by Kathie Tierney

Linda Kerlin, local master artist, will join us as a booth artist for the Arts in the Burg Launch Party Festival on June 26th from 9am – 4pm CST.

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While living in North Caronlina in 2001, Linda put 3,000 miles on her car looking for a new home.

“I didn’t know where to go and I didn’t have a particular spot that I wanted,” she remembers.

At her father’s suggestion, Linda added Marion County to her search, and finally settled on the Kerlin’s current home in Sequatchie.

“I started out as a watercolor artist. I painted only in watercolor for ten years. Then I wanted to get the paint on thicker. One day I thought I would experiment and go to acrylic.”

Decades later, Linda’s quaint art studio, built in 2004, is stocked full of all kinds of media – from watercolors, acrylics and oils, to pencils, chalk, wax and even homemade paper. Linda’s creation are liimited only by her imagination, which is beautifully, seemingly endless.

In a corner of Linda’s studio, there is a section of spectacular creations that Linda somehwo calls her “rejects”. Oftentimes , she will pick one up and play with, finding a new inspiration that wasn’t there weeks or months ago when she last looked at it. Beyond that, if inspiration doesn’t return for that piece, Linda cuts it up and uses the pieces in her amazing collage creations.

“I take a paiting that I don’t really like and cut it up. I recycle old paintings and make them into something else.” Linda explains.

Linda has show her work at several of Chattanooga’s finest art galleries including In-Town Gallery and The Gannon Art Cernter to name just two.

Arts in the Burg is a program of SPARQ

Tennessee Placemaking Partnership

The Tennessee Placemaking Project is a collaborative pilot project between Thrive Regional Partnership, Tennessee Arts Commission, Southeast Tennessee Development, and the Lyndhurst Foundation. The project is designed to support local communities as they scale up strategies that leverage local arts and cultural assets for economic vibrancy and growth throughout the greater Chattanooga region. To learn more, visit www.thriveregionalpartnership.org/projects/tn-placemaking-partnership. 

Thriving Communities

Thriving Communities is a creative placemaking program of Thrive Regional Partnership designed to leverage local arts and culture assets for economic vibrancy and growth throughout the greater Chattanooga region. To learn more, visit www.ThriveRegionalPartnership.org/Thriving-Communities.

Thrive Regional Partnership

Thrive Regional Partnership inspires responsible growth through conversation, connection, and collaboration across the tri-state greater Chattanooga region. To learn more visit www.thriveregionalpartnership.org.

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Arts in the Burg is a program of SPARQ

Tennessee Placemaking Partnership

The Tennessee Placemaking Project is a collaborative pilot project between Thrive Regional Partnership, Tennessee Arts Commission, Southeast Tennessee Development, and the Lyndhurst Foundation. The project is designed to support local communities as they scale up strategies that leverage local arts and cultural assets for economic vibrancy and growth throughout the greater Chattanooga region. To learn more, visit www.thriveregionalpartnership.org/projects/tn-placemaking-partnership. 

Thriving Communities

Thriving Communities is a creative placemaking program of Thrive Regional Partnership designed to leverage local arts and culture assets for economic vibrancy and growth throughout the greater Chattanooga region. To learn more, visit www.ThriveRegionalPartnership.org/Thriving-Communities.

Thrive Regional Partnership

Thrive Regional Partnership inspires responsible growth through conversation, connection, and collaboration across the tri-state greater Chattanooga region. To learn more visit www.thriveregionalpartnership.org.