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American Craft Week Star Award Winners in Tennessee
By Laurie Davis, Tennessee Craft – Photo by Karen Edgin American Craft Week announces the 2017 Star Award Winners and Tennessee Craft is pleased to announce that Tennessee Craft Week (TCW) garnered six...
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Awardees of Folklife Apprenticeship Program Announced
Malvina Carerra and Angela Webb By Dr. Bradley Hanson, Director of Folklife – The Tennessee Arts Commission Folklife Program announces its 2018 Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program awardees. In its...
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Memphis hosts arts professionals at AFTA’s National Arts Marketing Project...
By Suzanne Lynch, Director of Marketing and Development – The TN Arts Commission was so honored to be a sponsor of the 2017 National Arts Marketing Project Conference(NAMPC) that was hosted by...
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Save The Date for 2018 Statewide Arts & Arts Education Conference
Students from Bradley Academy provide an opening performance at the 2016 Arts Conference. Photo by Bradley Hanson By Ann Brown, Suzanne Lynch and Nieya Wallace Murray, TN Arts Conference Chairs – The...
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Purposeful Repurposing: Georgann DeMille on Exhibit
At the TN Arts Commission Gallery November 17, 2017 – January 12, 2018 By Krishna Adams, Director of Visual Arts, Craft, Media and Design – Exhibiting elegant repurposed art in Illinois, Florida and...
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NEA Research Report Highlights Economic Impact of the Arts in Rural Communities
By Victoria Hutter, Press/Public Affairs, NEA – Rural arts organizations draw more non-local audiences to their venues and report greater civic leadership and customer connectedness than their urban...
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Request for Annual Grant Review Panelists
By Hal Partlow, Associate Director of Grants – The TN Arts Commission is seeking individuals who are willing to serve as citizen advisory panelists. Civic minded Tennesseans are encouraged to apply....
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TN Arts Winter Board Meeting Scheduled for Dec. 6
By Suzanne Lynch, Director of Marketing and Development – Tennessee Arts Commission’s Winter Quarterly Commission Meeting will be held Wednesday, December 6, 2017, 9:00 A.M. – 12:00 P.M. (EST) at the...
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Veterans’ Personal Stories and New Research Testify to Healing Power of Art...
Nathanael Bocker refines a blade at an open studio session for veterans from Fort Belvoir hosted by IMPart in Alexandria, Virginia. Photo by Jeremy Todd. By Victoria Hutter, Assistant Director,...
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APSU’s CECA announces 2017-18 Tennessee Artist Fellow
Work by Andrew Scott Ross By Charles Booth, Assistant Director of Communication, APSU – The Austin Peay State University Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts (CECA, or “seek-ah”) is pleased to...
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FY19 Annual Grant Applications Due in January
By Hal Partlow, Associate Director of Grants – At this busy time of year, days can slip by and before we know it, it’s 2018. This is a friendly reminder that ALL Fiscal Year 2019 Annual Grants have...
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Conexion Americas Receives ArtPlace Award
By ArtPlace – Conexión Américas Conexión Américas has received a $325,000 Creative Placemaking award from ArtPlace America, one of 23 creative placemaking projects that will receive funding in...
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Creative Placemaking Grants Result in Successful Projects Across TN
Click buttons on left or right to view a slideshow of FY2017 CP projects By Shannon Ford, Director of Community Arts Development – The FY2017 Creative Placemaking (CP) Grants were awarded to 13...
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NEA Releases Funding Guidelines for FY2019
By Public Affairs, NEA – Guidelines and application materials for three National Endowment for the Arts funding categories—Art Works, Challenge America, and Creative Writing Fellowships—have posted on...
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Join Us for TN Arts Advocacy Day 2018
By Tennesseans for the Arts – Arts Advocacy Day is the annual event that brings together advocates from across the state including artists, organizations, community members and leaders, and all those...
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Commission Board Updates
Michael Dumont Jan McNally Johnnie Wheeler By Anne B. Pope, Executive Director – We are so fortunate to have three new board members who joined us in FY18. Governor Bill Haslam recently appointed...
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Creative Aging TN Builds Momentum
From Kim Johnson, Director of Arts Access – Creative Aging TN has successfully launched and we are excited to see the impact of the arts on seniors throughout Tennessee through a wide variety of...
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Indian Culture and Heritage Flourishes in West Tennessee with ABC grants
By Dr. Ramana Vasili, Spiritual Foundation, Inc. – Spiritual Foundation, Inc. is a nonprofit organization founded in Cordova, Tennessee to protect, preserve and promote Indian culture and heritage....
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Southeast Creative Placemaking Leadership Summit Comes To Chattanooga March...
By The National Consortium for Creative Placemaking – There have been a lot of conversations about creative placemaking in the southeast, but it’s been mostly in larger cities. The Southeastern...
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Southern Circuit – Applications Open for Filmmakers & Screening Partners
By Teresa Hollingsworth, Sr. Director, Film & Traditional Arts, South Arts – Submit your film or become a Screening Partner. South Arts is now accepting film submissions for the 2018-19 Southern...
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