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Programs

First Friday Art Crawl!

First Friday Art Crawl!

Friday, October 4
5-8PM (ICA open regular daytime hours, and stays open late until 8pm this evening)

Chattanooga Celebrates Local Art and Culture with "First Friday" Art Crawl Inaugural Event:

Friday, October 4th, 2024 | 5 PM - 8 PM Chattanooga, TN – Get ready to experience a vibrant celebration of art and culture with the launch of "First Friday," a revitalized monthly art crawl happening across gallery spaces throughout the city.

This city-wide event invites the community to explore the local art scene and connect with cultural happenings in Chattanooga. Each month, galleries will open their doors to the public, showcasing an exciting array of exhibitions, art installations, and creative works. First Friday aims to foster a deeper connection between local artists, galleries, and the community, while also promoting a thriving arts culture in the city.

Participating galleries and spaces for the first event include:

  • Area 61
  • AVA
  • ClearStory Arts
  • Gannon Art
  • Home Bar
  • ICA at UTC
  • In-Town Gallery
  • Northside Gallery
  • River Gallery
  • Stove Works
  • Wavelength Space

In addition to the exhibits, visitors are encouraged to pick up a Gallery Passport booklet at any participating location. As you explore the city's gallery spaces, collect stamps and stickers from each venue. After visiting multiple spaces over a few months, art crawlers can turn in their completed passports to receive a special gift filled with locally sourced goodies and gallery discounts.

Gallery crawlers can also stop into participating local bars and eateries, which will occasionally offer specialty drinks and discounts. This October, Home Bar is offering the "Gogh-ing Grey" cocktail with a $3 discount to Gallery Passport holders.

For updates on the event, a monthly roster of participating galleries, and more details, follow @First_Friday_Chatt on Instagram or First Friday Chattanooga on Facebook

An evening with Reginald Sylvester II

Join the ICA for our Fall 2024 opening event!

An evening with Reginald Sylvester II

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 6-8pm

Reception and exhibition opening for Reginald Sylvester II’s solo exhibition Groanings Which Cannot Be Uttered

ICA Galleries open, with light fare in Fine Arts Center lobby.

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC!
NO RESERVATIONS REQUIRED.

Photo: Reginald Sylvester II, 2024. Credit: Daniel Greer.

 

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ICA Artist Talk with Reginald Sylvester II

ICA Artist Talk with Reginald Sylvester II
for UTC Students!

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 12-1pm

Join us in the gallery with the artist Reginald Sylvester II to discuss the work in his solo exhibition Groanings Which Cannot Be Uttered

Bring a friend. Free pizza!!

 

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ARTIST TALKS & RECEPTIONS

ARTIST TALKS & RECEPTIONS
2024 BFA SENIOR THESIS EXHIBITIONS

SHOW 1
ARTIST TALKS:
THURS, MARCH 28, 5-6:30PM EST
UTC’s Benwood Auditorium in the Engineering, Math and Computer Science Building (map) 
735 Vine Street, Chattanooga, TN, 37403
ZOOM LINK: http://tinyurl.com/2024BFAshow1 
Reception immediately following in the ICA and Fine Arts Center lobby until 8pm.

SHOW 2
ARTIST TALKS:
FRI, APRIL 12, 5-6:30PM EST
UTC’s Benwood Auditorium in the Engineering, Math and Computer Science Building (map) 
735 Vine Street, Chattanooga, TN, 37403
ZOOM LINK: http://tinyurl.com/2024BFAshow2 
Reception immediately following in the ICA and Fine Arts Center lobby until 8pm.

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC!
NO RESERVATIONS REQUIRED. THE AUDITORIUM SEATS 300.

 

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ADAM PARKER SMITH & SARCOPHAGI

ARTIST TALK
ADAM PARKER SMITH & SARCOPHAGI

WED, MARCH 6, 5:30PM EST
UTC’s Benwood Auditorium in the Engineering, Math and Computer Science Building (map) 
735 Vine Street, Chattanooga, TN, 37403
Immediately following, we will walk down Vine Street to view Sarcophagi with the artist (optional).

