MTSU Department of Art and Design and Todd Art Gallery (TAG) Present
Fall 2025 Senior BFA Studio Art Exhibition
The MTSU Department of Art and Design announces the Fall 2025 Senior Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A.) Studio Art Exhibition, showcasing the culminating work of Charles Elwell, Dawn Fós, Chloe Keef, Tanya Sharma, and Aliyah Shuman.
The exhibition will run from November 17 to December 3, 2025, in the Todd Art Gallery, Todd Hall, Room 224A, with an opening reception at 6 p.m. on Monday, November 17. The event is free and open to the community.
These emerging artists have developed their final bodies of work under the mentorship of MTSU’s Studio Art faculty, including Assistant Professor of Ceramics Kelsey Duncan, Professor of Painting Sisavanh Houghton, Professors of Print Media Kathleen O’Connell and Nick Satinover, and Associate Professor of Sculpture Michael Baggarly. Their guidance has helped shape each student’s artistic voice, technical advancement, and professional readiness.
The exhibition’s Todd Art Gallery TAGline— Exit Through the Studio! —honors the creative momentum these students carry as they depart the academic environment and step into their evolving careers.
For gallery hours, parking information, and accessibility details, visit mtsu.edu/art.
Image: Fall 2025 Senior BFA Studio Art Exhibition, design, Charles Elwell, gallery staff. Participating students include Elwell, Dawn Fós, Chloe Keef, Tanya, Sharma, and Aliyah Shuman
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You are invited to experience history in a new light.
Sourced from The Daily News Journal and The Murfreesboro Union collections at the Rutherford County Archive, this exhibition transforms vintage advertisements into powerful new narratives through painting, fiber arts, mixed media, and video installations.
Artists Frank Baugh, Chrissy Crater, Kelly Herbert, Devin Lamp, Victoria Richardson, and Hannah Weakley recontextualize archival fragments to reveal new meanings, examining everyday imagery and commercial design as mirrors of shifting ideas about identity, community, and cultural values. Each work blends memory, imagination, and aesthetics to breathe new life into the past.
The exhibition also features pieces created in archival arts workshops across schools and libraries, highlighting the power of collective storytelling and creative engagement with local history. Together, these works remind us that archives are not static records of the past but dynamic resources for questioning history, generating new narratives, and envisioning different futures.
Archives aren’t shelves for yesterday; they’re
springboards for tomorrow.
Art in the Archive, Buttons, Kelly Herbert
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Opening April 19, 2025, 1–4 p.m.
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A spirit of giving that defines an initiative.
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Join the MTSU Department of Art and Design for our bi-annual event each fall and spring semester. Explore a collection of donated artwork at Todd Hall, perfect for personal use or gifting. Contributions are encouraged with suggested donation amounts for each piece. Proceeds support the Art and Design Student Scholarship Program and participating student artists.
Scholarship Roundup – !0 a.m.–4 p.m., Tuesday – Friday, April 22–25, 2025. Todd Hall, Second Floor adjacent to the main stairwell.
