Dine & Discover with Avigail Sachs
Schedule
Wed Oct 08 2025 at 12:00 pm to 01:00 pm
UTC-04:00Location
1050 World's Fair Park Dr SW, Knoxville, TN, United States, Tennessee 37916 | Knoxville, TN
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Join us on your lunch break for a discussion on the Clauss Family Legacy with Avigail Sachs, Professor and Interim Associate Dean for Research, College of Architecture and Design at the University of Tennessee. Sachs will share her discoveries on the life and work of Jane West Clauss that she found during her research for a biography in The Collection of Women of the 20th Century American Architecture. As well as stories from Alfred Clauss's work at TVA, and memories of the Clauss Family's time in Knoxville.Dine & Discover is a lunchtime lecture where you can learn about the art in the KMA’s collection or changing exhibitions. Hear from artists, curators, historians, and community leaders on a variety of art topics during your lunch break.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER—
Avigail Sachs teaches the history and theory of architecture and landscape at the University of Tennessee and studies the design professions in the United States. She is especially interested in the relationship between design and research and the role of each in the formation of the design disciplines and professions. In 2019, she published a biography of Jane West Clauss as part The Collection of Women of the 20th Century American Architecture, which is supported by the Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation and the National Endowment of the Arts. Sachs is fascinated by the history of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) and its comprehensive impact on the environment of the Valley and of Appalachia. The TVA is the subject of her book The Garden in the Machine: Planning and Democracy in the Tennessee Valley Authority (University of Virginia Press, 2023). She is currently completing a collaborative project with colleague and friend Micah Rutenberg titled The Mechanized Landscape: Statecraft and Environment in the Tennessee Valley Authority. This project combines maps, photographs and text to provide a visual study of how the TVA’s goals for a democratic society were implemented across a large region and how they instigated a fundamental change in the environment and in the lives of the people living in it.
Lecture begins at 12:00 pm; bring your lunch or order in advance by emailing [email protected] by 4:00 pm Friday, October 3rd. Boxed lunches are $15 (cash or credit the day of the program) and will have an option of sandwich choice, chips, and cookie or salad choice, roll, and cookie. Vegetarian options available. Water and soft drinks will be provided.
Free and open to the public!
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Where is it happening?
1050 World's Fair Park Dr SW, Knoxville, TN, United States, Tennessee 37916Event Location & Nearby Stays:
