2016 Poetry Out Loud State Competition: Alexia Buckner from Bolton High School in Arlington
From Danielle Brown, Arts Education Special Projects Coordinator — Buckner will go on to compete in the National Poetry Out Loud competition in Washington, D.C. May 2-4 Saturday, March 19 was a full day of Shakespeare, Frost, Hoagland and other famous poets’ verses as 21 Tennessee high school students from across the state competed for the 2016 Tennessee […]
Read MoreAll-Day Teaching Artist Workshop To Be Held At Collective Impact Conference
By Ann Talbott Brown, Director of Arts Education – “If teaching artist work is but a dimension of arts practice, then it should be as inventive and idiosyncratic as art-making.” This is a quote taken from the Teaching Artist Handbook, vol. 1: Tools, Techniques and Ideas to Help Any Artist Teach (University of Chicago Press). Nick Jaffe […]
Read MoreMeet The 2016 Poetry Out Loud Finalists
By Danielle Brown, Arts Education Special Projects Coordinator – Traveling from across the state, 22 student finalists will come to Nashville on Saturday, March 19 to compete in the Poetry Out Loud state competition. Each student has prepared three poems that he or she will recite to a panel of esteemed judges and an audience […]
Read MoreFunding Now Available To Attend 2016 TN Statewide Arts Conference
GRANT FUNDING IS NOW AVAILABLE FOR ATTENDANCE TO COLLECTIVE IMPACT—ARTS ADMINISTRATORS, EDUCATORS AND ARTISTS TOGETHER AS COMMUNITY CHANGE AGENTS From Hal Partlow, Associate Director for Grants — This special opportunities grant will provide up to $500 for individual applicants or $1000 for organizational applicants registering a minimum of 2 or more staff toward travel & registration […]
Read MoreMeet the 2016 POL Judges and Emcee
By Dani Brown, Arts Education Special Project Coordinator – Mark your calendars to attend the Tennessee State Poetry Out Loud Competition held Saturday, March 19 at the Nashville Children’s Theatre. We are honored to introduce our four notable artists who will be judging the contest: Ethan Castelo teaches Literature and Composition at Middle Tennessee State University. His fiction […]
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