Members of Chattanooga Theatre Centre’s TheatreQuest check out artists’ work in preparation for tonight’s “Taking It Outside” program at the Hunter Museum. Members Bobbie Burks, T.J. Carson and Annie Collins, in front, from left, admire Richard Hunt’s “Spatial Interactions: Aerographic Forms and Cantilevered Confluence.”IF YOU GOWhat: TheatreQuest’s “Taking It Outside”When: 6 p.m. today, April 25Where: Hunter Museum of American Art, 10 Bluff ViewAdmission: Free to high school students and their parents; $9.95 all othersPhone: 423-267-0968Website: www.huntermuseum.org/events, www.TheatreCentre.com
Young actors and playwrights in the Chattanooga Theatre Centre’s TheatreQuest program will present a series of theater pieces inspired by sculpture in a Hunter Happens program tonight, April 25.
Presented annually since 2005, “Taking It Outside” has become a popular part of the weekly series at the Hunter Museum of American Art. The program combines theater, visual arts and audience interaction in a multigeneration context.
“TheatreQuest members take an art piece and create theater around it,” explains Chuck Tuttle, director of education for the CTC. “The actors make themselves a conduit between art and the audience and maybe change the viewers’ perspective, causing them to rethink the art.”
Adds Adera Causey, curator of education at the Hunter: “I have worked with programs like this with college students and adults in previous museums, but working with these high school students has added a level of excitement and vibrancy to the program. It reflects the wealth of talent and passion of Chattanooga’s theater community here.”