The High School Art Academy is a comprehensive workshop experience for Tennessee high school students.

These one-day workshops take place in the Art + Architecture Building on the UT campus and are open to all Tennessee High School students.

Our goals are to give Tennessee high school students the opportunity for intensive study in the visual art, to encourage students to pursue a college education in the arts by giving them the opportunity to work in a university environment, and to introduce students to the facilities, professors, and resources offered by the University of Tennessee School of Art.

High School Art Academy will take place Saturday, October 21, 2023.
UT School of Art faculty, staff, alumni, and graduate students teach workshops in the Art + Architecture Building.

Painting + Drawing 1
Instructor: LaKesha Lee, MFA Graduate Student
Introduction to Collage

Students will learn how to deconstruct and reconstruct found and self-made images through collage.

Painting + Drawing 2 – (Painting + Drawing 2 has reached capacity – Please choose another workshop)
Instructor: Griffin Allman, MFA Graduate Student
Iterative Painting: From Representation to Abstraction

In Iterative Painting, participants will explore the links between representational and abstract painting. Everyone will begin by creating a representational painting of a still life object or found object provided by the instructor. Then, participants will create multiple versions of abstract paintings based on the original painting. Methods of abstraction, historical context, and strategies for arriving at abstracted work will be discussed throughout the workshop.

Drawing & Bookmaking: Paper Engineering – Fun with Pop-up Books – (This workshop has been cancelled)
Instructor: Beauvais Lyons, Faculty member

This workshop will introduce principles of paper engineering to create pop-up books. Students will start by making a series of basic forms that use the principles of converging and parallel folds to learn some of the principles. Through the study of a collection of different pop-up books, students will have an opportunity to make a set of four pop-up books. Paper, glue and Xacto blades will be provided. Students should bring personal image sources and their favorite drawing media. For examples see: Visit YouTube Example.

Ceramics – (Ceramics has reached capacity – Please choose another workshop)
Instructor: Frank Martin, Professor of Ceramics
Limited Registration (12 Maximum)

This class will explore the use of finishing and firing techniques. Students will combine traditional and non-traditional methods while working with pre-fired tiles to explore various processes and concepts. The tiles will be Raku fired under staff supervision.

Photography
Instructor: Bruce Cole, Lecturer
Limited Registration (12 Maximum)

This workshop looks at the basics of good photography. Learn about using a camera and photographic fundamentals such as aperture, shutter speed, light, focus, metering, and shooting modes. Students will learn the difference between digital and analog photography and how a dark room works.

Metal Sculpture
Instructor: Abby Hedley, MFA Graduate Student
Limited Registration (10 Maximum)

Students will learn basic metalworking techniques including cutting, shaping, and welding steel. This workshop will empower students to create a sculpture using a combination of steel, wood, and found materials. All students must dress in non-flammable cotton clothing (jeans and cotton t-shirt and closed-toe shoes or boots). Safety equipment, tools and materials will be provided.

Letterpress
Instructors: Gaby Hurtado-Ramos, MFA Graduate Student
Limited Registration (6 Maximum)

Join us in the letterpress shop where we will be printing abstract book covers from vintage wood type on a Vandercook printing press. Explore color theory and layering through shape and letterform in dynamic compositions. You’ll also learn some basic bookbinding methods to create a finished book. If you have ever been interested in printmaking, typography, design, bookmaking, or zinemaking, this workshop will be a great fit. At the end of the day, you’ll leave with a few finished pieces that you can use for artist’s books, journals, zines, or anything you can think of!

Printmaking 1
Instructor: Ashlee Mays, MFA Alumna
Limited Registration (12 Maximum)
The Foraged Matrix

Join Ashlee Mays, director of the Museum of Infinite Outcomes, and explore the living world through the matrix of screen printing. The morning will kick off with a hands on screen printing demonstration and an open-air foraging session. After lunch, we will work in pairs to create unique compositions with our foraged materials, and through screen printing we will work in multiple colors building up layers while working collectively. All supplies will be provided. This is a beginner level course, no drawing or printing experience required. Students leave with two unique prints on paper.

Printmaking 2 – (This workshop has been cancelled)
Instructor: Elysia Mann, MFA Alumna and Printmaking Workshop Technician
Limited Registration (12 Maximum)
Pixels on Paper—Laser-engraved Woodblock Printmaking

Bring the artificial world into the physical realm using AI and woodblock printmaking! Explore how color, pattern, and glitch can be layered to create complex and surprising prints that you can’t get from a robot. Using AI image generators as a starting point, we will manipulate the code, make basic Photoshop edits, then transfer our pixelated files to a Laser Engraver to handle the hard work of carving. The afternoon will be all analog, using traditional printmaking inks and tools to transfer the engraved matrix to paper, layering different blocks on the same sheet. Everyone will leave with 4-6 colorful, surreal compositions that blend image and abstraction; the machine and the hand.

