Community Calendar

The ETSU Department of Art & Design and Slocumb Galleries in partnership with Women’s Gender & Sexuality Studies and ETSU Student Activities Allocations Committee (SAAC) proudly present ‘Seven Stages’ sculptures and installation by Alexandra Mavrikis from August 19 to September 24, 2026. The public is invited to meet the artist during the closing reception and gallery speak on September 4, First Friday from 5 to 7 p.m., at the Slocumb Galleries.

Seven Stages explores grief through furniture and wall assemblages, sculptor Alexandra Mavrikis asks “What does it feel like to be in communion with grief?” She responds with the creation of objects as carriers of memory as she ponders on alternative perspectives to loss as not only “purely tragic, the work approaches grief with both sincerity and humor, recognizing that mourning is often as absurd and uncomfortable as it is painful.” Mavrikis’ uncanny pairing of sculptural furniture with familiar domestic items presented in absurd ways, she disrupts the familiar, thus, inviting viewers to “reconsider how ordinary things become both repositories of love, absence, and remembrance, as well as vessels for our anger, frustration, and sadness.”

The exhibition and community engagement activities are supported by the Tennessee Arts Commission, Bravissima! Women Sponsoring the Arts and Arts Fund from East Tennessee Foundation. All events are open to the public, free of charge. The Slocumb Galleries are located at Ernest C. Ball Hall, 232 Sherrod Drive, ETSU campus, Johnson City. Gallery hours are weekdays from 9am to 5 pm with extended hours during receptions and by appointments. For more information email Karlota Contreras-Koterbay via contrera@etsu.edu or text 423.483.3179.

The Reece Museum presents Window into the Soul: The Work of Amanda Renfrow, an exhibition featuring the stained glass work by local artist Amanda Renfrow.

Window into the Soul, showcasing twenty-five stained-glass works by Renfrow, offers a retrospective of her eight-year practice. A native of Oklahoma, Renfrow moved to Appalachia in 2018 and began her artistic practice in glass. Starting as an apprentice to Steve Cook, a renowned glass artist in Jonesborough, Renfrow has since gained notoriety, with work frequently exhibited and housed in private and public collections, including the Reece Museum Permanent Collection.

"This exhibition brings together works that trace my artistic development from the smallest butterfly to the largest sun, reflecting the evolution of my approach over time,” says Renfrow.

The ETSU Department of Art & Design and Slocumb Galleries in partnership with Women’s Gender & Sexuality Studies and ETSU Student Activities Allocations Committee (SAAC) proudly present ‘Seven Stages’ sculptures and installation by Alexandra Mavrikis from August 19 to September 24, 2026. The public is invited to meet the artist during the closing reception and gallery speak on September 4, First Friday from 5 to 7 p.m., at the Slocumb Galleries.

Seven Stages explores grief through furniture and wall assemblages, sculptor Alexandra Mavrikis asks “What does it feel like to be in communion with grief?” She responds with the creation of objects as carriers of memory as she ponders on alternative perspectives to loss as not only “purely tragic, the work approaches grief with both sincerity and humor, recognizing that mourning is often as absurd and uncomfortable as it is painful.” Mavrikis’ uncanny pairing of sculptural furniture with familiar domestic items presented in absurd ways, she disrupts the familiar, thus, inviting viewers to “reconsider how ordinary things become both repositories of love, absence, and remembrance, as well as vessels for our anger, frustration, and sadness.”

The exhibition and community engagement activities are supported by the Tennessee Arts Commission, Bravissima! Women Sponsoring the Arts and Arts Fund from East Tennessee Foundation. All events are open to the public, free of charge. The Slocumb Galleries are located at Ernest C. Ball Hall, 232 Sherrod Drive, ETSU campus, Johnson City. Gallery hours are weekdays from 9am to 5 pm with extended hours during receptions and by appointments. For more information email Karlota Contreras-Koterbay via contrera@etsu.edu or text 423.483.3179.

