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SUMMARY:Queer as Water - Kenzie Wells
DESCRIPTION:Join us First Friday November 7th for our 🚨 last opening of the year! We are thrilled to host the opening reception of the exhibition Queer as Water by Kenzie Wells. \nDuring this event\, we will be hosting our Open Artist Studios with all our Relay Ridge Resident Artists\n✨PLUS✨\nwe will be hosting a pop-up outdoor exhibition of the 2025 Steamroller BIG Prints made during Knox Small Press Fest @knoxsmallpressfest with a few woodblocks on display in the printshop. \nQUEER AS WATER \n \nMy mixed-media practice explores sites of environmental and queer resilience that overturn\nheteronormative social structures. Industrial items such as gates and tires are sculpted into\nconglomerations coated in residues of resin. Found trinkets are fossilized into surfaces\, some forming\nsarcastic\, queer-coded messages. These assemblages subvert capitalistic norms that perpetuate\necological demise\, commenting on how political forces inhibiting LGBTQIA+ rights coincide with\nsocietal shifts toward ecocide. \nIn Long Live Queer Night Life\, Amin Ghaziani outlines underground queer night clubs as utopias where\nsocial structures are reversed: queer folks are in charge. My work engages with the material aesthetics\nfound in these scenes\, exploring the fluidity of nighttime spaces where colored lights illuminate\nglittery surfaces as day shifts to night. \nIn my recent series Queer as Water\, I explore the queer potential of the beach\, referencing it as a\nspace suspended outside social hierarchies\, drawing on Hannah Freed-Thall’s Modernism at the\nBeach. Beach ecologies embody specific textural decay\, visualized through crumbling cement\, pitted\nsurfaces\, and pearlescent growths similar to lichen and barnacles. \nThrough improvisation\, my work engages with the resistant spirit of beaching\, wherein queer folks\ngather in industrial settings. My sculptures tell stories of our watery\, material future through a lens\nthat portrays water as a mystical\, queer force. Through decay and transformation\, my work reflects\nthe playful tenacity embodied by queer communities alongside resistant ecologies. \n__________ \nKenzie Wells (they/them) is a mixed-media sculptor\, fabricator\, and educator currently based in\nWashington\, D.C. They are a lover of all animals\, co-parenting 5 pets with their partner\, and has a\nrobust collection of little-things-found-on-the-ground. Wells has attended the Wassaic Project Artist\nResidency\, Oxbow School of Art and Artists’ Residency\, and Penland School of Craft. They have\nexhibited nationally in galleries\, including: SPRING/BREAK Art Show\, New York\, MoCA Tucson\, The\nUniversity of Arizona Museum of Art\, and Charlotte Street Foundation\, Kansas City\, MO. Originally\nfrom Knoxville\, TN\, Wells received their BFA in 2015 from the University of Tennessee\, and MFA in\n2020 from the University of Arizona.
URL:https://relayridge.org/event/queer-as-water-kenzie-wells/
LOCATION:Relay Ridge Collaborative Artist Space\, 4124 Mckinley St. NE\, Knoxville\, TN\, 37917\, United States
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SUMMARY:Steamroller BIG PRINTS weekend
DESCRIPTION:Make BIG PRINTS! with us this Fall!\nNow is not the time to be quiet.\nNow is the time to be BIG \nOn Saturday & Sunday\, October 11th & 12th\, join us at Relay Ridge for our 2nd annual Steamroller BIG PRINT Weekend. Witness our community print 21 HUGE woodblocks\, each carved by different artists\, using the power of the people and a STEAMROLLER! \nApplications have closed to participate in carving a large block\, but we welcome you to attend and cheer on the artists during this exciting\, public event. We’ll have snacks\, drinks\, and music! Come have alooksee! \n \nKnox Small Press Fest is an annual community celebration of independent publishers\, artists\, and printmakers. The festival engages Tennessee artists\, makers\, writers\, and poets through city-wide events including: exhibitions\, poetry readings\, printmaking demonstrations\, BIG PRINTS! Steamroller weekend and a Small Press Publishers Fair – featuring more than 30 local artists\, writers\, zine-makers\, and publishers.
