Student & Faculty Highlights
Read about School of Art faculty and student exhibitions, film screenings and creative achievements.
Does the Soul Sleep? Paintings from Beyond the Waking World
Adele Ferguson | BFA Student in Painting + Drawing
Zero/Zero in Knoxville, TN
December 5 – 31, 2025
TRI-STAR ARTS: GREETINGS FROM VESTAL V & A Soft Refusal by Chase Williamson
Rachel Sevier Dallery | Lecturer in Ceramics
Chase Williamson | MFA Student in Painting and Drawing
Tri-Start Arts, Knoxville, TN
November 14, 2025 – January 24, 2026
Ethnogenesis at Frieson Black Cultural Center
Richard Mabula | MFA Student in Painting and Drawing
Knoxville, TN
November 5, 2025-January 21, 2026
Global Warming: Meltdown, 2026 NCECA Exhibition
Lindsay Skvarek | MFA Student in Ceramics
Detroit, Michigan
March 25-28, 2026
Impressions and Exposures: A Hand Magazine Exhibition
Mable Ni | MFA Student in Printmaking
Hannah Jordan | MFA Student in Printmaking
SPIVA Center for the Arts, Joplin, MO
November 1-December 31, 2025
Pressure Points
UTK Graduate Printmakers |
Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church Gallery
October 3 – December 3, 2025
“Florentina”: Public Art in Knoxville
Brigit Ciskowski | MFA Student in Sculpture
Knoxville, TN
Unboxed: Rethinking the Grid Exhibition + Wayward Education Exchange Article
Noushin Mousavi | MFA Student in Sculpture
Springfield, Missouri
September 2- October 3, 2025
International Symposium for Visual Culture
Maurice Moore | Assistant Professor of Painting and Drawing
Maryland, USA and Gimpo, Korea
September 10-28, 2025
Denbo Center for the Humanities and Arts Faculty Fellowship
Janelle VanderKelen | Assistant Professor of Cinema Studies and Time-Based Art
Heather Coker Hawkins | Assistant Professor of Cinema Studies and Time-Based Art
Individual Artist Fellowship | Tennessee Arts Commission
Mary Laube | Associate Professor of Painting + Drawing
Faculty Fellowship at Belmont University, Exhibition in Knoxville
LaKesha Lee | MFA Student in Painting + Drawing
Creative Arts Liberation Grant
Maurice Moore | Assistant Professor of Drawing and Painting
Memory to Materials and Objects
LaKesha Lee | MFA Student in Painting + Drawing
The Reece Museum | Johnson City, Tennessee
June 9 – September 19, 2025
Circle Modern Dance Presents: Shadows and Light
Heather Coker Hawkins, Co-Director | Assistant Professor of Cinema Studies and Time-Based Art
Knoxville Museum of Art
June 7, 2025, 7:00 PM