Southeast Center for Education in the Arts

POSTER REPRODUCTIONS

SCEA has collaborated with the Hunter Museum of American Art in Chattanooga to produce 22 color reproductions of works from the Museum's permanent collection. A grant from the National Endowment for the Arts funded 8 poster reproductions of works from the Hunter Museum, Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, New Orleans Museum of Art, and Telfair Museum of Art in Savannah.

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WARLI MYTHS AND LEGENDS

An exhibition at the Cress Gallery in the UTC Fine Arts Center featured artwork of the Warli tribesmen of Maharashtra, India. School students attended docented tours, and a poster reproduction and teacher's guide were created to complement the exhibition.

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IMPRINT: SUMMER ART EXHIBIT

For several summers, the UTC Art Department gallery mounted an exhibition of art by area students. The exhibits highlighted examples of efforts toward school district implementation of discipline-based arts education and documented a chronology of participation.

IN YOUR FACE: NEIGHBORHOOD PORTRAITS

Chattanooga Parks, Recreation, Arts & Culture Department, the Creative Discovery Museum, and the Southeast Center for Education in the Arts collaborated on a project partnering artists and teachers to facilitate children's self-expression through ceramics in community, school, and museum settings. Four professional artists and eight teachers were placed in eight recreation centers around Chattanooga for several weeks to work with youth on sculpting portrait tiles out of clay. The culminating exhibition at the Creative Discovery Museum was enhanced with the children's statements about their work. Participating teachers were able to further their training in visual art by team teaching with practicing artists. In turn, each artist scheduled residencies in the schools.

READING, WRITING & ART

This eight-week program was developed by the Creative Discovery Museum in partnership with First Centenary United Methodist Church's Inner City Ministries Tutoring Program. Students worked with volunteers from the Museum and Southeast Center personnel to improve their communication skills. They studied the artwork of four prominent African-American artists using poster reproductions developed by SCEA. The project concluded with an exhibition of student artwork and writings at the Museum. Selected students appeared on a local morning television program.