URL:https://relayridge.org/event/steamroller-big-prints-knox-small-press-fest/
LOCATION:Relay Ridge Collaborative Artist Space\, 4124 Mckinley St. NE\, Knoxville\, TN\, 37917\, United States
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SUMMARY:Say It Again! Prints of Resistance exhibition
DESCRIPTION:SAY IT AGAIN! Prints of Resistance \nExhibition Dates – October 3 – 25\, 2025 \nOpening Reception – First Friday October 3rd 6-9pm \nJuror: E “Oscar” Maynard of Tender-Heart Press \nHistory can repeat itself\, but when it does\, so too does the resistance and our messages often bear repeating. With printmaking’s reproducibility and paper’s portability and ease of distribution\, prints are the original mass communicator of ideas. Artists have long taken advantage of this process to gain attention and shout our messages through repeated imagery\, text\, and design. \nIn collaboration with Knox Small Press Fest\, the exhibition Say It Again! Prints of Resistance shares with us how printmaking today continues to prevail as a powerful role in resistance. This is a creative call to action to record\, respond\, reflect\, express\, or simply process recent changes in our world affecting both the people and our planet. \nJoin us First Friday October 3rd from 6-9pm for the opening reception of this exhibition PLUS a fun collaborative printmaking demonstrations featuring YOU making your own free print with a message (with our help)! We will also be hosting a poetry reading on the dock outside with the writers and times TBA. \n 
URL:https://relayridge.org/event/open-call-say-it-again-prints-of-resistance-exhibition/
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SUMMARY:HEARTWOOD - Eric William Carroll & Jessica Greenfield OPENING GALLERY RECEPTION
DESCRIPTION:  \nEric William Carroll (view of process)\nFRIDAY August 15th 6-9pm \nJoin us for an open house event celebrating a new gallery exhibition Heartwood by Eric William Carroll and Jessica Greenfield. Hurricane Helene had a dramatic impact on the people of Southern Appalachia\, as well as the region’s more-than-human inhabitants. As a way to process this traumatic event and connect with their homes in Asheville and Boone\, Jessica Greenfield and Eric William Carroll are collaborating with the trees they share the landscape with. \nCome see the exhibition and meet the artists PLUS we’ll have open artist studios with the RR Resident Studio Artists PLUS Knox Small Press Fest tote designs being printed in the community printshop! \nHEARTWOOD \n\nThe practices of Eric William Carroll and Jessica Greenfield both emerge from a genuine curiosity about the natural world embodied through slow processes and sustained attention. In Heartwood\, they present their collaborations with the trees of Southern Appalachia. Carroll’s cyanotypes are part of his ongoing Field Recordings project where he explores the ideas of climate anxiety and land stewardship through site-specific photographs and temporary installations along the floodplain in Asheville\, NC. The resulting portraits are the visual equivalent of a field recording; abstract yet documentary\, ephemeral yet firmly rooted in a specific time and place. \nGreenfield presents work from her ongoing Oak Shothole Leafminer series\, a collaboration with local oak trees and the tiny shothole leaf miner fly. Every spring the female fly emerges from her larval state with a mouth too small to bite through anything\, so she forms a unique relationship with the oak. With her ovipositor\, which she will soon use to lay eggs\, she pierces the young leaf buds and laps the juice that seeps out. As the leaves grow the pinpricks become a pattern of perfectly formed holes. Greenfield delicately embroiders the leaves to highlight the resilience and creativity of the leafminer. Both artists speak to nature’s resilience in the face of a changing climate and humanity’s entanglement with the natural world. \n\n\nJessica Greenfield
URL:https://relayridge.org/event/eric-william-carroll-jessica-greenfield-opening-gallery-reception/
LOCATION:Relay Ridge Collaborative Artist Space\, 4124 Mckinley St. NE\, Knoxville\, TN\, 37917\, United States
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SUMMARY:4th annual yART sale!
DESCRIPTION:Sunday May 18th  \n🌞8am – 2pm🌞\n(if rain we will set up inside the building instead of outside) \nDISCOUNTED ART SUPPLY HEAVEN!\nCome to Knoxville’s annual yART Sale at Relay Ridge! It’s like a flea market\, but for artists!\nGood deals for those in need of discounted art supplies!\n⚡OR⚡\nDo you hoard art supplies with perpetual ambitions of using them? But maybe you need some cash instead?\nWell\, come on down and sign up! You can sell your used art supplies\, studio furniture\, equipment\, etc! There’s no fee to participate \nLastly\, Relay Ridge is offering to take unsold items participants wish to discard after the sale. RR will either use the items for workshops-n-stuff\, donate them to local non-profits\, or properly dispose. Please share far and wide! \nwant to sell stuff?\ninfo on how + sign-up link below\n\n\n\nThis is a used art material sale/swap and not an art market\n\n\nBring art/studio supplies (tools\, materials\, equipment\, studio furniture\, old artwork that’s collected dust\, weird things\, or other items that artists may find handy…clothes are accepted too!)\n\n\nSetup will be outside along the side of our building.\n\n\nParticipants must bring everything they need for setup (signs\, tape\, markers\, packaging if needed\, etc)\n\n\nRelay Ridge is offering to take unsold items participants wish to discard after the sale. RR will either use the items\, donate them to local non-profits\, or properly dispose.\n\n\nNo fee for participation! But if you feel inclined\, donations to Relay Ridge are welcomed to enable future events like this to happen for free! All proceeds will go directly back into our space for improvements and accessibility for all. You can donate in cash at the event or you can contribute HERE\n\nINTERESTED IN PARTICIPATING?\nSign-up form CLICK HERE!
