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Welcome New Board Members!
We’re lucky to welcome three great new board members to Create Appalachia. It’s always exciting to add new talent to the board, and these people ...
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Mocktails and Marketing Kits @ William Kings Museum
Artists, Musicians, and Creative Entrepreneurs: Mark your calendars for Thursday, September 5th! Join us for Mocktails and Marketing Kits Location: William King Museum of Art ...
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Calling all Artist!!! Enigmatic Encounters: Creatures, Cryptids, Robots, and Other Beasts of the Imagination
Call for Artists! Deadline SEPTEMBER 1 Get the details at https://enigmaticencounters.artcall.org/. Perfect for artists with a dark side! From the shadowy figures of Appalachian folklore to ...
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Enigmatic Encounters: Creatures, Cryptids, Robots, and Other Beasts of the Imagination
Exhibit open from September 20 to November 1, 2024 Create Appalachia Gallery, 225 W Center Street, Kingsport Open 8-5 weekdays except for federal holidays Free ...
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Ask Aspire! A Marketing-Focused Q&A for Creative Entrepreneurs and Small Businesses
Are you looking to promote your work and wondering where to start? We can help! Tuesday, October 15th 6 PM on Zoom Registration by email ...
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Opening Reception for Digital Salon: Convergence
Join Us for the Opening Reception for Digital Salon: Convergence July 18th, 6:00pm-8:00pm Kingsport Center for Art & Technology, 225 W. Center St., Suite 115, ...
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Create Appalachia Announces the Opening of a New Exhibit: Imaginary Realism: Digital Images by Cynthia Decker
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Create Appalachia Announces the Opening of a New Exhibit: Imaginary Realism: Digital Images by Cynthia Decker Gallery at Create Appalachia’s Kingsport Center ...
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The Masked Man “Squall” by Mike Miller – Nominated for Best Short Documentary at Southern Oasis Film Festival,
The Masked Man, a short documentary film featuring Southwest Virginia photographer Mike Miller and his 2023 one-person exhibit at Create Appalachia’s Kingsport Art and Technology ...
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Girl Scouts in the Kingsport Computer Lab, March 16, 2024
This is what we love: meeting the needs of each group we serve in our Centers for Art & Technology and customizing our approach to ...
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Create Appalachia – 2024 Progress Report
Our 2024 Progress Report is a great way to get to know who we are and what kinds of things we do at Create Appalachia. ...
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Create Appalachia Announces the Opening of At Home in Lower Appalachia, a Debut Solo Exhibit by Photographer Emmalee Barbour
Image: “Grilled Cheese and Sweet Tea” January 23, 2024-March 25, 2024 Opening Reception February 1, 6 PM to 7:30 (registration requested: https://www.createappalachia.org/event/at-home-in-lower-appalachia-opening-reception/) Create Appalachia’s Kingsport ...
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New Gallery Opening: “At Home In Lower Appalachia”
At Home in Lower Appalachia: Digital Images by Emmalee Barbour Tuesday, January 26th to Monday, March 25th Barbour, a recent graduate of ETSU’s Digital ...
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Conversations That Matter
What a great evening with the McKinney Center and guests from the 2023 season of their podcast, Conversations That Matter! Our Executive Director, Katie Hoffman ...
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Coworking Space at Create Appalachia
Coworking spaces offer numerous benefits to creative business owners, fostering a unique environment that supports productivity, collaboration, and community. Cost-Effectiveness: Coworking spaces are often more ...
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Kingsport YMCA Students Take 2D Animation Class at CA
During the first week of October, the computer lab at CA’s Kingsport Center for Art & Technology was filled with students taking a 2-D animation ...
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A Success Story: Michelle O’Patick-Ollis
Michelle O’Patick-Ollis taught art at Indian Trail Middle School for seventeen years before leaving one year ago to create art full time. “I had always ...
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A Success Story: Katie Edwards
KATIE EDWARDS: Multitalented Multitasker After her first few months in London as one of only a dozen students accepted each year in the Master’s program ...
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Times News Interviews Celebrity Chefs at Arts@Work Economic Summit
Celebrity chefs Chef T (Torrece Gregoire) and Tanya Cauthen discussed the differences between cooking shows and the reality of the food service industry at the ...
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Our Executive Director Hits the Road for the Richmond Folk Festival!
Along with serving as Executive Director of CA, Katie Hoffman and her husband, Brett Tiller, and restore vintage cast iron. In October, they’ll be traveling ...
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A Success Story: Matthew Rossetti
Faced with a digital media project that required more software and hardware resources than he had, ETSU graduate student Matthew Rossetti took advantage of Create ...
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Create Appalachia’s Arts@Work Summit Sets the Stage for Regional Film Industry Development
Friday, September 22 and Saturday, September 23, 2023 Kingsport Higher Education Center & Create Appalachia’s Kingsport Center for Art & Technology $50 for a one-day ...
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Create Appalachia Welcomes New Board Members!
We are excited to welcome our new board members: Crystal Phillips, Davin Brown, Anne Darden, and Katie Westbrooks! “My name is Crystal Phillips and my ...
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TN Achieves Summer Bridge Program Comes to Kingsport Center For Higher Education
Katie Hoffman and Cher Cornett presented to the Tennessee Achieves Summer Bridge Program this week, speaking about Create Appalachia and what we do in the ...
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Create Appalachia featured by Kingsport Times-News!
The Kingsport Times-News featured Create Appalachia in an article for “The Kingsport Spirit”. Read more here: July5_2023_TimesNews_CAArticle.pdf
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“Conversations That Matter” with Katie Hoffman and Theresa Hammons
In this episode of “Conversations That Matter,” two old friends come together to discuss a life-changing oral history project that they worked on together in ...
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