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Emmy Award-winner Leslie Jordan comes home to Chattanooga for benefit

"This World and Beyond," an acrylic, ink and salt work by Caitlin Dickens, will be auctioned at Arts for CARES.
"This World and Beyond," an acrylic, ink and salt work by Caitlin Dickens, will be auctioned at Arts for CARES. "This World and Beyond," an acrylic, ink and salt work by Caitlin Dickens, will be auctioned at Arts for CARES.
photo Judith Paul’s “Dogtown” is a mixed-media piece inspired by the demise of the printed page. “It looks like the book is melting and that’s the idea behind it: We are losing books,” she says.

Participating Artists

› Peter Arrowsmith› Kevin Bate› Hollie Berry› Miki Boni› Emily Cristser› Maddin Corey› Caitlin Dickens› Ellen Franklin› Myles Freeman› Khambrel Green› Marian Heintz› Robin Howe› Patrick Ironwood› Michelle Kimbrell› Kenneth Kudulis› Charlie Newton› Iantha Newton› Judith Paul› Carrie Pendergrass› Katie Rogers› Mike Smelcher› Barry Snyder› Susan Thornton› Jennifer Warren

More Info

If you go› What: Arts for CARES› When: 7 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 15› Where: Association for Visual Arts, 30 Frazier Ave.› Tickets: $100› For tickets: https://my.chattanoogacares.org/chattanooga/events/arts-for-cares/e94273.

Although his most current role is a villain in the sixth season of “American Horror Story,” actor Leslie Jordan is coming home to add some levity to Chattanooga CARES’ newest fundraiser.

Jordan is emceeing Arts for CARES, which will include live and silent auctions of art donated by 24 regional artists, performances by Ballet Tennessee and Nicholas Perego, hors d’oeuvres from Beast + Barrel and music by the Booker T. Scruggs Trio.

As far as his role in the sixth season of “AHS,” titled “American Horror Story: Roanoke,” Jordan is being tight-lipped.