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC!
NO RESERVATIONS REQUIRED. THE AUDITORIUM SEATS 300.

Adam Parker Smith will discuss his Sarcophagi series (2021) on view at UTC campus through May 2024, including the creative process behind their ideation and fabrication. Smith will also survey his sculptural practice and artistic development from the past decade.

Adam Parker Smith (American, b. 1978) is a Brooklyn based sculptor. He attended Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia. His work has been shown widely in the USA as well as internationally in galleries and museums including: the Brooklyn Museum, Marlborough Gallery, London; Derek Eller, New York; The Hole, New York; Ever Gold Projects, San Fransisco; The Donum Estate, Sonoma; Galeria Curro, Guadalajara; Spurs Gallery, Beijing; The Times Museum, Guangzhou, China; Kaiser-Franz-Josefs-Höhe, Austria; The Watermill Center, New York and the Maraya Art Centre, Sharjah, UAE. Smith’s work has been written about in the New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Art in America, The Village Voice, ArtForum, Modern Painters, The Boston Globe, The New Yorker and The New York Post.  

BECKY SUSS & ANN PATCHETT DISCUSS THE DUTCH HOUSE

CANCELLED DUE TO WEATHER!

OPENING RECEPTION STILL ON FOR 3-5PM

 

CANCELLED!
BECKY SUSS & ANN PATCHETT DISCUSS THE DUTCH HOUSE

SAT, JANUARY 20
2-3PM EASTERN 
UTC’s Benwood Auditorium in the Engineering, Math and Computer Science Building (map) 
735 Vine Street, Chattanooga, TN, 37403
Reception follows in ICA Galleries and Lobby of Fine Arts Center until 5pm

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC!
NO RESERVATIONS REQUIRED. THE AUDITORIUM SEATS 300.

ICA Chattanooga presents a solo exhibition of new paintings by American painter Becky Suss (b. 1980) inspired by American author Ann Patchett’s 2019 novel The Dutch House. Patchett hails from Tennessee, though the novel on which these new paintings are based centers on a fictional mansion in a real suburb of Philadelphia, PA, where Suss herself was raised.

Ann Patchett is the author of nine novels and four books of nonfiction. She has won many awards and her books have been translated into over thirty languages. Time magazine named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world. The Dutch House was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. She is the owner of Parnassus Books in Nashville, Tennessee.

Photo: Ann Patchett by Emily Dorio

KEVIN MCNAMEE-TWEED

ARTIST TALK
KEVIN MCNAMEE-TWEED

THURS, OCT 19, 5pm
Free and Open to the Public

Lecture Location: 
”Card Family Auditorium” in the Engineering, Math and Computer Science Building (EMCS, Room 201) (map
735 Vine Street, Chattanooga, TN, 37403

Durham-based artist Kevin McNamee-Tweed (American, b. 1981) returns to ICA Chattanooga to discuss his practice and the exhibition When the World’s on Fire.

AN EVENING WITH JAKE XERXES FUSSELL

AN EVENING WITH JAKE XERXES FUSSELL

Join us for our fall opening events!

THURS, AUG 24
FINE ARTS CENTER, UTC
752 Vine Street, Chattanooga, TN 37403

6-7 pm
AN EVENING WITH JAKE XERXES FUSSELL
Hayes Concert Hall, Fine Arts Center lobby
Doors open 5:30pm, Free and Open to the Public
with introduction by artist Kevin McNamee-Tweed

Jake Xerxes Fussell is a singer and guitarist based in Durham, NC. He is, according to Ann Powers of NPR, "maybe the leading interpreter of American folk music right now..."

Fussell’s album Good and Green Again was released to critical acclaim in 2022 via Paradise of Bachelors. The album was produced by James Elkington and featured some formidable musicians, including Casey Toll on upright bass, Libby Rodenbough on strings, Joe Westerlund on drums, Joseph Decosimo on fiddle, and others. Bonnie “Prince” Billy contributed additional vocals.

