general information

Address and Phone:
100 South Gay Street
(corner of Gay St and Jackson Ave)
Knoxville, TN 37902

Email: info@knoxalliance.com
Phone: (865) 523-7543
Fax: (865) 523-7312

Admission Rates:
FREE

Hours Open to the Public:
Mon-Fri 9am-5pm, First Fridays 9am-9pm, Saturday after First Friday, 11am-3pm

Dates Closed:
Major holidays

Emporium Center for Arts & Culture

www.theemporiumcenter.com

Knoxville, TN

In July 2004, Knoxville's first true arts center opened in downtown at 100 South Gay Street. Built in 1898 as the original home of a prestigious furniture company, the Emporium Building housed a wholesale goods distributor and later became a textile manufacturing facility that fulfilled military contracts. The two adjacent buildings and the vacant lot were the location of the "Parthenon of Country Music," which served as the home of the WNOX Mid-day Merry-Go-Round.

The 28,000 square feet of flexible use space houses the following:

Two galleries

Administrative offices:
� African-American Appalachian Arts
� Arts & Culture Alliance
� Carpetbag Theatre
� Circle Modern Dance
� Foothills Craft Guild
� HoLa Hora Latina
� Knoxville Symphony Orchestra
� Tennessee Stage Company

Artist studios:
� Mike Berry
� Bobbie Crews
� Judi Gaston
� Bob Leggett
� Fritz Massaquoi
� Barry McManus
� Pam Radford
� Alex Smith
� Katy Smith
� Kurt Weiss
� Sandy White

The Alliance's Emporium Center was designed to attract more visitors to downtown to enjoy arts and cultural programming and conduct arts-related business. At the same time, the project provides affordable space for a critical mass of arts and culture organizations and artists, generates coordination and joint promotion of arts and culture activities, and provides another valuable attraction in a revitalized downtown.

Be sure to visit our website calendar which includes hundreds of events and performances in the Greater Knoxville area: www.moretoknoxville.com 

Directions: www.theemporiumcenter.com/visit.html