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Bonnie Kate Calls Local Artists
📅 Sunday, September 13, 2026
🕐 8:00am – 9:00am 📍 Elizabethton Arts / Theater
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BONNIE KATE CALLS LOCAL ARTISTS INTO THE SHADOWS THIS OCTOBER
Call for Art seeks work inspired by local legends, ghost stories, superstitions and the spooky season
ELIZABETHTON, Tenn. — August 18, 2026 — Got a ghost story? A local legend? Something strange that happened on a back road and nobody has ever quite explained?
The Bonnie Kate Theater wants to see it.
The theater has issued a Call for Art for an October lobby exhibition celebrating local legends, superstitions, ghost stories, autumn and the spooky season. Entries are due September 13, 2026.
Selected work will be displayed throughout October as the Bonnie Kate hosts performances of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Monster Fest, turning the theater’s lobby into part gallery, part ghost story and part celebration of fall in Appalachia.
Artists are encouraged to interpret the themes broadly. Work does not need to depict Sleepy Hollow or traditional Halloween imagery.
The Bonnie Kate is especially interested in work inspired by:
Local and Appalachian legendsGhost stories and unexplained talesFolklore and superstitionAutumn landscapes and imageryMonsters, mysteries and things that go bump in East Tennessee“We want artists to have some fun with this,” said Thomas Townsend, Director of Marketing and Audience Development. “Appalachia is full of stories, legends and things somebody’s grandmother swears really happened. October is the perfect time to bring some of those stories out of the shadows and onto the walls of the Bonnie Kate.”
Call for Art seeks work inspired by local legends, ghost stories, superstitions and the spooky season
ELIZABETHTON, Tenn. — August 18, 2026 — Got a ghost story? A local legend? Something strange that happened on a back road and nobody has ever quite explained?
The Bonnie Kate Theater wants to see it.
The theater has issued a Call for Art for an October lobby exhibition celebrating local legends, superstitions, ghost stories, autumn and the spooky season. Entries are due September 13, 2026.
Selected work will be displayed throughout October as the Bonnie Kate hosts performances of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Monster Fest, turning the theater’s lobby into part gallery, part ghost story and part celebration of fall in Appalachia.
Artists are encouraged to interpret the themes broadly. Work does not need to depict Sleepy Hollow or traditional Halloween imagery.
The Bonnie Kate is especially interested in work inspired by:
Local and Appalachian legendsGhost stories and unexplained talesFolklore and superstitionAutumn landscapes and imageryMonsters, mysteries and things that go bump in East Tennessee“We want artists to have some fun with this,” said Thomas Townsend, Director of Marketing and Audience Development. “Appalachia is full of stories, legends and things somebody’s grandmother swears really happened. October is the perfect time to bring some of those stories out of the shadows and onto the walls of the Bonnie Kate.”
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