Department of Art and Design

Art That Moves. Design That Matters.

Faculty Art Work

Fall 2026

Thank you for taking a moment to view artwork by our faculty, from the 2026 MTSU Art and Design Faculty Biennial: A Showcase of Creative Practices
Read more on the Biennial
Gallery Calendar

Our faculty not only teach but are also artists! Click on an image to enlarge it and view details of the artwork.

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Tony Rodriguez | Harmanos Guiterrez
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Kimberly Dummons | 1000x
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Kathleen O’Connell | Sketchbook Pages with Patterns
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Kathleen O’Connell | Sketchbook Pages with Patterns, detail
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Kimberly Dummons | She
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Tony Rodriguez | Napoleon Dynamite
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Sheri Flournoy Selph | Digital Research Poster for UCDA Design Education Summit
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Tony Rodriguez | The FP
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Ambrose Prince | Untitled
Memento: Eastern Comma: Artist statement panel for Memento: Eastern Comma, describing a decorative mourning wreath inspired by the Eastern Comma butterfly and made with naturally sourced materials. The text connects biodiversity loss, threatened woodland and prairie ecosystems, and the use of encaustic-infused paper and ash collected from a prescribed prairie burn.
Erin Anfinson | Memento: Eastern Comma Artist Statement
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Erin Anfinson | Memento: Eastern Comma
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Mark Mcleod | Burn Twice
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Donald Guevara | Big Iron
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Mark Mcleod | Parallel Playthings
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Jarrod Houghton | Innocence Armed
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Kate Kinder | Remembering
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Joshua Lynn | Positive Integer
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Kelsey Duncan | Dionysus Study: Oceanus Crystalline Series
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Noel Lorson | Line Up, Buttercup
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S. Camille Comer | Do I Have to Surrender
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Kate Kinder | Untethering
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Chelsea Moulder | A Higher Level of Care
Artist statement panel titled “Helicopter (Slow Rotation),” explaining how the slowly rotating mechanical sculpture uses an exaggerated phallic form and exposed machinery to critique masculine bravado, dominance, and the exhausting performance of manhood. Branded with Todd Art Gallery and MTSU Art and Design logos.
Michael Baggarly | Helicopter Artist Statement
Detail of a mixed-media helicopter sculpture showing a red rotor blade attached to an exposed metal motor housing, with wires and a power cord hanging against a white gallery wall.
Michael Baggarly | Helicopter, detail – Content may be found offensive by some viewers, select image to view
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Nick Satinover | Petaluma Meander
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Melissa Newman | Untitled: Assorted 2025-2026 Collages
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Jake Wells | Wavelength
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Melissa Newman | Untitled: Assorted 2025-2026 Collages
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Nick Satinover | Petaluma Meander (2)
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Melissa Newman | Untitled: Assorted 2025-2026 Collages
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Melissa Newman | Untitled: Assorted 2025-2026 Collages
Whispers of Hope: Artist statement panel for Whispers of Hope, an oil painting series comparing modern military drones with predatory birds. The text describes pixelated images of warfare in Ukraine and Gaza, presented across small boards to examine surveillance, dehumanization, fragmented narratives, and the human cost of war.
Sisavanh Houghton | Whispers of Hope Artist Statement
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Sisavanh Houghton | Whispers of Hope
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Jake Wells | Waverider
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Stephanie Simkin | Making/Thinking
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Holly Strickland } Care Stories – A Reproductive Storytelling Website
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Melissa Newman | Untitled 2025-2026 Collages
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Stephanie Simkin | CMD/SHIFT/RETURN
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Jimmy Mumford | Ashes of Memory
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Kimberly Dummons | Studies
Confined: Abstract mixed-media artwork with layered paper, wood-like brown strips, grid patterns, and a shadowy, curled organic form in muted blue, black, green, and white.
Noel Lorson | Confined
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Jimmy Mumford | Unmapping Histories
Contortion: Abstract print featuring tangled teal mesh-like forms twisting across overlapping orange circles on a pale yellow background, displayed in a white frame.
Kimberly Dummons | Contortion
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Ambrose Prince | Untitled
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Stephanie Simkin | First, Laundry, Then Revolution
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Stephanie Simkin | First, Laundry, Then Revolution, detail;
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Kelsey Duncan | Ocenus Study, a collaboration with MTSU alumnus, Jacob Nuss
Written in letters of blue and black: 2026 MTSU Art and Design, Faculty Biennial, Showcasing Faculty Creative Practices

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