Come celebrate the season with us at Frame Gallery on Saturday, December 21, from 11:00 am to 1:00 pm! Enjoy a festive holiday party featuring photos with Santa Paws, also known as Rambles the therapy dog! In addition to a take-home photo, the event includes a fun craft and refreshments.

Please RSVP by December 18 to reserve your spot and bring a donation from the suggested list to support Rambles’s favorite non-profit, Marion Animal Resource Connection (MARC).

Frame Gallery invites you to join our 2nd Annual Nativity Exhibit on Saturday, December 14, from 11:00 am to 4:00 pm. We would love for you to bring a cherished nativity scene of yours to share with the community! Please drop off your nativity on Friday, December 13, between 10:00 am and 5:00 pm, allowing us time to set up for the event. Nativities will be ready for pick-up at the end of the show on Saturday. If you’d like to participate, please RSVP by December 13.

Join us at Frame Gallery to launch the 2024 holiday season at our 7th Annual Holiday Pop-Up Party on Friday, November 15, from 5:00 to 6:30 pm! Discover unique holiday treasures, from ornaments and garlands to nativities—perfect for every age and festive spirit. Let’s come together to celebrate art, community, and holiday cheer! The Holiday Pop-Up Shop will be open through December 24.

Celebrate the holidays at Frame Gallery with local ceramicist Terrie Ponder Watch from Cardinal Lake Pottery. Join us for a hands-on, two-session workshop to create your very own clay ornaments. This beginner-friendly event welcomes school-age children to adults and is capped at just 10 participants.

Frame Gallery presents a unique opportunity to participate in a Watercolor Workshop for high school students and adults with renowned Nashville artist Phil Ponder on Saturday, October 5, from 1 to 3 pm. Intermediate to some experience is recommended.

For a fee of $85, participants will receive basic instruction in the use of pencil, ink pen, watercolor brushes, and templates of the windows and doors of Sewanee as pictured. Each student will be able to choose one window or door to draw and paint.

The workshop is limited to eight participants, and your payment of the workshop fee will reserve your seat.

Frame Gallery presents "Judy's Canyon," a solo art exhibit of paintings from Connie Schley Keetle’s memoir chronicling the experience of losing her best friend to cancer, and the discoveries that informed her life as an artist after that experience. The opening reception is Friday, September 20, 5-6:30 pm at Frame Gallery and includes an artist talk, book signing and light refreshments. The public is invited to attend.

Come Play in the Clay! Terrie Ponder Watch of Cardinal Lake Pottery presents a two-part Clay Workshop series on Saturday, August 10, from 1-3 pm and Saturday, August 24, from 1-2 pm at Frame Gallery. The first session will include hand-building techniques, including slab, imprinting, forming clay over river rocks, scoring, and slip. The second session will involve glazing the pieces created in the first session.

Please join us for our annual exhibit of artists in Martha Keeble's painting group on Friday, July 12 from 5:00 to 6:30 pm at Frame Gallery. The Sewanee Art Works artists include Betty Barton Blythe, Nancy Burnett, Lacy Camp, Virginia Curry, Susan Lane, Leslie Lightfoot, Rebecca Miller, Geraldine Piccard, Annette Smith, and Randa Wells.

The exhibit at Frame Gallery is open from July 12 through August 16, 2024.

Featured Work: "Evening Sky at Dusk" by Geraldine Piccard

Frame Gallery is thrilled to present our inaugural group photography exhibition, showcasing the works of Kylene McDonald, Rick Boethe, and Sr. Madeline Mary. Each artist uniquely captures the essence of their surroundings, offering a glimpse into the beauty of their daily lives. The exhibition features stunning landscape vistas from St. Mary's Convent and St. Mary's Retreat Center, alongside exquisite images of local flora and fauna, including our beloved goats of the University Farm. Framed photos, prints, and notecards will be available for sale.

Please join us for the 4th annual art show by The Nature Journaling Group at Frame Gallery! This year's theme is "Whimsical Wildlife" and includes works by Lendon Noe, Lin Cameron, Margie Gallagher, Teesha Tiller, Laura Blackman, Deb Tucker, Mary Davis, and Mary Priestley.

Featured Art: "Lady Lucille" by Laura Blackman

Illustrator and instructor, Cheryl Lankhaar, is offering group art classes for students (grades 5 to 10) every Sunday (April 14 - May 19) from 3-5 p.m. at Frame Gallery Studio.

The $125 registration per student includes all painting supplies, room, rental and instructor fee for the six-week class. Students will create at least two completed projects to take home.

