2023 FATE (Foundations in Art: Theory and Education) Conference Art and Design Lecturers Houston Fryer and Jennifer Seo presenting their proposal Session 50, “I Don’t Get It And It Makes Me Feel Weird: Understanding conceptual art with emotional intelligence”  

Every two years FATE holds a national conference for college-level instructors in Art Foundations and Art History to present, share, and discuss ideas on how to teach well. FATE members can attend, have access to network information, and present at the biennial conference. For more information on FATE visit: https://www.foundationsart.org/home 

Fryer and Seo submitted a proposal as co-chairs for our presentation noted above and the MTSU Department of Art and Design is pleased to announce their inclusion in the 2023 FATE conference in Denver, Colorado. The upcoming conference is at the point where it is accepting papers for the 62 total Sessions, of which Fryer and Seo’s is 50 in the PDF of Sessions

Visit the complete list of Sessions: Call for Papers (FATE 2023) (mtsu.edu)

Visit Fryer and Seo’s Session Proposal: FATE.pdf (mtsu.edu)

GUITAR PEDAL ILLUSTRATION CHALLENGE II

IN COLLABORATION WITH NASHVILLE’S MYTHOS GUITAR PEDALS

MTSU’s second 15-hour illustration challenge in partnership with Nashville’s Mythos Pedals is this Fall 2022! Register by filling out your name and email on the registration sheet outside Todd, Room 215. The deadline to register is 11/1/22.

The challenge will revolve around creating an original illustration that will be printed on a guitar pedal and then sold as a limited run of pedals to guitar players all over the globe. Students will produce their illustration submissions within a 15-hour window for a shot at victory! Also, we’ll watch movies, listen to music, and hang out for the day and into the evening as we finalize our submissions. (You can also work from home if you’d like).

All participants MUST reconvene in Todd Hall, Room 348, the following morning for winner announcements. The winner will be PAID $200.00 and receive a FREE working guitar pedal with their artwork printed on it!

For more information, take a flyer from the paper holder outside Todd Hall, Room 215.

Work time: Friday 11/4 8:00 am – 11:00 pm

Winner announcements: Saturday 11/5 – 11:00 am

Where: MTSU Todd Hall, room 348

Eligibility: All MTSU students welcome (vector drawing mandatory)

Questions: Contact Professor Rodriguez at Tony.Rodriguez@mtsu.edu  

Join the MTSU Department of Art and Design, 2–2:45 p.m., Wednesday, August 31, 2022, for a Reception and Artist Talk. Many of our participating professors will be on hand for you to speak and visit. Also,  our new Chair, Jimmy Mumford will speak briefly and offer a period of Q&A for attendees to discover our latest plans, events, and activities!

The MTSU Department of Art and Design is pleased to announce an exhibition of selected works by its professors entitled Biennial 2022: A Faculty Exhibition. Scheduled in the Todd Art Gallery, Todd Hall, Room 224A, faculty work opens the department’s fall show calendar and is available to the public from August 22 to September 10, 2022.

Representing the department’s course areas of Art Education, Foundations, Graphic Design, Illustration, and Studio Art, which includes Ceramics, Painting, Print Media, and Sculpture, the Biennial showcases a unique fusion of art from the department’s many components. Those participating include Erin Anfinson, Michael Baggarly, Stefanie Cobb, Doug Dabbs, Kimberly Dummons, Kelsey Duncan, Houston Fryer, Jarrod Houghton, Sisavanh Houghton, Noël Lorson, Mark McLeod, Paige Medlock, Jimmy Mumford, Jean Nagy, Melissa Newman, Kathleen O’Connell, Tony Rodriguez, Nick Satinover, Gypsy Schindler, Sheri Selph, and Stephanie Simkin. The exhibit is multi-purposed in its presentation. On a basic level, it introduces the artwork of newer faculty to Art and Design students, MTSU’s campus, and the larger community. And concurrently, it showcases the continuing artistic pursuits of the department’s more senior professors. Thus, it offers attendees a full range of opportunities to witness a striking and expressive statement of contemporary visual art found at MTSU.

