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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 MTSUARTFESTIVAL@GMAIL.COM 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 Beholding ME: Video Artworks from the Middle Eastern Diaspora on exhibit through October 10. The exhibition presents a dynamic group of video artists from the Middle East and surrounding…
Mark your calendars for a lecture and illustration demonstration by Jessie Lin Wednesday, September 14, 2022. at 6 p.m. via Zoom! https://www.jessielin.net/ Jessie is an award-winning illustrator from Shanghai, China. She works in various artistic fields, including editorial, advertising, surface design, children’s books, and more! Lin works in traditional and digital formats and…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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
Summer Noise Exhibition: Paintings by Jered Sprecher – Todd Art Gallery, Todd Hall, Room 224A
Professor of Painting, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, School of Art
Exhibition Dates: August 23 – September 11, 2021
Visiting Artist and Reception Date: Thursday, September 2
Jered Sprecher – Visiting Artist Itinerary
“My work is based in an eclectic aesthetic. My paintings extract elements from the high and low of visual culture. This culture and crush of images is in constant flux. My paintings hold no single allegiance but are constantly shifting from one form of representation to another. The paintings function as sources of both inductive and deductive image-making processes. In our day-to-day life, one is seldom afforded the time to comprehend what one is viewing under the barrage of images produced by humankind. I try to grasp a single moment, a glance, a small epiphany. The paintings are haptic documents of these remnants of communication as each one follows its trajectory.”
9 – 11 a.m. – Meetings with upper-division studio students *(15 minutes each)
11 – 11:45 a.m. – Lunch
11:45 a.m. – Noon – Set-up for Todd Art Gallery Keynote Talk with Q&A and PowerPoint Presentation
Noon – 12:45 p.m. – Todd Art Gallery Talk, Todd Art Gallery, Room 224A
12:45 – 1 p.m. – Q&A portion of Talk
1 – 2 p.m. – Artist Reception, Todd Art Gallery, Todd Hall, Room 224A
Artist Statement
As an artist, I make paintings that exist in the sliver of space between abstraction and representation. I look to the lived daily experience of the present coupled with the artifacts of the past. My work compresses time into the surface of painting, that old technology. Increasingly flora, fauna, and natural phenomena hold my attention as I wrestle with this imagery that we daily experience through our technology. Birds, plants, flowers, stones, and fires dissolve into the light of the screen, the digital lens, and the glowing tablet. There is something elegant and tragic about the evanescent light of the screen pressing the image of a delicate flower into one’s memory. Light, flower, and technology are here and also fade away.
Questions: Sisavanh.Houghton@mtsu.edu
MTSU’s first 15-hour challenge in partnership with Nashville’s Mythos Pedals
The Challenge will revolve around the creation of an original illustration that will be printed on a Mythos 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! We’ll watch movies, listen to music, and hang out for the day and into the evening as we finalize our submissions.
All participants will reconvene the following morning for winner announcements. The winner will receive $200.00 and a free guitar pedal with their artwork printed on it. Paper flyers with more information are available outside Professor Tony Rodriguez’s office in Todd Hall, Room 215.
Details:
Work Time: 8 a.m–11 p.m.—Friday, November 5, 2021
Winner’s Announcements: 11 a.m.—Saturday, November 6
Where: MTSU, Todd Hall, Room 337
Eligibility: All MTSU Students are Welcome
Questions: Tony.Rodriguez@mtsu.edu
Magic happens when nature and the imagination combine into something that lightens your heart and brings a sweetly soft joy. Whether it’s the little nook in the tree that could hide a baby dragon or fairies dancing on a brook, the design and beauty of nature can be found in every corner of our world and it drives our imaginations. Jennifer’s work is focused on that wonder and draws attention to the beautiful details of life through visual storytelling.
Jennifer is an award-winning, published fantasy-based illustrator. Her work has been used in advertising for New Mexic BioPark’s Run for the Zoo and has received accolades for her team projects in marketing and animation.
Demo Location: Todd Hall, Room 343
When: 12 p.m., (Noon), Friday, September 17, 2021 CDT
See more of Jennifer’s Work
Examples: 
Held in Todd Art Gallery, April 19–30, 2021, CARRY ON was a compilation of senior capstone projects for the B.F.A. Graphic Design class of 2021. Art and Design faculty members for Carry On included Assistant Profeesors Sheri Selph and Stefanie Cobb.
April 17-May 1, 2021
210 Gallery, Todd Hall, Room 210
This exhibit showcases the illustrated works composed by Art and Design’s current senior class. You’ll see works ranging from surface design, editorial illustration, logo design, book illustration, and more!
Participating Seniors include Marianna Ford, Morgan Gill, Bethany Dillon, Manny Martinez, Austin Davis, Sara Davis, Kierra Colquitt, and Amber Puls.
Additional students involved are Maggie Strahle, Sylvia Lee, Ellen Everett, John Puryear, and Taylor Lane.
Art 4940 | Special Topics: Gallery Practicum
A museum studies course that combines the classroom study of exhibition practices with hands-on experience in Todd Art Gallery and area museums.
Questions: Nancy.Kelker@mtsu.edu
Register: Detailed Class Information (mtsu.edu)
