The juried student show features pieces selected by Jiha Moon, visiting juror and artist from Georgia State University. Year of the Metal Rat is on display at the Contemporary Cress, 123 E. 7th Street in Chattanooga until Feb. 21.
Local high school students create art for public display
UTC Southeast Center for the Education in the Arts (SCEA) and the Challenger STEM Learning Center worked with EPB on ArtSpark.
New director/curator hired for UTC Cress Gallery
New Cress Gallery director starts in January.
Plarn It All
Natalie Church, a sophomore in the Honors College who’s majoring in art from Cleveland, Tenn., created a sleeping mat made from recycled grocery bags. It was meant to be a sculpture, but she thought it could be used for something more.
Work by art students chosen for prestigious journal
National Honors College journal publishes artwork by UTC students.
Rising Inflation: Sculpting class creates huge piece of art
Enormous inflatable artwork has brief exhibition on Chamberlain Field.
UTC-Wolf Trap partnership a first in higher education
Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts will collaborate with UTC’s Southeast Center for Education in the Arts (SCEA) to bring arts-based teaching and learning programs to early childhood classrooms in Chattanooga and a 17-county service area. It is the first time the Wolf Trap Institute for Early Learning Through the Arts has worked with a university in this manner.
UTC joins effort to improve arts education in county schools
The Ensuring the Arts for Any Given Child initiative hopes to bring the same level of arts education — theater, visual, dance, music — to students across the Hamilton County school system.
Art class improves public-use bicycles, designs communications strategy
When Aggie Toppins, head of the art department, first came to UTC as a professor, she taught a class for design students called Co-Creations. One of the class projects was about bicycles. Students in the class set their sights on the public-use green-and-blue bikes stationed throughout Chattanooga. No one asked the students why bicycles. Rather,…
A Hand for Homeless Heads: UTC freshman develops outreach program
UTC student Felix Gould, with help from local hairstylists, created a program that gives haircuts to the homeless.