Cheryl Lankhaar is the illustrator of the children's book, The Monteagle Assembly, Kinsley's Story.

Please register by April 7 at noon by emailing Cheryl to sign up for the 6-week class.

Register by March 8th for a Sewing Workshop taught by Claire Cabe each Saturday in April from 2-5 p.m. at the Frame Gallery Studio. This sewing course is for anyone who: has a sewing machine but has not used it in a long time, or wants to begin sewing but knows very little about sewing machines.

This class will cover the basics: bobbin winding, different pressor feet, changing needle, changing stitches, and sewing LOTS of straight lines. 

You will also learn to sandwich, quilt, and bind your final masterpiece, which will measure 36” x 60.”

Come on down to Frame Gallery this Saturday, March 30, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. for our Spring Crafts Pop-Up Party! For $5/person, you can make paper flower bouquets, flower crowns, bunny ears, sidewalk chalk artwork, and more under the canopy in the courtyard outside. Inside, we will also have plenty of fun spring gifts for your Easter basket or to give someone you love!

Please join us at Frame Gallery on Friday, March 22 from 5:00 to 6:30 p.m. for the opening of "McCullough Partee: American Illustrator," a captivating exhibition featuring the works of McCullough Partee, a prominent figure in American illustration.

The exhibition will display a collection of oil paintings and illustration boards dating back to the 1930s, offering a glimpse into Partee’s remarkable talent and the illustration techniques of the time.

"McCullough Partee: American Illustrator" will be on display at Frame Gallery from the opening reception on March 22 through April 20.

Frame Gallery is excited to host an Open House on Saturday, Feb. 24 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. for Sewanee Sorority Moms! We have unique Sewanee-specific gifts and art from local artists at the shop and yummy treats that will surely be sweet reminders of your time together on campus for this fun weekend!

Join us for an artist reception with renowned calligrapher, Diane Jones on Friday, February 16 from 5:00 to 6:30 p.m. at Frame Gallery! Diane’s calligraphy art will be on display at Frame Gallery through March 15.

In celebration of our 6th year in business, please join us for a showcase of old and new artists who have their art at Frame Gallery on Friday, January 26 from 5:00 to 6:30 pm! We are featuring Connie Keetle's paintings, Alec Moseley's woodworking, Annette Smith's jewelry and Terrie Ponder Watch's pottery. Enjoy light refreshments and meet the artists in our new and expanded space!

Please come and see nativities from around the world from your neighbors' private collections in this one-day-only exhibit. Nativities will be on display in the Studio along with light refreshments. There will be nativities and other Christmas decorations and gifts available in the gallery.

Please join us for the grand opening of our newly renovated and expanded space at our Open House on Friday, December 1st from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m.!

You'll get a sneak peak of what we have before the Holiday Studio Tours on Saturday, Dec. 2, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., CST and Sunday, Dec. 3, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

You can sign up for art classes and workshops with Sewanee Art Works, too!! Come and see!

Please join us to see the latest paintings by local artist, Laura Blackman. From miniatures to larger works, Laura captures the spirit of the South Cumberland Plateau and its flora and fauna that inspires her. In addition to her oil paintings, Laura will also have notecards and prints of her work available for sale.

Frame Gallery Custom Frames and Art is pleased to host an art exhibit of works by artists who paint with Martha Keeble at Sewanee Art Works on Friday, July 7 from 5:00 to 6:30 p.m. Refreshments will be served and all are welcome.

Please join us at Frame Gallery for the opening reception for the artists of the Nature Journaling Group, sponsored by the Sewanee Herbarium, on Friday, April 14th from 5:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.

“Earth’s crammed with heaven, and every common bush afire with God. But only he who sees takes off his shoes; the rest sit round it and pluck blackberries.”

-Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The featured image is entitled "Shakerag Spring" by Lin Cameron.

Please join us for an opening reception for "Purpose Repurpose: Collage and Metal Sculpture" on February 24th from 5:00-6:30pm. Collage artists include Elizabeth deWetter, Sam Prickett, Diane Getty, Gyl Rosenblum, Leslie Lightfoot, Randa Wells and Connie Keetle, and metal sculptors include Linda Gaines and Dale Brown.

Please join us to celebrate 5 years at Frame Gallery! We will showcase digital artists in our area, including Addison Willis, Greg Pond, professor of art at the University of the South, Sewanee, and several of Greg's students working in video and photography. Refreshments and party favors to celebrate our anniversary will be provided!