KNOX-ILL, Printshop's graffiti day, puts spray-can writers to work live for twelve hours Saturday
The brewery's annual day for graffiti writers is back on Island Home Avenue: artists paint live from ten in the morning to ten at night, with a lager brewed for the occasion.
- When
- Sat Oct 10 · 10 AM – 10 PM
- Where
- Printshop Beer Co. · 1532 Island Home Ave
- What it is
- Live spray painting by graffiti writers, all day, while the taproom pours · the brewery has run it since at least 2022
- The beer
- Knox-Ill Writer's Brew, a 5.4% dark lager brewed and canned for the day · 2022's was a Citra IPA
- Also Saturday
- Fish fry, 3 – 8 PM · yoga in the warehouse at 10:30
- Rest of the week
- Thu $1 wings with Friends BBQ 5 – 9 and 10% off cases · Fri $12 flights all day · Sun the vegan barbecue pop-up
- Weather
- Partly sunny and 82 · a slight chance of a shower after 2 PM
KNOX-ILL is a graffiti event, not a paint-and-sip. Printshop's calendar puts it in one line, "Knox-Ill is back, with another day of sprays," and the photo on the listing says the rest: a writer bent over a blackbook, the sketchbook graffiti artists carry, with a marker in his hand and a can of Knox-Ill Writer's Brew at his elbow. "Writer" is the word graffiti artists use for themselves. For twelve hours on Saturday, ten in the morning to ten at night, they paint live on the brewery's property on Island Home Avenue while the taps pour.
The brewery has done this before
It is a standing date. Printshop brewed a Citra IPA as "the official beer of Knox-Ill 2022," and this year's edition comes with its own can again: Knox-Ill Writer's Brew, a 5.4 percent dark lager with toffee notes, brewed and canned in South Knoxville. The Old Sevier District put the day on its October can't-miss list alongside the grocery opening up the street.
What to expect
Come to watch; the painting is the show, and it runs all day, so there is no start time to miss. The brewery stacks the rest of Saturday around it: a yoga class in the warehouse at ten thirty, then a fish fry from three to eight. The weather is on the painters' side, partly sunny and 82 with only a slight chance of a shower after two.
