Fine Art
Watkins senior beth gilmore is honored in the nashville scene
The March 4-10, 2010 edition of the Nashville Scene, titled The People’s Edition, recognizes Beth Gilmore’s contribution to the downtown art scene as well as her role as enthusiastic tour guide at Belmont Mansion.
Twist Gallery presents Watkin’s 5 + 5
Opening reception Feb. 6th 6-9
Watkin’s Fine Art Faculty including Terry Thacker, Ron Lambert, Brady Haston, Derek Cote, and Kristi Hargrove along with selected students—Clayton Lancaster, Alexis Hicks, Robert Dunn, Timothy Marchbanks, Claudia O’Steen, and Lauren Willis.
(Image) Kristi Hargrove—Inchoate
Watkins Fall 2009 Fine Arts BFA Senior thesis exhibition
Watkins’ Brownlee O Currey, Jr Gallery will be exhibiting three Fine Arts BFA candidates’ senior thesis exhibits.
Mandy Stoller (above), CJ Fasshauer (right)
Mandy Stoller’s Now In 3D will open November 20 with a reception from 6-9pm. The show will be on display until November 30.
Claudia Overstreet’s Inter-Ontologies along with CJ Fasshauer’s Fabrication will open with a reception December 3 from 6-9pm and will be on display until December 10.
The Traveling Past Ourselves Art Exhibit Friday Nov 13, 7-10pm
Traveling Past Ourselves is an art installation with dialogue, and theexhibition features artwork interpreting the theme ‘pushing forward’(both literally and symbolically).
Brought to you by The OwlEyes, we would like to now introduce the upcoming artists for theNovember 13th art show Traveling Past Ourselves:
SAM ANGEL
PAUL CAIN
JESSICA CLAY
ROBERT DUNN
ALEX GODBOLD
COURTNEY GREENLEE
AARON KEEN
EMILY LAIRD
BROWAN LOLLAR
HAN MAO
SETH PRESTWOOD
ASHLI RINGGOLD
MOLLIE ROW
OLIVIA SHERIF
MAX SHUSTER
LAUREN WILLIS
Emily Laird collage (right)
Curated by Caitlan Fleurette
Thedoors will open at seven o’clock sharp, followed by an open dialogue ata quarter to eight. We encourage the audience to ask any questionrelating to the artist or their work. In addition, we will be having apotluck theme. Please feel free to bring-a-plate opening night if youwish! Thank you!
Watkins Alumni and students exhibit with open lot studios
ART.EDU is a showcasing ofNashville’s newest artists, up-and-comers to keep an eye out for. Theseartists work out of Nashville and its surrounding areas and aresoon-to-be or recent graduates of formal art programs.
Curated by Lain York (Zeitgeist Gallery) and Open Lot
Featuring:
Kelly Bonadies
Alex Crawford
Courtney Anne Greenlee
Natalie Harrison
Erin Plew
Randy Purcell
Nick Stolle
Mandy Stoller
Kendra Schirmer
Myrna Talbot
Opening Reception
Friday, 7.31.09, 6-9pm at The Open Lot (Nashville, TN).
Special First Saturday Art Crawl Viewing
Saturday, 8.1.09, 6-11pm
featuringTiny Tornadoes (Boston), Gracious Calamity (Jamaica Plains), andBuffalo Clover (Nashville). Music starts at 9pm, $10 cover Saturdayonly.
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Open Lot
[email protected]
http://www.theopenlot.org
1307 Jewell Street
Nashville, TN 37207
Watkins student interns with internationally renowned sculptor alan lequire
Watkins Fine Art student, Adolfo Davila, has spent the summer interning for Alan LeQuire. LeQuire is a sculptor who has become well-known in his native southeast for his public commissions and sensitive portraiture. LeQuire works in virtually all sculpture materials, both direct carving and casting in his own foundry..For LeQuire’s bio click here.
For more information about internship opportunities visit the Career Services page by clicking here.
Watkins alumni exhibit in atlanta, GA
Twist Art Gallery in the Arcade in downtown Nashville, TN participated in an artist exchange with Beep Beep Art Gallery in Atlanta, GA. Watkins Alumni Erin Plew and John Whitten were two of the three artists asked to exhibit. Read more about the artist exchange by clicking here.
BFA Senior Thesis Part 4 Opening April 24, 6-8pm
Watkins is pleased to invite the public to the opening reception forthe fourth BFA Senior Thesis exhibition of the season. This exhibitwill feature Myrna Talbot - Fine Art, Erin Plew - Fine Art - and Ashley Steverson - Photography.
The opening reception will be held this Friday,April 24 from 6-8pm, in the Brownlee O. Currey, Jr Gallery on campus.
Myrna Talbot: Line-Object
Erin Plew: Investigations
Ashley Steverson: The White Shadow
ThursdayApril 23rd internationally known artist Darrin Martin will be screeninghis work at 4:30 in Watkins theater.
