Postcard Map

January 2026 First Friday

Dear Art Lovers,

Happy New Year! Here is my postcard map, sent to your (email, but pretend actual) mailbox. There are only a few openings this week— it’s rare to have the shows fit in such a small space. I took advantage of the compactness and let myself bite off just as much as I could chew. I am thinking of ways we stay in touch, physical and digital, in the blue-cold months of winter.

I also have a request in response: if you know of an art show happening a few weeks (or even days) in advance, would you be willing to send me a message with the details? I scavenge social media and newsletters to find out about shows, but it makes me so sad when I miss something altogether or am 3/4 of the way through a map when I learn of one just outside the scope I thought was wide enough. I will start inserting this button at the bottom of each newsletter from now on for your convenience. Thank you in advance for your help!

THE LIST

• The Emporium (5-9)
  + (Re)Discovering Knoxville: Artwork ~ B. J. Clark
  + Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemorative Commission Gallery of Arts Tribute ~ various artists

  + The Panax Herbarium and The Monolith Assemblage ~ Keith Bryant

  + Winter’s Gap ~ Crue Smith
  + Postcard Map: January 2026 First Friday ~ Lauren Farkas

• Arrowmont Gallery (5-9) Non-Linear Thinking ~ Teresa Audet, Kate Davidson and Emma Senft

• UTK Downton Gallery (5-9) Ancestral Objects: Holders of Memory, Space, & Time ~ by Donté K. Hayes and Kevin Kao

• Red Gallery (5-9) A Bowl Without a Seal is like a Quilt Without Batting ~ by Natalie McLaurin

• Broadway Studios (5-9) Art Fix 2026 ~ Featuring the works of Christine Barron, Susie Feinberg, Diane Corey, Ame Houston, Mandy Carris, Pat O’ Neil, Anne Freels, Jessica Gregory and Nancy Rowland Engle.

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Next Friday, January 9, with curator talk at 6 PM:

• Dogwood Arts (5-8) Intertwine: Shaping Our World Through Acts of Togetherness ~ Curated by Bella Thomas-Wilson and featuring work by Aruni Dharmakirthi, H. Atesei Cooper, Dani Levine, Lauren Farkas, Miriam Klein Stahl, Raquel Riemer, Ashlee Mays, Chase WIlliamson, Kyle Cottier, Lena Wolff, Rania Hassan, Susie Feinberg

Check out the last almost 3 years of First Friday maps here, in the archive I made.

Cheers, art lovers!

—Farkas

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