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A Storyteller Weaves The Threads Of Arts-Based Learning

Katie Owens
Katie Owens
Katie Owens

(Aired Tues 9/17/24)

Katie Owens is a writer and artist who explores story, landscape and place through creative works from traditional craft to storytelling.

Born in Savannah and self-taught as an artist, she now lives on Signal Mountain, attuned to the natural world around her.

Katie 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.

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For all our conversations on the Arts-Based Collaborative here at UTC, visit our website: wutc.org.

Ray is the host and producer of Scenic Roots, Mondays - Thursdays at 3 PM on WUTC.
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