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Welcome New Commissioners

  By Anne B. Pope, Executive Director – Since the Tennessee Arts Commission was founded in 1967, it has maintained a 15-member governing board. The importance of this was newly […]

Heritage High students create reduction prints

Heritage High School junior Joseph Carter and teaching artist Nancy Campbell work together on a reduction print. Campbell worked three weeks with Rebecca Parker-Shiflett’s Art III class Photo by Tom Sherlin […]

Gift-A-Tag is here

By Anne B. Pope, Executive Director –   The Gift-A-Tag program is here! Now, let’s join forces and put it to use. The specialty license plate voucher program was launched on […]

Strengthening Communities Through the Arts

The Tennessee Arts Commission is partnering with 13 arts and cultural agencies and development districts across the state to offer Arts Build Community (ABC) grants for Fiscal Year 2016. ABC […]

Robmat Butler: Sojourn

The Tennessee Arts Commission is currently exhibiting Sojourn, which features the recent work by Knoxville contemporary artist, Robmat Butler, April 1 – May 22, 2015. The work in Sojourn explores Butler’s […]