By Sally Gifford, NEA Public Affairs – New Figures Underscore Strong Impact from the Performing Arts Washington, DC—Today’s creative economy gets a big boost from the arts, according to new data from […]
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Collective Impact Conference update
By Suzanne Lynch, Director of Marketing and Development – Spring is fast approaching and the TN Arts Commission staff have been planning the 4-day statewide arts conference, Collective Impact that […]
Dayton 3rd Grader is Tennessee’s winner in Doodle4Google Competition
By Dani Brown, Arts Education Special Projects Coordinator – Aiden McRorie is a 3rd grader at Dayton City Elementary School and the Tennessee state winner of the national Doodle4Google contest. […]
Advocate for the Arts in Washington, D.C.
Arts Advocacy Day is March 7–8, 2016 in Washington, D.C. From Americans For the Arts (AFTA) – Next week, President Obama will release his administration’s FY 2017 budget request, which kicks off the appropriations process in […]
Anti-bullying message drummed into Wilson students
By Andy Humbles, The Tennessean — Students at Lakeview Elementary School in Wilson County got an anti-bullying message Friday the only way Zig Wajler delivers them. “It was loud,” first-grader […]
NEA Releases Report on the Arts and Healthy Aging
By Sally Gifford, Public Affairs Specialist, National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Report Complements White House Conference on Aging Report One in seven Americans is 65 or older, and that […]