Gallery Talk with Elle Perry
Join the museum for a gallery talk about Andrea Morales’ exhibition with Memphian Elle Perry. Born and raised in Memphis, Elle Perry has covered arts and culture (and related subjects)…
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Tennessee Book Award Reception: Knoxville
Humanities Tennessee will host a reading, reception, and award presentation for Denton Loving, winner of the inaugural Tennessee Book Award in Poetry.
Tennessee Book Award Reception: Putnam County
Humanities Tennessee will host a reception, award presentation, and reading with Monic Ductan, winner of the inaugural Tennessee Book Award for Fiction.
Tennessee Book Award Winner Announced
Monic Ductan, Rachel Louise Martin and Denton Loving honored with first-ever statewide literary awards Humanities Tennessee announced the winners of the first-ever Tennessee Book Awards. Monic Ductan won in the fiction…
TN Writers | TN Stories: Jared Sullivan at the Southern Festival of Books
For more than 50 years, a power plant in the small town of Kingston, Tennessee, burned fourteen thousand tons of coal a day, gradually creating a mountain of ashen waste 60…
Storytelling as Liberation: A Conversation with Andrea Morales & Michela Watts
Join the Brooks Museum for a panel in conjunction with the exhibition Andrea Morales: Roll down Like Water. Photographer Andrea Morales’s portrayal of our region is deeply rooted in the…
Writers’ Workshops: a Festival collaboration with The Porch
We are proud to welcome our literary friends from Nashville’s The Porch back to the Southern Festival of Books with four facilitated writing workshops before the Festival officially begins. For…
Introduction to Autistic Culture
Join AutismTN for a Spectrum Chat: “Introduction to Autistic Culture.” This hybrid panel discussion is part of the Exploring Autistic Life and Culture project, funded, in part, by Humanities Tennessee. Autistic culture is…
Gather, film screening & discussion
Join the Global Ed Center for a screening of Gather, a film exploring a growing movement among Native American to reclaim their spiritual, political, and cultural identities through food sovereignty. …
Unveiling a New Chapter in Robertson County
In February 2024, the Robertson County History Museum opened a new permanent exhibit titled African Americans Building New Lives After 1865. This exhibit, which Humanities Tennessee partially funded through an…