"First Responders Fight the Fires and Save Lives", 2022
This collection consists of forty-one works of art created by three graphic artists with ties to East Tennessee. The artwork was intended to give artistic visual interpretation to the oral histories collected as part of the three-year initiative Rising from the Ashes: The Chimney Tops 2 Wildfires Oral History Project, completed in partnership with the City of Gatlinburg and the Anna Porter Public Library. It was created as part of a two-year project funded by the Our Town grant program, part of the National Endowment for the Arts.
Included are twelve 11x14 giclée prints and a small spiralbound notebook with notes and sketches by Danny Wilson, eleven 9x12 pen-and-ink color drawings by Paige Braddock, and eighteen 11x14 pen-and-ink color drawings by Marshall Ramsey.
Two drawings by Charlie Daniel, a longtime Knoxville editorial cartoonist, were included in the printed catalog that documented the artwork and in the digital collection as examples of similar work done around the time of the wildfires in the park.
Dates
- 2022
Conditions Governing Access
Collections are stored offsite and must be requested 5 days in advance. See www.special.lib.utk.edu for detailed information. Collections must be requested through a registered Special Collections research account.
Extent
From the Collection: 1.5 Linear Feet (One flat box) ; (18" x 13" x 3" box)
Repository Details
Part of the Betsey B. Creekmore Special Collections and University Archives, University of Tennessee, Knoxville Repository