Special Opportunity Grants Available for Creative Placemaking Leadership Summit
By Hal Partlow, Associate Director of Grants – TN Arts Commission is pleased to offer Special Opportunity Grants to assist with attending “Beyond Big Cities: Creative Placemaking in Southern Small...
View ArticleReminder: All Annual Grant Applications Are Due in January
By Hal Partlow, Associate Director of Grants – ALL Fiscal Year 2019 Annual Grants applications are due in January. See the schedule below for the application deadlines for each Annual Grant category....
View ArticleResources Available for Rural Communities Facing Design Challenges
by Angela Moreno-Long, CIRD Program Manager, Project for Public Spaces – The Citizens’ Institute on Rural DesignTM (CIRD), a leadership initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts, has issued...
View ArticleMore Annual Grant Applications Due January 22
By Hal Partlow, Associate Director of Grants – Despite the snow, ice and freezing temperatures, organizations across the state were able to meet yesterday’s application deadline for Operating Support....
View ArticleMetro Arts Announces 40th Anniversary Year
Office of Arts + Culture announces new look, project to purchase art from local artists and year-long social media campaign to celebrate the milestone year By Jen Cole, Executive Director, Metro Arts...
View ArticleIAF Winners on Exhibit at TN Arts Gallery
Sophie Glenn, Sweethearts, 2016, powder-coated steel and hard maple Sophie Glenn and Lydia Johnson: Crafting Contemporary Furniture and Ceramics January 19 – March 9, 2018 By Krishna Adams, Director of...
View ArticleNECAT’s Our Nashville Series Features Local Nonprofits
By Trish Crist, CEO, Nashville Education, Community, and Arts Television – In 2017, Nashville Education, Community, and Arts Television (NECAT) launched a television series called Our Nashville that...
View ArticleSave The Date: 2018 Tennessee Arts & Arts Education Conference
A session from the 2015 Collective Impact: TN Arts & Arts Education Conference By Ann Brown, Suzanne Lynch and Nieya Wallace Murray, TN Arts Conference Chairs – The Tennessee Arts and Arts...
View ArticleIndividual Artist Fellowship Applications Due January 29
By Hal Partlow, Associate Director of Grants – Individual artists still have time to apply for an Individual Artist Fellowship (IAF). The application deadline is Monday, January 29, 2018, by 11:59...
View ArticleTennessee Craft 2018 Master Artists Apprentice Program
From Laurie Davis, Tennessee Craft – Tennessee Craft, in partnership with the Tennessee Arts Commission, offers its ninth year of the Master Artist Apprentice Program (MAAP) to open the door for...
View ArticleSchedule Available for Creative Placemaking Leadership Summit
Creative Placemaking Leadership Summit March 15-16, 2018 | Chattanooga, TN Beyond Big Cities: Creative Placemaking in Southern Small Towns and Rural Communities From Ivan Schustak, Communications and...
View ArticleFY19 Annual Grant Advisory Panel Dates
By Hal Partlow, Associate Director of Grants – Now that Annual Grant deadlines have passed, we begin the process of reviewing applications to ensure that they meet all of the requirements. The...
View ArticleUpdated Arts Toolkit For The Specialty License Plate Program
By Suzanne Lynch, Director of Marketing and Development – In an effort to help our grantees promote the Arts Specialty License Plates, an updated toolkit is now available on the TN Specialty License...
View ArticleNEA Awards $210,000 in Grants Across Tennessee
Nashville Ballet National Endowment for the Arts Announces First Round of FY 2018 Funding to Nonprofit Organizations From Liz Auclair, Public Affairs, NEA – Each year, more than 4,500 communities large...
View ArticleDan Goods to speak at TN Arts & Arts Education Conference
By Ann Brown, Suzanne Lynch and Nieya Wallace Murray, TN Arts Conference Chairs – We are excited to announce that national speaker and visual strategist Dan Goods will be one of our two featured...
View ArticleThe Tennessee Leaders of Tomorrow Internship Program: Deadline to Apply Feb. 20
From Carol White, Associate Director of Operations – The State of Tennessee has launched a new internship program open to college juniors and seniors. The Tennessee Leaders of Tomorrow is a public...
View ArticleSing, Stream, and Put It On Social Media – How To Promote Your Music Online
By Cassie Steele – If you live in Tennessee, music’s in your blood. In Nashville, for every 1,000 people that work there, there are almost eight music industry jobs. In comparison, in Los Angeles...
View ArticleNashville Artist Awarded State Fellowship, Competing for Southern Prize
Vesna Pavlović, Sites of MemoryArchival photograph is derived from a digital scan of the hand embroidered archival photograph from the Museum of Yugoslavia, Belgrade. In this new series, I use the...
View ArticleSen. Massey To Chair TN Arts Caucus
By Anne B. Pope, Executive Director, TN Arts and Susan Robinson, President, Tennesseans for the Arts – Senator Becky Duncan Massey has been tapped to chair the Tennessee General Assembly Arts Caucus....
View ArticleBailey Opportunity Grants Available through the Arts & Heritage Fund
Hora Hora Latina Festival, Knoxville From Suzanne Cada, Arts & Culture Alliance – The Arts & Culture Alliance is pleased to announce Ann and Steve Bailey Opportunity Grants, a funding...
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