SHINE
March 6- April 3, 2026
854 McCallie Avenue Chattanooga, TN 37404
Open 5-8 pm on opening and closing reception evenings - March 6 and April 3rd. By appointment at wavelengthspace.com
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Wavelength Space is pleased to present GLIMMER & SHINE, a juried group exhibition featuring 19 artists (12 residing in TN) in celebration of Women’s History Month (March 2026), sponsored by the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies Department. glim·mer (n.) — a faint, often hopeful light; a fleeting sign of possibility; a shimmer that draws us in. shine (v.) — to emit or reflect light; to manifest dignity, vitality, or presence. Guided by the vision of artist and guest juror Ayo Janeen Jackson, GLIMMER & SHINE explores how radiance operates as both phenomenon and metaphor - how we reflect, refract, and reclaim light. The exhibition considers reflection as both tool and mirror: a means of looking back through history, examining survival, and discovering strength. “Shine” becomes a sign of dignity, a beacon in darkness, and a record of how artistic innovators illuminate paths forward through art, technology, and science. Artists in the exhibition engage luminosity through precious metals, mirrored surfaces, salvaged materials, and digital shimmer. Like magpies gathering glinting fragments, these artists construct meaning from what catches light by layering materials, histories, and personal narratives to build enduring spaces of beauty and resilience. Co-Curated by: Farron Kilburn, Ayo Janeen Jackson, and Raquel Mullins.
Katie Aronat (Chattanooga, TN) , Lael Burns (Ft. Worth, TX), Casey Callahan (Omaha, NE), Aria Cooper (Chattanooga, TN), Darcie Denton (Ringgold, GA), Dana Donaty (Boynton Beach, Florida), Barbara Ensley (Athens, TN), Jessi Hamilton (Chattanooga, TN), Sarah Knight (St. Louis, Missouri), Emma McDonell (Chattanooga, TN), Melissa Mote Glosup (Chattanooga, TN), Reese Nelson (Chattanooga, TN), Jennifer Pepper (Nashville, TN), Nicci Schwartz (Hixson, TN), Ellie Swann (Chattanooga, Tennessee), Margarita Velazquez (Indianapolis, IN), Chase Williamson (Knoxville, TN), Megan Wolfkill (Cincinnati, OH), Emily Yurkevicz (Grinnell, IA)