Chattanooga Is Home

I got this email today, announcing the DVD release of a Chattanooga-based documentary. I replied to Mary, the email sender, if I could post this and she replied with an enthusiastic “SURE!”

One Road, a documentary short on the story of The Passage public art project is now available for sale for $12.95 plus tax at A Novel Idea bookstore at 38 Frazier Avenue and the Chattanooga Regional History Museum at 400 Chestnut.

This movie, now available on dvd, made its world premiere at the Harvard Design School this spring, and locally at the Hunter Museum of American Art. It was produced by local filmmaker Mary Barnett and written by Ann Coulter, and makes a great stocking stuffer or corporate gift for the holiday season! All proceeds go the Native American Fund at the Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga.

The Passage at Ross’ Landing at Chattanooga, Tennessee is the largest and most significant public art installation of contemporary Southeastern Native American art in the United States. Created by a team of 5 Cherokee artists in Oklahoma, the art in The Passage teaches import lessons about how public art can create places of meaning, memories, healing, joy and wonder.

One Road is an independently produced documentary short that tells the story of how the artists symbolically returned to their ancestral homeland in the Tennessee Valley, and how a city came to terms with its past by creating a powerful interpretation of the history of Ross Landing.

[tags]Chattanooga, Ross’ Landing, documentary, The Passage, Mary Barnett, Ann Coulter, public art[/tags]