New Grant Opportunity for Creative Placemaking in Tennessee
How can your community enhance its unique assets to strengthen economic vitality, livability and growth? How can your community leverage its arts and culture resources to help address key opportunities and challenges? The Tennessee Arts Commission has designed a Creative Placemaking Grants Competition to help build stronger communities through the arts. It specifically focuses on […]
Read MoreArtsBuild produces new documentary, Imagine!
The Imagine! film follows Ooltewah Elementary School classroom teacher Mrs. Lisa Steele, and her class, during the fall of 2014 as they prepare to visit the Tivoli Theatre to see “The Nutcracker.” Despite a lack of financial resources for arts education at her school, Lisa Steele incorporates what she has learned at ArtsBuild’s Kennedy Center […]
Read MoreGrace Whitten from Franklin’s Battle Ground Academy Wins the 2015 Poetry Out Loud State Competition
Saturday, March 14 was a full day of Keats, Burns, Plath and other famous poets’ verses as 22 Tennessee high school students from across the state competed for 2015 Tennessee Poetry Out Loud State Championship. At 3:00 p.m., the official judges’ votes were in and Grace Whitten, a junior at Battle Ground Academy in Franklin […]
Read MoreWilliam Blount High School’s students have been breathing life into clay.
By Matthew Stewart, The Daily Times | matts@thedailytimes.com Nearly 120 art students spent last week creating portrait busts under the supervision of Nan Jacobsohn, a professional artist in residence. Visual arts teacher Doris Poppelreiter acquired Tennessee Arts Commission funds that paid for Jacobsohn’s visit. The high-schoolers will continue working this week on the project. They’re […]
Read MorePoetry Out Loud, Not The Typical Student Competition
By James Wells, Poetry Out Loud State Program Coordinator and the Tennessee Arts Commission Arts Education Special Projects Coordinator Imagine walking into a school and intermingled with the typical buzz of students and teachers, you hear the rhythmic hum of poetry being recited. Classic poets, Keats, Dickinson and Poe, as well as modern lyrists, Ellis, Clampitt […]
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