ROBERT WINSLOW
THRIVE REGION, 2022 - 2023
Robert Winslow is a filmmaker and journalist from Chattanooga, Tennessee. Since 2014 his Southern Dialogues series has explored the big questions for American democracy through changing the Southern landscape. Through Artist At Work, Rob brought Southern Dialogues into Appalachian coal country for the first time to trace the roots of the climate crisis, and developed a new format for public history. Throughout the year Robert has worked in partnership with his Social Impact Initiative, green|spaces.
Robert aims to tell the story of Chattanooga’s industrial history and how it has affected the city’s relationship to its land and its inhabitants. He hopes to recenter the south in the greater narrative on climate, policy, and the quality of citizen life. He is starting by resharing his early work Southern Dialogues and Dialogues Chattanooga. Next, Robert intends to capture contemporary discourse through interviews and direct engagement with local environmental leaders in policy, infrastructure, and activism via podcast. Later, he would like to consolidate all of this information into a feature documentary whose intent is to inform us about our past, notice how it's not much different from our present, and help us to better understand the history of Eastern Tennessee and recenter the region’s impact to industrial change.
CULTURE HUB
ArtsBuild’s mission is to build a stronger community through the arts. Since 1969, ArtsBuild has served as a catalyst for the arts in our community, investing more than $76 million in arts organizations, arts programs, and arts education. In 2020 alone, ArtsBuild infused $1.4 million into the local arts sector. Everything ArtsBuild does is focused on creating access to the arts. The organization does this through grant-making, arts education initiatives, and arts advocacy.
ArtsBuild serves as a champion for the arts. It aims to showcase the collective impact the arts have on its community, as well as the many ways that the arts improve our quality of life. As a hub for the arts in Chattanooga and Hamilton County, ArtsBuild leads and participates in community-wide discussions and strategies about how to cultivate support for the arts in education, local economy, and tourism. In 2021, ArtsBuild was a finalist for the United Way of Greater Chattanooga “Nonprofit of the Year” award.
For more information, visit artsbuild.com.
SOCIAL IMPACT INITIATIVE
green|spaces is an award-winning nonprofit dedicated to advancing the sustainability of living, working, and building in the Chattanooga region. Their diverse programming leads individuals and organizations from all walks of life through simple, practical, and affordable steps to improve outcomes for the planet, people, and the local economy, working upstream from challenges to help solve multiple problems simultaneously.