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The Holiday Spectacular
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go to www.pstcc.edu/arts for the latest information.
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celebrates our uniqueness as individuals. It affirms the
individual strengths, gifts, personalities, challenges, and
differences in each employee, student, graduate, and supporter of Pellissippi State. Through
exciting community events, Pellissippi State celebrates the culture and diversity that make
us all unique, and it brings us all together.
2014
Diversity
Hispanic Heritage Month
Wednesday, October 1, 11:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m.
Goins Building College Center
This event celebrates Hispanic and Latino histories, cultures, and contributions.
American Indian Heritage Month
Monday, November 3, 11:00 a.m.-2:30 p.m.
Goins Building College Center
Featuring Arvel Bird, a violinist and Native American flutist, this event
spotlights American Indian cultures with food, music, arts, and crafts.
2015
Caribbean Carnival
Thursday, February 26, 6:00-8:00 p.m.
Goins Building College Center
Originating in the islands of the Caribbean, the Carnival is based on folklore,
culture, religion and tradition. This event celebrates the rich island culture with
calypso music, dance, food and fun.
Eighth Annual
Festival of Cultures
Friday, April 10, 4:00-8:30 p.m.
J.L. Goins Administration Building
Truly a participatory event! Dance to music, sample foods from a diversity of
nations and meet new friends during this multicultural celebration.
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FRIday, SEPTEMber 19, 7:00 p.m.
Highlights from the Knoxville Opera Company’s 2014-2015
season. Starring Sarah Fitch and Kevin Doherty, accompanied
by Maestro Brian Salesky.
Winter Choral Concert
Tuesday, February 24, 7:00 p.m.
Our concert series returns in 2015 with a showcase featuring two
local high school choirs as special guests.
Student Honors Recital
Faculty Recital
Thursday, October 2, 7:00 p.m.
Our concert series continues with a showcase of talented fulltime and adjunct Music faculty members.
Tuesday, March 3, 7:00 p.m.
Pellissippi State shines the spotlight on its best student performers
taking private instruction in voice or instrument.
Jazz and Bluegrass Concert
Fall Choral Concert
Thursday, March 26, 7:00 p.m.
Tuesday, October 21, 7:00 p.m.
Performers include student groups Concert Chorale and
Variations Ensemble as well as selected student soloists.
A perennial favorite, this concert brings together the Pellissippi
State Jazz Band and Hardin Valley Thunder, the College’s
bluegrass ensemble.
Instrumental Concert
Instrumental Concert
Thursday, November 6, 7:00 p.m.
Thursday, April 9, 7:00 p.m.
The season’s first music presentation to focus exclusively on
instruments, this concert offers a wide range of genres.
This event boasts an instruments-only musical mix that is
guaranteed to offer something for everyone.
Holiday Spectacular
Spring Choral Concert
Thursday, December 4,
6:00 and 8:00 p.m.
Thursday, April 30, 7:00 p.m.
Our musical holiday celebration is a fan favorite—so much so
that we give guests a choice of two performance times.
The season concludes with performances by student groups
Concert Chorale and Variations Ensemble.
All events take place in the
Clayton Performing Arts Center
on the Hardin Valley Campus of
Pellissippi State.
Pellissippi State is proud to be
an All-Steinway school.
A Look in Both Directions
August 25-September 12
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Pellissippi State’s inaugural alumni art exhibit features the work of invited artists
who have attended the College and have displayed a commitment to pursuing higher
education opportunities or have become working artists in their communities.
Artists include Sharon Bachleda, Paige Burchell, Jessica Burleson, Pete Hoffecker,
Daniel Huxtable, Steven Kempster, Jamie Schneider, Pamela Simpson, Bill Warden, Elliott White and Dean Yasko.
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Three area painters are brought together in a study of the many different
outcomes under the moniker of “abstraction.” The works of John Bissonette,
Jennifer Brickey and Heather Hartman capture the winnowing of information
through a particular view, then the expansion, exploration, structuring, and
meditation that follows. This event is curated by Art faculty member Herb Rieth.
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This exhibit highlights recent works by Pellissippi State’s Art faculty.
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Crystal Wagner invites us to “fast forward to 2050, where plastic grows by itself!”
for a viewing of her one-of-a-kind art. This exhibit explores the space between the
plastic, artificial environment of everyday experiences with man-made materials,
consumerism, and technology and the exotic landscapes that occupy the surface of
our earth. Wagner illustrates the increasingly severe divide between humans and the
natural world through her pieces, which “grow” like life forms through the gallery.
Elissa Graff, Recent Work
February 9-27
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Gallery hours:
Monday-Friday, 10 a.m.-6:30 p.m.
Annual Juried Student Art Show
March 30-April 17
This exhibit incorporates a cross-section of media: drawings, paintings, watercolors,
sculptures, ceramics, blacksmithing, as well as 2D and 3D designs, all by Pellissippi
State’s Art students.
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All performances take place in the
gallery of the Bagwell Center for Media
and Art on the Hardin Valley Campus of
Pellissippi State.
Elissa Graff’s work in enamel draws on nature in both functional and spiritual ways.
For each enamel piece, Graff’s art is drawn twice with wire—first fused into fired
silica and then drawn as an abstraction of the enamel image for the pendant setting.
Each piece is then set like a stone into a related metal and hung from chains, and
each encapsulates a moment and memory forever within glass.
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2014
Server Alley
November 14, 15, 21 and 22; 7:30 p.m.
