Relay Ridge, 4124 McKinley Street, Knoxville, TN (2026)

06/16/2026

📢 FRIDAY JULY 10th 6-9pm - write it down!
Join us at our next open house event in celebrating a new exhibition sharing new work from Chattanooga-based artist Judy Rushin-Knopf titled “A foothold, that is all”

(from the artist):

“A foothold, that is all

Meanwhile, I have found a ledge on which to catch my breath. Working repetitively and instinctively – like breathing – I have produced this group of weavings that represent a shift towards a slower practice focused on sustainability, depth, and well-being. They are a bridge to something I can’t yet identify.

For over twenty years I have held seven convictions. They are my compass.

Seven Convictions
1. The time invested in making the work conveys to those willing to invest the time seeing the work
2. Repetitive honing by hand may imbue an artwork with more humanity than a large painterly gesture
3. Small works are underrated
4. You can build something big from small parts (or cover large distances with small steps)
5. Painting is a long process of getting into and out of trouble
6. Allowing a work to lean into instability is an affirmation of life
7. I am inspired by the prospect of mutual generosity between the artist and viewer

Bio
Rushin-Knopf’s work has been featured in numerous gallery and museum exhibitions nationally and resides in museum and book art collections including University of Kentucky Art Museum, Florida State University Museum of Fine Art, Wofford College Museum of Fine Art, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, The Frick Fine Arts Library, Harvard Fine Arts Library, and the Kohler Art Library. She is represented by Ivy Brown Gallery in New York. Rushin-Knopf is also a collaborator with Carolyn Henne on the Comma project, which produces boxed editions of small sculptural objects.”

✨PLUS OPEN ARTIST STUDIOS!
✨FEATURED PRINTMAKER KELLY SULLIVAN in the PRINTSHOP!
✨MORE DETAILS TBA!

05/14/2026

📣Come one, come all, it’s the 5th annual yART sale!
Sunday morning 🌞 May 17th 9am - 2pm

Enjoy a beautiful day on the side lot of Relay Ridge while scoring deals on gently used art supplies! Past sales have included art supplies, tools, scrap materials, equipment, furniture, discount artwork, clothing, and other unique artsy junk.

Finalize YOUR spring cleaning too and purge those hoarded art supplies by selling items too. No fee for participation! We just need a head count; sign-up link in our bio!

WHILE YOU'RE HERE, catch Ty Murray and Jazmin Witherspoon’s exhibition Nurturing Nature in the gallery!

THEN, go catch the CattyWampus Puppet Parade kicking off at 3pm at Suttree Landing Park!
It’ll be the perrrr🎶fect🎵daaaaay

SHARE & SIGN-UP!

05/03/2026

🚨LAST CALL🚨Learn the process of lithography from Tennessee’s only Tamarind Master Lithography Printer, Jake Ingram of Jackalope Editions! Only 2 spots left!

Saturday mornings: May 9th & 16th 9am-noon

In this two day course, students will use photo lithography (by hand-drawing or photo/digital output) to create a one color lithograph. Students will have a brief introduction to the lithographic process and will learn how to make and print their own plates. Students will leave with 4-6 prints by the end of the second day. This course will cover:

● printing lithographic prints on an etching press

● mixing ink and understanding safe handling of materials

● preparing paper for an edition

● creating an edition of prints

All materials are included! Jake is a 💎GEM💎 in our town and an incredible educator in printmaking—so much so—he’s even mentioned specifically in our Google Reviews! Do not miss this opportunity to learn from THE BEST around. Sign-up on our website under "workshops" or go to relayridge.org/lithography

Btw, THIS IS OUR LAST WORKSHOP OF THE SEASON! Let us know what you want to see later this summer & fall in our suggestion form on our website under “workshops” (we really look at those!)

04/15/2026

FRIDAY NIGHT OPEN STUDIO NIGHT at Relay Ridge! Come visit the resident studio artists and see what they’ve been stirring up in their studios this spring. We’d love to see ya!

✨FRIDAY 4/17 6-9pm✨

art

Anika Toro

Of course while you're here, check out the collaborative exhibition in the gallery by Ty Murray & Jazmin Witherspoon, enjoy poetry reading and music throughout the evening, and the book release party in the printshop for Anika Toro!

See you soon!

04/14/2026

Join us ✨this Friday night✨ for the book release party for our very own Resident Studio Artist Anika Toro!

The celebration will take place in the community printshop during our opening house event on Friday April 17th from 6-9pm. The evening will be filled with poetry-forward works with the exhibition of Nurturing Nature by Ty Murray & Jazmin Witherspoon in the gallery, spoken poetry readings by Jazmin, and this book launch!

Anika will be present to chat and sign any books with one-of-a-kind hand-printed material items available with any book sold. Visitors will also be encouraged to participate in a fun found text/play with words experience in the printshop that lines with the book’s theme.