The Reece Museum presents Window into the Soul: The Work of Amanda Renfrow, an exhibition featuring the stained glass work by local artist Amanda Renfrow.

Window into the Soul, showcasing twenty-five stained-glass works by Renfrow, offers a retrospective of her eight-year practice. A native of Oklahoma, Renfrow moved to Appalachia in 2018 and began her artistic practice in glass. Starting as an apprentice to Steve Cook, a renowned glass artist in Jonesborough, Renfrow has since gained notoriety, with work frequently exhibited and housed in private and public collections, including the Reece Museum Permanent Collection.

"This exhibition brings together works that trace my artistic development from the smallest butterfly to the largest sun, reflecting the evolution of my approach over time,” says Renfrow.

The ETSU Department of Art & Design and Slocumb Galleries in partnership with Women’s Gender & Sexuality Studies and ETSU Student Activities Allocations Committee (SAAC) proudly present ‘Seven Stages’ sculptures and installation by Alexandra Mavrikis from August 19 to September 24, 2026. The public is invited to meet the artist during the closing reception and gallery speak on September 4, First Friday from 5 to 7 p.m., at the Slocumb Galleries.

Seven Stages explores grief through furniture and wall assemblages, sculptor Alexandra Mavrikis asks “What does it feel like to be in communion with grief?” She responds with the creation of objects as carriers of memory as she ponders on alternative perspectives to loss as not only “purely tragic, the work approaches grief with both sincerity and humor, recognizing that mourning is often as absurd and uncomfortable as it is painful.” Mavrikis’ uncanny pairing of sculptural furniture with familiar domestic items presented in absurd ways, she disrupts the familiar, thus, inviting viewers to “reconsider how ordinary things become both repositories of love, absence, and remembrance, as well as vessels for our anger, frustration, and sadness.”

The exhibition and community engagement activities are supported by the Tennessee Arts Commission, Bravissima! Women Sponsoring the Arts and Arts Fund from East Tennessee Foundation. All events are open to the public, free of charge. The Slocumb Galleries are located at Ernest C. Ball Hall, 232 Sherrod Drive, ETSU campus, Johnson City. Gallery hours are weekdays from 9am to 5 pm with extended hours during receptions and by appointments. For more information email Karlota Contreras-Koterbay via contrera@etsu.edu or text 423.483.3179.

The Reece Museum presents Window into the Soul: The Work of Amanda Renfrow, an exhibition featuring the stained glass work by local artist Amanda Renfrow.

Window into the Soul, showcasing twenty-five stained-glass works by Renfrow, offers a retrospective of her eight-year practice. A native of Oklahoma, Renfrow moved to Appalachia in 2018 and began her artistic practice in glass. Starting as an apprentice to Steve Cook, a renowned glass artist in Jonesborough, Renfrow has since gained notoriety, with work frequently exhibited and housed in private and public collections, including the Reece Museum Permanent Collection.

"This exhibition brings together works that trace my artistic development from the smallest butterfly to the largest sun, reflecting the evolution of my approach over time,” says Renfrow.

The ETSU Department of Art & Design and Slocumb Galleries in partnership with Women’s Gender & Sexuality Studies and ETSU Student Activities Allocations Committee (SAAC) proudly present ‘Seven Stages’ sculptures and installation by Alexandra Mavrikis from August 19 to September 24, 2026. The public is invited to meet the artist during the closing reception and gallery speak on September 4, First Friday from 5 to 7 p.m., at the Slocumb Galleries.

Seven Stages explores grief through furniture and wall assemblages, sculptor Alexandra Mavrikis asks “What does it feel like to be in communion with grief?” She responds with the creation of objects as carriers of memory as she ponders on alternative perspectives to loss as not only “purely tragic, the work approaches grief with both sincerity and humor, recognizing that mourning is often as absurd and uncomfortable as it is painful.” Mavrikis’ uncanny pairing of sculptural furniture with familiar domestic items presented in absurd ways, she disrupts the familiar, thus, inviting viewers to “reconsider how ordinary things become both repositories of love, absence, and remembrance, as well as vessels for our anger, frustration, and sadness.”

