Interest Groups

RAA interest groups are intended to encourage collaboration, education, and networking in particular areas of interest. These groups, most of which began forming in 2020, meet in person or virtually 3 – 4 times per year to

talk about ways that group members can support each other,
ways RAA can support the group,
share ideas and resources,
and possibly plan and conduct workshops or other events that serve group members or represent the group in the greater community.

If one of these groups sounds enticing to you, please contact the leader and/or check out further links below - groups have various ways of communicating.

If you’re interested in forming a group not presently listed, contact us. Group leaders are asked to provide an update to the RAA board on the first Monday of March, June, and September of each year.

Arts Advocacy / Community Relations

Leadership TBD; contact us if you’re interested to learn more about this opportunity!

Arts in K-12 Education

Lindsay Halford, HalfordL@rcschools.net
Click arts-ed-events for events; arts-ed-news for news

Culinary Arts

Leadership TBD; contact us if you’re interested to learn more about this opportunity!
Click culinary-events for events

Dance

Lee Anne Carmack, jlcarmack@gmail.com
Click dance-events for events; dance-news for news

Film/Photography

Gale Stoner; gale@galestoner.com

Literary Arts

Kory Wells and Taffeta Chime
korywells@gmail.com; TaffetaChimeWrites@gmail.com
Click lit-events for events; lit-news for news; or join the RutherfordLit Facebook group

Music

Jeffrey Keever, keeverjeffrey@gmail.com

Theatre

Leadership TBD; contact us if you’re interested to learn more about this opportunity!
Click theatre-events for events; theatre-news for news

Visual Arts

Eric Snyder and Troy Cheairs
Eric.snyder@mtsu.edu; legacyink@gmail.com
Click call-for-artists for news; visual-arts-events and call-for-event-artists for events