Students and faculty from Shanghai University visiting the School of Art in March
Twelve students and two professors from Shanghai University's School of Film and Television are spending three weeks in Knoxville as part of the UT-Shanghai University exchange program. They will be collaborating with UT students and faculty to produce a series of digital video pieces.This project is a continuation of last summer's mini-term course: Shanghai Video Art when eight UT students and one faculty spent three weeks at Shanghai University. A public screening of the video pieces is scheduled for 6:00 P.M. on Friday, March 23rd at the International House.
Art History student's research accepted into the NCUR
Senior Art History major Sara Gibson was one of two UT undergraduate students accepted into the 21st annual National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR). Gibson's paper, "ON HERITAGE AND TRADITION: THE DUAL NATURE OF PALMER C. HAYDEN'S ART," examine the work of African American artist, Palmer C. Hayden (1890-1973). She will read her paper on April 13th, 2007 at Dominican University of California who is hosting the NCUR this year.
UT Printmaking Exhibit opens in India
The exhibition “Amreekan Curry” showcases 45 original prints by 3 faculty and 12 students from the University of Tennessee opens at two venues in India from November 1-28, 2006. The exhibition is organized by Shaurya Kumar, a 3rd year M.F.A. student at the University of Tennessee and Amit Kumar Jain, curator of Delhi based foundation Navsar, graduates from College of Art, New Delhi.
A delegation of 9 people will be visiting India to attend the exhibition and represent the university, and will also present lectures and give technical demonstrations in the India Habitat Center and M.S. University, Vadodara. A 24 page color catalogue designed by graduate student Eleanor Dickinson is being printed in conjunction to the exhibition with the support of the American Center, New Delhi.
The exhibition will be held from November 1 to 10 in the India Habitat Center, New Delhi and will then be shown at the ABS Lanxess Gallery, Vadodara, Gujarat from November 10 to 28, 2006.
For a pdf of the catalogue, please visit http://art.utk.edu/printmaking/AmreekanCurry.html
Graduate student featured in the 14th Seoul Space International Biennial for Prints
Third year graduate student in Printmaking Shaurya Kumar's print "Guernica" has been selected for the 14th Seoul Space International Biennial for Prints this year. The exhibition was held from September 7 to October 8, 2006 at Seoul Museum of Art, Korea. In addition, the curator and artist Don Goede, also the editor for Soft Skull press, has invited Kumar to participate in a show that he is curating called "Reimagining Guernica". It is an international exhibition to be held from November 1st at Smokebrush Gallery, Colorado Springs, Colorado. The print will be published in a book called "Reimagining Guernica" edited by Goede and will be on book stands in October 2007.
Printmaking Graduate Student Awarded Juror's Prize
Sukenya Best, third year graduate student in the School of Art's Printmaking program, received the third place juror's award at the national juried exhibition, "Migrations of the African Diaspora." The exhibition was held at the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts from May 5th to August 20th, 2006. Best's winning entry was a 2' by 4' monotype, entitled "Many Lives Were Affected," produced at the UT School of Art Printshop.
Darrin Ekern (M.F.A. Ceramics '06) opens solo exhibition
Darrin Ekern (M.F.A. Ceramics '06) will hold a solo exhibition of his large-scale ceramic sculpture at Wofford College's Martha Cloud Chapman Gallery in Spartanburg, South Carolina.Ekern's work evokes the disparate images of industrial design and archaeological discovery. Many of the pieces are interactive, inviting the viewer to set them in motion. The exhibition will run from August 31-October 20, 2006.
New endowment established in memory of Betsy Worden (B.A. '57)
Betsy Worden (B.A. '57), painter, tapestry weaver, teacher and a Knoxville civic leader, unexpectedly passed away on January 19, 2006. In memory of her lifetime contributions to the arts, her husband, Stuart Worden has established the Betsy Worden Endowment in Printmaking. It is the donor's intent that this endowment remain open for future gifts. The income from this endowment will be used to provide support for the students and faculty in the Printmaking Program. This gift will continue Betsy's legacy in supporting the fine arts in the community and at the University of Tennessee.
Art History faculty awarded Newhouse Fellowship
Assistant Professor of Art History Alexis Boylan
was awarded a Newhouse Fellowship from the Newhouse Center for the Humanities at Wellesley College, Massachusetts. Dr. Boylan is a specialist in the history of American Art. This one-semester fellowship will enable her to concentrate working on her book project on the art of the Ashcan School. Dr. Boylan's article, "Neither Tramp nor Hobo: Images of Unemployment in the Art of the Ashcan School" was just published in the journal Prospects, Vol. 30.
Jered Sprecher: New Paintings at OSP Gallery
Boston, MA - osp gallery is pleased to announce a solo exhibition of recent paintings by Jered Sprecher. New Paintings will be on view from May 3 - June 3, 2006.
While Jered Sprecher describes himself as a hunter and gatherer of visual culture, his paintings often give the impression of pure abstraction; they are intuitively simplistic and reflective of Sprecher's familiarity with the legacy of modernism. Beyond this, however, is a vast collection of sources. Sprecher isolates various pieces of banal visual information, fragmenting, altering, and distilling elements to their visual core. The original image fluctuates and often appears abstracted, caught in mid-evolution. In a broader sense, Sprecher aims to provide commentary on the lost heredity of images that we take for granted. The result is a playful tension between part and whole, abstract and real, intuition and observation.