URL:https://relayridge.org/event/4th-annual-yart-sale/
LOCATION:TN
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SUMMARY:FIRST FRIDAY - Andrew Godwin "Seeds"
DESCRIPTION:Join us First Friday May 2nd from 6-9pm for our quarterly OPEN HOUSE event! We’ll have a new exhibition Seeds by local artist Andrew Godwin in the Relay Ridge Gallery + OPEN STUDIOS with the RR Resident Studio Artists + Save-an-Old-Oak-Tree Fundraising with dogwood design printing in the printshop \n \nAndrew Godwin uses drawing and painting to explore the connections that exist between all things. \nHis current body of work balances realism and ambiguity so that multiple subjects read simultaneously\, as relatives. Have you ever looked closely inside a snail shell\, a pinecone\, or a sweetgum ball and began to imagine landscapes\, or recognize patterns\, or discover a sensuality you didn’t feel before? It’s like that. \nThe ubiquity ofboth the subject matter (walnuts\, grapes\, seeds) and the means of making (pencil and paper) accentuate the sense of closeness and attention by stripping away all other distractions. Together\, they say “This is a way to see and think about the world around you as a rich\, connected whole.” \nThis philosophical approach to the physical world connects him to other searchers devoted to deeply personal readings of their environments\, from the forest meditations of Thomas Nozkowski to the quotidian revelations of Catherine Murphy and Mary Oliver. \nHis creative practice is heavily influenced by his running practice\, a meditative endeavor including trail runs over thirty miles that allow both immersion in isolated places and a mental and emotional transformation that opens physical experience to metaphysical meaning. \nHe and his partner Susanne Tarovella are the principal architects of Sparkman & Associates Architects\, Inc. in Knoxville\, TN\, where he also taught drawing and design studios at the University of Tennessee from 2005-2019. \n 
URL:https://relayridge.org/event/first-friday-andrew-godwin/
LOCATION:Relay Ridge Collaborative Artist Space\, 4124 Mckinley St. NE\, Knoxville\, TN\, 37917\, United States
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SUMMARY:FIRST FRIDAY - Abigail Rose Hedley "Sweet Sweat"
DESCRIPTION:Join us first Friday February 7th from 6-9pm for the opening reception of Sweet Sweat by Abigail Rose Hedley @abigail_rose_sculpture \n“Sweet Sweat is an exhibition of wool sculptures that create a space for viewers to reflect on their own soft memories of a summer’s day. Each piece asks the viewer to stop and sit with the work\, allowing your mind to wander and attach itself to its familiar form. The warm white color of the raw wool allows you to finalize the work with your own associations and embed your personal memories into the piece. \nThis body of work was created after the sudden passing of the artist’s partner and shares with the viewer the most tender places of their heart. By sharing their attempts of coming to terms with the pangs of nostalgia and grief associated with this loss\, their goal is to give space for collective sharing. When approaching the work\, you are encouraged to take the time to reflect\, and project your history of life\, love\, and pain into each piece. And if you feel so inclined\, share with those around you.” \n“Cherished Disgust”
URL:https://relayridge.org/event/10565/
LOCATION:TN
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250216T153000
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SUMMARY:Hand-Engraving (Wood) Workshop (4 Days)
DESCRIPTION:SOLD OUT!
