PROGRAMS
The Arts Are Good for Business and Good for Chattanooga
Chattanooga’s creative economy is a real economic driver – supporting jobs, attracting visitors, and making our city a place people want to live and build businesses. ArtsBuild works at the intersection of arts and commerce to connect working artists with opportunities and help businesses engage with the creative sector.
ARTS SUPPORTIVE BUSINESSES
ARTS SUPPORTIVE BUSINESSES
Where Creativity and Commerce Come Together
Culture Works connects Chattanooga’s creative sector with the business community, facilitating networking opportunities and celebrating the work between the creative and for-profit business sectors.
ARTS ENTREPRENEURSHIP TRAINING
ARTS ENTREPRENEURSHIP TRAINING
PERISCOPE CHA
Skills and Strategies for a Sustainable Arts Career
Launched in 2023, Periscope is Chattanooga’s first entrepreneurial training program focused solely on the arts sector. The program equips working artists of all disciplines with business skills, tools, and mentorship to build sustainable professional practices. Periscope artists represent a wide range of disciplines.
Join a Cohort
The application deadline for Periscope Class of 2027 is August 7, 2026.
Arts Internships
Opportunity Fellows
Investing in Emerging Arts Professionals
The Opportunity Fellows program places talented emerging professionals in meaningful, paid internships within local arts and culture organizations, creating a pipeline of diverse arts administrators and sector leaders.
Become a Fellow
The Opportunity Fellows application deadline is Tuesday, March 24, 2026.
Digital Access Program
Tech Goes Home for the Arts
Bridging the Digital Divide for Artists and Teens
ArtsBuild partners with Tech Goes Home to help artists and young people access the technology and digital skills they need to participate in today’s creative economy.
Tech Goes Home for the Arts is a 15-hour course designed in partnership with The Enterprise Center for individual artists of any discipline and small arts organizations to become prepared to monetize their online presence and to use digital and social media to connect to their students, audiences, and collaborators online. The course is offered four times a year for adults (over the age of 18) and twice a year for high school students.
Any artist or leader of a small arts organization with beginner level digital and online skills can register. A $50 copay covers 15 hours of online training, online portfolio development and access to professional arts resources. Participants will be provided a Chromebook laptop which is theirs to keep upon program graduation. Low-cost internet options are also available as needed.
For more information, email Robyn Stringfellow at robyn@artsbuild.com.
Register
The registration deadline for Tech Goes Home for Teen Artists is March 31, 2026.
SPOTLIGHT —
Arts Venue Guide
The Arts Venue Guide is a searchable directory of arts-friendly spaces across Chattanooga and Hamilton County. This resource is designed to meet the evolving needs of local artists and features visual arts studios and rehearsal/performance spaces for music, dance, and theatre.
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