Fussell will be introduced and welcomed to UTC by ICA exhibiting artist and friend, Kevin McNamee-Tweed.

"...Fussell is the rare contemporary to approach folk in its pure form, shunning self-penned compositions about bummer relationships to concentrate on material handed down from bygone, hardened times.” 
–The New Yorker

“(Fussell) is one of the great magpies of American song, collecting forgotten, tarnished gems with a folklorist’s zeal... his renditions aren’t so much cover versions as composites...” 
–The Guardian

WHEN THE WORLD’S ON FIRE

WHEN THE WORLD’S ON FIRE 
OPENING & RECEPTION with artist
KEVIN MCNAMEE-TWEED

FOLLOWING FUSSELL’S PERFORMANCE, JOIN US

7-9 pm
WHEN THE WORLD'S ON FIRE
ICA RECEPTION & OPENING WITH ARTIST
KEVIN MCNAMEE-TWEED
ICA Galleries, UTC Fine Arts Center lobby, 752 Vine Street
Gallery doors are open at 6pm
Always free and open to the public
Light food and drink offered

ARTIST TALK & TENNESSEE TRIENNIAL RECEPTION

ARTIST TALK & TENNESSEE TRIENNIAL RECEPTION

Join us for the opening artist talk & reception with Stacy Kranitz for 
As it was Give(n) to Me
On view January 17-March 12, 2023 with the
Tennessee Triennial: RE-PAIR

Stacy Kranitz Artist Talk + Opening Reception
Thurs, Feb 16
6pm Lecture
7pm Reception follows in ICA Galleries

Lecture Location: 
”Card Family Auditorium” in the Engineering, Math and Computer Science Building (EMCS, Room 201) (map
735 Vine Street, Chattanooga, TN, 37403

ARTIST TALK & RECEPTION

ARTIST TALK & RECEPTION

Join us for the opening artist talk & reception for 
Infinite Expansion of the Rubber Band Mansion
New work by Jamie Isenstein
On view November 4 - December 16, 2022

Artist Talk + Opening Reception
Friday, Nov 4
5pm Lecture
6-8pm Reception in ICA Galleries

Lecture Location: 
UTC Benwood Auditorium in the Engineering, Math and Computer Science Building (EMCS, Room 230) (map)
735 Vine Street, Chattanooga, TN, 37403

we gotta get that curb!

ARTIST TALK

we gotta get that curb!
Artist talk with Will Sutton & O’Len Davis

Wednesday, March 9, 5pm
No registration required, masks strongly encouraged.

Location: 
Fine Arts Center, Room 315

Interested in exploring skateboarding’s relationship to public space, and manipulating a tactical view of banal architecture that skaters employ, Davis and Sutton present a new collaborative body of work for this year’s Feinstein exhibition.

Davis and Sutton are the 2021 Awardees of the Lillian B. Feinstein Scholarship in the UTC Department of Art. Each year the Lillian B. Feinstein Scholarship is awarded to two outstanding Art majors, one studying at the upper division and one at the lower division. Named after the late Mrs. Feinstein, who was a noted sculptor in this region, this award is voted on by the faculty of the Art Department and, as such, is indicative of the highest level of performance in studio production.

ICA Galleries will be open until 7pm this evening to celebrate the exhibition with the artists.
Note: no food/drink provided.
 

Kristine Potter: Dark Waters

ARTIST TALK

Kristine Potter: Dark Waters
Thursday, February 24, 6pm

Free and Open to the public.
No registration required, masks strongly encouraged.

Talk Location: 
”Card Family Auditorium” in the Engineering, Math and Computer Science Building (EMCS, Room 201) (map
735 Vine Street, Chattanooga, TN, 37403

Join artist Kristine Potter as she speaks about her lens-based practice, including a discussion of her current series on view at the ICA: Dark Waters.

