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A new tactile art exhibition in downtown Chattanooga uses technology to help people with blindness or other visual impairments to experience the art. The exhibition, “Tactical Images Six Art Movements,” is on display at Signal Centers’ Hart Gallery - free and open to the public until Saturday, May 20th.

Grundy County - an hour northwest of Chattanooga - has one of the highest percentages of payday loans in the State of Tennessee. BetterFi is a local nonprofit in that county - based in the town of Coalmont - that aims to “end predatory lending one loan at a time” by refinancing those loans and educating people about debt, saving them money and improving their credit.

TFP’s Dave Flessner on the Chattanooga Convention Center. Ready to Rock the Riverfront with spinning Los Trompos. Art in Provence for a Chattanooga cause. Hope House at UTC. These voices - and more - on this edition of “Scenic Roots.”

The Chattanooga Convention Center opened its doors on Carter Street in 1985, nearly forty years ago - far exceeding its expectations. Now, the city’s tourism industry - which earned record revenues last year - is looking into whether it’s time for a new and larger convention center.

Think of a spinning top. Make it larger-than-life. Wrap it in colorful fabric with traditional Mexican designs. Climb into the top for a ride - or make it spin from the outside. Eight of these tops, in various shapes and colors - known as Los Trompos - are the heart of this year’s Rock the Riverfront, starting Friday in Chattanooga.

Jill Steenhuis is a native of our Southeast who made her home in the southeast of France. She is an artist who paints landscapes in the region where she has lived for more than four decades: Provence. Next week, artwork by Jill and her son Sergio will be on display at the Mountain City Club here in Chattanooga.

On the edge of our campus - the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga - you’ll find The Hope House. Our own Richard Winham tells us more.

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.

Saturday is National Medal of Honor Day. That morning, at 11 AM, the Charles H. Coolidge National Medal of Honor Heritage Center here in downtown Chattanooga will hold its quarterly Bricks of Valor ceremony.

On Saturday, here in Chattanooga, writer and visual artist Gabrielle Bates appears at two events hosted by the Meacham Writers’ Workshop, a biannual series of events for writers supported in part by our campus, the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.