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CHATTER Magazine – October 2026
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Photos: Spectrum 2024
Attendees jumped into a 1980s NYC vibe at the Hunter Museum of American Art's annual Spectrum fundraiser. Inspired by the Hunter's graffiti art exhibit, this event blended downtown street-art swagger with its traditional upscale elegance. Guests admired vibrant pieces, bid on auction items, enjoyed a formal dinner and danced to DJ-fueled beats — all supporting the museum's mission to inspire, educate and connect the community through preserving and celebrating American art.
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Chattanooga offers a bevy of biscuits
Few would dispute that biscuits are one of the great icons of Southern cuisine since at least the beginning of the 1800s. But the secret to perfect biscuits is hotly contested: Lard or butter? Milk or buttermilk? Baking powder or soda? (Or both?) Most cooks have a stance, but there's one thing that all biscuits have in common: They can trace their roots to right here in the South and are a staple food that's loved as much as our grits and greens.
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Chattanooga-area’s ‘A Murder of Crowes’ and other tribute bands are really killing it in the music scene
When a group of Dalton, Georgia, rockers coalesced into a Black Crowes tribute band last year, learning the intricacies of the Southern rock band's song book was, well, murder.
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Professionals in Chattanooga are using music therapy to help with a range of emotional and physical issues
The man was not just a guitarist; he was also a songwriter. But a stroke had partially paralyzed him, leaving him incapable of doing either activity.
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Chattanooga-area plein air artists capture the effortless beauty of nature on canvas
When one thinks of an artist at work, perhaps the first image to come to mind is a cramped studio filled with easels and canvases and paints and more. But this isn't the case for plein air artists, whose workspace is the great outdoors. Their studio is as expansive as nature itself, and their work is based on the scene they find spread out before them. Here, meet two Chattanooga-area plein air artists who are capturing the scenic splendor of the Southeast.
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Red Bank vice mayor Hollie Berry is carrying a torch and ‘painting’ with fire
As the vice mayor of Red Bank, Hollie Berry, 37, spends her days navigating local government — but dedicates her spare time to art. While politics is a recent chapter in her life, her love for art began at a young age. From early sketches to oil paintings, her journey led to the distinctive style she's known for: torch painting — a process of burning images into wood using an open flame.
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Chattanooga’s Jessica Kelley is standing tall as the Giant Jelly, a stilt-walking jellyfish
If you ask Jessica Kelley what she enjoys most about stilt walking, she'll probably tell you that the view is really good from up there.
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Chattanooga-based Lovebirdz Rugs offers unique textiles with fun and function
In the studio of Josie Hayslette and Georgia Woodfin, guns hang from the wall. No, not firearms, but rather tufting guns. Hayslette and Woodfin are the couple behind Lovebirdz Rugs, and their guns allow them to make a plethora of rugs in all shapes, sizes and colors.
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Chattanooga old-time fiddler Matt Downer and his wooden puppet take listeners back to the early days of music
Child after child stopped to dance at Rock City during Matt Downer's cozy performance of string-plucking with the help of his tiny, wooden dancing friends.
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Petal peddler: Chattanooga-based Lin Feagans is in the business of flower art and preservation
Lin Feagans loves flowers. She loves their beauty, their form, their versatility. She especially loves how flowers make people happy. She admits that she has her favorites — gerber daisies, spray roses and Queen Anne's lace make the list — if the flower is particularly pretty or easy to work with. But Feagans says there's no flower that she doesn't like.
