Art + Issues: Dancing Around the Dollar, 6 p.m.

Art + issues gets economic with Tom Otterness’s “Free Money” and a discussion about debt, class, labor and money as facilitated by Tom Gokey, visual artist and organizer with Strike Debt a debt resistance movement that brought these issues to the fore during Occupy Wall Street. Program is free to all in the community and is presented in partnership with The AIGA.

6 p.m. program

Click to read more ...

Pre-K Day: St. Patrick's Day

Date: Friday, March 7 from 10 am to 11 am
Ages: 2 to 5 years old
Fees: $8 members, $12 non-members
Instructor: Rachel Veal

Introduce your preschooler to the world of art through monthly visits to the Hunter Museum of American Art. You and your budding artist will explore different themes and holidays through gallery activities and art making experiences. This program is for children ages 2 to 5 and one adult per child. Program fee includes admission for you and your child and all supplies.

Click to read more ...

String Theory at the Hunter, Art Connection, 5:30 p.m. 6:30 p.m. concert

Enjoy a String Theory evening featuring works by Mendelssohn, Poulence and Schoenfield as performed by Jose Franch-Ballester on clarinet, Arnaude Sussman on violin and Gloria Chien on piano. Evening will begin with Art Connection in the galleries at 5:30 followed by the concert at 6:30 in the lobby.

5:30 p.m. Art Connection, 6:30 concert

Buy Now

Art + Issues: Diversity Is! Now Deal With It?, 6 p.m.

Tonight in our art + issues we will explore the ways we understand and engage with diversity in our community with UTC professors Dr. Bart Weathington, UC Foundation Professor in Industrial/Organizational Psychology, and Dr. Brian O’Leary, Department Head and Associate Professor of Psychology. Free to all in the community. This is presented in partnership with The AIGA.

6 p.m. program

Click to read more ...

Home School Workshop - Taking Shape: Pottery, Ceramics, Glass

Dates: Friday, March 21 from 10 am to noon
Ages: 5 to 13 years old
Fees: $10 members, $15 non-members
Instructor: Rachel Veal

Children ages 5-13 are invited to join the Hunter Museum once a month for thematic Home School Workshops designed specifically for home school learners and their families. Home School Workshops include a themed guided tour, a studio experience and take home resources.

Click to read more ...

Art Wise: Distinguished Speakers at the Hunter Museum presents Virginia Mecklenburg, 6 p.m.

Join us for the next in our distinguished speaker series as the Hunter welcomes Smithsonian American Art Museum Chief Curator Virginia Mecklenburg. Mecklenburg, one of the curators of our current exhibition African American Art: Harlem Renaissance Civil Rights Era and Beyond, will offer insight into the exhibit. The Art Wise series is generously sponsored by the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Tennessee Community Trust with additional support from Sally and Thomas Faulkner..

6 p.m. program

Click to read more ...

"Preface: An Introduction to Artists' Books" Opens to the Public

First chance to see new exhibit, "Preface: An Introduction to Artists' Books."

10 a.m. - 5 p.m.

Artful Yoga, 1:30 p.m.

As the March lion turns into the lamb we will welcome the contrasts of this changing season with a mindful afternoon balancing through the Hunter’s popular Artful Yoga program.begin today’s practice with a gallery discussion in our new Smithsonian exhibition about spring renewals of connections and getting beyond difference to unite ourselves with others. Then we’ll move into the yoga practice in the lobby (or outside weather depending), led today by instructor Madia Swicord, Chattanooga Yoga School founder and owner of Madia’s Healing Arts Studio. Free to all and open to all levels, participants asked to bring own mat as the museum does not own mats. No advanced registration, just sign in when you come to the Museum that day.

1:30 p.m. program

.

Chattanooga Film Festival and the Arts, a Celebration, 5:30 p.m.

Join us as we celebrate film, music and the arts as we welcome the inaugural Chattanooga Film Festival with an opportunity for all to learn more, buy tickets and celebrate this new landmark event. Free to the Public.

5:30 p.m. program

Pre-K Day - Easter

Date: Friday, April 4 from 10 am to 11 am
Ages: 2 to 5 years old
Fees: $8 members, $12 non-members
Instructor: Rachel Veal

Introduce your preschooler to the world of art through monthly visits to the Hunter Museum of American Art. You and your budding artist will explore different themes and holidays through gallery activities and art making experiences.

Click to read more ...

Free First Sunday and Jazzanooga kickoff, 12-4:30 p.m.

