Arts-Based Collaborative at UTC

📣 Attention Hamilton County Educators!

Chattanooga 2.0, through the Quality Matters Fund, is offering FREE registration and membership fees for the Tennessee Association for Children's Early Education—including the upcoming 70th Annual Conference! This is a fantastic chance for child care professionals to enhance their skills, network with peers, and gain valuable insights without any financial burden.

📅 Date: October 12, 2024
🕒 Time: 7:30 AM to 4:30 PM
📍 Location: Chattanooga State Community College

Don’t miss this opportunity for professional development and networking. Register now and secure your spot!
www.tacee.org/hamilton-county-registration

We look forward to seeing you at the conference!

Busy week for ABC! I’m wrapping up a packed week at the Tn Arts Academy and Teaching Artists are filming at .

Energized by the Continuum of Impact workshop facilitated by and many of our arts and civic organizations! Thanks for hosting this for Chattanooga!

⏳Last chance to apply for the 2024-2025 STEAM Fellows Cohort at the Creative Discovery Museum!

These monthly, full-day, in-person training sessions provide hands-on learning experiences you can use to integrate Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math (STEAM) into your classroom.

The deadline to apply for this cohort is next Sunday, July 7. Join us in fostering curiosity and excitement in young children through STEAM education: https://chatt2.org/QMF/

Free workshop! Join us at ArtsBuild (301 E 11th Street) on Tuesday, July 9, 2024 from 9 a.m. - 12 p.m. for a workshop on how to use the Continuum of Impact led by Joe Tolbert, Jr., the founder and lead cultural strategist at Art at the Intersections.

Sign up to attend the workshop HERE: https://forms.gle/UCks9V5ZvxhDZCD59

Spaces are limited!

When: Tuesday, July 9, 9 a.m. - 12 p.m.
Where: ArtsBuild--301 E. 11th Street, Floor 2

The Continuum of Impact is a new system to help us articulate the desired outcomes of arts and cultural programs, and collect evidence of our impact in different ways. With arts and cultural programs, tracking impact can be complicated - but the Continuum outlines several strategies across six different categories: Knowledge, Discourse, Attitudes, Capacity, Action and Conditions.

Joe Tolbert Jr. (Joe T.) is a minister, art critic, and the founder and lead cultural strategist of Art at the Intersections. He received his B.S. in Communications from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville and completed his M.Div. in Social Ethics from Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York. Joe is a sought after facilitator and cultural strategist who works with communities and institutions to help them harness the power of art and culture through the building, implementation, and evaluation of cultural strategies.

For questions, please email [email protected].

‼ Applications for The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Wolf Trap Teaching Artists Classroom Residency closes next Sunday, July 7!

Are you passionate about nurturing children's curiosity? This is your chance to integrate a new art form into your daily lessons with the help of professional teaching artists.

Don’t miss this opportunity to turn your classroom into an arts learning lab—targeting multiple learning goals in arts, literacy, math, and social-emotional skill development. Learn more at www.chatt2.org/QMF

Hip hip! Glad to partner with .0 to support early childhood learners and educators in our region and included in the Quality Matters Fund report! Thank you!

Our department is looking to make connections through Non-Profit/Employer Workforce (New) Partnership Grants. These grants invite non-profits to facilitate innovative child care solutions that create new possibilities for working families and give little Tennesseans a safe place to learn and grow. Learn more: https://www.tn.gov/humanservices/for-families/child-care-services/new-care-partnership-grants.html

And what do you think these will become??? Can’t wait to see the finished mural David Riall!! Chattanooga School for the Arts & Sciences

Wow! What an amazing crew of Early Head Start Teachers! It was such a pleasure to spend time thinking deeply about the work of raising our youngest Chattanoogans. Keep up the good work!

Participating in the Holmberg Arts Leadership program is a great opportunity to deepen one’s knowledge and involvement with our arts community.

