Townsend Atelier(Townsend Atelier)

(Aired Thu 11/21/24)

Original artwork from the Chattanooga area is on display and available for the holidays at Townsend Atelier.

This year’s Annual Holiday Portfolio Show and Sale is Saturday from 10 AM to 2 PM, with a First Dibs session on Friday from 5 PM to 8:30 PM, in The Arts Building at 301 E. 11th St.

Peggy Townsend is co-founder and co-owner of Townsend Atelier.

Hollie Chastain is one of the twelve artists whose works will appear at the Show and Sale.

(City of Chattanooga)

(Aired Thu 11/21/24)

When Chattanooga holds citywide elections next March, voters will decide this question: Should employees of the City of Chattanooga live within the State of Tennessee?

William Newlin of Chattamattters explains the reason behind the upcoming referendum that could change Chattanooga’s city charter.

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Chattamatters is the civic storytelling project at The Enterprise Center - a nonprofit economic development partner of the City of Chattanooga and Hamilton County.

Emma Collins(Scenic City Shakespeare)

“All the world’s a stage - and all the men and women merely players.”

Emma Collins knows well those words from William Shakepeare’s “As You Like It.”

She is the co-founder and education director at Scenic City Shakespeare, which performs here in the Chattanooga area - and she is one of the Wolf Trap teaching artists at the Arts-Based Collaborative here on our campus, the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga: abc@utc.

(UTC)

Cam Pritchard(Cam Pritchard)

These days, whatever your interests, there’s a podcast waiting for you.

How can podcasters connect with their audiences to deepen their engagement - and deliver the metrics that can monetize their content as a business?

Station is a tech startup here in Chattanooga that offers a way.

Cam Pritchard is co-founder and CEO of Station, one of the companies supported by Brickyard, which provides early-stage capital for startup founders building companies with high-growth potential.

Among his colleagues at Station: Abhishek Thory.

I spoke with Cam last month.

(Station)

“A Sailor’s Son” at Sculpture Fields at Montague Park in Chattanooga.(Sean Paul Lorentz)

Thirty five years ago in California, an earthquake damaged the eastern span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge.

The span was torn down and replaced - and in the years since, the salvaged steel has been awarded to artists to repurpose and create something new.

Sean Paul Lorentz used some of that steel to build “A Sailor’s Son” - now on display at Sculpture Fields at Montague Park here in Chattanooga.

When “A Sailor’s Son” was unveiled in September, I had a chance to speak with Sean.

Part of a 60-foot-long steel wall that lists the known names of enslaved people at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello in Virginia.(monticello.org)

How we talk about land shapes what we do - and what we don’t do - with land.

Thomas Woltz says “The land is full” - and “We have a responsibility to let the land tell its stories.”

He is owner and senior principal of Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects - based in New York and Charlottesville, Virginia.

Thomas Woltz(Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects)

On Thursday, he will be the next speaker for CIVIQ, presented by Chattanooga Design Studio - in partnership with the Trust for Public Land - starting at 5:30 PM at the downtown Chattanooga Public Library.

The title of his talk: “Landscape, Memory and Truth: Unlocking Histories Hidden in the Land.”

I spoke with Thomas - and Ginger Birnbaum with the Studio.

(Chattanooga Design Studio)

(Back to Birding)

(Aired Thu 11/14/24)

“Back to Birding” is a podcast by Luke Thompson and Patrick Higgins.

I heard about it earlier this year when I met Luke - then a student at The Baylor School here in Chattanooga - when I visited his class, taught by Mike Kelly.

Back in August, I had a chance to speak with Luke.

Cast members of this year’s production of “The Snow Queen” at Creative Arts Guild.(Creative Arts Guild)

(Aired Thu 11/14/24)

This time of year, “The Snow Queen” reigns once more in Dalton.

Creative Arts Guild and Ballet Dalton present a full-length ballet of the fairytale by Hans Christian Andersen that journeys through the seasons.

This year’s production of “The Snow Queen” premieres on Thursday, November 21st at the Dalton High School Theatre - and concludes on Sunday, November 24th.

Jessie Southerland is the Guild’s director of dance - and the director of “The Snow Queen.”

Melanie Walker - a high school senior - plays Gerda.

Finley Bonanno - also a senior - plays two roles: the Spring Princess and the Fall Princess.

(Creative Arts Guild)