Our International Market & More Series Launched with Día de Todos los Santos on October 26th!

The heart of our latin community was celebrating in East Lake Park from 11am to 4pm this year for our 4th annual Día de los Santos celebration. Participants enjoyed amazing food, music and art made by our Latin American neighbors and friends. Huge thanks to everyone who came out!

Our market events are free and fun for everyone!

Also known as "All Souls Day", this special holiday celebrates and provides space for us to fondly celebrate loved ones that had an impact on our lives.

The History of the International Market
Art 120 began this journey by organizing the first Día de los Muertos Market for Chattanooga eight years ago. Right before Covid hit, they expanded their cultural outreach in order to provide opportunities for Chattanooga’s refugee and new American populations to sell their art, crafts, and food. This not only supports Chattanooga’s burgeoning entrepreneurs, but also helps create networking and deeper understanding by sharing their awesome food, music and culture with the greater community. This is Art 120’s fourth season of International Market events. Special thanks to the Tennessee Art Commission, the City of Chattanooga and Reagan Outdoor for their continued support.


Next Market Stop: December 7th for Pirates on Main!!!! Vendors: Click here to register.

Art 120 Summer

Our summer was full of great activities for kids. The Jingle Truck visited children at seven Bethlehem supported youth camps from Red Bank to Glass Street. Thanks to our partners at Friends of the Festival, we provided a creative pop up station at two of their summer concerts. Together we reached over 250 kids.

The Urban Art Bike Program was also going strong this summer. We had five kids who worked with artists Ondina Aguirre and Gaz Gazzola to build a Jelly fish art bike. During teacher training, the teachers worked with Kate Warren to build a cicada bike. They were exhibited at the Library’s Maker Day and you can expect to see them delighting people around town in the future.

Year in Review - 2024 Recap

Despite short obstacles, Art120 maintained healthy progress in local project and event outreach this year, even landing some firsts for the record.

Improvements include:

  • Outcomes

    • WeMake local artist and student participation increased by over 20%, in addition to the introduction of a new performing arts award category

    • International Market and More artist participation increased by 2% 

    • Increased number of Art Teacher Makerspace training workshops and school visits

    • Contributed to the first annual celebration of Irish and Hispanic Heritage Months

  • Impact

    • International Markets and More Events saw immense improvement, including:

      • introduction of new vendors & artists 

      • largest artist lineup yet

    • Art Teacher Makerspace Training enables teachers to acquire knowledge on digital art, potentially impacting 4,469 students county wide. 

Get a Specialty Plate!

Did you know the best art cars run on Specialty License Plates? Not only do they look great but every plate supports art programs like ours. Get yours today!

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Thank you, Chattanooga Choo Choo, We had Fun!

Thanks to some amazing kids, we have made three cool trophies so far and plan to show up at more events as we get closer to the We Make Festival. Stay Tuned!

See you for the
PiEs of March
Next Year!

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Art 20 Highlights