Once housing the Fountain City Public Library, this wonderful parkside building is the new home of the Fountain City Art Center.
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213 Hotel Avenue Fountain City, Tennessee 37918 865-357-ARTS (2787) fcartcenter@knology.net |
Fountain City Art Center Invites You to Visit !
Right after the Holidays, make your 1st post New Year’s event is the opening reception for Jon Houglum’s stunning oil landscapes and portraits exhibit entitled, “A Perspective on Life.” All are welcome to attend the reception on Friday, January 4, 6:30-8:30PM. The exhibit will be available for public viewing January 4 – February1, 2008.
All exhibits at the Art Center are without charge to the public. Art Center hours are: MW, 10-5; TTH, 9-5; Sat., 9-1; closed Sunday and Monday. For more information, call or email: (865)375-2787; fcartcenter@knology.net.
New classes are beginning in January in watercolor, oil, drawing, mixed media, clay, children’s art activities for ages 6-12 yrs., bookmaking, and dichroic glass jewelry. We have workshops in landscape and portrait painting in oils beginning the 1st week of February with instructor Jon Houglum from Franklin, N. C. We also have a pastel workshop offered on February 16 by Paul DeMarrais.
A new class begins on Tuesday nights at 7PM and at 8PM, guitar lessons for students 12 yrs. and up. Classically trained musician, former band and choral director, and church choir director David Williams will be offering these lessons beginning January 15.
In the Parkside Open Door Gallery, the artists’ market located in the Art Center, we have many handcrafted gifts by regional artists.
The Board and Executive Director can count on being able to offer young students art class scholarships again this year because the Gene and Florence Monday Foundation has awarded a 4th consecutive $5,000 grant for the children’s program in 2008! We are all deeply grateful for this grant which has enabled us to offer FCAC art classes to 150 Knox County students in the past 3 years. The Board and staff of the Fountain City Art Center wishes every one of you the warmest and happiest of Holidays and a very Happy New Year.
“Sponsor a Child’s Art Education” Underway
The Board and Executive Director are deeply grateful that some of our members have already sponsored children and their families for a full year’s membership and classes at the Art Center under our new program. The sponsors are Ann and Jim Harter, Dr. Fred and Deena Hurst, Dr. Nan Scott, Drs. Charlotte and Larry Dorsey who sponsored two families, and Dr. and Mrs. Harold Filston who also sponsored two families. Nan Scott, a member of the Board of Directors, has been working toward obtaining grant funds for this program and will conduct an orientation session for sponsored families as well as a follow up session to evaluate each family’s experiences. The children in this program will be displaying their artwork at one of our 11 receptions and exhibitions. If you, your business, or civic organization would like to participate in this program, please call the Art Center or email the Director for an information packet. We have been including these packets with annual membership renewal notices since September.
Edna Harvey has begun work on the glazed and fired clay oak leaves with the names of sponsors. These leaves will be part of a permanent display on one of the front outside walls of the Art Center, topping a mosaic “tree.”
Unless a sponsor specifies a child and his or her family for the sponsorship, we are obtaining recommendations from area elementary school art instructors. We expect to enroll the first participants between January and February 2008. All sponsors will be notified when we have matched them with a child and a family. They are also entitled to examine the follow up report on their sponsored child and family.
We’re very excited about this new program which could go a long way toward fulfilling the community’s need for more art education. We perceive it as a worthy companion to the children’s art class scholarships that we have been able to provide through the Gene and Florence Monday Foundation Grants of $5,000 for each of the past three years. The Monday Foundation Grant has enabled the Art Center to enroll 150 children in art classes.
FCAC CHILDREN’S CLASS TEACHER BECOMES
PUBLISHED ILLUSTRATOR
Sandra Van Winkle enjoys
life as an illustrator, graphic designer and teacher
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She received her BFA from the University of Tennessee. Creating with a
variety of media her work has appeared on theatre stages, restaurants,
book jackets, posters, greeting cards and once upon a time, her sons’
bedroom walls. “Jack the Healing Cat” is her first published children’s
book. She has designed promotional materials for a number of other
artists, mostly members of Foothills Craft Guild and Appalachian Arts
Center, working on the computer almost as much as at her art board. She
does a lot of photo-illustrations for clients. Currently, Van Winkle
works part-time in production for WATE-TV and teaches classes for 6-12
year olds at FCAC.
“Enjoy Your
Creative Side” is the title of Van Winkle’s classes at the Art Center
and they include a bit of art history, hands-on, and a lot of input and
creation from the students. Each class is unique. She tries to expose
the children to various methods of creation but does not set up problems
for them to solve. They get to create based on their choices for the
most part; however, one painting/drawing/concept is required in the
style of the artist being studied that day. Usually, even though
they have moved on to their own thing, bits of the history lesson are
apparent in their work. 
Van Winkle is a native Knoxvillian, graduate of Fulton High and the University of Tennessee (BFA). She has worked as an artist in various venues, but always wanted to be a children’s book illustrator. Teaming up with the author of “Jack the Healing Cat,” Sandra Van Winkle worked closely with Marilyn Kallet, who has authored 13 other books including “One for Each Night: Chanukah Tales and Recipes,” (Celtic Cat Publishing). “Jack The Healing Cat” is literally hot off the presses. The story begins when Heather finds a kitten abandoned in a shoebox on the sidewalk. She takes him home and names him Jack. Jack is not allowed in the house. One day when Heather does not come to feed and pet him he sneaks in to find her. With his "kitty powers" he helps a sick Heather become well again.
Van Winkle and Kallet have a date to sign at Carpe Librum on December 8th at 2 pm.
Contact the Fountain City Art Center regarding classes for your children (357-2787). The Art Center is located at 213 Hotel Avenue in the park.
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Tues / Thurs: 9AM-5PM
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Wed / Fri: 10AM-5PM
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Sat: 9AM-1PM
Sundays Closed
Sundays Closed
Note: We will close for snow on the same schedule as Knox County Schools.
Classes will be made up in such cases.
Note: We will close for snow on the same schedule as Knox County Schools.
Classes will be made up in such cases.
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"We encourage adults of all levels, children after school, and working people after work to come and study at our beautiful art center."
–Sylvia Williams,
Art Center Director