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Instructors The instructors at Watkins College of Art & Design are experienced, creative professionals who bring their experience to the classroom. They participate in group or solo exhibits, receive grants, residencies and purchase awards and, most importantly, they are dedicated to educating students. They will encourage you to explore your creative voice, challenging you to imagine it, create it.  
Terry ThackerChair, Department of Arts; Professor - Painting B.F.A., Austin Peay State University, Painting. Post Graduate studies, Long Island University, South Hampton, New York. M.F.A., University of Tennessee, Painting. Associate at the Atlantic Center for the Visual Arts with resident artist Alice Aycock Terry Thacker has been an artist and educator for twenty years, receiving the title of Distinguished Professor in 1995. Active as a lecturer and reviewer, Terry has written for Art Papers, lectured at the Southeastern College Art Conference, and most recently spoken at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts. Thacker has shown in numerous national and regional exhibitions including solo exhibitions at Western Kentucky University, Murry State University, Alexandria Museum, and The Memphis Center for Contemporary Art. Current projects include a collaborative installation for the Parthenon. His work can be seen at Cumberland Gallery, Nashville, TN.  John Donovan Instructor - 3D Design  John Donovan is an artist and teacher living in Nashville with his wife Lisa and two children, Joseph and Maggie. John earned his BFA from Loyola University and his MA and MFA from Stephen F. Austin State University in Texas. After graduate school John taught in the art department of The University of West Florida for 5 years. He was also featured as a visiting faculty member at the University of Costa Rica in San Jose.Clay has remained the medium of choice for most of his career, although he has explored other media and methods of art-making. John’s work explores contradictions he finds in life and his surroundings, often using childhood toys as metaphors for adult concerns. There is a sense of playfulness in his work which belies the underlying grim notions being explored. His art has been exhibited nationally and internationally in juried and invitational shows, and is represented by LeMieux Galleries in New Orleans and Zeitgeist Art Gallery in Nashville, TN. His work was recently included in the 3rd World Ceramic Biennale 2005 international competition in Icheon, South Korea. John currently teaches art at Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro. Terry Glispin Professor - Sculpture, 3D Design, Time Based Media, Advanced Seminar and Senior Thesis B.A., Flagler College-Saint Augustine, Fine Art. M.F.A., University of Georgia, Sculpture  Terry has been exhibiting his work since 1989 both nationally and internationally. Exhibiting in solo, group, and invitational shows, his work has received numerous reviews including the nationally published Art Papers. He is a member of the GALA Committee, which exhibited in the Uncommon Sense show at the MOCA, LA, and the Kwangju Biennial, Korea. He has traveled throughout the world researching art museums and contemporary galleries. He currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Fugitive Art Center and is a visiting instructor at the School of Visual Arts in NYC.Kristi Hargrove Instructor - Drawing Kristi Hargrove has over 15 years experience as an artist and educator. She has shown in numerous national and regional exhibitions and is currently represented locally by Finer Things Gallery. Primarily her practice revolves around drawing but she also works in photography and video. Kristi spent her graduate time with artist mentors from Chicago and New York and grounded her work with research into French Feminism and psychoanalytical theory. Hargrove’s current work involves issues of body and animal morphing and the topic of desire. Lauren Kalman Visiting Professor - 3D Coordinator, Sculpture, Seminar B.F.A, Massachusetts College of Art; M.F.A. OhioState University, Sculpture and Technology  Additional study at Penland School of Crafts, North Carolina, Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood WA, and Logo Foundation (robotics), NY. Lauren Kalman's highly skilled processes and formally engaging objects, digital images and installations are both beautifully crafted and conceptually informed. Ms. Kalman has extensive experience in metals, glass and wood fabrication, including modeler for internationally known sculptor, Charles Ray and as fabricator/coordinator for Johnson Atelier Technical Institute of Sculpture. Kalman has received travel grants to Belize, Guatemala, Mexico, and Vietnam, adding to her personal travels in China and Europe. Her national exhibition record included shows in Chicago, Houston, Providence, Boston, and Philadelphia.Robert McClurg Instructor - Clay, 3D Design B.F.A., East Texas State University,Ceramics. M.F.A., Texas A&M University, Ceramics. Post Graduate studies, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Penland School of Crafts, North Carolina 
Robert McClurg has been teaching at
the college level for over fourteen years as well as providing time,
leadership, and instruction for multitudes of community-based organizations.
