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Special Recognition for MTSU Department of Art and Design and TODDartgallery

April 6, 2025

At the 2025 Tennessee Association of Museums Annual Conference in Knoxville, MTSU’s Todd Art Gallery (TAG) was honored with a Certificate of Commendation during the March Awards Dinner. This special recognition celebrates Perceptions of Reality, the Department of Art and Design’s most recent annual collaborative exhibition, curated by Dr. Barbara and Mr. Leroy Hodges. The exhibition uplifts the voices and visions of artists of color through powerful visual narratives and lived experiences across cultures and disciplines. Todd Art Gallery is grateful to the Tennessee Association of Museums for acknowledging the importance of this work and its role in fostering dialogue, representation, and community through the arts.

2025 Tennessee Association of Museums Certificate of Commendation for Perceptions of Relity
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Decoding a Civilization: Exploring Ancient Egyptian Life Through Art
Ancient Egyptian imagery for Sarah Abdah lecture Decoding a Civilization, Exploring Ancient Egyptian Life through Art

MTSU Art and Design | April 12, 2025

A Lecture Presentation by Sara Abdoh, Spring 2025 Visiting Professor

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MTSU Art and Design Student Scholarships
2026 Deadlines for Art and Design Student Scholarships

MTSU Art and Design | August 16, 2025

A Quick Reference Guide to the Department’s Student Scholarships

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Graphic Design Senior Show
Lexicon Lane Graphic Design Show of primarily golden orange and green with the look or a suburban setting

MTSU Art and Design | April 10, 2025

The Town of Lexicon Lane Welcomes You @mtsuseniorshow | April 10, 2025 MTSU Graphic Design Capstone, the town of Lexicon Lane, welcomes you! April 19–26 | MTSU Todd Art Gallery, Todd Hall, Room 224A Opening April 19, 2025, 1–4 p.m. See the artwork of Quinn Allen • Bri Anderson • Joy Blohm • Luke Byrum…

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Medieval Art in London:

Art, Architecture, and the Medieval World

MTSU Study Abroad | May 16–30, 2027

Explore London’s medieval past through its extraordinary art, architecture, and historic treasures!

Join MTSU Art History Professor Dr. Laura Cochrane for a CCSA study abroad experience featuring visits to Westminster Abbey, the Tower of London, the British Museum, and other historic landmarks. Students will explore medieval manuscripts, architecture, bookbinding, and artistic traditions through hands-on learning and visits to world-class collections.

Earn 3 credit hours in Art History, available at the undergraduate or undergraduate Honors level, while discovering centuries of artistic and cultural history.

Application Deadline: February 5, 2027

Learn more at CCSAStudyAbroad.org or contact Dr. Cochrane at Laura.Cochrane@mtsu.edu.

Image: 1 – Promotional flyer for Medieval Art in London, a Summer 2027 CCSA study abroad program led by MTSU Professor Laura Cochrane. Features London's Houses of Parliament and Big Ben alongside illuminated medieval manuscript illustrations. Highlights for visits to historic landmarks, museums, and hands-on medieval art experiences.
Image: 2 – Follow-up promotional flyer for Medieval Art in London, a Summer 2027 CCSA study abroad program led by MTSU Professor Laura Cochrane. Features London's Houses of Parliament and Big Ben alongside illuminated medieval manuscript illustrations. Highlights for visits to historic landmarks, museums, and hands-on medieval art experiences.

Medici Women

Marriage, Sex, and Power in the Renaissance

The Women Behind the Renaissance

Thursday, November 5, 2026 | 4 p.m.
Todd Art Gallery, Todd Art Building, Room 224A | MTSU
Free and open to the public

Behind the masterpieces and the powerful Medici dynasty were women whose marriages, ambitions, and influence helped shape Renaissance Italy. Join MTSU Professor Suzanne Sutherland for an engaging exploration of the Medici women, revealing how they navigated family expectations, political intrigue, and personal challenges to preserve wealth, exercise influence, and shape history.

Presented by Todd Art Gallery as part of Behind the Art. Beyond the History.

For more information: ToddArtGallery@mtsu.edu | 615-898-5532

Decorative Renaissance-inspired poster announcing “Medici Women: Marriage, Sex, and Power in the Renaissance,” featuring MTSU Professor Suzanne Sutherland. Two classical paintings illustrate the lecture, including a reclining Renaissance woman. The free public event takes place Thursday, November 5, 2026, at 4 p.m. in Todd Art Gallery, Room 224A, at MTSU. The lecture explores the often-overlooked roles of Medici women in shaping family wealth, political power, marriage alliances, and Renaissance art collections.

Emergent Forms: The Shape of Becoming

Explores Material Transformation Through Contemporary Sculpture

A group invitational exhibition curated by artist Tashina Marie brings together seven artists whose work pushes material beyond its expected roles through sculpture and wall-based practices.

Presented in conjunction with the Mid-South Sculpture Alliance (MSA) exhibition Fiction and its opening, Emergent Forms expands the celebration of contemporary sculpture through a diverse group of artists working across glass, photography, encaustic, ceramics, paper, collage, found materials, light, and mixed-media practices.

Michelle Meadow, In Finding Her Parts She Discovered She Had Always Been Whole: Sculptural form with an orange, flowerlike center surrounded by curling black wings or leaves marked with yellow and iridescent blue.
Michelle Meadow | Finding Her Parts
Carolyn King, Bearing Witness; Holding the Light: Portrait of a woman with blue hair and a patterned face, holding one hand before a star-filled circle. Palm leaves and warm orange shapes frame her.
Carolyn King | Bearing Witness: Holding the Light
Linda L. Anderson, Codex Sylva: Open, folding artist book with textured covers, images of wooded landscapes, and a painted tree trunk spanning its central panels.
Linda L. Anderson | Codex Sylva

The exhibition features work by Linda L. Anderson, Abigail Corman, Chelsea Moulder, Carolyn King, Michelle Meadow, Jarrid Scott XII,  and S. Manya Stoumen-Tolino.

Rather than organizing the exhibition around a shared medium or visual style, Marie approached Emergent Forms through a common question: what happens when artists allow materials to move beyond their conventional functions and become something unexpected?

“These artists ask what becomes possible when material is released from the boundaries of what it has been told it should be. It becomes a vessel for something freed from expectation. In that space beyond convention, material and form become sites of transformation, where the familiar can give way to something not yet defined, and possibility remains open-ended,” said Marie. “Form becomes less a finished condition than something continually in the process of becoming.”

Emergent Forms: The Shape of Becoming opens October 16, 2026, at 210 Gallery in Todd Hall at Middle Tennessee State University. An opening reception will be held Saturday, October 17, at 2:00 p.m., in conjunction with the opening of the MSA’s exhibition across the hall in Todd Gallery.

Exhibition Details

Emergent Forms: The Shape of Becoming

Curated by Tashina Marie
October 16–November 4, 2026
Opening Reception: Saturday, October 17, 2:00 p.m.
210 Gallery
Todd Hall, Middle Tennessee State University
542 Old Main Circle, Murfreesboro, TN 37132

Driving Directions to the Todd Art Building and the adjacent Jones Lot.

1512 Military Memorial

Murfreesboro, TN 37132

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