Sprecher has had recent solo exhibitions at GFL Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; Wendy Cooper Gallery, Chicago, IL; and Olive Tjaden Gallery at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY; and has been included in group exhibitions at ADA Gallery, Richmond, VA; Arthouse, Austin, TX; and Wendy Cooper Gallery. In fall 2005 he was included in Next Next Art at the Brooklyn Art Museum, which was curated by Dan Cameron of the New Museum. An upcoming exhibition at ADA Gallery will also include several of Sprecher's paintings. An opening reception will be held on Friday, May 5 from 5:30-7:30PM. For additional information, please contact Steven Zevitas at 617.778.5265 (ex.22).
Anita Jung: New SGC President
Anita Jung, McClung Berry Endowed Associate Professor of Art was elected to serve a two year term as President of the Southern Graphics Council at the conference business meeting held April 7th at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
http://www.southerngraphics.org/nominations.asp
http://www.southerngraphics.org
UT alumnus featured in the Whitney Biennial
The Whitney Biennial is widely acknowledged as the most prestigious survey exhibition of contemporary American art. Kelley Walker (BFA '92 in Studio Art-Printmaking) is included in the Whitney Biennial this year: http://www.whitney.org/www/2006biennial/artists.php?artist=Walker_Kelley
A solo exhibition of Walker's work is currently on view at the Paula Cooper Gallery. You can read a review in the Village Voice of his exhibition here: http://www.villagevoice.com/art/0610,saltz,72400,13.html
Kelley Walker is the second UT alumnus represented in recent Whitney Biennials. Wade Guyton (BA '95,College Scholar, majored in Fine Arts and Cultural Theory) was included in the last Whitney Biennial in 2004. Wade Guyton currently has a solo exhibition at the Friedrich Petzel Gallery in New York: http://www.petzel.com/index_guyton.html
Faculty elected president of National Council of Art Administrators.
Paul Lee, Professor and Director of the School of Art, was elected president of the National Council of Art Administrators during their recent conference in Providence, Rhode Island. Lee has been on the board of NCAA and served as secretary for the past two years. The National Council of Art Administrators is an organization for deans and department heads from university art programs in the US, Canada and the UK.
Prof. Beauvais Lyons interviewed by Polish print magazine Gazeta Malarzy Poetow on his role in organizing the international printmaking conference, IMPACT IV, in Berlin and Poznan, Poland.
To read the article in pdf format: Gazeta Malarzy Poetow
Prof. William J. Dewey published an exhibition catalog for the Montgomery Museum of Fine Art.
William J. Dewey, Associate Professor of Art History, has curated an exhibition and written the accompanying catalogue, "Africa Celebrates the Art of Living: African Art from the Collection of Dileep and Martha Mehta," for the Montgomery Museum of Fine Art. In conjunction with this exhibition, Dr. Dewey will present a lecture on Sunday, September 25th at 3:00 P.M. The exhibition will be on view from September 2005 until July 2006.
Sculpture undergraduate Matt Alexander received Honorable Mention from the International Sculpture Center
Matthew Alexander of Knoxville, Tennessee is named an honorable mention in the 2005 International Sculpture Center "Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award." Matthew is a BFA student in the School of Art's Sculpture Program. The International Sculpture Center (ISC) established the annual "Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award" program to recognize young sculptors and to encourage their continued commitment to the field. This year a record number of 340 students from 130 universities, colleges and art school sculpture programs from four countries participated. Nineteen winners and nineteen honorable mentions were selected from the pool. They will be featured in a future issue of the ISC's awarding winning publication, Sculpture magazine.
UT School of Art graduate student awarded fellowship from the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.
Hao Chov, second year graduate student in the painting program is among the twenty-two artists chosen to receive the Skowhegan Fellowship. Founded in 1946, the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture is an intensive nine-week summer residency program for emerging visual artists. Neither a "school" in the traditional sense nor a "retreat," the program seeks to create the most stimulating and rigorous environment possible for artistic creation and interaction by providing a concentrated period of work, created with the critical assistance and camaraderie of a distinguished faculty of Resident and Visiting Artists.
1,427 applicants competed for sixty-five residency spots this year. The 4.5% acceptance rate made Skowhegan one of the most competitive residency programs in the country. From these sixty-five residents twenty-two were awarded the Skowhegan Fellowship. Alumni often report that the intensity of the Skowhegan experience has had a profound effect on their work and their lives. In order to allow others entry, no artist is allowed to return for a second summer. It is a once-in-a-lifetime experience.
Hao Chov is an MFA candidate in the painting program at the University of Tennessee. She was born in Battambang, Cambodia and grew up in Chattanooga. She graduated from the University of Tennessee in Chattanooga in 1998.
Second School of Art faculty in four years awarded prestigious NEH
Fellowship
Prof. Dottie Habel was awarded a fellowship from the National Endowment
for the Humanities. This competitive fellowship will be used
to support Dr. Habel's research on the urban building process in mid-17th
century Rome. This project extends Dr. Habel's earlier work, The
Urban Development of Rome in the Age of Alexander VII (Cambridge,
2002) by focusing not on the pope as mastermind, but on the process
of building the city. Dr. Habel is the second School of Art faculty,
in the past four years, who was awarded a fellowship from the National
Endowment for the Humanities. In 2001, Dr. Amy Neff was awarded
a NEH fellowship for her project, Mary at the Crucifixion: Compassion
and Birth.
Printmaking professor awarded grant to organize international conference
Prof. Beauvais Lyons, UT's Ellen McClung Berry Professor of Art, has received a $10,000 grant from the Trust for Mutual Understanding to support his role as conference coordinator at the IMPACT 4 International Printmaking Conference to be held in Sept 2005 in Poznan, Poland, and Berlin, Germany. More than 400 delegates from 20 countries will attend. For more information on the IMPACT 4 conference go to: http://web.utk.edu/~imprint