He is currently on the Cheekwood Education Advisory Committee and
the Coordinator of the Ceramics program at Ox-bow Summer School
of Art, Saugatuck, Michigan. Mr. McClurg has been exhibiting for
over twenty-five years nationally in solo, group, invitational,
and juried showsColleen McCormick Instructor - Color Fundamentals, Drawing B.F.A., Converse College, Studio Art. M.F.A., The University of the Arts, Painting and Drawing Colleen McCormick has received numerous awards and recognition for her work. Most recently she received Jurors Choice awarded by Robert Stackhouse at the Hunter Museum of American Art, and a two-month residency at Vermont Studio Center. Colleen considers teaching an integral part of her role as an artist and has taught university, high school, children and adults. Currently, one of her passions lies in exposing students to other cultures and world-renowned museums, galleries, artists, studios and exhibitions. As the owner and chief operator of Art Odysseys LLC, she leads groups to Tuscany and teaches courses for Watkins in Berlin, Barcelona, Bilbao and Venice. Johnny Park Instructor - 2D Design B.A., Western Kentucky University, English Literature. B.F.A., Middle Tennessee State University, Graphic Design. M.F.A., University of Memphis, Printmaking Johnny works mainly in printmaking, concentrating on etching and lithography. He also pursues oil painting. He has exhibited both locally and nationally in solo, group, and invitational shows. After teaching for two years in Memphis Johnny has recently moved here to Nashville to live, teach, and exhibit. "Johnny Park: Structure" Exhibition and Installation, Customs House Museum, Clarksville, TN Summer 2004; Southern Graphics Council Traveling Exhibition 2003 to 2006; Judge, Nashville High School Scholastic Awards Spring 2005. Lesley Patterson-Marx Professor - Printmaking B.A., Murray State University, Fine Art. M.F.A., University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Printmaking  Lesley Patterson-Marx recieved an MFA degree in studio art from The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill in 2001, and a BA degree in studio art from Murray State University in 1997. She has also studied bookarts and printmaking at Penland School of Crafts in Penland, NC and Arrowmont in Gatlinburg, TN.Lesley's work has appeared in New American Paintings M.F.A. Annual, and Readymade Magazine. She was a participant in a collaborative installation project, “At Home: A Kentucky Project” on the campus of Western Kentucky University, led by artists Judy Chicago and Donald Woodman. She has been included in numerous solo, group, and invitational exhibitions across the country. In Nashville, her work has been exhibited by Tag Gallery, The Frist Center, Zeigeist, and many other galleries and alternative art spaces. She is a board member at Fugitive Art Center, and is Vice President and founding member of Plate Tone Printshop, a fine art printmaking cooperative. Madeline Reed Professor - 2D Design, Drawing B.S., Peabody College of Vanderbilt, Art Education. M.F.A., Maryland Institute College of Art, Art Education  Recipient of Tennessee All State Art
Exhibition Purchase Award. Madeline Reed served on the Tennessee
Arts Commission on the Arts in Education panel, 1987-1990, and served
as Art Director for Watkins College of Art&Design from 1986
to 1997 when she resigned to become a full-time Professor and Curator of the Watkins Art Collection.Julie Roberts Instructor - Time-Based Media B.F.A., University of Arizona, Painting and Illustration. M.F.A., Cranbrook Academy of Art, Digital Media. Graduate work at Arizona State University in sculpture and foundry Julie Roberts' extensive background in a variety of mediums has taught her the specific and universal languages that each contributes in creating visual meaning. She approaches art making and teaching as an instigator of critical thought and dialogue. She continues to show and develop her work in video, which hangs in private and public collections nationally. Amanda Rogers Instructor - Drawing B.A., Anderson University, Art and Psychology. M.F.A., American University, Painting. Post Grad studies Chataqua Institute, NY A figurative oil painter who has traveled and lived abroad, Mandy Rogers is interested in the relationships of identity, family and faith. She has worked at the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C. and taught at Middle Tennessee State University, Govenor's School for the Arts, Belmont University and with Masterpiece Ministries. Drawing is central to her life and work. Ken Rowe Instructor - Figure Study, Modeling B.F.A., University of Northern Iowa. M.F.A., University of Oregon  Ken Rowe is an award-winning
figurative sculptor from Portland, Oregon. His recent works are
small-scale ceramic pieces that have been called "quirky".
Ken has worked professionally as a commercial sculptor for five
years as a sculptor, mold maker, and animator for Will Vinton Studios
and at Toxic Mom Sculpting Studio as a sculptor of action figure
prototypes. He has exhibited nationally in group, solo, and invitational
shows. He recently received the people's choice award at the "Human
Form" exhibition at the Newport Visual Arts Center in Newport
Oregon and was a participant in Sideshow at Kendall College of Art
and Design in Grand Rapids, Michigan in 2003.Visit his web site Jack Ryan Assistant Professor - 2D Design, Drawing, Seminar and Thesis B.F.A, University of Oregon; M.F.A, University of Georgia, Fine Art  Jack Dingo Ryan is on the Board of Directors of the Fugitive Art Projects, an artist's alternative curatorial body and advocacy. He has recently shown at the rist Center for the Arts in Nashville, in Memphis and Chattanooga, Tennessee, Austin, Texas, Athens, Georgia, and was admitted into The Drawing Centers viewing program in New York. Ryan lectured this year at the Southern Humanities Conference, publishing an article in Number Magazine and has received the Tennessee Arts Commission Individual Artist Grant for 2007. He has held teaching positions at Sewanee: University of the South, Bowling Green State University and the University of Georgia in Athens. He maintains a studio in the Williamsburg area of Brooklyn, New York, and has been on faculty at The School of Visual Arts in New York since 2004 where he teaches during the summer semester. Visit his web site Elizabeth Sanford Instructor - Color Fundamentals B.A., University of Virginia, Fine Arts. M.F.A., East Carolina University, Painting  Over 15 Purchase and Cash awards,
including First Place in both the Kentucky and Tennessee Watercolor
Society Exhibitions. Elizabeth Sanford has work in many collections
including Evansville Museum of Arts and Science, Tennessee State
Museum and the Parthenon Collection. She is an expert in color and
color theory and her work was published in Maxine Masterfields's
book, In Harmony With Nature.Visit her web site Anderson Williams Instructor - 2D Design B.A., Wake Forest University, English and Studio Art focusing in Painting and Printmaking. M.F.A., Cranbrook Academy of Art, Print\Media  Anderson Williams approaches the process
of making art from a theoretical foundation with an emphasis on
communication. His current work uses a variety of media to communicate
his research and theories on the construction of individual identity
through the broader cultural phenomenon of sports fandom.
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