As a focused student endeavor, this exhibit intends to engage its viewers, whether university students or lifelong learners, in what Dr. Paige Medlock, Art Education, sees as visual art’s cultural significance. It] creates a space where viewers can pause, reflect, and shift the way they see themselves, their context, the artwork, and the artist’s context, and potentially allow a new perspective to shed light on thinking and being in the world.

A reception for Biennial 2022 is scheduled for 2–2:45 p.m., Wednesday, August 31, at Todd Art Gallery, MTSU Todd Hall. Art and Design’s new Chair, Jimmy Mumford, is set to speak, offering his observations on the exhibit, his personal artistic philosophy, background, and participating in Q&A.

Are you a new or transfer student to the MTSU Department of Art and Design? Join this mandatory meeting Wednesday, August 32, 2022, from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. The location is Todd Hall, Room 204. Questions? Email Erin.Anfinson@mtsu.edu 

Join MTSU Department of Art and Design for this Semester’s Artist Lecture Series, Common Ground. Presting artists include Imen Yeh, Dana SanMar, and Emmett Hobbes. Select a button below for details and Zoom Meeting information.

Imen Yeh—Project-Based Fine Artist, February 9, 2022

Imen Yeh

Dana Sanmar—Illustrator and Graphic Designer, March 2

Dana Sanmar

Emmett Hobbes—Comic Book Artist, April 6

Emmett Hobbes

For more information:Lecture Artists

Lecture and Discussion with Art Capstone* featuring Alum Beizar Aradini

11:25 a.m.–2 p.m., Tuesday, November 17, 2021

Todd Hall, Room 354

All are Welcome to Attend this Free and Open Event

*Art Capstone – An Art and Design course that focuses on public practices related to art-making, such as interdisciplinary critique, presentation, research methodologies, and self-analysis. Students create artwork in response to their critical inquiry and present it in a group exhibition at the course’s conclusion.

Beizar Aradini (b. 1991) was born in Mardin, Kurdistan, and immigrated to Nashville, Tennessee, in 1992. Her work unravels her family’s story as immigrants and examines cultural displacement through craft and fiber arts. Aradini has been featured in many exhibitions nationally and in Bê Welat: The Unexpected Storytellers at nGbk Gallery in Berlin, Germany. Her artwork has also been exhibited at the Frist Art Museum as part of the We Count: First-Time Voters exhibition, which received an Award of Excellence from the Tennessee Association of Museums. In addition, her work was featured in local publications such as Four Women Artists Reflect on Peoples and Places in the Nashville Scene and The Ties That Binds in Native Magazine. In 2021, she was awarded Best in Show of Tennessee Craft 2021 Biennial at the Tennessee State Museum. Recently, Aradini was selected as an artist-in-residence at Arquetopia International Artist Residency and completed an Andean Textile and Weaving workshop during her month-long stay in Urunamba, Peru.

ART SCHOLARSHIP SALE

More Info: Art Scholarship Sale

10 a.m–3 p.m., Wednesday and Thursday, November 3 and 4, 2021, Todd Hall, Second Floor, Near Center Stairwell

Proceeds benefit participating artists and the Department of Art and Design’s Student Scholarships

Join us for this 12th annual event that celebrates works from the department’s students. faculty, alums, and staff.

The Graphic Design scholarship created by Ollie Fancher is the only private scholarship for Graphic Design majors. With the majority of our students receiving some form of financial aid and working to pay for their college education, the need for private scholarship support is crucial in the success of our students.

Over $5,000 in matching dollars have been received in support of the Ollie Fancher Scholarship allowing you to double the impact of your gift. In addition, any contribution will help the scholarship reach the permanent endowment level.

Support future Graphic Design majors today by making a gift to the Graphic Design scholarship created by Ollie Fancher.

To donate, visit Give to the Ollie Fancher Scholarship or scan the QR Code below with your phone camera. 

Sell your work and make some money! Or, shop from local artists as we roll into the holidays!

2–5:30 p.m., Wednesday, October 27, 2021, MTSU Student Union Commons

Follow the event as it unfolds @FallArtFestival