If you look around Chattanooga, it’s hard not to be impressed by the sheer volume of creativity sitting on market tables and shop shelves, decorating homes and businesses, hanging on gallery walls and clothing racks. There’s art in the theater, the jewelry box and the pages of a children’s book. Chattanoogans are making, sewing, melting, building, welding, drawing, painting — creating. Whether they use kiln or canvas, brush or blowtorch, wick or watercolor, there are so many artsy people doing so many ingenious things in every possible medium — from soap to knits.
Here’s a look at just a few of them.
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