Prism, Summer 2025
Artists Visit the School of Art
Artists Visit the School of Art
Polish printmaking exchange students Łucja Bańkowska and Julia Blaszczyk visited the School of Art this fall as part of a long-standing exchange program with the Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Art and Design in Wroclaw, Poland. During their time in Tennessee, they exhibited a show, “Who Turned the Light On?” at Gallery 1010 in downtown Knoxville. […]
Faculty Work on Exhibit, Earning Recognition
Faculty Work on Exhibit, Earning Recognition
Assistant Professor of Cinema Studies and Time-Based Art Heather Coker Hawkins’ short dance film Gravity Wins (2022) was screened at the 2024 Movies by Movers Film Festival in Durham, North Carolina. It also enjoyed official selection at the University & Video Association Conference juried screening and at the Raleigh Film & Art Festival. Printmaking Professor […]
Alumni Earn Accolades
Alumni Earn Accolades
Marta Lee (’14) received a 2024 Rema Hort Mann Foundation Emerging Artist Grant. Printmaking MFA alumna Mary Climes (’21) was awarded the 2023-2024 Outstanding Teacher Award at the University of Wisconsin-Stout. Printmaking alum Danqi Cai (MFA ’23) was awarded a $10,000 Practicing Artist Grant by the Mid-America Arts Alliance’s Artists 360 program. Manifest Gallery’s (Cincinnati, […]
Students Shine with Scholarships, Exhibitions
Students Shine with Scholarships, Exhibitions
The School of Art presented nine students with Kimberly D. Iles Scholarships this academic year: Sara Caoile, painting and drawing; Adele Ferguson, painting and drawing; Elle Hoytt, cinema studies; Abbie (Bea) Moore, photography; Rachel O’Donnell, sculpture; Grace Russell, printmaking; Benjamin Sechrest, time-based art; Laura Smith, art history; and Emma Mae Toledo, ceramics Rachel O’Donnell (’24) […]
Sculptor Brown Honored with Cox Professorship
Sculptor Brown Honored with Cox Professorship
Braddock Honored as Distinguished UT Alumna
Braddock Honored as Distinguished UT Alumna
Paige Braddock (’85) received a 2024 Distinguished Alumna Award, the highest alumni honor from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. The recognition from the university’s Alumni Board of Directors is reserved for alumni who excel at the national or international level, and whose achievements have brought credit to the university and benefited others.
College Honors Metalwork Artist Preston Farabow
College Honors Metalwork Artist Preston Farabow
The UT College of Arts and Sciences honored metal sculptor Preston Farabow (’94) in October with a 2024 Professional Achievement Award, which recognizes those who have accomplished a high degree of success in their chosen fields. Farabow started Aespyre Metals in 1998 and is a leader among Knoxville creative artists and business owners. He creates […]
2024 Alumni and Philanthropy Awards Honor the Volunteer Spirit
2024 Alumni and Philanthropy Awards Honor the Volunteer Spirit
UT College of Arts and Sciences faculty, staff, and campus and community colleagues gathered Thursday, October 17 to celebrate the 2024 Alumni and Philanthropy Awards, honoring the exceptional achievements and contributions of Volunteers for Life whose dedication and generosity help shape the future of the college and its students.
UT Faculty Authors Share Insight at Second Annual Book Party
UT Faculty Authors Share Insight at Second Annual Book Party
Jered Sprecher Solo Exhibit in New Orleans
Jered Sprecher Solo Exhibit in New Orleans
by Amy Beth Miller The natural world and technology both influence a dozen recent paintings by Jered Sprecher, a professor in the University of Tennessee School of Art, on display at a New Orleans gallery solo exhibition this summer. The Space Between Earth and Sky, at the Ferrara Showman Gallery through July 13, investigates the […]
The Bottom Links Art To Research On East Knoxville Neighborhood
The Bottom Links Art To Research On East Knoxville Neighborhood
Taryn Walker: A Visiting Scholar from Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada
Taryn Walker: A Visiting Scholar from Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada
April 21 – May 12, 2024 Taryn Walker has been awarded the Michael Smith Foreign Study Scholarship administered by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRCC) and Simon Fraser University (SFU). This scholarship supports a master’s student to travel to a university outside of Canada to do research and engage in cultural […]
Prism: Spring 2024
Prism: Spring 2024
The Headlines Stacey Robinson Collaborates in Multiple Media, Events Stacey Robinsonwas a featured artist during September and October 2023. During his visit, he participated in multiple exhibitions in collaboration with the Ewing Gallery and the Downtown Gallery, shared his skills as DJ with 90.3 The Rock, and led art events throughout the Knoxville community. Read […]
New Orleans Artist Andry Engages Vol Community
