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More than a half century ago, the first Earth Day was held in this country - known as the start of today’s environmental movement. This week, a new exhibition at the Hunter Museum of American Art in Chattanooga delves into that movement’s history and impact through art.

In the Bluff View Art District in downtown Chattanooga, you’ll find the Houston Museum of Decorative Arts. Within its Victorian walls are antiques and collectibles from that era through the Depression era - and quite recently, a new addition: an artist in residence.

Stacy Kranitz is a photographer who was born in Kentucky and now lives in the Appalachian Mountains of East Tennessee. Her exhibition - “As it was Give(n) to Me” - is now on display at the Institute of Contemporary Art on our campus, the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.

Tennessee whiskey survived the Prohibition era a century ago by diving deep into caves. The weekend after Labor Day, Ruby Falls on Lookout Mountain, partnering with the Tennessee Whiskey Trail, will sip that legacy by hosting a new tasting event: the Bootleg Bash.

Montague Park is the largest urban park in Chattanooga, home to Sculpture Fields and the Chattanooga Football Club Foundation. An urban design and landscape planning process is now reimagining the park to revitalize the space, including two public meetings on Tuesday for community input.

Marsha Mills of Rhyme N Chatt will be one of the poets at the Hunter Museum of American Art in Chattanooga on Thursday evening for “Vision + Verse: Delaney and Baldwin” - a poetic exploration of the friendship between Beauford Delaney and James Baldwin.

Cultural Cross Ties is an art project created by Ann Law of Barking Legs Theater here in Chattanooga. The experimental partnership links artists in this city with artists in Chattanooga’s Sister Cities.

Barry Moser is a printmaker best known for his wood engravings and his illustrations of literature. UTC Special Collections holds the largest selection of his work - and starting Friday, several dozen of his pieces will go on display at AVA in Chattanooga.

The Chattanooga Parks and Outdoors Plan - now before the City Council for consideration - is a road map of commitments, from the short term to the long term, that would reinvent Chattanooga as a “city in a park" over the next generation.

On Friday night, Be the Change Youth Initiative hosts the Empower YOUth Celebration and Art Auction at The Grand Soiree in Red Bank - a celebration for Red Bank art students, also raising money for public school art classrooms and summer scholarships for local teens.