Art Smart Kids – April 13

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Art House is proud to present Art Smart Kids with Melissa Laskaris, an experience for the whole family!

Limited spots are available. Reserve yours today by choosing a timeslot via this form and sending a $50 deposit via Venmo to @artsmartkidstn

Check out @artsmartkidstn on Instagram to check out the amazing work Melissa works with families to create. Or visit their website at https://www.artsmartkidstn.com/. 

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Chris McAdoo Live at the KMA

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Join Art House for an evening of cocktails, heavy hors d’oeuvres, live music, performance art, and auction. All proceeds benefit Art House.

Feature artist Chris McAdoo will share his passion for storytelling through painting “the stories we tell others, the stories we tell ourselves, and the liminal space between those two shores” during a live performance in which he will create several original artworks throughout the evening to be auctioned off at the event. He has also created a limited series of prints exclusively for Art House to be sold at the event.

The evening will also include signature cocktails, food provided by former Farmstead Manager at Blackberry Farm, Dustin Busby of DSB Provisions, and live music by the popular local funk/soul band, Milkshake Fatty.

PURCHASE TICKETS HERE: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/art-house-at-the-kma-presents-mcadoo-live-tickets-381271933617?aff=ebdssbdestsearch

ABOUT CHRIS MCADOO: ARTIST, CREATOR, SPEAKER

Chris McAdoo is an artist and creative professional living in East Tennessee who believes that creativity can change the world. His work is intensely autobiographical and uses paint and canvas to focus on “the stories we tell others, the stories we tell ourselves, and the liminal space between those two shores”. His paintings and original prints have been featured in numerous exhibitions, private collections, and publications around the country and he has been an active studio artist for over twenty years. Chris is also an accomplished speaker, traveling all over the United States, focusing on the power of creative thinking, entrepreneurship, and the practice of design. chrismcadoo.com

Art House would like to thank our incredible sponsors for which the event would not be possible without their support!

A Night at the Museum with Beauvais Lyons

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Beauvais Lyons with a lithographic stone.

As the self-appointed Director of the Hokes Archives, for more than 40 years Beauvais Lyons has been fabricating and documenting imaginary archaeology, medical archives, folk art, zoology and most recently, a fictitious circus from Jacksboro, Tennessee. You can see some of Lyons’ work in his exhibition Ornithological Quadrupeds, a portfolio of four-legged birds currently on view at the McClung Museum of Natural History and Culture in the UT campus through January 28, 2022.

At first, many viewers to his exhibitions have been taken in by his faithful use of historical methods and the plausibility of his fictive worlds. As his art may be understood as a form of parody, Lyons uses various ironic signals to call attention to the work as fiction, including the name of the Hokes (as in “hoax’) Archives itself. He often accompanies his exhibitions playing the role of curator, preacher, or ringmaster. The mock-documentary aspects of his projects raise a variety of issues about role of art as a form of both fiction and truth-telling.

“Plate 321,” a lithograph from the exhibition “Reconstruction of an Aazudian Temple” which toured North America in the mid-1990s.

For his Art House presentation, Lyons will bring a selection of works from his archives to the KMA and will give a presentation about not only his work, but other artists who create mock-documentary exhibitions. His presentation will reference Antoinette LaFarge’s new book Sting in the Tale: Art Hoax, and Provocation in which LaFarge advocates for a form of mock-documentation she calls fictive art, referencing Lyons’ projects and others, including the “Centaur Excavations of Volos,” in the Hodges Library on the UT Knoxville campus.

“Plate 321,” a lithograph from the exhibition “Reconstruction of an Aazudian Temple” which toured North America in the mid-1990s.

    Beauvais Lyons is a Chancellor’s Professor at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville where he has taught printmaking since 1985 and heads the nationally ranked printmaking program. Lyons received his MFA degree from Arizona State University in 1983 and his BFA degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1980. See his web site for information on his various projects. Lyons’ one-person exhibitions have been presented at over 80 museums and galleries in the United States and abroad. His prints are in several notable public collections including the Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Washington, DC; The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia. PA. In 2002 he received a Fulbright Fellowship to teach at the Fine Arts Academy in Poznañ, Poland. In 2014 he received the Santo Foundation Artist Award, and in 2017 he received the SECAC Excellence in Teaching Award.

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    An Evening Under the Stars

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    Under the Stars was a memorable evening at the KMA for ArtHouse members. Attendees gathered for after dinner drinks and small bites to hear from Local Artist Richard Jolley. Jolley, who is arguably one of the most accomplished glass blowers of our time, has called Knoxville his home since establishing his studio here in 1975. His work is on exhibition in over 64 galleries and museums across the nation as well as internationally. 

    Members of ArtHouse were able to met both Richard and his wife Tommie, and hear about the inspiration, production and installation of the Cycle of Life. Cycle of life is the largest glass installation of the world and is a permanent feature in the Bailey Hall at the KMA. The 7 stage exhibit took 6 years to create and over 3 months to install. 

    Members were also able to hear form a Knoxville Symphony Orchestra (KSO) representative. The KSO has created a symphony inspired by this piece that will be performed this April. ArtHouse members are welcome to a 20% off ticket price and invited to a champagne toast opening night. Be sure to mark your calendars for this event!