The mission of the Tennessee Arts Academy is to provide exceptional quality professional development, arts training, support, encouragement, information, and renewal to K-12 teachers
and to promote and honor the role of the arts in the lives of all Tennesseans.
The Tennessee Arts Academy is a project of the Tennessee Department of Education and is funded under a grant contract with the State of Tennessee.
Major corporate, organizational, and individual funding support for the 2022 Tennessee Arts Academy is generously provided by:
Significant sponsorship, scholarship, and event support for the 2022 Tennessee Arts Academy is generously provided by Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee; Rena Ellzy; Morel Enoch; Solie Fott; Bobby Jean Frost, in memory of Karen Frost; Germantown Performing Arts Center; Dorothy M. Gillespie Foundation; Patricia Hudson; Lingner Gift Fund, in memory of Marilee Stites; Novamet Specialty Products Corporation; Pinnacle Financial Partners; Amy Savell, in memory of Sara and Las Savell; Theatrical Rights Worldwide; Jeanette and Bill Watkins; and Watkins College of Art at Belmont University.
Tennessee Arts Academy Foundation is being supported, in whole or in part, by federal award number SLFRP5534 awarded to the State of Tennessee by the U.S. Department of Treasury.
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