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MTSU Art and Design | April 12, 2025
A Lecture Presentation by Sara Abdoh, Spring 2025 Visiting Professor
MTSU Art and Design | August 16, 2025
A Quick Reference Guide to the Department’s Student Scholarships
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…
Please RSVP to Noel.Lorson@mtsu.edu to confirm your participation.
KATE MOORE
ART PRODUCER ILLUSTRATION AGENT
Join Professor Rodriguez to chat with art producer and illustration agent Kate Moore. Kate will educate us on her experiences as an agent and art producer in the advertising, editorial, and book illustration realms. Kate will also provide helpful information on how aspiring illustrators can procure illustration agents.
Notable Clientele:
As an art producer, Kate has worked with clients like Hasbro, Crown Royal, Royal Caribbean, Wright Watchers, Smartwater, Panera, Budweiser, the History Channel, HBO, Apple, and more!
When? October 31, 3 p.m. CDT
Where? Todd Hall, 3rd floor, Room 333
Hosted by Assistant Professor of Art and Design Tony Rodriguez
For Questions, contact Tony.Rodriguez@mtsu.edu
Join faculty from the MTSU Department of Art and Design along with CLA Advising for this open scheduling two-day event.
Questions: Jennifer.Tweedie@mtsu.edu
Join Art and Design Assistant Professor of Illustration Tony Rodriguez as he guides Zoom attendees through the next Common Ground Artist Lecture Series with Illustrator and Visual Development Artist Elise Hatheway.
With over a decade of experience in the animation industry, Hatheway currently resides in Dallas, TX, and recently concluded movie work with Netflix on “Thelma the Unicorn.” Her other film credits include “Maya and the Three,” “Lego Movie 2”, “Book of Life,” “Free Birds,” and “Rock Dog.” Additionally, she has worked with several award-winning studios, including Disney, Warner Bros, Animal Logic, Reel FX, Gaumont Animation, and Tangent Studios. Currently, you can find her working at Paramount Animation on Spongebob Squarepants.
If you’d like to participate in this call with Elise, contact tony.rodriguez@mtsu.edu by Thursday, April 13, 2023, for meeting links.
Common Ground is an ongoing series that highlights exciting and inspiring success stories from artists with diverse backgrounds, cultures, and life experiences.
Still from Netflix’s Maya and the Three by Elise Hathaway
Art and Design Transfer Student Club
Interest Meeting
4 p.m., Wednesday, October 19, 2022, Todd Hall, Room 204
Questions/Contact: Denise.Hathaway@mtsu.edu
Congratulations to our UCDA Design Award student Silver and Excellence winners!
From the University & College Designers Association (UCDA): A wide range of talent was represented among the entries, and the judges evaluated 775 print and digital entries, awarding 151 awards—13 Gold Awards, 27 Silver Awards, and 111 Awards of Excellence. These annual awards honor the best work in educational design—in print, digital, illustration, photography, and student competitions. These coveted awards are judged by a hand-picked panel of peer jurors composed of designers, design educators, photographers, and illustrators working in or doing a significant portion of their work for educational institutions—they understand the environments you create. https://www.ucda.com/awards/
Award: Silver
Ben Moss
Vital Frontline
Award: Excellence
Ellen Everett
Poetry People Campaign
(Senior Capstone Project)
Award: Excellence
Maggie Strahle
Facing Home – Book Design and Book Promo
Award: Excellence
Cassidy Bidwell
The Hallow Social Exhibit
The judges also selected additional pieces to receive an Honorable Mention. Congratulations to these students as well!
Although not part of the UCDA Design Awards Show, the judges felt several of our entries should receive recognition:
Award: Honorable Mention
Cassidy Bidwell
ARTEMISIA / french cuisine + absinthe lounge
Award: Honorable Mention
Jania Boddie
DEFIANT: How the Black Skateboarding Community
has Influenced Fashion and Culture
Award: Honorable Mention
Evangelina Stephens
Better Bean: Cocoa for Change
Award: Honorable Mention
Evangelina Stephens
Into the Wilderverse – Campaign to bring new visitors to the National Parks
Winners will have their work displayed and recognized at the UCDA’s conference in Santa Ana Pueblo, New Mexico, in October and receive a certificate after the conference. If you see these students around, please congratulate them. And thank you for all you have done to contribute to their successes.
The MTSU Department of Art and Design proudly announces a new addition to our site. Check out Dr. Laura Cochrane’s Explorations in the history and art of books and printing.
For more, visit: https://bookartsandhistory.blog
ARTISTS WANTED
Are you interested in selling your artwork?
Then, be a part of the MTSU Art Festival Saturday, October 22, 2022, in collaboration with
‘BORO INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL
For Details, Visit: @MTSUARTFESTIVAL
Submit Your Work
Spacing Limited, Apply by October 5, 2022
Email to Submit
4 p.m. – Friday, September 30, 2022, join us in the Todd Art Gallery, Todd Hall, Room 224A, for a reception to celebrate
on exhibit through October 10.
The exhibition presents a dynamic group of video artists from the Middle East and surrounding Diasporas to explore issues of gender, politics, colonialism, culture, and identity through videos and documentaries. In addition, the exhibition aims to analyze and reconceptualize the existing narratives of Middle Eastern communities in the United States.
Curator: Mohammed Meerzaei
Exhibition Dates: Wednesday, September 21 – Monday, October 10, 2022
Todd Art Gallery, Todd Hall, Room 224A
Department of Art and Design | MIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY
Curation Liaison: Raheleh Filsoofi
Exhibition Sponsors: MTSU Department of Art and Design/Todd Art Gallery, MTSU program in Middle East Studies, MTSU Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Vanderbilt University Department of Art, Vanderbilt University Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities.
Image Center: My Existence is Political, detail, Bezair Aradini
Exhibition Sponsors: MTSU Department of Art and Design/Todd Art Gallery, MTSU program in Middle East Studies, MTSU Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Vanderbilt University Department of Art, Vanderbilt University Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities.
Participating Artists: Bezair Aradini, Nuveen Barwari, Farhad Bahram, Sarah Brahim,
Ronnie Karfiol, Habiba El-Sayed, and Setareh Ghoreishi
Background Image: Nikita Chisnikov, detail