Printmaking 3
Instructor: Jake Ingram, MFA Alumni
Limited Registration (12 Maximum)
Rock and Roll! – Lithographic Concert Posters

In this one day course, students will use photo lithography to create a one color lithograph for a real or imaginary band of their choice. Students will have a brief introduction to the lithographic process and will learn how to make and print their own plates.

Stop Motion Animation – (Stop Motion Animation has reached capacity – Please choose another workshop)
Instructor: Ruchi Singh, MFA Graduate Student
Limited Registration (10 Maximum)

This course provides a hands-on Stop-Motion project, as well as an overview of Animation as a medium for creative expression and storytelling. Students will leave with 4-6 prints by the end of the day.

Filmmaking
Instructor: Elliott Childress, MFA Alumni
Limited Registration (10 Maximum)

This fun and interactive course teaches you the basics of filmmaking, video production, and visual storytelling. We will experiment with audio, photography and moving image to make short films in small groups.

8 – 9 a.m. Registration
9 a.m. – 12 p.m. Studio workshops
12 – 1 p.m. Lunch & Ewing Gallery tour
1 – 4 p.m. Studio workshops
4 – 4:30 p.m. Tour of other workshops
4:30 – 5 p.m. Clean up

Participant forms required by the University of Tennessee:

Mandatory for participation: Medical Authorization Form. Please download and print this form for your parent or legal guardian to complete and sign. Students MUST bring the completed form to check-in on October 21, in order to participate in the High School Arts Academy.

The University also requires the parents or guardians of participants to complete the UT Photography Consent Form in order to give permission for the School of Art to use participants’ photographs in promotional materials. Please download, print, and bring the signed form to registration if you wish to give consent for your photograph to be used.

Address
Art + Architecture Building
1715 Volunteer Boulevard
Knoxville, TN 37996

Parking
Recommended parking for HSAA volunteers and participants in 23B parking lot behind the Natalie L. Haslam Music Center.

Entrances to the Building
The A+A has four public entrances:

• On the west side, visitors will find an entrance between the A+A and the Music Building.
• On the east side, there is a set of stairs that descend down into the entrance. This entrance is the closest to room 109, the McCarty Auditorium.
• On the south side there are two entrances, the walkway that leads off of the pedestrian mall and enters on the 2nd floor, and the loading dock. Large deliveries should be made to this entrance.

GPS Directions

Driving Directions
From I-40 West

• Follow I-40 to Exit 386.
• Exit onto U.S. 129 (Alcoa Highway) south (toward Airport and Smoky Mtns.).
• Take the Neyland Drive exit.
• Turn left onto Neyland Drive.
• Continue straight through next two traffic lights.
• Turn left at the next light onto Lake Loudon Blvd.
• Drive to end of Lake Loudon Blvd. (you will be looking right at the School of Art, big white building)
• Turn right onto Volunteer Blvd.
• Campus Information Center is on your right. Here you can receive a temporary parking permit to park on the UT campus. They will instruct you as to which lot you can park in during your visit.

From I-40 East

• Follow I-40 to Exit 388.
• Exit onto James White Parkway (left hand exit).
• James White Parkway turns into Neyland Drive.
• Turn right at second traffic light (next to arena) onto Lake Loudon Blvd.
• Drive to end of Lake Loudon Blvd. (you will be looking right at the School of Art, big white building)
• Turn right onto Volunteer Blvd.
• Campus Information Center is on your right. Here you can receive a temporary parking permit to park on the UT campus. They will instruct you as to which lot you can park in during your visit.

From Airport

• Follow U.S. 129 (Alcoa Highway) north to Knoxville.
• Take Neyland Drive exit.
• Turn left onto Neyland Dr.
• Continue straight through next traffic light (a left turn would take you to Ag. Campus).
• Turn left at the next light onto Lake Loudon Blvd.
• Drive to end of Lake Loudon Blvd. (you will be looking right at the School of Art, big white building)
• Turn right onto Volunteer Blvd.
• Campus Information Center is on your right. Here you can receive a temporary parking permit to park on the UT campus. They will instruct you as to which lot you can park in during your visit.