STILL! An Exclusive Dinner & Tour in Historic Cumberland Gap, TN

602 Colwyn Street,Cumberland Gap TN 37724

30 April, 2021

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Join The Guardians of the Gap and artist Caroline Hatfield for an exclusive preview tour & dinner in historic Cumberland Gap, TN! Exciting things are coming to Cumberland Gap, TN thanks to a successful collaboration between the town and local artist Caroline Hatfield. This partnership was facilitated by a newly formed non-profit in town called Guardians of the Gap whose mission is to preserve the history and spirit of the town, protect cultural and natural resources, and promote movement and tourism in Cumberland Gap, TN. The project concept, “Still: Cumberland Gap,” is a cross-sector public art project funded by South Arts Organization with support from the National Endowment for the Arts. With their cross sector impact grant, the project team is creating an engaging, thoughtful, and relevant artistic experience that calls folks back to remember and learn about where they are. multi-stop tour through the town of Cumberland Gap that allows participants to move between different important sites. Each site will host a sculptural memory touchstone that serves as an entry point to reading, listening, and learning more about the lived experience of the historic town. Rather than referring to this as a walking tour, the team calls it a moving tour to be more inclusive in imagining the ways people might move from site to site. “We want everyone to be able to participate in this experience and have chosen our sites to align with that mission,” they say. The artist, Caroline Hatfield, brings a deeply rooted sense of place to the project. Her orientation toward landscape, story, and metamorphosis brings a valuable offering. The artistic component of this project will focus on the material narrative of the town and how that story parallels the lives lived there. As someone raised here, the creeks, mountains, and ridges around Cumberland Gap formed Hatfield’s earliest concepts of horizon, landscape, and geography. In her work on this project, Hatfield will reach backward and forward through time, visually, materially, and conceptually, in order to understand the natural and human history that brought us to our present moment as a community. Buy your ticket today for this exclusive event that includes a sunset STILL tour, guided by artist Caroline Hatfield, followed by an impressive private dinner on the streets of Cumberland Gap, TN hosted by Chefs Edward & Bernadette Ungrue of the new Nineteen19 Grill & Bar. Come be one of the first guests in the region to enjoy Nineteen19’s fine food and music alongside Gap Creek and in the shadow of Cumberland Mountain.