Our Mission: Integrating arts and business for the benefit of our region. Create Appalachia’s goal is to make the Appalachian Highlands a better place to live and work through innovation and entrepreneurship centered around the arts and technology. We are working to support an environment that will generate new businesses that provide jobs in the arts, and encourage graduates from our colleges and universities to stay in our community. We want to help grow a strong, 21st century creative industry in Northeast Tennessee. CREATE APPALACHIA is a civic & social organization company based out of Johnson City, Tennessee, United States.