Art and Design News and Events 

Special Recognition for MTSU Department of Art and Design and 

2024 Award of Excellence Recipient

During the Tuesday, March 19, Awards Dinner of the Tennessee Association of Museums, the MTSU Department of Art and Design’s Todd Art Gallery was awarded a 2024 Award of Excellence for the collaborative effort involving the traveling exhibition, Crafting Blackness: Black Bodies Making Form. As a collaborative, East Tennessee State University’s Curators Karlota Contreas-Koterbay, Karen Sullivan, and the Tipton and Slocumb Galleries share this award with Tennessee Craft, Tennessee State University’s Hiram Van Gordon Gallery, and MTSU. We are most grateful for this special recognition to our Curators, fellow exhibition spaces, the artists of Black Bodies Making Form, and the Tennessee Association of Museums!

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BIENNIAL 2024: A Department of Art and Design Faculty Exhibition

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Biennial 2024 Poster, Images, top to bottom, left to right: Ambrose Prince, The Sheep Man; Joshua Lynn, Bubble; Nick Satinover, Time is a Distance 8; Sisavanh Phouthavong-Houghton, Fields of Red Anemone Blooming; Kim Dummons, A Conversation Across Time, Posthumous Collaboration with John T. Scott; Kathleen O’Connell, Character Flaw: Denial, Blissful Ignorance, Worrier; Kelsey Duncan, Roxana; Tony Rodriguez, The Andy Warhol Diaries; Background, Staff.

Biennial 2024

MTSU Art and Design proudly presents Biennial 2024: An MTSU Art and Design Faculty Exhibition. This showcase resides in the Todd Art Gallery in Todd Hall, room 224A, and is open until December 14, 2024.

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2024 ‘Boro International Festival

MTSU ART

Come celebrate the diversity of middle Tennessee with international music & dance, arts & crafts, food & games! Parking and admission is free.

11 a.m–5 p.m., Sunday, September 29, 2024 | MTSU Student Union Courtyard | 1768 MTSU Blvd., Murfreesboro, TN | FREE PARKING

For more details visit:

or email your questions concerning participation please contact Tena Bailey at IAEExperience@gmail.com

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Justin Benford

MTSU Illustration

We’ve got another cool artist on board to chat and demo for ya this semester! 

Join Assistant Prof. Tony Rodriguez and Justin Benford for a character design talk and LIVE digital painting demonstration over Zoom (or attend in-person in room 337)

When? Monday October 7, 11:30am
Where? Todd, room 337

Email Tony.Rodriguez@mtsu.edu for Zoom Link

Benford’s credentials:
– Character designer and illustrator at Ripple Effects
– Art director and artist on a short film titled ‘Lucid’
– Book cover illustrator on Chance Calloway’s ‘Pretty Dudes’

More on Instagram at MTSU Illustration