Wheat Paste Map

October 2025 First Friday

This month I started a little early (what a novel concept!) and collaborated with Kelly Sullivan¹, artist, educator, and friend, to create this screen print map.

1. We designed the image: for this map, the zoomed-in downtown gallery clump is placed inside the icon, and the north and south outliers route from that point. Had I not worked ahead, I might have had notice to include the Pinto Bean Museum at Homewrecker Arts and other unmapped shows, but alas, good things always pop up last minute.

2. We screen printed: we did this on thrifted garments and newsprint, learning lots along the way. Please go snag a print or shirt for free or“pay-what-you-want” at The Emporium (the only indoor wheat-pasted location).

3. We wheat pasted: we mixed up flour and hot water into a paste, and brushed it on exterior walls of (approving) galleries², placed and smoothed the newsprint, and applied another layer of paste to saturate the paper fibers and ensure it stays.

October is host to Knoxville’s second annual Knoxville Small Press Fest,³ and this event is a good reminder that print has been—and can be—revolutionary: with basic materials we can spread ideas like wildfire, making culture rich like soil after fire, able to support flourishing life.

Check out the maps all over town this week at the galleries marked with ‘⿻’ below. I’m grateful for the project support from each of these spaces. Tag me in a photo and snag one of the limited-edition shirts⁴ from The Emporium if you want to make me smile real big:)

THE LIST

• The Emporium (5-9) ⿻
  + Givin’ the What For ~ curated by Michael Dickens
  + Art Salon ~ American Institute of Architects – East Tennessee Chapter

  + Brushstrokes of Freedom ~ Nhora Ortiz

  + Noteworthy ~ Hanna Seggerman

  + Memory Piecing ~ Hannah Hancock
  + Wheat Paste Map: October 2025 First Friday ~ Lauren Farkas

• Gallery 1010 (5-9) Personal Space ~ A Portfolio Exchange Curated by Shannon Ferguson and Łucja Bańkowska

• Arrowmont Gallery (5-9) Fall Instructors Exhibition ~ by Wansoo Kim, Francesca Vitali, Andrea Vail, Eliza Au, Orlando Corona, and Kevin Kao ⿻

• UTK Downton Gallery (5-9) Dirty Ones - The People of Gaduhvi-Tsu'Ni'Ga'Da'Ha ~ curated by Rhiannon Skye Tafoya, work by Jakeli Swimmer, Michelle Long, and Keli Gonzales ⿻

• Able Trade (5:30-8:30) Books and Boxes ~ by UTK Furniture Students ⿻⁵

• Red Gallery (5-9) Temporal Glitch ~ by Risa Hricovsky ⿻

• Dogwood Arts (5-8) Sleep Cycle ~ by Lauren Adams

• Rala (6-9) The Haunted Art Show ~ curated by Esther Sitver

• Husmus Studio (5-8) The Woven Cottage ~ by Joseph Wacek (not mapped)

• The Birdhouse (5:30-8) A Spicy Little Art Show ~ by Jose Diaz (not mapped)

• Mighty Mud (6-9) In the Pithos of Hope ~ by Jeremy Myles ⿻

• Relay Ridge (6-9) SAY IT AGAIN! Prints of Resistance ~ Juried by E. “Oscar” Maynard of Tender-Heart Press. ⿻

  • Artists: Erin Barry-Dutro (Baltimore), Jamie “Jams” Dakin (Knoxville), Ty English (Chicago), Taryn Ferro (Knoxville), Katherine Fries (Indianapolis), Kristen Johansen (Santa Barbara), Drew Justice (Knoxville), Alex Keith (Knoxville), Gabi Lichtenstein (Knoxville), Ashlee Mays (Knoxville), Mable Ni (Knoxville), Mary O’Neil (Knoxville), Elisha Ramey (Bryan), Ashley Tristán (Laredo), Roshani Trivedi (Knoxville).

  • Poetry Reading by Chelsie Nunn and Sarah DeWitt and The End Press!

• Homewrecker Arts (6-10) Pinto Bean Museum ~ Hannah Jane Oliver and Lindsay Skvarek taking over for Bucky Miller. 2012 Jefferson Ave (not mapped).

Lastly—I should be writing here to let you know about the Pride Parade downtown during First Friday and on Saturday at World’s Fair Park. However, I can’t, because the event was canceled due to insurance holdups amid an increased need for security as threats and fear build. Sending y’all love.

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Shows I’ll be most sad to miss while I’m gone:

• Relay Ridge, RED

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Screen Print Processes

NEXT UP:

• The Emporium (October 4, 5 @ 1-5 pm) — Knoxville Small Press Fest Publisher’s Fair (PLS DON’T MISS THIS)

• Relay Ridge (October 11 @ 10:00 am – October 12 @ 5:00 pm) — Steamroller BIG PRINTS weekend (OR THIS)

• Cherry East (October 11 6-9 pm) — Place and Time ~ by LaKesha Lee, Jaden Lynch, Ranee Taylor, Trisha Ram, Karly Kainz, Josh Collins (…OR THIS)

Sad to miss, but I’ll catch y’all in November.

Much love!

—Farkas

1. What a champion. Thank you for everything, Kelly!!!

2. Each location was sanctioned by generous gallery directors and property owners (Though once I started, I really wanted to paste everywhere…) And thank you to dear friends: printmaker, Cara Pfennigwerth, and artist/poet Chelsie Nunn— thank you so very much for helping wheat paste etc <3

3. A year ago, I made this zine as a part of the pop-up show Making Sense of Simultaneity hosted by UT Downtown Gallery and Knox Small Press Fest.

4. The shirts have a wide range of registration alignment… we enjoyed talking about all the things we learned as we went and would do differently next time — these fabric prints aren’t spot on or quite legible, but they are still fun:) Venmo me if you want, or sign up for a paid subscription, or just take one and enjoy it:)

5. Thanks for the time lapse, Heather!

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