Come celebrate jazz, art and our community with Free Sunday and the kickoff of Jazzanooga . We are proud to partner with Jazzanooga for the fourth year of this celebrated community festival. Enjoy tours of our permanent collection, art projects for kids, see our popular exhibition “African American Art: Harlem Renaissance, Civil Rights Era and Beyond” and celebrate National Jazz Month here at the Hunter with special performers THECREATIVEUNDERGROUND, the Undoctored Originals, the Tim Hughes Quartet, the UTC jazz band and the Normal Park Museum Magnet jazz band – all performing throughout the afternoon. Free First Sundays are generously supported by Easy Auto and this afternoon’s performances brought to you by Jazzanooga. To learn more about Jazzanooga go to http://jazzanooga.org/

12-4:30 p.m.

The Word, the Sound and the Image: Meditations on “Harlem Renaissance, Civil Rights Era and Beyond”, 6 p.m.

Join musician, DJ and spoken word poet Christian Collier and other local performers as they bring the paintings in our special exhibition to new meaning and life, performing on themes that travel from the past to the present, from the paintings to the living soul.To sample Christian's work go to Christian Collier

.

6 p.m. program

Artful Yoga - Celebrating Slow Art Day, 1:30 p.m.

Today our artful yoga session is in conjunction with national slow art day, as we slow our pace and explore centering for body mind and soul. Popular yoga instructor Kyle House of Thrive Studio and Hot Yoga Plus joins us again and this time he is joined by Julian King, a DJ also known as Vata, who will be spinning original music created for this event. Once again we will have a guided slow looking at a two pieces from our Smithsonian show led by a Hunter curator, Kyle and Julian to explore the way we must go beyond external chaos to find harmony and peace from within. Then we'll take this inwardness as a way to set our mood for practice in which movement, sound, vision and spirit join in a special sound-enhanced yoga practice in the lobby (or outside weather depending). Open to all levels, participants must bring own mat as the Hunter does not own mats. Registration not required.

1:30 p.m. program

.

String Theory at the Hunter, Art Connection, 5:30 p.m. 6:30 p.m. concert

Enjoy the last of this season's String Theory concerts with works by Brahms and Schoenberg as performed by the Johannes String Quartet, with violist Kim Kashkashian and cellist Marcy Rosen. Evening will begin with Art Connection in the galleries at 5:30 followed by the concert at 6:30 in the lobby.

5:30 p.m. Art Connection, 6:30 concert

Buy Now

Art + Issues: A Community on the Way to Heaven, 6 p.m.

Today's Art + Issues speaker is Charles Neal, retired minister of First Centenary United Methodist Church, explores community and faith through the work of George Segal. Just as a man and woman gaze at each other witnessed by the city beyond, so too will we gaze at ourselves, our faith systems and our actual faith and examine and question the meaning of community in our pluralistic nation and explore how religion has often gotten in the way of this goal. Free to all in the community. This is presented in partnership with The AIGA.

6 p.m. program

Click to read more ...

Home School Workshop - The Changing Horizon: Landscapes and Cityscapes

Date: Friday, April 25 from 10 am to noon
Ages: 5 to 13 years old
Fees: $10 members, $15 non-members
Instructor: Rachel Veal

Children ages 5-13 are invited to join the Hunter Museum once a month for thematic Home School Workshops designed specifically for home school learners and their families. Home School Workshops include a themed guided tour, a studio experience and take home resources.

Click to read more ...

Hunter Undergraduate Student Symposium: Race In America, 1 p.m.

The First annual Hunter Museum undergraduate symposium featuring paper presentations from students at regional universities on the topic of race in America. This year’s symposium is held in Conjunction with Current Exhibition “African American Art: Harlem Renaissance, Civil Rights Era and Beyond.” Free to the public.

1 p.m. symposium

Sound and Image: Harlem Renaissance, Civil Rights and Beyond, 6 p.m.

Join UTC Adjunct Professor of Saxophone Clint Schmitt and Hunter curators as they explore the music and visions expressed in the current special exhibition “African American Art: Harlem Renaissance, Civil Rights Era and Beyond.”

6 p.m. program

Free First Sunday, 12-4:30 p.m.

Bring your family for a free day of gallery exploration and art making experiences for the kids. Today we will also celebrate spring training with some period Ball Park style organ music. All Free Sundays generously supported by Easy Auto.

12-4:30 p.m.

Click to read more ...

Art Wise: Distinguished Speakers at the Hunter Presents Lalla Essaydi, 6 p.m.

Join us for the next in our distinguished speaker series as the Hunter welcomes artist Lalla Essaydi. An artist of Middle Eastern descent known for her images that blend Islamic Calligraphy with images of the female body, her work can be found in major museum collections worldwide. Essaydi's "Odalisque" is an important contemporary work in the Hunter's collection that has intrigued and haunted many of our guests. On this night we will have a chance to learn more about this piece and much more. The Art Wise series is generously sponsored by the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Tennessee Community Trust with additional support from Sally and Thomas Faulkner.

6 p.m. program