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  • Graphic Design BFA Seniors complete a Capstone Thesis Project 

    Graphic Design BFA Seniors complete a Capstone Thesis Project 

    Graphic Design BFA Seniors complete a Capstone Thesis Project 

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  • Graphic Design BFA Students participate in a Professional-to-Student Portfolio Review

    Graphic Design BFA Students participate in a Professional-to-Student Portfolio Review

    Graphic Design students meet creative industry professionals at The Department of Art & Design’s Portfolio Review. (above) Students work independently in studio space and collaboratively in a variety of methods and media to gain career-building skills and experience. (below)

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  • Special Recognition for MTSU Department of Art and Design and TODDartgallery 

    Special Recognition for MTSU Department of Art and Design and TODDartgallery 

    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 cooperative, East Tennessee State University’s Curators Karlota Contreas-Koterbay…

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  • Common Grounds Artist Lecture Series

    Common Grounds Artist Lecture Series

    presented by the Middle Tennessee State University Department of Art and Design Find Past Lectures on our Common Ground YouTube Channel This lecture series, presented by Middle Tennessee State University’s Department of Art & Design, highlights specific voices from diverse backgrounds, cultures, and life experiences. MTSU instructors handpick all guest lecturers, and although topics vary,…

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  • Sketch to DeStress

    Sketch to DeStress

    A Special MTSU Department of Art and Design, Todd Art Gallery Saturdays At Todd event. Presented by the College of Liberal Arts! For complete details and to join Zoom, visit, Questions: Douglas.Dabbs@mtsu.edu

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  • Biennial Symposium

    Biennial Symposium

    Department of Art and Design Faculty #MTSUart @MTSUart Wednesday, February 5 – As a concluding event to the department’s Biennial 2024, faculty from the various areas of Art and Design reflected on their work from the exhibition and, more broadly, on their artistic motivations and philosophy with a strong component of Q&A for an invigorating…

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  • BIENNIAL 2024: A Department of Art and Design Faculty Exhibition

    BIENNIAL 2024: A Department of Art and Design Faculty Exhibition

    #MTSUart @MTSUart 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…

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  • 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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  • John English

    Join Assistant Professor Tony Rodriguez and Illustration legend, John English for 2 hours of conversation over Zoom. John English is an illustrator and the founder of Visual Arts Passage and the director of the ever-prestigious Illustration Academy, the birthplace of many of today’s modern day illustration masters. In this Zoom session, John will walk…

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  • Justin Benford

    Justin Benford

    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, 11:30amWhere? 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…

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Physical Address

542 Old Main Circle

Murfreesboro, TN 37132

Phone

Department: 615-898-2455

Gallery: 615-898-5532

Email

Department: Jimmy.Mumford@mtsu.edu

Gallery: Gallery@mtsu.edu