URL:https://relayridge.org/event/hand-engraving-wood-workshop/
LOCATION:Relay Ridge Collaborative Artist Space\, 4124 Mckinley St. NE\, Knoxville\, TN\, 37917\, United States
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SUMMARY:Screenprint Workshop
DESCRIPTION:SOLD OUT! \n 
URL:https://relayridge.org/event/screenprinting-workshop-3/
LOCATION:Relay Ridge Collaborative Artist Space\, 4124 Mckinley St. NE\, Knoxville\, TN\, 37917\, United States
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SUMMARY:FIRST FRIDAY February 7th - Abigail Rose Hedley "Sweet Sweat"
DESCRIPTION:Join us First Friday February 7th from 6-9pm for the opening reception of Sweet Sweat a new gallery exhibition by Abigail Rose Hedley. Find more about Abigail here: https://www.abigailhedley.com/ \n“Cherished Disgust”\nWe will also be hosting Open Studios by our RR Resident Artists PLUS we will be offering something fun happening in the community printshop (details TBA).
URL:https://relayridge.org/event/first-friday-february-7th-abigail-rose-hedley-sweet-sweat/
LOCATION:TN
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SUMMARY:Sofreh سفره Torshi Supper Club + Husmus Studio Dec 6th FIRST FRIDAY  7-9pm
DESCRIPTION:Sofreh سفره\n7-9pm\nDecember 6th\n\n\n\n\nSofreh سفره \nTorshi Supper Club and Husmus Studio are presenting a collaborative installation at Relay Ridge for December’s First Friday opening. They will also be sharing a food table for you to taste and experience their food with them. The installation is free for all to enjoy as a piece of the larger show. The food table will be priced per plate (sliding scale of $10-15). \n\n\n\n“Pickleball is centered on the idea of “home” and how we relate to it\, whether it’s through food\, art\, community\, a physical space\, people\, or otherwise. For us (Susie and Sarah)\, it has been sharing food with each other\, inviting friends into our homes\, and sharing in the art that comes from our cultures and ancestors.  There is much more to share on how this show came to be and what it means to us.”\n-Sarah Musgrave
URL:https://relayridge.org/event/sofreh-%d8%b3%d9%81%d8%b1%d9%87-torshi-supper-club-husmus-studio-dec-6th-first-friday-7-9pm/
LOCATION:Relay Ridge Collaborative Artist Space\, 4124 Mckinley St. NE\, Knoxville\, TN\, 37917\, United States
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SUMMARY:Holiday Art Market in the Printshop!
DESCRIPTION:Join us during First Friday December 6th from 6-9pm to shop our printshop filled with local artists’ work! Handmade prints and other artworks created right here in Knoxville will be available for purchase. \nYou can support these local artists directly by buying their work here at the open house\, all while checking out the gallery’s new exhibition “Pickleball” curated by Gina Stucchio and check out the RR Resident Open Artist Studios! \nSnacks + drinks provided!
URL:https://relayridge.org/event/first-friday-holiday-sale-in-the-printshop/
LOCATION:Relay Ridge Collaborative Artist Space\, 4124 Mckinley St. NE\, Knoxville\, TN\, 37917\, United States
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SUMMARY:FIRST FRIDAY December 6th PICKLEBALL opening reception - curated by Gina Stucchio
DESCRIPTION:Opening Gallery Reception + Open RR Artists Studios + RR Printshop happenings! \nFIRST FRIDAY  December 6th  6-9pm \nOlivia Tawzer “Sideline Braid” acrylic on canvas\, 40 x 40 inches\, 2023\nJoin us for the opening reception of Pickleball a curated exhibition by Gina Stucchio. \nIt’s hard to feel like things aren’t just shit these days. \nHowever\, in my overwhelming moments of despair and grief I have felt bonded with my friends and surrounding community in ways I never have before. It’s hard to understand when it’s okay to feel happy or to celebrate anything when so much going on around us feels like it’s more important. \nRecently I’ve thought a lot about what ‘home’ is and what it means to me. It took some time\, but I’ve realized that home is where I feel comfortable and safe\, coming together with friends to play sports\, observing the beautiful moments that seem far too fleeting these days\, and sharing a meal made with love with people I love. We’re not biological\, but siblings at heart. New family. We’ve formed a bond over the lacking. When curating this show I brought together a group of artists from different areas of my life who have a common thread that addresses how the idea of ‘home’ includes community and love and being with each other. \n-Gina Stucchio \nExhibiting artists in this Pickleball include Andres Ramirez\, Gina Stucchio\, Olivia Tawzer\, Sarah Musgrave\, and Susie Zadeh.
URL:https://relayridge.org/event/first-friday-december-6th-pickleball-opening-reception-curated-by-gina-stucchio/
LOCATION:Relay Ridge Collaborative Artist Space\, 4124 Mckinley St. NE\, Knoxville\, TN\, 37917\, United States
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