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0000017b-59a6-db1f-affb-5dbe99ef0001The Arts-Based Collaborative at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (ABC at UTC) is a community-engaged center under the College of Health, Education, and Professional Studies.Formerly known as the Southeast Center for Education in the Arts, ABC at UTC builds off the center’s thirty year history of programs in arts education and arts integration through engaging interdisciplinary connections in and through the arts.The mission of ABC at UTC is to integrate arts-based solutions across multiple fields and disciplines to shape a collaborative workforce while amplifying diverse voices, perspectives, and skillsets into an arts-rich world of today and tomorrow.This collection of stories highlights the transformative impact of arts-based learning through the collaborative’s programs and partnerships on and off campus.

How Partners In Education Pours The Arts Into Teaching

WUTC | By Ray Bassett
Published April 25, 2025 at 12:58 AM EDT
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For educators here in Chattanooga and Hamilton County, it takes a toolkit to cultivate learning through the arts for students in the classroom.

That toolkit is teacher training in arts integration through a Kennedy Center Partners in Education team - or PIE.

Among the organizations on the team: Hamilton County Schools, Chattanooga Theatre Centre, our public media partner WTCI PBS, ArtsBuild - and the Wolf Trap teaching artist program at the Arts-Based Collaborative here on our campus, the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga: abc@utc.

Jules Jackson is programs coordinator at ArtsBuild.

Angela Dittmar is director of teaching artist residencies at abc@utc.
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