Alumni
We will be posting information about Alumni on the Where Are They Now page as it becomes available.
The 2012 UTK PRINTMAKING ALUMNI REUNION will take place the first night of the SGC International Conference on Wednesday March 14th, 2012, beginning at 9 PMat Lucy's Retired Surfer’s Bar and Restaurant, 701 Tchoupitoulas St., New Orleans, 70130, (504) 523-8995.
Follow this link for the 2012 UTK Printmaking Alumni Renunion Facebook Event Page!
Directions: From the Sheraton, the conference hotel go down Canal Street 2 blocks to Tchoupitoulas St. Take a right and proceed "uptown" 6 blocks to Girod Street. Lucy's is on the corner. Distance: less than half mile (9 minutes).
Support for this event from Debbie and Jeff Chapman.
On the evening of Wednesday March 24th UT Printmaking Alumni
gathered at the Garden of the Arts, Broad and South Street in downtown
Philadelphia on the first night of the SGC conference. The event was hosted
by Laurie Fitzpatrick (BFA 1987) who help found the garden. In total, over
15 alumni were able to attend. Below is a picture of the reunion near the
beginning of the gathering.. For more information, see our Facebook Group site.
On Wednesday March 25th over 15 UTK Printmaking Alumni gathered at Bar Louie in Chicago during the Southern Graphics Council Conference. The UTK Bookstore donated sketchbooks to all alumni attending. The earliest alumnus in attendance was Jamie Gannon (BFA 1987). Our next reunion will be held during the 2010 SGC Conference in March in Philadelphia. Below (left) is a picture of Bryan Baker and Shaurya Kumar and (right) a jam session lead by Koichi Yamamoto. The evening included orange kazoos for everyone and a rendition of "Rocky Top."
Our former MFA and BFA students are pursuing a variety of careers, as independent artists, college and university faculty, freelance and corporate designers, as printers and publishers, and as public school teachers.
One of our recent graduates Shaurya Kumar (MFA 2007) is an Assistant Professor of Art at the University of New Mexico. Kelley Walker (BFA 1995) was represented in the 2006 Whitney Biennial. Josh Smith (BFA 1998) is reviewed in the summer 2006 issue of Artforum. Mark Hosford (MFA 2001) is an Associate Professor of Art at Vanderbilt University and the juror of the 2006 Southern Printmaking Biennial at North Georgia College and State University.
Our current alumni spotlight is on Ericka Walker (MFA 2009), Assistant Professor at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. To read more, CLICK HERE.
For a list of alumni from our program, see the Where Are They Now section of this website.
Alumni in printmaking are encouraged to send updated information to Beauvais Lyons at blyons@utk.edu. Be sure to include your name, the year you graduated, and a current email address. You are welcome to submit additional information such as an address, a work or personal URL, etc. We will be posting this information on the Where Are They Now page as it becomes available.
Master Printer Deborah Chaney (BFA, 2000) works at the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop in New York City. Here she is editioning a print as part of their Guest Printmaker Program.