Tullahoma Art Center Kills Annual Arts Festival
After 42 years, the end has finally come to the Tullahoma Fine Arts Center's annual arts and crafts festival. The center has nixed this year's event, which was held each May on the front lawn of the South Jackson Civic Center.
According to Troy McFarland, TFAC president and CEO, the festival was cancelled because "what they had for years, just did not work."
Instead, McFarland intends to expand the number of artists invited to participate in the 41-A Music Festival. The festival, sponsored by the Highland Rim Kiwanis Club, which McFarland belongs to, is scheduled for September 23 and 24. McFarland started the music festival last year. It is held in downtown Tullahoma.
At last year's art festival, then-TFAC Director Lucy Hollis, announced that the 2011 festival would be even better, because it would coincide with TFAC's hosting of the American Watercolor Society's traveling exhibition and "the society's renown would attract the public."
McFarland said the AWS show planned for this spring has also been cancelled. Tullahoma had been scheduled for the first stop of the 144th AWS Travelling Exhibition. It was to have opened on May 6 and close on June 18.
