GREETINGS FROM ANNE B. POPE, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR I am so pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Bradley Hanson as Tennessee’s new state folklorist and director of its Folklife Program. Dr. Hanson, of Clinton, TN is an ethnomusicologist with wide expertise in folklife and a unique depth of experience and knowledge of Tennessee’s musical heritage. […]

GREETINGS FROM ANNE B. POPE, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Yesterday the Tennessee Arts Commission held its quarterly meeting in Nashville. At the close of the meeting, Chair Patsy Camp presented Roby Cogswell with a handmade basket made by one of the last active Woodbury white oak basketmakers, Bettie Tanner. From a family of five generations of basketmakers, Ms. Tanner’s […]