Artist Lecture Series

Watkins’ Community Education Program is committed to the institution’s mission of creating a learning-centered environment. Through the Artist Lecture Series, Watkins engages the minds of our students and community members by inviting world-renowned visual artists, filmmakers, graphic designers, interior designers, and photographers to campus to offer talks, panel discussion, student critiques and to exhibit in the Brownlee O. Currey, Jr. Gallery. Previous artists have included David Berman, Sam Dunson, Ming Fay, Teri Jones, and Faith Wilding. The 2008/2009 Artist Lecture Series will present Barry Cook and Jeff Silva. Watkins thanks Regions Bank and Millenium Maxwell House Hotel for the generosity of their sponsorship of this series.

"Tennessee Abstract Painters" Panel Discussion
Thursday, September 24
6:00pm to 8:00pm

• Gregg Horowitz, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Vanderbilt University Research Area

• Hans Schmitt-Matzen, Artist and associate exhibitions designer at the Frist Center for The Visual Arts

• Jered Sprecher, UTK Art Professor and 2009 John Simon Guggenheim Fellow

• Terry Thacker, Artist and Chair of the Fine Arts Department, Watkins College of Art, Design, and Film

Artists from the recent "Tennessee Abstract Painters" exhibiton at Cheekwood Museum of Art will present ideas supporting and/or critiquing the discursive nature of abstract painting in this particular time/culture.