This Week In The Arts

  • Thursday, February 6, 2025

Thursday, February 6

 

Unity, Scholarship, Service: The Legacy of Black Greek Life at the Bessie Smith Cultural Center

 

CSO: Young People’s Concert All-Accessible at Memorial Auditorium

 

Love/Sick at the Chattanooga Theatre Centre

 

Throwback Thursday and Teen Art Show at the Hunter Museum of American Art

 

Blah Blah Blah: Artist Talks at Stove Works

 

Life Drawing | Open Studio at Townsend Atelier

 

Black Art Lounge at The Chattery Downtown

 

Chattanooga Public Library’s Write & Chatt at Adelle’s Creperie

 

 

Friday, February 7

 

Love/Sick at the Chattanooga Theatre Centre

 

Jennifer Knapp with Special Guest Flamy Grant at Barking Legs Theater

 

First Friday Art Crawl

 

Create & Connect: Friday Night Art Club at The Chattery Downtown

 

Arts for Older Adults: Painting with Gouache at the Northgate Library

 

Marty Stuart at The Walker Theatre

 

Alkebulan: The Mother of Mankind at The Howard School

 

Scènes de Ma Vie Exhibit Reception at In-Town Gallery

 

February Exhibit Opening Reception at River Gallery

 

 

Saturday, February 8

 

Love/Sick at the Chattanooga Theatre Centre

 

EG Kight Trio at Barking Legs Theater

 

Lunar New Year Celebration at the Creative Discovery Museum

 

Slab-tastic Slabs! at Scenic City Clay Arts

 

Brandon Davis at Songbirds

 

Professional Development Workshop: Failure with TK Smith at Stove Works

 

Move It! with The Pop-Up Project at the Avondale Library

 

Fascination and Fiction: How to Build Mystery into Your Writing at The Chattery Downtown

 

Make a Ceramic Valentine’s Heart Trinket with Scenic City Clay Arts at The Chattery Downtown

 

Dyeing with Flowers & Indigo with Aaron Sanders Head at Townsend Atelier

 

Painting Demo with Exhibiting Artist Shawn Krueger at River Gallery

 

Drew & Ellie Holcomb at Memorial Auditorium

 

Alkebulan: The Mother of Mankind at The Howard School

 

Paper Quilling for Beginners – Valentine Ornament at The Knot and Needle

 

"The Spice of Life" Pops Concert at Southern Adventist University

 

 

Sunday, February 9

 

Love/Sick at the Chattanooga Theatre Centre

 

Exploring Indigo & Resist Techniques with Aaron Sanders Head at Townsend Atelier

 

 

Monday, February 10

 

Chattanooga Youth Symphony Winter Concert at the UTC Fine Arts Center

 

Free Open Level Community Dance Class at Studio34

 

Artists in Transition Art Class at the Chattanooga Public Library

 

 

Tuesday, February 11

 

Move It! with The Pop-Up Project at the Avondale Library

 

 

Wednesday, February 12

 

Wednesday Jazz: Alex Keiss Quartet at Barking Legs Theater

 

SPLASH Youth Arts Workshop at the Chattanooga Public Library

 

The Simon & Garfunkel Story (Touring) at Memorial Auditorium

 

Book Chatt Connection at the Chattanooga Public Library

 

 

Thursday, February 13

 

Film Screening: The Six Triple Eight at the Bessie Smith Cultural Center

 

Free Family Night at the Creative Discovery Museum

 

SoLit’s Page-Turners on the Patio at Oddstory Brewing Co.

 

Open Mic Night at Songbirds

 

Life Drawing | Open Studio at Townsend Atelier

 

East Tennessee Symphony Orchestra Concert at The Commons

 

 

Friday, February 14

 

CSO: Big Band Concert at The Walker Theatre

 

Jazz is for Lovers: Valentine's with Rishard and Kash Wright at Barking Legs Theater

 

Art-A-Nooga Tonight at Stove Works

 

The Play's the Thing at the Mountain Arts Community Center

 

Jewelry Demo with Nola Smodic at River Gallery

 

I Do! I Do! at the Oak Street Playhouse

 

 

Saturday, February 15

 

Photography Workshop: Shooting with a Smartphone at AVA

 

Love Songs in Blue at Barking Legs Theater

 

Dusty Leigh Huston at Songbirds

 

Resident Workshop: Kintsugi for Beginners with Mami Takahashi at Stove Works

 

Open Studios at Stove Works

 

Roots of Hope, Branches of Community at The Chattery Downtown

 

Introduction to Tapestry Weaving at The Chattery Downtown

 

The Play's the Thing at the Mountain Arts Community Center

 

Relief Engraving Demo with Jessica White at River Gallery

 

Marc Broussard at The Walker Theatre

 

Move It! with The Pop-Up Project at the Avondale Library

 

I Do! I Do! at the Oak Street Playhouse

 

Learn to Needle Felt Cute Animals at The Knot and Needle

 

 

Sunday, February 16

 

I Do! I Do! at the Oak Street Playhouse

 

 

Current Exhibitions

 

Keeping Tradition Alive - Figurative Works by Stan Townsend and Townsend Atelier Thursday Night Figure Drawing Group Invitational at AVA

 

SPLASH Art Exhibit at CHI Memorial Hospital

 

Gather at the Chattanooga Metropolitan Airport

 

February Exhibit at River Gallery

 

Scènes de Ma Vie at In-Town Gallery

 

Radical Kindness III at the Jewish Cultural Center

 

Photographic Society of Chattanooga Winter Show at the Gallery at Blackwell

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