Student & Faculty News
Read about School of Art faculty and student exhibitions and creative achievements.

Southern Oasis Film Festival
Caleb McNeil | Undergraduate Student in Cinema Studies
Sevierville, TN
April 4-6, 2025

The Hunter Invitational V
Althea Murphy-Price | Professor of Printmaking
Hunter Museum of American Art | Chattanooga, TN
January 30, 2026 – May 4, 2026

Defenestrated Dreams
Brigit Ciskowski, Shelby Reed, Lindsay Skvarek, and Ainsley Steeves | MFA Students in Sculpture and Ceramics
Able Trade | Knoxville, TN
April 4, 2025, 5:30pm – 8:30pm

Chulitna Lodge Creative Residency – 2025 Fellowship
Julia Walters | MFA Student in Painting and Drawing
Lake Clark, Alaska
Summer 2025

Beyond the Frame: Exploring Black Expression and the Spectrum of Identity
Chase Williamson | MFA Student in Painting and Drawing
African American Museum of Dallas | Dallas, TX
January 31 – July 26, 2025

Pink Silo
Shelby Reed | MFA Student in Ceramics
Kaitlyn Anderson | MFA Student in Ceramics
Wavelength Space | Chattanooga, TN
March 7 – March 14, 2025

Screenings: “Light From Light” and “Something, Anything”
Paul Harrill | Professor and Dee & Jimmy Haslam Chair in Cinema Studies
Cinema São Jorge, Lisbon, Portugal
March 11th – March 16th, 2025

Symbiogenesis: A New Nature in the Anthropocene
Kaitlyn Anderson | MFA Student in Ceramics
Kyle Cottier | MFA Student in Sculpture
Ijams Nature Center
March 1st – 31st, 2025 | Reception: March 9th, 2-5pm

The Contemporary Print
Eliza Frensley and Shannon Ferguson | MFA Students in Printmaking
J. Leigh Garcia | Professor of Printmaking
Gallery 2000, Austin Community College Highland Campus, Austin, TX
January 21 – March 14, 2025

Accessories
Althea Murphy-Price | Professor of Printmaking
Sheet Cake Gallery, Memphis, TN
February 14 – March 29, 2025

Under the Branches
Jered Sprecher | Assistant Professor of Painting and Drawing
Tri-Star Arts, Knoxville, TN
January 28 – March 29, 2025

El Albañil
J. Leigh Garcia | Associate Professor of Printmaking
Canton Museum of Art, Canton, OH
November 24, 2024 – March 2, 2025