Meet Our CGAC Team
MANAGEMENT TEAM
Shelley Wieting
Director
Sue Grana
Director
Jody Kennedy
Director
Laurie Dillon
Director
John Ravnum
Director
SUPPORT OFFICERS
Shelley Wieting
President
Sue Grana
Secretary
Jim Thompson
Treasurer
Doug Fitts
Events
John Ravnum
Facilities
"Art serves to establish community. It links us with others and with the things around us, in a shared vision and effort."
-Gerhard Richter
Mission Statement
The Cumberland Gap Artists' Co-op is a 501C3 non-profit organization established to promote our Appalachian history, culture and works of artists/artisans in our tri-state area of Tennessee, Kentucky and Virginia.
Vision Statement
The vision of CGAC contains three components:
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a community of artists, art/community connections, and education.
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Our community of artists will promote the arts and crafts of all its members by manning the CGAC Gallery, contributing to the CGAC website, participating in Facebook discussions, attending regularly scheduled meetings, and working to organize and facilitate annual festivals.
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To fully activate our vision, the community of artists must fuse their efforts with its community partners/stakeholders, city, county and state governments, local schools, local voluntary organization, businesses, Lincoln Memorial University, and Cumberland Gap National Park. By combining our efforts with other stakeholders, we hope to create an environment that not only welcomes art in all its forms, visual, music, movement, and drama, but will serve as a magnet to visitors to our community making Cumberland Gap a destination for art lovers.
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The final component of our vision is to impart the history and culture of Appalachian art through the use of reenactments and demonstrations of the techniques Appalachian artists, locally and throughout the Appalachian region, use in developing their creations.