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.
Join Us: March 2019 Community Events
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Get a taste of UTC on Focus Friday
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Program uses art to help med students deal with stress
The Art of Balance and Diagnosis program is designed to help medical students touch base with their emotions, to drain some of the stress, and help them be better doctors.
Intentional Observation: Ecology and Art classes collaborate, compare research
This spring, Astri Snodgrass, painting and drawing lecturer, and Dr. DeAnna Beasley, assistant professor of biology, geology, and environmental science, are teaming up to teach their students about intentional observation—the practice of slowing down and taking the time to examine their environment.
SGA Outstanding Seniors for 2018 are honored
The Student Government Association’s Outstanding Seniors for 2018 were introduced in a Patten Chapel ceremony.
Arts Learning Lab joins STEM Center’s summer programs
Labs to help integrate arts into the general curriculum in elementary and middle schools start this summer in the STEM Center.
Artists in Cress Gallery exhibition are ‘fearless & resilient’
UTC Cress Gallery of Art, in partnership with Chattanooga’s AIM Center, presents “fearless & resilient” featuring a collection of works from artists Ken Grimes, Laura Craig McNellis and Dan Miller, with a curated selection of works from the AIM Center’s emerging artist, all of whom have some form of disability.