By Ann Brown, Director of Arts Education The Tennessee Arts Commission recently spent 18 months gathering feedback from Tennesseans about the role of the arts in their communities, schools and […]
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2015 IAF Winner, Montana Coll Torrey
By: Grace Robinson Individual Artist Fellowship, Visual Art Montana Torrey has travelled nationally and internationally in pursuit of art. After discovering in graduate school the freedom and opportunities that outdoor […]
NEA Infographics offer insight to Arts Participation
GREETINGS FROM ANNE B. POPE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR As we get into the thick of the Tennessee Arts Commission’s grant season, I would like to bring attention to three new reports the […]
2015 IAF Winner, Laurel Jean Sprague
By: Grace Robinson Individual Artist Fellowship, Craft Mixed media artist Laurel Jean Sprague uses her work to express the relationship between humanity and the natural world. Beginning as a portrait […]
Photographs from the Field: 30 Years of the Folklife Program
By Dana Everts-Boehm, Folklife Program Assistant — As Folklife Program Assistant, I have had the great privilege of working with Dr. Robert Cogswell to promote and preserve Tennessee’s rich folk culture. […]
2015 IAF Winner, Gregory Sand
By: Grace Robinson Individual Artist Fellowship, Media Artist Gregory Sand challenges traditional photography through his exploration of the media’s expression of time and its relationship to issues of existence and […]