November 16 and 23, 2:00 p.m.
In keeping with Pellissippi State’s ongoing commitment to producing new work, the College presents the
world premiere of this comedy/drama by New York playwright Alex Gherardi. The play examines the lives
of an oft-seen but barely noticed group: the people who serve your food.
A Laura Ingalls Wilder Christmas
December 12 and 13, 7:30 p.m.
December 13, 2:30 p.m.
Co-produced by Pellissippi State and The WordPlayers, this original play by Laurie Brooks is the poignant
story of two years in the life of the well-known Ingalls family—the only two years Laura Ingalls Wilder
chose not to include in her “Little House” books. Presented with period songs, humor and depth of character,
“A Laura Ingalls Wilder Christmas” tells of healing and celebrates the importance of enduring family bonds.
2015
The Tempest
April 17, 18, 24 and 25; 7:30 p.m.
April 19 and 26, 2:00 p.m.
The College presents this classic Shakespeare play in a co-production
with Duck Ear Productions. Prepare to be transported to a faraway
island for a tale filled with spirits, monsters, vengeance, young love
and sorcery. This presentation, directed by Charles R. Miller, head of
Pellissippi State’s Theatre productions and co-founder of the Smoky
Mountain Shakespeare Festival, promises the best performers and
artists Knoxville has to offer.
All performances take place in the Clayton
Performing Arts Center on the Hardin
Valley Campus of Pellissippi State.
To order tickets for any of these shows,
simply go to www.pstcc.edu/tickets.
Events like the Faculty Lecture Series provide our faculty members with a
venue outside the classroom to share their passion and do what they do best: inspire, question,
motivate, and teach. You don’t have to be a student to attend these free community lectures.
Join us and be awakened to new ideas and possibilities by some of our remarkable faculty.
Anne Pharr
From Mary Poppins to Maleficent:
One Professor’s Pursuit of Persona
Thursday, September 25, 12:30 p.m.
Trent Eades
The Many Faces of Socrates
Thursday, October 23, 12:30 p.m.
Frank Mashburn
Who are You (Really)? Some Insights
from Philosophy and Film
Wednesday, November 12, 2:00 p.m.
Herb Rieth
Flip, Flop and Freestylin’:
Art of the African Diaspora
in the 20th and 21st Century
Thursday, February 12, 3:00 p.m.
All performances take place in the Goins Building
Auditorium on the Hardin Valley Campus of
Pellissippi State.
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Thursday, September 18, 7:30 p.m.
Clayton Performing Arts Center
Hardin Valley Campus
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ark Bowden is the author of “Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War,”
which was a finalist for the National Book Award in 1999. He also wrote the
essay “The Measured Man,” featured in the College’s 2014-2015 Common Book, “The
Best American Science and Nature Writing” (2013 edition), and originally published
in “The Atlantic.” Bowden’s essay recounts the work of Larry Smarr, an astrophysicist
and pioneer of the Internet who advocates “digitally enabled genomic medicine”
through in-depth study of his own body.
Bowden recounts Smarr’s self-diagnosis of Crohn’s disease, an incurable chronic
inflammation disorder of the digestive system, and his intensive self-study of
everything from his bodily excretions to his DNA. Smarr foresees a future in
which health care is personalized and each person is in charge of his own
treatments, but he faces criticism that such a future could lead to
unnecessary medical intervention and anxiety.
To order tickets for this event,
go to www.pstcc.edu/tickets.
Edited by
SIDDHARTHA MUKHERJEE
What’s This All About?
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thinking and investigating that reveals
to us the wonders of the universe both
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ounded in 1974 as State Technical Institute at Knoxville,
the College has a history steeped in technology, yet we have
always been a proponent of the arts, through academics and
events, as well. Our Studio Art courses include everything from
painting and printmaking to ceramics and sculpture; we offer a
fine arts degree in Music; our Theatre productions are among
the area’s best; and our alumni include Tony Award winner
Levi Kreis and “Men in Black” creator Lowell Cunningham.
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The Faculty Lecture Series began in 1994 as “The Last
Lecture,” giving our faculty the opportunity to share their most
important message—the last lecture, as it were—in a fun and
informal way. And faculty aren’t the only ones to have shared
inspiring messages: Alex Haley was a keynote speaker in 1985.
Other notables have included New York Times bestselling
author Eric Weiner, Gov. Bill Haslam and Gary R. Wade, chief
justice of the Tennessee Supreme Court.
Musical concerts have long had a place in the culture of
Pellissippi State. Community participation has always been
a big part of life here, too—from the popular hot air balloon
festival of past years to the culture and diversity events of today.
From outdoor productions of Shakespeare to
public sculpture competitions, from musical
concerts to inspiring lectures—art has always
been part of the history of Pellissippi State.
Each aspect of The Arts at Pellissippi State has
its roots in the College’s unique arts legacy.…
Visual arts are an important part of Pellissippi State’s
history. In 1996, the College hosted a “Profiles of Success” art
competition and exhibition, and many of the winning pieces,
including the iconic “Ladders to Success” sculpture, are still on
display. We also proudly maintain a permanent collection of
student artwork from the annual Juried Student Art Show.
Pellissippi State’s student-and-community Theatre productions
draw their inspiration from not only talented actors and
actresses but also a history of outdoor Shakespeare productions
by the pond at the Hardin Valley Campus. Today, the beautiful
Clayton Performing Arts Center provides a comfortable,
advanced venue for stage premieres.
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