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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 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 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 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, 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 […]
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 […]
School of Art Newsletter
Prism Issue 8
Fall/Winter 2020
