A place to learn and grow as an artist.
Serving local artists in the Knoxville and surrounding areas.
Events
Monthly Meeting
3rd Tuesday of each Month
Please join us for every 3rd Tuesday of the month for our Association meeting We will try to do outdoor live in person for APRIL pending good weather. If weather is bad, contact for zoom link please.
TIME: 7PM.
LOCATION: 6500 S Northshore Dr, Knoxville, TN 37919
Upcoming Events
MEETINGS:
Due to Covid restrictions, It may be ZOOM but if the weather is nice, we will have it at our usual location in the outdoor pavilion.
Our next meeting is APRIL, 20 2021 at 7PM.
All are welcome. Please click here to request a link to the meeting.
Welcome to Denise Stewart-Sanabria our Juror for the 2021 TAA Juried Show
Click here for her BIO
UPCOMING SHOWS:
***2021 SPRING JURIED MEMBERS SHOW ***
We are holding our Member’s show the month of APRIL at the Knoxville Emporium Center for Arts and Culture 100 S Gay Street Knoxville TN
***2021 Members Summer Show ***
We will have a Members show in July at the Great Smoky Mountain Heritage Center in Townsend. More informaiton will be forthcoming.
***2021 Members Fall Show ***
We will have another member show at the Maryville College Gallery in September. More information forthcoming.
We hope you can join us!
WELCOME NEW MEMBERS!
Marvin R. Reed, Anne GlenSherrill, Maria Shelly,
Linda Blair, Leesa Osburn
New Member Leesa Osburn
I was born and raised near Oregon Coast. I enlisted in the Army and had the opportunity to travel to Germany. After several years serving my country I returned to the U.S and settled in Las Vegas, NV for 14 years. After too many hot summers in 2019, my husband and I moved to Halls, Tennessee with our two rescue dogs. The change in environment has reinvigerated my need to put paint to canvas.
I have a Bachelors in Studio Art from University Nevada Las Vegas and paint mostly in Water Soluable Oils. My work, mostly landscape, has been shown now in several local exhibits and hope to expand my reach to future juried events.
I enjoy “rescuing” formerly used canvases and frames. Many canvases only need a tiny amount of work and a neutral basecoat in oils to prepare them for a new day of painting. Good quality frames often just need a new coat of paint and the two, canvas and frame, are ready to be joined. I often choose to paint on gallery wrapped frames which omits the need for a frame all together.
To expand my craft, I recently joined Painters for Plein Air Painting. For ease of portability I have been dabbling in Watercolor.
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Current Events
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APRIL SPEAKER:
The program will feature Artist Kate Aubrey, Award winning Watercolor Artist
We hope you can join us IN PERSON this month (weather permitting) and please invite your friends!
UPCOMING CLASSES and WORKSHOPS are listed below
We have some very gifted teachers in TAA and regular classes are offered. Please click below to see more information
Artist of the Month
Larry Holmes Nowell was an air intercept controller in the Navy. He was the first enlisted man to receive the Distinguished Service Medal for combat action in 1972 and was inducted into the Navy Surface Warfare Hall of Fame in 2005.
He began his artistic career in California, when a neighbor convinced him to attend a painting class. He primarily worked in oil and focused on portraits. Larry’s medium shifted to wood carving after taking a night class taught by a former Air Force man.
As a child, Larry would go to the fair and recalled a cowboy who would whittle boots out of branches. So naturally, he began by carving boots and has made thousands over the years. One of his wooden boots even made it to the Roy Rogers Museum in Victorville, CA, and Roy himself placed it in a glass case across from Trigger.
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If you are seeking an artist for a project or are interested in participating with TAA, we would love to hear from you.
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