Leaders of arts organizations have a vision. Design consultants help create the reality. Together they form teams of passionate professionals to "brand" and market the arts in our region.
Marketing the Arts: Creative Partnerships
"...the posters we design feel like the story and Barter Theatre's set designs. Our goal and Barter's goal is to give the audience a complete experience — both before and after a performance. The posters give a lot of clues about what you're going to
Marketing the Arts: The Little House That Could
"With our background of interest in the arts, community service, and tourism, it's only natural that nonprofit clients have been the foundation of our work," said Jane Hillhouse. "Our heart is here, and the work reflects our interest and involvement."
Marketing the Arts: Design Consultants
Meet the team members at Coburn Creative and Hillhouse Graphic Design.
Marketing the Arts: Design & Marketing at Area Colleges
The intersection of art and business begins at the college level — with students working on projects for local nonprofits.
Youth Spotlight: Noelle Sibley
When A! Magazine asked versatile musician Noelle Sibley about her participation in arts-related activities, she laughed, "My life is an arts-related activity."
Review: 'The Devil's in the Details'
Fans of Sharyn McCrumb's fiction will be pleased to know that, after an eight-year digression into the world of NASCAR (and three novels that resulted from this interest) — McCrumb has returned to the type of work at which she excels.
Rhythm & Roots Issues Two Posters
Bristol Rhythm & Roots Reunion has issued two posters: (1) a 10th Anniversary poster featuring artwork from each year of the festival dating back to 2001, and (2) the 2010 Reunion poster designed by fantasy artist Charles Vess.
Achievements & Transitions at East Tennessee State University
East Tennessee State University Professor Emeritus Jack Tottle spoke in Cambridge, Mass., at Harvard University's recent "Fire on the Mountain" bluegrass music symposium.
E&H Professor Seeking Stories
An Emory & Henry College professor who attended Southwest Virginia schools during the time of segregation is searching for personal stories as he writes a book about the experience.
Pickin' a New Musical Image for Bristol
The area's heritage as the birthplace of country music – and as a hot spot for current music – will be featured in a new tourism campaign announced June 17, 2010, by the Bristol Convention & Visitors Bureau.
Quilt of Memories
One woman's 6,500 mile cross-country journey – undertaken to benefit the end-of-life journeys of local hospice care patients – was memorialized in a quilt that is now a focal point of the hospice's lobby.
Photographer Captures Scenes of Southwest Virginia
For Patsy Phillips, it's all about having fun. She roams the woods and waterfalls of Southwest Virginia, cruising Castlewood, Coeburn, St. Paul and Dungannon.
Review: 'Tuesdays with Morrie' at Barter is 'Superb!'
"Tuesdays with Morrie is an excellent example of why I often prefer Barter Stage II productions over the larger and much more extravagant offerings on the Mainstage across the street."
Ambassador From Space Visits Abingdon
Former Apollo 17 astronaut and NASA engineers inspire fledgling "rocket scientests" during visit to Barter Theatre as part of Astronaut Week, June 2010.
Barbara Kingsolver Wins British Prize
She describes herself as "the lady next door." She never wanted fame. She never wanted her face in the newspapers. Barbara Kingsolver just wants to watch her daughter, Lily, grow up at Patrick Henry High School in Glade Spring, Va.
Rhythm & Roots Reunion Still 100 days Away
City resident Carol Bannish purchased tickets and a poster for this fall's Rhythm & Roots Reunion on Wednesday, 100 days before the 10th annual music festival begins.
New Public Art Dedicated In Nashville
"Citizen," a sculpture by renowned national artist Thomas Sayre and commissioned for $308,000, was dedicated on the Metro Courthouse's Public Square on June 10, 2010.
An Eye for Nature
EXTRA! Kingsport Dancers Invited to Renowned Ballet Camps
Several dance students in the area have been invited to attend summer dance intensives.
Book by ETSU professor Celebrates Beauty of Nature
Little Creek Books in Bristol announces the publication of Sinking Creek Journal: an environmental book of days written by East Tennessee State University professor Fred Waage.
REVIEW: What a Long Strange Trip the Audience Takes...
'Revolutions is designed to blow your mind — and it will.... Even if you weren't young and in college during "The Sixties," you will find much to think about in Revolutions. [It also] forces one to ask "What if?"
Artisans Have New Home
Arts & Crafts Co-op from the Cave House has a new name — Holston Mountain Artisans — and a new home in Abingdon, Va.
E&H Professor a Masterclass Teacher at Piano School
An Emory & Henry music professor recently served as guest teacher of the Second Annual Masterclass for Middle and High School Students sponsored by The Piano School of Salem, Va.
VI Art & Photography Exhibitions
An eclectic mix of forms, styles, colors, materials and themes, ranging from the beauty of horses to hope for recovery in earthquake-torn Haiti, inspired the graduating seniors of the art and photography departments at Virginia Intermont College.