Read a review of his work in ARTFORUM here
Darrin Martin creates videos, sculptures and installations, which explore how technologies are used to attempt to measure and augment, our daily perceptions. His works have exhibited and screened internationally at festivals and museums including the Museum of Modern Art (NY), Pacific Film Archives (CA), The European Media Art Festival (Germany), The Kitchen (NY), WRO Media Arts Biennale (Poland), and The Impakt Festival (The Netherlands). Martin also collaborates with Torsten Zenas Burns building diverse speculative fictions around re-imagined educational practices. Their works have been included in screenings and exhibitions in venues including The Oberhausen Short Film Festival (Germany), Scanners: New York Video Festival (NY), The Madrid Museum of Contemporary Art (Spain), The Paris/Berlin International, Champ Libre (Canada), and Eyebeam (NY). Martin occasionally curates and teaches video and media arts at UC Davis.
BFA Senior Thesis Part 3 Opening April 17, 4-6 pm
Camille Jackson - Fine Art - will be exhibiting her senior thesis @ Twist Gallery in the Arcade Friday, April 17 from 4-6pm.
Ellie Odom - Photography - will be exhibiting her senior thesis Hunting In The South at 214 3rd Ave North Nashville, TN Friday, April 17 from 6-9 pm.
Check out more from Ellie Odom at ellieodomphoto.com
BFA Senior Thesis Part 2 Opening Fri April 1o, 6-8pm
Watkins is pleased to invite the public to the opening reception for the second BFA Senior Thesis exhibition of the season. This exhibit will feature Michael Jones - Photography - and Justin Patterson - Fine Art.
The opening reception will be held this Friday, April 10 from 6-8pm, in the Brownlee O. Currey, Jr Gallery on campus. This show closes April 22.
For more information about this show, including artist statements and websites, please click here.
Justin Patterson’s sculpture (right)
BFA Senior Thesis Part 1 Opening Fri March 27, 6-8pm
Performance at 7pm
Fine Art Department trip to New York City March 16 - 19
Here are some of the places thy will visit:
Jeff Silva Visiting Artist Lecture & Exhibit
Friday, March 6
Lecture 5:00pm, Watkins Theatre
Exhibition opening & Reception 6:00pm, Brownlee O. Currey, Jr Gallery
Jeff Daniel Silva is an international artist and curator currently based in the US. Silva studied Cinema and Photography at Ithaca College and received an MFA in Visual Art from Vermont College of Fine Arts in Montpelier. He currently teaches experimental, documentary and ethnographic film studies and production at Harvard University & the School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston.To learn more about Silva, please click here.
Paper trail @ The Showroom Davis Art Advisory
Kristi Hargrove
Terry Thacker
Brady Haston
John Whitten
Ron Lambert
Erin Plew
Jodi Hays
David Hellams
Iwonka Waskowski
Curatedby Ron Lambert
March 3rd thru March 31st
Opening Reception: March 7th, 6-9pm (gallerycrawl)
Watkins professors exhibit at cheekwood
There’s more to painting than paint on canvas. Cheekwood Museum of Art presents work by fourteen Tennessee artists who explore different approaches to abstract imagery. Some artists engage photography as a tool to assist them in creating art; others use computers to generate paintings. Some artsts even reject traditional painting entirely in favor of creating site-specific painterly environments. The show includes Watkins professors Brady Haston and Terry Thacker, and opens with a reception Thursday, March 12 @ 6:00 - 8:00 pm.
Click here to find out more about Cheekwood.
Watkins Alumnus exhibits at belmont university
The Nashville band "Quote" will be conducting a seminar style convocation and art openingat Belmont University on Monday Feb. 23rd (10 AM) in The Leu Center ForThe Visual Arts, room 117 for Alumni week.
Featured in the Decemberissue of Performing Songwriter Magazine as "The Anti-Digital ArtistCollective," "Quote" has released a project entitled The Pace Of OurFeet. The Pace Of Our Feet includes an album of "Quote" songs and foreach tune an interpretive work of art and short story. Created andwritten by authors and artists from New York to LA, The Pace Of OurFeet is now coming to Belmont.
The band will perform severalof their songs and talk about their collaborative process and visionfor differentiation. Selections from The Pace Of Our Feet art series, including work by Watkins alumnus John Whitten, willhang in the Leu Center For The Visual Arts Student Gallery.
Fine out more about "Quote" and their project The Pace of Our Feet by clicking here.
NPR features Adrienne Outlaw’s interview with the band members and artists. To listen click here.
Brownlee O. Currey, Jr. Juried Student Exhibition February 6-27 
CONGRATULATIONS TO THE 2009 STUDENT EXHIBITION AWARD WINNERS!
The Anna Gowa Purchase Award: Mandy Stoller, The Real Story, video, found objects and mixed media
FIRST PLACE: Kelly Bonadies, Unimproved, mixed media on board, FINE ART MAJOR
SECOND PLACE: Aaron Fowler, gelatin silver prints, "After J. Robert Oppenheimer, failed attempt"
& "I Lost the Lockett, or praying to St. Joesph, failed attempt", PHOTO MAJOR
THIRD PLACE: Julian Baker, Mr. Beal, copperplate intaglio, GRAPHIC DESIGN MAJOR
Honorable Mention: Robert Burns, Stealing Sweets, film, FILM MAJOR
Honorable Mention: Michael Jones, Lemon Consumption, found objects, PHOTO MAJOR
Honorable Mention: Erin Plew, Untitled Triptych, oil on cardboard, FINE ART MAJOR
Honorable Mention: Nick Stolle, On Purity and Danger, mixed media on board, FINE ART MAJOR The Real Story Mandy Stoller
Unimproved Kelly Bonadies (above)
Mr. Beal Julian Baker (right)