Nov
30
2011
Join us for the art carnival at Ironwood Studios this Friday December 2nd at 7:00. $10.00 cover, great local bands, SIDE SHOW BENNY, over 50 artists
Saturday art market 10:00 to 5:00, no cover
Support your local artists, great for holiday gifts
Mar
4
2011
Just a simple first Friday get together with shrimp boiling and some live music by Maggie Longmire.
Sep
23
2010
Audiences will likely be familiar with Wammo as the cofounder and raucous front-man of the wildly popular roots band the Asylum Street Spankers. What you may not know is this vagabond troubadour is also a prolific visual artist. For the past 16 years, Wammo has crisscrossed the globe, establishing a large and loyal cult following for his work as a performer, song-writer and musician. Now embarking on a new solo path as a one-man creative juggernaut, Wammo will showcase his artwork at a gallery exhibition in Knoxville, Tennessee.
Wammo’s solo exhibition will take place at Ironwood Studios located at 119 Jennings Avenue in the Downtown North area of Knoxville. The exhibition will run October 1 – November 1, 2010 with a soft opening to coincide with Knoxville’s October First Friday. An opening event will take place at the gallery on Saturday, October 2nd starting at 7:30 with a performance by the artist at 8:30pm.
Gallery owner Preston Farabow: “At my very first Spanker show, Wammo whipped open his iPhone and showed me his work. I had no idea he could paint and knew immediately that I wanted to show his art in my gallery. Ironwood Studios is proud to bring Wammo’s recent work to the Knoxville community.”
EXHIBITION DETAILS & CONTACT INFO
Solo exhibition at Ironwood Studios October 1 – November 1, 2010
Born in NYC but raised in the wilds of Texas, Wammo is an American original. The eldest son of Metropolitan Opera star William Walker, Wammo grew up as a musical omnivore who embraced influences ranging from Beethoven to the Beatles to Black Flag. He also began painting intense canvases drenched in contrast and color.
In 1984 he received his BFA in Radio/TV/Film from Texas Christian University and immediately went to work as a radio DJ and musician. First coming to national attention on the MTV and Lollapalooza tours in 1994, Wammo founded the first-ever Austin Poetry Slam, took second place in the National Poetry Slam in 1995 and cut his first solo album, Fat-Headed Stranger on the Mouth Almighty/Mercury label.
As cofounder of the Asylum Street Spankers, Wammo established himself as a creative force in America’s roots music revival leading into the 21st century. By 2010, Wammo had performed on nine Spankers albums (of which he produced two), two more solo albums, two full-length concert DVDs, and had appeared on stages and in music festivals across America, Europe and Japan, including Roskilde, Austin City Limits, and SXSW. His song Stick Magnetic Ribbons on Your SUV, a parody of Tie A Yellow Ribbon, has garnered over a million hits on YouTube.
Wammo made his professional film debut in Richard Linklater’s Slacker and was also featured in the documentary Slam Nation. In 2007, Wammo headlined the TerraNOVA SoloNOVA Festival in New York City with his one-man show, Road Dog. In 2008, he starred off-Broadway in What and Give Up Show Biz?, a variety show tracing the history of the Spankers.
Aug
5
2010
New paintings from Kit Hoefer
5 p.m. to 10 p.m.
Jul
14
2010
Monday, July 19 at IronWood Studios – Runaway Circus Presents: DUN DUN DUN DUUUUUUUN ~ FOR THE CRIMES OF ~ JUGGLING, ACROBATICS, TRAPEZE, MAGIC, DIABOLO, SLAPSTICK, AND MORE!
With opening band Sugarfoot Serenaders!!
Doors open at 6:30 p.m. show starts at 7 p.m.
Suggested Donations $5 – $10
info: Erik & Libby Johnson 983-5234
www.runawaycircus.com
Jun
28
2010
New paintings from Kit Hoefer, and sculpture by Preston Farabow.
Music provided by Brian Waldschlager
5 p.m. to 10 p.m.
Cost: free
May
13
2010
Knox Heritage presents the fourth annual Art & Architecture Tour, a guided tour of historic sites through Downtown North, on Friday, May 14.The artworks featured on the tour are photographs submitted to Knox Heritage’s Photography Contest, with ten winning photographs comprising the tour route. The Art & Architecture Tour is sponsored by McCarty Holsaple McCarty, Nouveau Graphics, Three Rivers Market, WDVX-FM, Metropulse, and Ironwood Studios.
Tickets are $40.00 per person and include the reception at Ironwood Studios and the tour. There is an option for either a walking tour or a trolley tour of the route.
Apr
14
2010
The Slomski Brothers Vaudeville Revue with Bon Bon Burlesque
Live music for all ages. Cost: $10.00
Feb
18
2010
Join us at Ironwood Studios for a semi-competitive bacon-off. Bring your favorite bacon dish and drink. Baconbits will feature live music and PRIZES awarded for various bacon categories such as… Best use of bacon grease
Most pork/bacon used in a dish Most contemporary interpretation of a traditional recipe most exotic and many more for more information, visit
Feb
11
2010
Title: The Andy Statman Trio
Location: IronWood Studios
Description: Cost: $20
Age limit: All ages
Description: Andy Statman’s music is at once progressive and traditional, reframing traditional Jewish folk music in an improvisational model based on John Coltrane’s celestial jazz explorations of the 
1960s. Statman grew up in Queens. Influenced by the Greenwich Village folk revival, he picked up the mandolin and moved to Nashville in the mid-1960s, where he became part of that city’s nascent newgrass scene. His profound spiritual response to Coltrane about that time led him on two parallel but related musical journeys: first, back into the klezmer of his youth, and second, into a rigourous program of jazz improvisation. Statman picked up the clarinet and started playing an avant-garde, improvisational version of traditional Jewish folk music, a startling fusion of old and new that combines elegant formalism with adventurous musical freedom. (For you bluegrass fans put off by a fear of out-there jazz, he also still plays mandolin.) (Matthew Everett)
Start Time: 07:00
Date: 2010-02-15