Events

Museum Events are Free & Open to the Public

• SPARK! @ the Reece

  SPARK! Cultural Programming for People with Memory Loss
  1st Tuesday of Every Month

• Move.Through.Light: A Through the Light Interpretive Dance Performance - March 26

  Performers Kimathi Moore and CillaVee will travel through the Reece Museum’s gallery spaces, leading audiences on a journey of sound, movement, music, and dance. 

  Through the Light: Sculptural Works by Molly Sawyer features large-scale sculptural installations that inspire an artistic "metamorphosis" to the movement and sound. Molly Sawyer’s sculpture weighs the ominous nature of the human dilemma against that of peaceful, and sometimes playful, intention.   

  This program will take place twice on Thursday, March 26:

  1st performance: 3 – 5 p.m. 

  2nd performance: 6 – 8 p.m. 

  CillaVee: Claire Elizabeth Barratt (artist moniker CillaVee) is a British interdisciplinary performing artist based in the USA. She is the director of international arts organization Cilla Vee Life Arts, established in the Bronx, New York, 2002, and has run The Center for Connection + Collaboration from her home in Asheville, North Carolina, since 2020. She has received a number of awards, including project sponsorship from JP Morgan Chase, NYSCA and the NEA. She served an apprenticeship with the Isadora Duncan Dance Foundation and holds an MFA in Creative Practice from the Transart Institute for Creative Research with Plymouth University where she developed the Living Art performance pedagogy. "As a performing artist most deeply rooted in dance and movement, my performative response to Molly's multi-faceted work goes beyond the role of 'interpretive dance'. I would describe my process as a kind of 'creative synaesthesia' - where the textures, colors, forms and gestures of the art become motion in my body."

  Kimathi: Kimathi Moore is a sound artist, electronic composer, percussionist, and videographer born in Paris in 1966. Raised in a vibrant cultural environment across Paris, Nigeria, Senegal, and the French Antilles, he was immersed early on in literature, art, and music. Deeply sensitive to textures, colors, and sounds, Kima developed a lifelong passion for the arts, gravitating especially toward sound synthesis and immersive sonic storytelling. His work blends resampled synths and field recordings into rich, expressive soundscapes—what he describes as “narrative paintings” in sound. "Molly's work has always been viscerally striking to me. Having worked with sculptors before as a sound artist, her work just felt like a 'close cousin' of my sound, as if with different mediums we still share the same 'ecosystem', like different species living around a mangrove."

• Mountain Made: Appalachian Folk Festival - April 7 

  

  Mountain Made brings folk festival back to ETSU 

  What's old is new again at East Tennessee State University. 

  Decades after campus folk festivals filled ETSU's grounds with regional music and Appalachian storytelling in the 1960s and '70s, students are bringing that tradition back to life.  

  About the event 

  • Date: Tuesday, April 7
  • Time: Noon-9 pm 
  • Location: ETSU University Commons and Reece Museum
  • Cost: Free and open to the public 
  • Activities: Live musical performances, square dancing, storytelling showcases, and demonstrations of visual art creation or crafting by local artisans.

  Activities at the Reece Museum

  • 12:15-1:00 pm - “Barber Tales,” A Cultural Program presented by Craig Charles
  • 1:15 - 2:00 pm - Spoken word performance by Caysen Skies, a Reece Museum’s Hip Hop Celebration performer
  • 4:30-6:00 pm - Storytelling workshop with Adam Booth
• String Band Summit - April 9 & 10

  String Band Summit Activities at the Reece Museum

  • Thursday, April 9, 4-5:30 pm - “Bluegrass and Religion” lecture by Pete Ward. Co-sponsored by ETSU Religious Studies
  • Friday, April 10, 9 am-4:30 pm - Sting Band Summit conference sessions.
  • Friday, April 10, 4:45-5:45 pm - “Unspoken Tradition” lecture by Sav Sankaran

  For more information about the String Band Summit please visit here.

• Maria Muldaur Performance - April 10 

  Stay tuned for more upcoming information on this event taking place Friday, April 10. 

• Spring BFA Reception - April 30

  Stay tuned for more upcoming information on this event taking place Thursday, April 30 from 5 to 7 pm. 

• Mosaic Mountain: Materials of Collaboration - Teen Renaissance Art & Museum Camp (June 1 - 5)

  Mosaic Mountain: Materials of Collaboration
  Teen Renaissance Art & Museum Camp

  
  A one-week Art & Museum Teen Camp for 7th graders and up, Mosaic Mountain: Materials of Collaboration, will be in session June 1 to 5. Campers will create multiple artworks to be exhibited in one of the Reece Museum’s three galleries. Collaborating with local artist Amanda Renfrow and museum staff, campers will work together to create individual works of art through collaborative group projects exploring different media. Projects will include wheat paste collage, contact paper window collage and a large-scale wind-chime mobile. The exhibition will open to the public at the end of the camp and remain on display through September 4. Students will be able to take their work home at the end of the exhibition. Beyond creating an exhibition, campers will also enjoy daily indoor and outdoor activities, including campus and museum tours. Mosaic Mountain will give campers an opportunity to create and exhibit art in a professional museum, learn new and interesting art making techniques with regional artists, and have a mountain of fun!

  Please visit click here to register.