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School of Art Faculty Receive Heart and Soul Awards

School of Art Faculty Receive Heart and Soul Awards

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Jason Brown’s Community Art Class in Spring 2024 Two School of Art professors received Heart and Soul Awards from the Faculty Senate, a new honor recognizing faculty members who foster exceptionally inclusive, respectful, and supportive climates at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.  Heather Coker Hawkins, an assistant professor of time-based art, and Jason Brown, a […]

UT School of Art Director, Student Honored by International Sculpture Center

UT School of Art Director, Student Honored by International Sculpture Center

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Christopher McNulty Kyle Cottier The sculpture program at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville—already recognized and respected among national and international art communities—recently came further into the spotlight. This fall, the International Sculpture Center (ISC) honored School of Art (SOA) Director Christopher McNulty with its prestigious Outstanding Educator Award, which recognizes inspiring, influential artists who have […]

John Powers Exhibits Work During Venice Biennale

John Powers Exhibits Work During Venice Biennale

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The Venice Biennale is one of the world’s oldest and most prestigious art exhibitions. This year, an installation by UT School of Art Professor John Powers is among the featured work.   Established in 1895, the Biennale has showcased art from many of history’s renowned artists and architects, and in recent years attracted over 800,000 […]

School of Art Welcomes New Faculty

School of Art Welcomes New Faculty

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The School of Art at UT, Knoxville is excited to introduce two new instructional faculty members. Assistant Professor Amanda Evans joins the School of Art’s Ceramics Program. Evans is a socially engaged ceramic artist whose work manifests as participatory sculptures, performance, print and digital media, and long-term collaborative systems. She received her MFA in Art […]

Printmaking Faculty/Staff Present RETRoSPECT Exhibit

Printmaking Faculty/Staff Present RETRoSPECT Exhibit

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“RETRoSPECT” surveys recent and past works by UT Printmaking faculty members Beauvais Lyons, Althea Murphy-Price and Koichi Yamamoto, as well as 2D Printmaking Technician Elysia Mann.

Elaine Sheldon’s “King Coal” a New York Times Critics Pick

Elaine Sheldon’s “King Coal” a New York Times Critics Pick

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The University of Tennessee School of Art is pleased to announce that the most recent film produced by film maker Elaine McMillion Sheldon has been named a Critics Pick by the New York Times. Sheldon is Assistant Professor in the Cinema Studies concentration at the School of Art. This film is described as, “A lyrical […]

Sean Roberts Book Published by Yale Press

Sean Roberts Book Published by Yale Press

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Sean Roberts, senior lecturer in Art History for the UT School of Art co-edited the book, The Environment and Ecology in Islamic Art and Culture, was just published by Yale University Press.  The book is described in the following press release.

Lyons Explains Vernacular Art in The Conversation

Lyons Explains Vernacular Art in The Conversation

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What is vernacular art? A visual artist explains Vernacular art is a genre of visual art made by artists who are usually self-taught. They tend to work outside of art academies and commercial galleries, which have traditionally been the purview of white, affluent artists and collectors. In the U.S., vernacular art – which can also be called […]

Hiles and Ekstrum Present at CAA Conference

Hiles and Ekstrum Present at CAA Conference

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Tim Hiles, Associate Director of Undergraduate Studies and Professor of Art History at the School of Art will be presenting on Thursday, February 16, at the College Art Association (CAA) Annual Conference in New York City. Hiles is presenting with 2022 MFA graduate Ashley Ekstrum who worked with him as a research assistant prior to graduation and who has collaborated on research since.

Motherland, a Series of Paintings by Mary Laube

Motherland, a Series of Paintings by Mary Laube

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In the years following the Korean War, the US saw an influx in international adoptions of South Korean children. Mary Laube, assistant professor of painting + drawing, traveled from Seoul to Chicago, Illinois in 1987 at the age of 2 where she was adopted by her parents. Although Laube grew up in a culturally diverse […]