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The Shelby County Agricultural Society agreed to host the second fair in the fall of 1856. During World War I, the military used the Mid-South Fair to find recruits.In 1908, the name was changed to the Tri-State Fair to encourage more people in areas around Memphis to attend the fair, but this name did not stick.
The Tennessee Williams & New Orleans Literary Festival is an annual five-day literary festival in the city of New Orleans. The festival is dedicated to American playwright Tennessee Williams, who lived and worked in the city, and later won the Pulitzer Prize. Each year, it features several events related to the long career of that writer, as ...
In October 1973, the first National Storytelling Festival was held in Jonesborough, Tennessee. Hay bales and wagons were the stages, and audience and tellers together didn't number more than 60. Two years after the first festival, Smith founded the National Association for the Preservation and Perpetuation of Storytelling (NAPPS), [ 1 ] an ...
Take a stroll through our art gallery: See The Patriot Ledger's 2022 Christmas art contest entries Several top entries will be printed in the local section of the Dec. 23 edition of The Patriot ...
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The art center opened in April 2001 with approximately 24,000 square feet (2,200 m 2) of gallery space presenting visual art from local, state and regional artists, as well as major U.S. and international exhibitions. [1] On April 2, 2018, the Frist announced that it changed its name from The Frist Center of the Visual Arts to The Frist Art Museum.
Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts is an Arts and Crafts center in the U.S. city of Gatlinburg, Tennessee.The oldest craft school in Tennessee, Arrowmont offers workshops in arts and crafts such as painting, woodworking, drawing, glass, photography, basket weaving, ceramics, fiber arts, book arts and metalworking.
The Federal Junior Duck Stamp is an American art competition sponsored by the United States government for students to draw, or paint a duck realistically. The national winner's design is used to create a (non-postal) stamp which is sold to raise funds for environmental education.