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.

Tanqueray Harper, known as Tangles, is a performance artist across disciplines who is on the move - and who flows with movement. She is one of the teaching artists in the Wolf Trap program at the Arts-Based Collaborative here on our campus, the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga: abc@utc.

(Aired Thu 2/27/25) Teaching artists visit students and educators in the Hamilton County Schools through the Arts-Based Collaborative here on our campus, the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga: abc@utc. Community partners also play a role - including the nonprofit Chattanooga 2.0.

For teaching artists, the classroom is the stage - and children and educators are the audience. Singer-songwriter Jennifer Daniels of Lookout Mountain is a teaching artist in the Wolf Trap program at the Arts-Based Collaborative here on our campus, the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.

(Aired Weds 1/08/25) The stories we live shape the stories we tell. Kim Jackson believes - quote - “we are all born storytellers - and we each have the amazing opportunity to share our story and be a part of countless others’ stories.”

Emma Collins 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.

(Aired Tues 10/22/24) Garry Posey - founder of Ensemble Theatre of Chattanooga - 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.

(Aired Tues 9/17/24) Katie Owens - a writer and artist who explores story, landscape and place through creative works from traditional craft to storytelling - is one of the Wolf Trap teaching artists at the Arts-Based Collaborative here on our campus, the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.

Todd Shipley is the Director of Fine Arts at the Tennessee Department of Education. He is the content lead at the state level for arts educators across Tennessee - and he steers the State of the Arts Initiative, to increase access to music and arts education in Tennessee schools.

Moc Up is one of the onramps for incoming students to our campus, the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. In the past few weeks, students in the program were hosted on campus for free. Among the activities: play-based team building sessions, thanks to the Arts-Based Collaborative at UTC - or abc@utc.