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The Watkins Film School at Watkins College of Art, Design & Film is sponsoring a film industry forum and mixer from 6:00pm to 9:00pm in room 500 (the school’s large theater) on Friday April 16, 2010. The event is designed to raise the level of awareness among those in the local film industry about the student film program at Watkins and the work that is being produced by the young filmmakers enrolled in the program. It is also intended to serve as a forum wherein local semi-pro and professional stage & film actors, student filmmakers and local film industry professionals (including talent agents, casting directors, theatrical union representatives (Screen Actors Guild), and executives from local studios and production houses can discuss issues related to producing, auditioning for, casting and working in Watkins’ student-produced films.

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Watkins College of Art, Design & Film’s Artist Lecture Series is proud to present:

Wayne White

Friday, March 26th

Watkins Campus

Reception at 5:30 pm Lecture at 6:00 pm

Wayne White is a three-time Emmy winner for his set and puppet designs for Pee-wee’s Playhouse. The L.A. based artist directed two seminal music videos; Peter Gabriel’s "Big Time" and Smashing Pumpkins "Tonight, Tonight," and has exhibited paintings and sculptures internationally.

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Watkins College of Art, Design and Flim presents an exhibition curated by Patrick DeGuira. EXHIBITION RUNS March 5- 26, 2010 Opening Reception: March 5, from 6 pm-8 pm Brownlee O. Currey Jr. Gallery on Watkins Campus

Including works by- Harmony Korine, Leigh Ledare, Angela Messina, Laurie Nye, Chris Scarborogh, Rob Smith, Brent Stewart, Terry Rowlett and Kurt Wagner. Aftermath is an exhibition that reads like a poem, recognizing each individual work such as line, phrase, or moment. Through the use of photography, painting and sculpture, the included works comment on the notions of disorder, identity, rebirth and the landscape.

Gallery F at the Scarritt-Bennett Center

Talcum Fables, an Off the Wall Group Show, featuring installation, painting and photography. The show explores storytelling through unusual materials, and is free and open to the public. The exhibit runs through March 6th.

Off the Wall Artists: Jenny Luckett, Mahlea Jones, Jaime Raybin, and Iwonka Waskowski.
Guest Artists: Nicole Baumann and Marcie Little.

ABOUT the show, Talcum Fables
Every piece of art in this show tells a story. Most are autobiographical, all are created by using unusual materials (including talcum powder), and all of the storytellers are women. While women’s issues are not the main focus of the show, there is a conscious feminine language established in the authenticity of each story. This language is communicated through the artists’ use of unexpected materials, and the viewers’ sensory interaction with those materials – the tactile, the fluid, the fuzzy, the powdery, the shiny. The works have been produced especially for this show, using varied media, including installation, painting, and photography. Curated by Off the Wall and Sabine Schlunk, managing gallery director.

ABOUT the artist group, Off the Wall
Off the Wall is a collective of artists who share a similar artistic language, a curiosity about materials, and are interested in creating work with personal resonance in a conceptual manner. The five group members met as students at Watkins College of Art, Design & Film. In 2005, they connected through their artwork and created an exhibition group. Talcum Fables is the group’s eleventh exhibition. To view other work, go to www.offthewallartgroup.com

Talcum Fables was recently reviewed in the Nashville Scene, by Russell Johnston. Read review here.

Visit www.scarrittbennett.org for more information about Gallery F and the show.

  

The Fall 2009 Film Screenings will be held Wednesday, December 16, beginning at 10am at the Regal Cinema 16 in Green Hills. For more information, contact Steve Womack at swomack@watkins.edu.

The ever popular Graphic Design Senior Show is slated for Friday, December 4. This year’s theme is Taking Flight, focusing on the launch of the careers of the program’s eight December graduates: Random Allen, Julian Baker, Craig Gwin, Lydia Light, Holly Mathews, Teela Shandess and Andy Young. Throughout their careers at Watkins, these students have competed on a national and international level with students and professionals alike. This show is traditionally one of the most anticipated of the year and this one is no exception. Taking Flight will be held from 6-9pm on Friday, December 4 at Rhythm on Music Row, located at 1508 Demonbreun Street. Free parking, food and drink will be provided. For more information on this show, visit www.takingflightshow.com.

The Bachelor of Fine Arts Senior Thesis exhibition for Candace J. Fasshauer and Claudia Overstreet will open Thursday, December 3, with a reception from 6-9pm in the Brownlee O. Currey, Jr. Gallery on the Watkins campus.

Overstreet’s Fine Art senior thesis project, "’Inter-Ontologies,’ is a project of sawdust fired ceramic wall hangings. This project is about the unification of dualities and is inspired by the philosophies of Mahayana Buddhism. According to Overstreet, “with these works, I hope to help rid the Western notion that emptiness is equated to nihilism and remind us all that existence depends on other phenomena."

Fasshauer’s Fine Art senior thesis project, “Fabrication”, portrays a deep-seated struggle with fear, attachment, and security. The work explores the externalization of internal strife through opposition of playful materials and nightmarish imagery.

This exhibition will run through December 10.

Mandy Stoller’s Senior Thesis Exhibition, Now in 3D!, opens Friday, November 20, at Watkins with a reception from 6-9pm. This exhibition runs through Nov. 30. The College will be closed Nov. 25 and 26.

According to Stoller, “My work involves a multitude of processes. My process is dictated by my ideas. I am interested in combining elements of Lo-Fi and Photoshopped perfection to produce a Sci-Fi Utopia. Through this body of work, I have created a sense of escape from the hectic world around us to a 3D dreamland.”

Stoller is providing 3D glasses to view her exhibition. Stoller is a familiar figure on the Nashville art scene. Most recently featured at Party For My Mom at Twist, she has also exhibited at Frist Center For The Visual Arts, The Open Lot and Studio 83.

Gallery hours are M-F 9am-8pm, Sat 10am-4pm and Sun 2-4pm.

Traveling Past Ourselves will have an opening reception Friday, Nov. 13, at 7pm at Lush Fine Art Studio, located on the water at 2294 Rosa L. Parks Blvd. (next to Watkins). Traveling Past Ourselves is curated by student Caitlan Fleurette Dillingham and features students Sam Angel, Paul Cain, Jessica Clay, Robert Dunn, Alex Godbold, Courtney Greenlee, Emily Laird, Han Mao, Seth Prestwood, Ashli Ringgold, Mollie Row, Max Shuster, Lauren Willis and Caitlan Fleurette Dillingham.

The annual Yart Sale features student artwork at yard sale prices! Get an early start to holiday shopping at Watkins November 14 from 8am-4pm and November 15 from 1-4pm. Admission is free, but please bring a toy for the Student Government Association Toy Drive. All proceeds benefit student artists.