Tennessee Arts Commission Employee Directory
Government AdministrationTennessee, United States11-50 Employees
The Tennessee Arts Commission is a state government agency in the government administration sector, based in Nashville, Tennessee. It is a small organization whose mission is to cultivate the arts for the benefit of all Tennesseans and their communities. Its core activities include supporting arts programming and development to strengthen cultural life across the state. The commission serves artists, communities, families, and institutions, with programs that extend to rural hospitals to bring arts programming to those settings. It has established partnerships such as with Tennessee Craft to run the Master Artist Apprentice Program, which connects artists with master craft practitioners to learn traditional and contemporary craft skills. In recent years the agency has appointed leaders overseeing grants management and arts education, indicating an emphasis on program administration and education.