TN SJR0566

Honors Cristy Dunn, Mountain City native and Executive Director of the Johnson County Center for the Arts, for receiving the Arts Leadership Award as part of the 2025 Tennessee Governor's Arts Awards

Recognizes her creation of Mountain City's Mural Mile, a walking tour featuring 17 murals depicting Johnson County's musical heritage

Credits her co-founding of the Long Journey Home Musical Heritage Festival in 2015 and launching the Johnson County Junior Appalachian Musicians program in 2016

Acknowledges her 2017 founding of the Johnson County Center for the Arts, which now supports over 100 local artists and recently expanded to a larger Main Street location

Notes her service as a board member of Tennesseans for the Arts and her recognition as a nationally exhibited oil painter whose work is archived in the Lunar Codex