Arts Center adds folklorist

The Arts Center of Cannon County announces the addition of Evan Hatch as staff folklorist. The center is located at 1424 John Bragg Highway, just west of the town of Woodbury.

Hatch comes to ACCC from the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi where he earned a master’s degree in Southern studies with emphasis on documentary photography and oral history. This position is funded during its initial period by a Folk and Traditional Arts Infrastructure Initiative grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.

The folklorist’s duties will include expansion and updating of the Crafts Directory of Cannon County, fieldwork in that county and rural Middle Tennessee focusing on white oak basket-making and chair-making traditions, cataloging and archiving existing research and documentation and programming a traditional music series.

The Arts Center is open Monday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. For more information concerning the addition of Hatch to the center’s staff or upcoming performances by area actors call 615-563-2787 or 1-800-235-9073.