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teaching artist Allison Bencar working with students

Q&A with Allison Bencar, TPAC teaching artist

We check in with Allison Bencar to discuss how she’s staying busy and why it’s important to keep the arts alive during this time.

Students seated in a classroom

Q&A with Alison Brazil, TPAC teaching artist

Singer, dancer, musician, artist, teacher. All of these describe Alison Brazil, one of the dozens of teaching artists who create and lead arts-centered learning through TPAC’s education programs in schools.

Teaching artist and teachers engage students

Teaching artists play leading role in creative learning

In a lively preschool classroom in Nashville, children eagerly pick up their pretend paint buckets and use imaginary brushes to paint triangles, circles, and squares in the air. They follow the lead of Holly Cannon-Hesse, one of dozens of teaching artists who play a leading role in TPAC’s educational outreach.

Education & Community

Innovative TPAC programs create opportunities for the arts to change the community and influence life and learning in significant ways.