Mary Campbell, associate professor in the UT School of Art, has been named a Lindsay Young Professor. Campbell is a scholar of American art history and has published with numerous university presses such as Oxford University Press, Yale University Press, Routledge, and the Yale Journal of Law and Feminism. Her current research is focused on […]
Lori Terjesen (BA art history ‘01) was promoted to chief programs officer at the National Women’s History Museum. Emily Janowick (BFA ‘13) was selected as one of the Sharpe Walentas Studio Recipients for 2026-27. Eliza Frensley (MFA ‘25) spent the past winter in South Korea as a resident printmaking artist at Print Art Research Center and Naughty Muse Studios. […]
During the 2025-2026 academic year, the School of Art welcomed three new assistant professors: Bucky Miller in photography, Zoe Weldon-Yochim in art history, and Katie Mahalic in time-based art and cinema studies. Recent faculty honors include the following:
The UT School of Art enriches the lives of students and the Rocky Top family through transformative experiential instruction, innovative artistic and cinematic practice, and groundbreaking art historical research. Your gifts help build our programs and fund visiting artists and scholars. In the past year alone, they have helped fund the visits of: Plus, in […]
Undergraduate and MFA students are earning recognition and gaining practical experience on campus and off. Cinema studies student Emma Brown was selected for a competitive paid internship with Omaha Productions, Peyton Manning’s company, in Los Angeles. Second year ceramics MFA student Lindsay Skvarek’s work Global Warming: Meltdown was featured in the 2026 National Council on […]
Abigail Lucien, who received her MFA in Studio Arts from the University of Tennessee in 2017 (with a concentration in Printmaking) is currently presenting Blood of the Earth, a one-person exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago curated by Irene Sunwoo, the John H. Bryan Chair and Curator of Architecture and Design. The exhibition opened […]
This annual newsletter celebrates the professional and life achievements of our students, alumni, faculty, and staff. We are proud of our record of creative activity, and grateful to have our graduate program recognized as 3rd among public universities by U.S. News and World Report