The exhibition and community engagement activities are supported by the Tennessee Arts Commission, Bravissima! Women Sponsoring the Arts and Arts Fund from East Tennessee Foundation. All events are open to the public, free of charge. The Slocumb Galleries are located at Ernest C. Ball Hall, 232 Sherrod Drive, ETSU campus, Johnson City. Gallery hours are weekdays from 9am to 5 pm with extended hours during receptions and by appointments. For more information email Karlota Contreras-Koterbay via contrera@etsu.edu or text 423.483.3179.

The Reece Museum presents Window into the Soul: The Work of Amanda Renfrow, an exhibition featuring the stained glass work by local artist Amanda Renfrow.

Window into the Soul, showcasing twenty-five stained-glass works by Renfrow, offers a retrospective of her eight-year practice. A native of Oklahoma, Renfrow moved to Appalachia in 2018 and began her artistic practice in glass. Starting as an apprentice to Steve Cook, a renowned glass artist in Jonesborough, Renfrow has since gained notoriety, with work frequently exhibited and housed in private and public collections, including the Reece Museum Permanent Collection.

"This exhibition brings together works that trace my artistic development from the smallest butterfly to the largest sun, reflecting the evolution of my approach over time,” says Renfrow.

The ETSU Department of Art & Design and Slocumb Galleries in partnership with Women’s Gender & Sexuality Studies and ETSU Student Activities Allocations Committee (SAAC) proudly present ‘Seven Stages’ sculptures and installation by Alexandra Mavrikis from August 19 to September 24, 2026. The public is invited to meet the artist during the closing reception and gallery speak on September 4, First Friday from 5 to 7 p.m., at the Slocumb Galleries.

Seven Stages explores grief through furniture and wall assemblages, sculptor Alexandra Mavrikis asks “What does it feel like to be in communion with grief?” She responds with the creation of objects as carriers of memory as she ponders on alternative perspectives to loss as not only “purely tragic, the work approaches grief with both sincerity and humor, recognizing that mourning is often as absurd and uncomfortable as it is painful.” Mavrikis’ uncanny pairing of sculptural furniture with familiar domestic items presented in absurd ways, she disrupts the familiar, thus, inviting viewers to “reconsider how ordinary things become both repositories of love, absence, and remembrance, as well as vessels for our anger, frustration, and sadness.”

The exhibition and community engagement activities are supported by the Tennessee Arts Commission, Bravissima! Women Sponsoring the Arts and Arts Fund from East Tennessee Foundation. All events are open to the public, free of charge. The Slocumb Galleries are located at Ernest C. Ball Hall, 232 Sherrod Drive, ETSU campus, Johnson City. Gallery hours are weekdays from 9am to 5 pm with extended hours during receptions and by appointments. For more information email Karlota Contreras-Koterbay via contrera@etsu.edu or text 423.483.3179.

UPCOMING Northeast Tennessee MASTER GARDENER CLASS
We all want to share our love of gardening.

The Northeast Master Gardener Association (NETMGA) membership includes volunteers from Hawkins, Sullivan, Washington, Carter, Johnson, and Unicoi Counties. Their many activities include information booths at various home and farm shows, answering Ask-a-Master Gardener questions, teaching classes in the community, and organizing new Master Gardener classes. Their presence can be seen in many local historic site gardens, demonstration gardens and community vegetable gardens.

A new Master Gardener class will begin January 28, 2025, and go through April 29, 2025. Classes will be held on Tuesdays from 10:00 am - 2:00 pm. Classes are available for the surrounding communities' participants and are held at the Sullivan County, Ron Ramsey Agricultural Center located at 140 Spurgeon Lane, Blountville, TN.

The cost for the class is $200 and applications are available online at the NETMGA website or UT website: https://www.netmga.net/ OR Call 423-574-1919 and press "0"