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

• Joint Reception: Through the Light / WONDERLANDS - February 13

  Join us Friday, February 13 from 5 to 8 pm for a joint reception of Through the Light: Sculptural Works by Molly Sawyer and WONDERLANDS: Tema Stauffer. This reception is free admission and open to the public. A gallery walkthrough will be presented by each artist.

  
  WONDERLANDS: An exhibition of photographs and Reece artifacts engaging with the cultural history of the southeastern United States by photographer and ETSU professor Tema Stauffer. WONDERLANDS explores the intersection of tourism, religion, and folklore with natural beauty, preservation, and decay in southern Appalachia.

  
  Through the Light: An exhibition by cross-disciplinary artist Molly Sawyer weighing the ominous nature of the human dilemma against that of peaceful, and sometimes playful, intention. Based in Asheville, North Carolina, Sawyer’s contemporary works combining salvaged with artist-made materials bridge sculpture and installation art with works on paper

• Girl Scouts History Harvest - March 7

  Stay tuned for more upcoming information on this event taking place Saturday, March 7. 

• A WONDERLANDS Visit with Charles Baxter - March 10

  Stay tuned for more upcoming information on this event taking place Tuesday, March 10. 

• 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: TBA

  2nd performance: 6 - 8 pm. 

  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 Bronx NY 2002, and has run The Center for Connection + Collaboration from her home in Asheville, NC 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."

• 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.