I am a Unitarian. My parents, grandparents, and who knows how many generations before them have been Unitarians. It is as common as dirt in New England, where I grew up, for those in the […]

“Instructional techniques in new forms of exploding pencil drawings 
by Bryan C Baker at The Art Gallery of Knoxville”
This was the invitation the Art Gallery of Knoxville sent out for their July 4th First Friday event. I […]

When I first saw Crystal Wagner’s work over a year ago at Fluorescent Gallery, I was impressed- REALLY impressed. I always expect great things from the students in UT’s graduate printmaking dept. - after all, […]

FLESHPAINTER/The Naked Truth
Warning: Contains Work Sensitive Imagery
It was the first of it’s kind in Knoxville, and it was amazing. About a month ago I got a message on my www.myspace.com/knoxvilleartblog site asking for help. An […]

“We have been very depressed living here.” My first reaction to this statement was to wonder what we had done wrong. I had been talking to a couple that works in academia about their upcoming […]

Doomed to be Frozen in Time
I was reading through an email sent from Nashville this morning on what is on exhibit during their First Saturday Gallery Crawl in May. If you aren’t familiar with this […]

Is this possible, you may ask? It is true, and it took the Flying Spaghetti Monster to make them do it. The Free Speech Zone, located on the lawn in front of the Cumberland County […]

I was talking last fall to a local artist that sells both nationally and in New Zealand, at one of Knoxville’s First Friday events.  I wanted to know if he thought the gradually tanking stock […]

Art Party! Last March, the Big Art Show came from New Jersey, along with their own bands and many artists, to join a huge collection of Knoxville artists and musicians for a big bang out event […]

What Will Knoxville’s Public Art Task Force do Next?