The arts calendar revs up in late August and September…
There’s so much going on in the local arts community that even our big State of the Arts issue last week couldn’t get it all in, so here’s another helping of events and info arts-lovers’ inquiring minds will want to know…
Stop by Area 61 on Main Street on Friday, Aug. 29 and Friday, Sept. 26 between 5 and 8 p.m. for the always-fun “Last Fridays Southside Stroll”…These will be the last two Strolls of the year, so get yer walkin’ shoes on…Area 61 will feature Tennessee-based figurative expression artist W. Michael Bush during the annual AVA Gallery Hop on Sept. 6…Bush will also do an onsite painting demonstration during the Ironman competition during the last weekend in September…Coming in October, Area 61 will host a Private Collection Southeastern Folk Art Sale…Check their Facebook page for details…
Also in October, all Chattanooga art galleries and artist studios have been invited to participate in First Friday Chattanooga-The Arts, posting their events and exhibits…Check facebook.com/FirstFridayChattanoogaArts for details
Artists, gallery owners and arts-focused retail businesses are also working together in FLAG (Friends of Local Artists and Galleries) to “advance art as a sustainable business”…If you’re interested, check out FLAG at flagcommunity.org and look for more coverage of the organization in an upcoming Pulse…
September is a super-busy month for our friends at Townsend Atelier…If you’ve ever thought of advancing your own art skills, this is the perfect time…Take at look at these options: “Oil Painting Techniques of the Old Masters” with James Courtenay James starting Sept. 9…”Beginning Watercolor” with Durinda Cheek starting Sept. 8 and “Intermediate/Advanced Watercolor” with Cheek starting Sept. 9…Cheek will also teach “Impressionist Landscape Painting” beginning Sept. 9…Laura Hausler will teach “Beginning Classical Drawing” starting Sept. 13…James will teach “Basic Perspective Drawing” on Sept. 20 and “Pen & Ink Drawing” on Sept. 21…Then on Sept. 27, Cindy Procious teaches “Tips & Tricks: Photoshop for the Fine Artist”…Visit townsendatelier.com…
The talented and innovative Blake Harris of Theater for the New South has left Chattanooga to study at CalArts in Southern California and we wish him the best…We know this great young company will continue to produce some of the freshest theatre in town…
Speaking of fresh, it’s worth repeating that one of the performing arts events of the year will undoubtedly be Tim Hinck’s “Eve Apart” coming into the CTC’s Circle Theatre Sept. 4-7…Tim describes this new piece as “opera, or maybe alt-musical theatre”…Whichever, it’s bound to be groundbreaking…
And in tribute to one of Chattanooga’s most groundbreaking artists, the late Dennis Palmer, the Shaking Ray Levi Society will present the final event of the Dilating Nexus series, “Soul in a Box”, at Mark Making, 2510 North Chamberlain Ave., on Aug. 30, featuring new creations using Palmer’s unreleased samples as source material by numerous contributors, including the absolutely fabulous Frank Pahl…
It’s not at all too early to book your tickets for the kick-off event in this year’s Patten Performances Series at UTC, the one, the only, the master, Ramsey Lewis, coming up on Sept. 9…
And it may be August, but it’s the holidays in our hearts as we save the date for MAINX24 on Dec. 6 this year…Can’t come around too soon for us…Look at prelim plans on facebook.com/mainx24