Kingsport Art Guild provides opportunities to the community to study, practice, and exhibit the visual arts and promotes interest in the arts to the general public. The Guild manages an art gallery located on the 2nd floor of the Kingsport Renaissance Center. The gallery features exhibitions on a rotating basis of fine arts, fine crafts and photography from area artists and is open to the public weekdays, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. The Art Guild also offers art classes for children and adults in a variety of media, weekly "paint-in" sessions, and various competitive art shows including the Appalachian Art Show held each April.
www.kingsportartguild.org/
423-246-1227

 

Kingsport Cultural Arts Division The City of Kingsport's Cultural Arts Division offers a range of services including concerts (indoor and outdoor), special events and fitness classes. Offices are on the second floor of the Kingsport Renaissance Center. The facility serves the community as a center for the arts, senior citizens activities and can be rented for business meetings, parties, receptions, showers, classes, and seminars.
www.kingsportparksandrecreation.org
423-392-8416

Kingport Ballet is a classical ballet school and company with a Vaganova curriculum. The organization is directed by ballet mistress and artistic director Valeria Sinyavskaya and presents The Nutcracker the first weekend in December and a full-length ballet such as Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty and Coppelia each spring. Students also perform in a Spring Concert each May as well as in various education outreach and collaborative community performances. A yearly summer workshop is held in July, featuring master teachers from around the world. The organization is housed in a spacious, renovated facility with mini-theatre in downtown Kingsport.
www.kingsportballet.org
423-378-3967

Kingsport Theatre Guild In continuous operation since 1947, Kingsport Theatre Guild is one of the oldest community theatres in Tennessee. Kingsport Theatre Guild offers a year-round schedule of musicals, dramas, comedies, thrillers and children's theatre, including some curriculum-related school day performances for school groups. Volunteer performers and technicians work closely with theater professionals and staff to ensure high-quality productions and valuable educational experience for all who participate.
www.kingsporttheatre.org
1200 East Center Street, Kingsport, TN 37660
PHONE (423) 392-8427
FAX (423) 392-8427

Symphony of the Mountains The 2006–2007 season marks the sixtieth year of symphonic music for the Northeast TN – Southwest VA region. From its beginnings as a small, volunteer community orchestra performing in school auditoriums and gymnasiums to its growth as a professional symphony, drawing musicians and patrons from a 100-mile radius, Symphony of the Mountains has always had the musical enrichment of the entire region as its primary goal.

This musical enrichment includes compelling classical concerts, entertaining pops and light music offerings, captivating soloists, and empowering opportunities for young musicians.
www.symphonyofthemountains.org/
423-392-8423