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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…
#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…
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.
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…
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…
Please join us this Monday – Wednesday, April 8 – 10, 15, 2024, Todd Hall, Room 204. Complete schedule and times available at MTSU Senior Symposium – Schedule (google.com) The MTSU Department of Art and Design’s Research Practicum and Symposium are essential components of the academic evaluation process for Art & Design majors studying…
Introduction to Composition This course is designed for beginning and intermediate-level photographers; even the experienced photographer may learn a tip or two. We will look at the fundamentals of the creative elements of photography. You will be introduced to principles and techniques that will create visual interest. The discussion of composition will include the…
Rachel Mindrup | Portrait Painter Noon – Friday, April 12, 2024 Via Zoom Rachel Mindrup is an Associate Professor of Drawing and Painting at Creighton University where she is also the Richard L. Deming, MD Endowed Chair in Medical Humanities. Hosted By Alaina Miller & Sheri Selph Email sheri.selph@mtsu.edu by April…
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 collaborative, East Tennessee State University’s Curators Karlota Contreas-Koterbay, Karen…
November 4, 2023, 10 a.m.–1 p.m. Todd 205 Ages 10+ (students under 18, please register with an adult) Max 12 participants GLASS MOSAICS with Dr. Paige Medlock Images: Left, a young student working in Glass Mosaics; Center, left, Dr. Paige Medlock; Center, right, Art Educators showing off their skills; Right, Glass Mosaics…
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.
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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)
