National Giving Day, December 3, 2024

Help expand Knoxville’s artistic heritage on the city’s streets

                    

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(You don’t need to wait until Dec. 3, you can donate now!)

 

Launched in 2017 by the Knoxville History Project, the goal of Downtown Art Wraps is to inspire an appreciation of the city’s rich artistic heritage by highlighting renowned works of art from local museums and collections and placing them blank traffic signal boxes on the city’s streets. KHP has now “wrapped” 40 traffic boxes and it’s time to replace the original ones.

Our goal is to raise $5,000 to install three new art wraps, featuring artwork by Catherine Wiley (at Gay and Union), Lloyd Branson (at Gay and W. Church), and Kermit C. “Buck” Ewing (at Clinch and Locust), by the spring of 2025.

Downtown signal boxes are “wrapped” with a high quality, graffiti-resistant, removable application to serve as a canvass to showcase artworks by some of the most important Knoxville or East Tennessee artists from the past. All art wraps feature illustrated biographies of the artists, highlighting their connections to Knoxville. Art wraps lasts for about five years before they need to be replaced.

 

L-R: "Woman and Child" by Catherine Wiley, "Woman at Work" by Lloyd Branson, and "Miller's" by Buck Ewing.

L-R: “Woman and Child” by Catherine Wiley, “Woman at Work” by Lloyd Branson, and “Miller’s” by Buck Ewing.

To celebrate National Giving Day, make a donation to help us continue this, our most visible, public art and history series.

Donation Level Benefits
$25-$99 Name recognition on KHP art wraps webpage
$100-$249 Name recognition on one art wrap and art wraps webpage
Receive a limited-edition art wraps illustrated paperback booklet
$250-$499 Name recognition on up to three art wraps and art wraps webpage
Receive a limited-edition art wraps illustrated paperback booklet
$500 & above Name recognition on up to three art wraps and art wraps webpage
Receive a limited-edition art wraps illustrated hardbound booklet
For donations of $100 or more, we’ll send you a copy of an illustrated booklet showing all the art wraps to date, and bios of all the artists, including these new installations by the spring of 2025.


 

Learn more about this program, including an interactive location map, and view a gallery of existing art wraps HERE

 

Thank you. We are deeply grateful for your support.

 

Special Thanks to the Knoxville Museum of Art and the McClung Historical Collection.