New Orleans Artist Andry Engages Vol Community
New Orleans printmaker Katrina Andry will visit campus and the city this week for activities inspired by her current exhibit, on display through February 17 at the UT Downtown Gallery, 106 S. Gay St. Andry’s visit will open with a printmaking workshop in the UT Printmaking Shop on Wednesday, January 31, in collaboration with the […]
Rice Earns Fulbright
Rice Earns Fulbright
Emily Roca Rice of Chattanooga, Tennessee, is a 2023 MFA graduate who studied studio art with a concentration in painting and drawing. She is one of eleven UT students and graduates who were selected for the 2023-2024 Fulbright student awards. This award allowed her to study and conduct research abroad. Inspired by family heritage and […]
Brester-Pennings is Artist-in-Residence
Brester-Pennings is Artist-in-Residence
Zoe Brester-Pennings, 2023 MFA printmaking graduate, is the recipient of the University of Wisconsin-Parkside (UWP) Artist-in-Residence (AIR) position in printmaking. This position began in fall 2023 and runs through the spring 2024 semester. The residency will give Brester-Pennings full access to the academic/professional printmaking studio in UWP’s Rita Tallent Picken Regional Center for the Arts […]
Cai Appointed to Assistant Professor
Cai Appointed to Assistant Professor
Danqi Cai [dan-CHI Tsai] is a spring 2023 graduate of the UT School of Art MFA program. The program is proud to announce that she was appointed as Assistant Professor of Foundations at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, Arkansas. She began in the fall of 2023. In addition to the news of her appointment, […]
New UT School of Art Faculty – 2024
New UT School of Art Faculty – 2024
Janelle VanderKelen is an Assistant Professor of Time-Based Foundation who co-directs the Time-Based Foundations Curriculum for the School of Art and teaches in Cinema Studies, Video Art, and Foundations programs. Maurice Moore is Assistant Professor of Painting and Drawing at the University of Tennessee School of Art. He recently completed a PhD in Performance Studies […]
MFA Alumna Walker Receives 2023 Alumni Promise Award
MFA Alumna Walker Receives 2023 Alumni Promise Award
Printmaking alumna Ericka Walker (MFA ’10) received the College of Arts and Sciences 2023 Alumni of Promise Award on September 29, 2023. Walker, who attended UT after completing her undergraduate degree from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, lives in Nova Scotia, Canada, where she is an associate professor at NSCAD University. The Alumni Promise Award recognizes […]
Abigail Hedley Receives International Sculpture Center’s 2023 Award
Abigail Hedley Receives International Sculpture Center’s 2023 Award
Abigail Hedley of Knoxville, Tennessee, has been awarded the prestigious International Sculpture Center’s Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award for 2023. Hedley is an MFA student at UT School of Art. The International Sculpture Center (ISC) established the annual Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award program in 1994 to recognize young sculptors and […]
Elaine McMillion Sheldon’s “King Coal” Is a New York Times Critics Pick
Elaine McMillion Sheldon’s “King Coal” Is a New York Times Critics Pick
Elaine McMillion Sheldon’s most recent film has been named a Critics Pick by the New York Times. Sheldon is an assistant professor in the cinema studies program in the School of Art. The film, described as “a lyrical tapestry of a place and people,” meditates on the complex history and future of the coal industry, […]
Modesta Gorol and Jan Kozlowski: Resident Artists from Wroclaw, Poland
Modesta Gorol and Jan Kozlowski: Resident Artists from Wroclaw, Poland
Modesta Gorol and Jan Kozlowski were resident-artists at the UT School of Art during the month of September 2023. They are the latest artists in an exchange program between the School of Art and the Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Art and Design in Wrocław, Poland. The exchange, which has been running for more than 15 […]
Jered Sprecher Visits Academy of Rome
Jered Sprecher Visits Academy of Rome
Jered Sprecher, professor in the UT Knoxville School of Art, spent June and July 2023 in Italy, as a UT Affiliated Fellow at the American Academy in Rome. While at the academy, Sprecher spent time visiting historical examples of Roman painting and sculpture that featured decorative motifs drawn from nature. The Ad Gallinas Albas Garden […]
Visiting Artist Stacey Robinson Collaborates in Multiple Media
Visiting Artist Stacey Robinson Collaborates in Multiple Media
Stacey Robinson was a featured artist at the UT School of Art during September and October 2023. He participated in multiple exhibitions in collaboration with the Ewing Gallery and the Downtown Gallery. He was a visiting artist for the school and community, sharing his skills as DJ with 90.3 The Rock, leading a gallery meditation […]