Anika Toro is a mixed media artist with a background in photography and collage. Her current work fuses narrative, serendipity, and playful experimentation into art that transforms familiar texts and images into unexpected expressions of creativity.

“Finding Joy: This mixed media art book takes selections from nine different copies of the same book, showcasing Anika’s transformative and playful approach to the original text. Each page spread uses hand-selected text, left unaltered from its original position. Through a process of erasure and blackout, Anika redacts everything except a newly found message, thought, idea, or poem, without adding any new text. Analog collages, paint, photography, embroidery, and more celebrate unique narratives, exploring creativity, spontaneity, and the profound moments that emerge from reimagining existing ideas.”

See you Friday!!

04/12/2026

!THIS FRIDAY! Join us for the opening reception of Nurturing Nature, a photo-poetry collaboration that explores Black femme identity, nature, and belonging in Appalachia. Featuring a series of ekphrastic broadsides by Jazmin Witherspoon in conversation with Ty Murray’s gorgeous depictions of Black women cast as Appalachia’s most iconic animals showing that Black bodies aren’t simply passing through this landscape, but grounded within it.

The event will feature music by Ty inspired by the series and a poetry reading of the featured pieces by Jazmin. Happening Friday 4/17 from 6-9pm

PLUS

Anika Toro will be hosting her poetry book release party for "Finding Joy" in the community printshop. One-of-a-kind hand-printed material items are available with any book sold, each made by Anika. Visitors will also be encouraged to participate in a found text/play with words experience in the printshop that lines with the book’s theme.

PLUS

Open Artist Studios! Come have a looksee at the insides of an artist’s studio space! We have 8 Resident Studio Artists at Relay and they will open their spaces to you sharing their recent artistic endeavors this spring!

Bring a friend and meet new ones too. See you Friday!

This is the last week to see Reasonable Doubts by Guen Montgomery! DM us here or email relayridge@gmail.com to arrange a...

03/24/2026

This is the last week to see Reasonable Doubts by Guen Montgomery!

DM us here or email [email protected] to arrange a visit before April 1st.

About the gallery exhibition:

This exhibition of recent works by Guen Montgomery privileges feeling and touching: feeling as an affectual state, the haptic need to feel as orientation, and as “feeling your way through” – a way of navigating in unsettled times. Touch refers to the touch of ink to paper, or the longing to touch that comes from seeing an animal’s fur and feeling it resonate with some uncontrollable mammal part of you. Reasonable Doubts is about being a person-animal-mother in the current polycrisis.

03/03/2026

Friday was splendid! Thank you so much for coming out and celebrating with us!

If you missed out, don’t sweat, the new exhibition Reasonable Doubts by Guen Montgomery will be on view through April 3rd. Email us or DM us here to arrange a visit!

Thank you to Sage Perrott ( ) for coming out and sharing your work with us in the printshop, the studio artists opening up their spaces, and for Taryn Ferro for beautifully capturing the night 📸

We are grateful for this community!

02/27/2026

!!!TONIGHT!!! 6-9

🪑Gallery opening: Reasonable Doubt by Guen Montgomery
🎀Open Artist Studios!
🐈‍⬛Featured Printmaker Sage Perrott aka Haypeep in the printshop!
🧦DO NOT MISS THIS!

From Guen Montgomery:
“My work tells stories about the absurdity of gendered personhood in the material world. In installations I unite monotype collagraphs with sculpture, performance and object-making, using fabricated, everyday objects as supports and counterbalances for printed ephemera. I print from family heirlooms like house dresses and slips to suggest hyper-femme archetypal characters influenced by Betty and Veronica comics, my Appalachian granny, and my power-suit clad 80’s super-mom.

In the series Crawl Space, I suggest narratives through sewn & printed furry pelts and animal-creatures who are trying to navigate what it means to be an organic mammal-person afloat in oceans of possessions and constructed environments. My engagement with material culture stems from my family’s fraught relationship to things: all is coveted, collected, hoarded, and hidden away.

Rooted in rural Tennessee’s Cumberland Plateau, I see my family’s relationship to the material world as something culturally deeper than generational poverty. I understand my mother, aunts, and uncles through their relationship to their things and understand my things through my family’s culture. Ultimately, I fear our stuff is more real than we are.”

See you TONIGHT!

02/26/2026

Let’s not emerge out of this winter alone, but together!

Come visit us on Friday 2/27 (TOMORROW!) from 6-9pm for Open Artist Studios

Let us share what we’ve been working on with you! We’ve also given our lobby a fresh look💅, just in time for spring, so come check out new art and new digs in our space. We’ll have all the snacks, drinks, art, and good people in one place (what else do you need?).

So whether you’ve been feeling heavy in these times, or finding some warm light, let’s lean on and fuel each other because remember, community is the most powerful thing we have!

Anika Toroart

✨PLUS you cannot miss our new exhibition in the gallery Reasonable Doubts by Guen Montgomery

✨AND check out Sage Perrott aka Haypeep our featured printmaker, in the printshop!

See you all out and about!

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