Artists at work!! CSAS Kindergartners will have a big surprise next year!!! Cheers to a year of new arts integration with this backdrop! Many thanks to lead artist David Riall, Dixie Riall, and GQ from

Way to close out a training day for a hundred of our local heroes - early childhood educators - Jennifer Daniels Neal, singer, songwriter, and ABC Teaching Artist! Thank you Chattanooga 2.0 and Dr. Jennifer Lynberg for having us!

Super excited about this year’s Arts Integration Summer Camp! We have a great line up of facilitators! Happy to celebrate our local teachers and artists! And it’s going to be so much fun!!

We have an exciting opportunity for educators in Hamilton County this summer: Arts Integration Summer Camp is back! This training will be held at UTC on July 24 and 25, from 9 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. HCS teachers will be eligible for the summer PD hourly stipend. Free lunch provided both days!

Sign up on Kickup here: https://pulse.kickup.co/events/browse/D9DFokspp99MZCoGc6doBY/announcements/

What is arts integration? It's a diverse set of teaching strategies that help students meet key learning outcomes in the arts and in other subjects simultaneously.
According to the National Association of Elementary School Principals, arts-integrated strategies lead to a wide array of student benefits, including increased collaboration skills and self-awareness. Schools that employ arts-integrated strategies have experienced improvements in students’ emotional wellness and increases in teacher job satisfaction. Learn more about the research findings here: https://www.naesp.org/resource/professional-learning-in-arts-integration-improves-outcomes/

Please email Jules Jackson ([email protected]) with any questions. We hope you will join us!

Our first End of the Year Celebration was a hit!! We made buttons, puppets, and a new friend with Luminooga!! Thank you 🦖🥰. Teachers, thank you for endless dedication and love for our learners; teaching artists, for your creativity that continues to inspire us; and partners, near and far, you make this work possible. This is for all of you- arts + gratitude and thanksgiving!! .1 .0

Registration for Hamilton County Kindergarteners opens today!

If you have a young one that will be five years old by August 15 of this year, you can enroll them in kindergarten either online through Friday, April 5, or on-site on April 3rd.

Learn more and begin registering here: https://www.hcde.org/cms/One.aspx?portalId=350278&pageId=170638762

Attention: Families of young and young at heart! Let’s go on an adventure! Tomorrow at 6 pm

Join us for Be My Neighbor Day!

We had a special visitor today! Meet Riley and her dad Coy Dillard. After performing one of her favorites on the xylophone and hiking in a pink forest, she designed and built this table so that she and her dad could have a tea party!

What a pleasure to work with WTCI and Mrs. Strasavich today!!!

Way to Shine, UTC-Wolf Trap Teaching Artist Jennifer Daniels Neal! Look at all the bright musical learners and their teachers too!! Aleece Crank and Katie Gonzalez Hutchins, thank you for your work as arts integration heroes! Montessori Elementary at Highland Park

Join us on Mocs Give Day and discover the many ways you can support UTC programs. Thank you for all the ways you make a difference on campus and beyond!

Mocs Give Day | October 3, 2023 Any size gift helps UTC reach our goal of raising $1 million from 1,500 donors.

We so appreciate Kelly Bitner Shimel and the partnerships she makes possible for us!

We close out 2023 National Arts in Education Week with the biggest of shout outs to and the greatest of appreciation for Kelly Shimel, Fine Arts Coordinator for Hamilton County Schools (HCS) and an ArtsBuild Holmie. In her role with HCS, Kelly ensures the Fine Arts educators in our public schools receive the support they need so the Fine Arts are accessible to Hamilton County Schools' students. Kelly also helps ArtsBuild to bring free professional development opportunities through The Kennedy Center to Hamilton County educators. These professional development opportunities train area educators to integrate the arts in their classrooms at any grade level and in any subject. (Yes! You can teach Math & Science with Art!!!) We are so grateful for the tireless work Kelly does for Hamilton County's public schools and for the integral role she plays as a Kennedy Center Partner in Education.

If you are a local educator, artist, or teaching artist who would like to participate in ArtsBuild's upcoming arts integration workshop in October, featuring The Kennedy Center Teaching Artist Bomani Armah, in honor of Chattanooga's annual Hip-Hop Week, email [email protected].