ICA Galleries will be open until 8pm this evening to celebrate the exhibition with the artist. To visit the ICA after the artist talk, please exit right, walk across the breezeway and cross the crosswalk over Vine Street into the Fine Arts Center (Henry Moore sculpture out front). Note: no food/drink provided.

Ellex Swavoni

ARTIST TALK
Ellex Swavoni
Thur, Nov 18, 5pm
*Followed by Immortal Messages reception 6-7pm at the ICA

Location: 
UTC Benwood Auditorium in the Engineering, Math and Computer Science Building (EMCS, Room 230) (map)
735 Vine Street, Chattanooga, TN, 37403

Join visiting artist juror Ellex Swavoni as she speaks about her practice, including recent public sculpture Atlantis Rising. Swavoni is the curator of Immortal Messages: The 2021 UTC Art Annual Juried Student Exhibition.

FREE and OPEN to the public. Space is limited and masks are required. ICA Galleries open until 7pm this evening to celebrate the opening of the 2021 Juried Student exhibition, Immortal Messages.
 

Closing Party for Tasteful Interiors

TASTY INTERIORS!
Closing Party for Tasteful Interiors

Friday, Nov 5, 6-8pm
Come enjoy a final viewing of Tasteful Interiors, make an infamous Cheeto facial scrub, drink Pepsi, eat Cheetos, paint your nails, and create clay sculptures!

Exhibition tour provided at 6pm by Rachel Reese, director and curator of the ICA.

Free and Open to UTC students, faculty, and staff.

Location: ICA at UTC & Lobby of Fine Arts Center, 752 Vine Street
 

Ilana Harris-Babou

ARTIST TALK, TASTEFUL INTERIORS
Ilana Harris-Babou
Monday, Nov 1, 6pm, ZOOM

Register: 
https://tennessee.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAoc-yurT0iHdE7fBvArVbtPiFR6Tloxqre
(You will receive a confirmation email with zoom link!)

Join visiting artist Ilana Harris-Babou as she speaks about her exhibition, "Tasteful Interiors", on view through November 5th. Harris-Babou will also discuss the evolution of her art practice and career (video- and installation-based sculptural practice) over recent years.

STUDENT-LED EXHIBITION TOURS

STUDENT-LED EXHIBITION TOURS

Join ICA Student Gallery Ambassadors as they lead a lunchtime exhibition tours of Tasteful Interiors!

Dates & Tour Start Times:

Thurs, Sept 23, 12pm: Led by Grace Wright, Painting & Drawing
Fri, Oct 1, 1pm: Led by Mya Hollingsworth, Photography & Media Art
Fri, Oct 8, 1pm: Led by Marley Hillman, Communications & Marketing
Wed, Oct 13, 12pm: Led by Maddie Snider, Exercise Science
Thurs, Oct 28, 2pm: Led by Tred Hill, Graphic Design

Location: Meet at the ICA at UTC, in the Lobby of Fine Arts Center, 752 Vine Street

FREE and OPEN to the public. Masks required.
 

THE ART THING

THE ART THING 
in conjunction with SEMC 2021

ICA Galleries open late
Tues, Oct 26, 6-8pm

Visit our exhibition Tasteful Interiors by Ilana Harris-Babou as we stay open late during the SEMC conference as part of a city-wide contemporary art crawl! Free and open to the public.

Participating venues:
ICA at UTC
Stoveworks
AVA 
Wavelength Space
Keeody Gallery
Clearstory Arts 
3127.space 

Marc Boyson’s kickabouts

ARCHIVE: Spring 2021
Home/: Marc Boyson’s kickabouts

Home/ exhibiting artist Marc Boyson will embark on local kickabouts starting and ending at UTC’s Fine Arts Center on Tuesday and Thursdays from 10-11am during the run of Home/ (through Mar 19, 2021). Watch Boyson live on his Instagram @marcboyson or follow him in person by meeting at the gallery before he departs. Upon his return to the gallery, Boyson will place the traveled cuboctahedron sculpture in the exhibition.

ICA Chattanooga

ICA Chattanooga

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