Tracye Burnett Sowders: Resplendent Rarities

September 3-25, 2021
Tracye Burnett Sowders: Resplendent Rarities
Opening reception: Friday, September 3, 5:00-9:00 PM
Gallery hours: Monday-Friday 9 AM – 5 PM and Saturday 10 AM – 1 PM. Please note, the Emporium will be closed on Monday, September 6. 

When I first began research for this group of works about endangered species, I started to realize there was so much more than living species in peril and in danger of extinction. Certain liberties we’ve fought so hard for are endangered. My work is influenced by discovery through travel geographically or mindfully. I seek the golden thread of sheer existence that binds us all to one another, weaving us together with nature and all of its glorious, dazzling color. I paint about the light that settles in our souls, and the idea that there is a natural touchstone for all of us.

Tracye Burnett Sowders is a prolific painter in various media including watercolor, oils, pen and ink, alcohol inks, and oil pastels. She is also a calligrapher, hand quilter and needle worker, illustrator, and pianist. She studied art and music therapy for children on the autism spectrum at Carson-Newman University. After raising three sons, she returned to her original medium of watercolor and now exhibits regularly throughout Knoxville, Sevierville, Gatlinburg, Nashville, and parts of New England including Manhattan and Staten Island. Her original watercolors, oils and quilts are in private collections all over the United States, Australia, Canada, Scotland Wales, Ireland, England and New Zealand. She regularly participates in various festivals and exhibitions across the southeast and New England. Currently, Sowders and her husband are working on plans for a mobile art gallery.

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