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The Maker City – Glassmakers

By The Maker City on Mar. 24, 2020

We are happy to welcome a new blog series from The Maker City featuring some of the Knoxville area’s outstanding makers – artists, crafters and custom…

Knoxville once had a whole neighborhood where it was St. Patrick’s Day every day. It was populated mostly by Irish immigrants, refugees from the famine at home. They settled all over America, but hundreds, mostly young men, came to Knoxville in the 1850s as unskilled laborers, helping build the…

The Maker City - Woodworkers

By The Maker City on Feb. 20, 2020

We are happy to welcome a new blog series from The Maker City featuring some of the Knoxville area’s outstanding makers – artists, crafters and custom builders. This month’s post introduces three area woodworkers. Kayla Cooper of The Crafty Cooper How did you get started as a woodworker? I…

Beauford Delaney and James Baldwin: Through the Unusual Door

By Knoxville Museum of Art on Feb. 06, 2020

“We’ve been working on it and talking about it for so long, I can’t believe that Beauford Delaney and James Baldwin: Through the Unusual Door is finally happening.” David Butler, KMA Executive Director Building a significant collection of works by Knoxville native Beauford Delaney has been a…

1920 in 2020

By Jack Neely on Jan. 28, 2020

In 2020, you’ll hear a lot about centennials, especially the centennial of Suffrage, the shorthand term for the 19th Amendment, which guaranteed women the right to vote. Some women already had the right to vote. Tennessee had passed suffrage the previous year, and in Knoxville, women voted in…