News Archives - Fall Semester, 2007

This page includes News and Event higlights from Fall 2007. For more information, contact the Director of External Relations at 277-7403.

November 28, 6-9pm, Opening Reception, BFA Senior Exhibition
Exhibition runs through December 14, Brownlee O. Currey Jr. Gallery, Watkins College of Art&Design.

FEATURING: Iceberg, Lily, Cloud - Reesha Leone; Examples in Compatibility - Justin Key ; Quantity: The Next Multi-Million Dollar Character Franchise - Curt Pintenich

November 16, 7-9pm, Opening Reception, FUTURE/NOW: Mid-state Art Majors at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts
Exhibit runs November 16-December 30, Frist Center for the Visual Arts, 919 Broadway Ave., Nashville

This exhibit features approximately 80 works by the next generation of practicing artists, who today are students in college or university art programs across Middle Tennessee. Watkins participants include: Matthew Christy, Justin Key, Debbie Kraski, Brent Montgomery, Kensuke Nakamura, Alethea Norene, Jaime Raybin, Abby Whisenant, and John Whitten. For more information visit www.fristcenter.org.

BREAKING NEWS: Watkins College announces second campus residence

Watkins College of Art&Design is pleased to announce a second campus residence, made possible by a gift from the James Stephen Turner Family Foundation. The second residence will be named Turner Hall. The new facility will be identical to Hawkins Hall, the college’s first student residence named for donors Lee Ann and Charlie Hawkins. This residence will be completed by August 2008 and is expected to be fully occupied by the start of the 2008-2009 academic year. For more details click here.

November 30, 6-9pm, Graphic Design Senior Show
Take 121 Arts, 121 3rd Ave. South, Nashville

Featuring: Rachel Dunagan, Jim Valosik, Stephanie Gurne, Brady Donahey, Megan Carlton, Lamar Patton and Cara Manka. See samples and learn more at www.youngtalentedandoutofcontrol.com.

November 29, 6-8pm, Alumni Reception, Watkins College

Reception for Watkins alumni, faculty and staff. Free and open to all alumni. RSVP requested. For more information or to RSVP contact Christy Stone at 383-4848 or cstone@watkins.edu.

November 9, 6-9pm, Opening Reception, Quinn Dukes, Fine Arts Senior Thesis Exhibition, Chance in Parallels
Exhibit runs November 9th-23rd. Brownlee O. Currey Jr. Gallery, Watkins College of Art&Design. Gallery Hours: Monday - Friday 8am-9pm, Saturday 10am-4pm and Sunday 2-4pm

November 16 & 17, Yart Sale
November 16, 10am-4pm. November 17, 10am-5pm

This annual sale will take place at the College’s campus located at 2298 Rosa L Parks Boulevard in Nashville. Open to the public. Admission is a canned good item, which will be donated to Second Harvest Food Bank. Items for sale include paintings, sculpture, pottery, photography and more. Most works are one-of-a-kind and will be for sale for $5-$100. All participating artists are affiliated with Watkins.

November 10, 6-9pm, Justin Nolan Key, Photography Senior Thesis Exhibition, Examples in Compatibility
Alfred Williams & Company, 716 Division Street, Nashville

November 6, 4-6pm, Trailer Park Of Terror Screening and Director’s Talk
Watkins College Theater. Screening of Trailer Park of Terror with Steven Goldmann, award-winning director (learn more at http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0325935/bio). Q&A with director to follow screening.

November 4, 12-5pm, National Portfolio Day -Held in association with The National Association of Schools of Art and Design.

National Portfolio Days are held around the country and Canada to assist high school students in developing the necessary portfolio required to apply for admission to a college of art, design and film. Watkins College of Art&Design is honored to be among a select number of schools chosen to host an event for the 2007-2008 year.

Representatives from colleges will be available to critique works and advise students on how to best present their work in order to be accepted to the college of their choice.

For more details, including colleges scheduled to attend, contact the Office of Admissions at 383-4848.

November 5, 4pm, Vamp & Tramp Booksellers
Watkins College Room 502

Vicky and Bill Stewart represent 200+ contemporary fine presses and book artists. They spend much of the year traveling the US taking the works they represent to private and institutional customers. They will be at Watkins College of Art and Design talking about the burgeoning world of artists’ books and sharing examples from their inventory. Please join us for their presentation followed by a reception.

Through November 2, Graphic Design Juried Show
Watkins College of Art&Design announces the Student Graphic Design Juried Exhibition, judged by Joel Anderson of Anderson Design Group.This exhibition will run from October 5 - November 2 in the Brownlee O. Currey Jr. Gallery at the college.

October 10, 6:30pm, Artist Lecture Series features Bill Daniel and Patrick Beaulieu

The Watkins College of Art&Design’s Artist Lecture Series welcomes artists Bill Daniel and Patrick Beaulieu to Nashville to exhibit two outdoor multimedia installations. This exhibition is free and open to the public.

Daniel’s exhibit, Sunset Scavenger, is a mobile outdoor video installation projected on a 1965 Chevy sailvan schooner. Beaulieu’s mobile multimedia observatory, The Monarch Vector Project, follows the migration clouds of monarch butterflies from Canada to Mexico. His work is presented in coordination with Fugitive Projects, the Canada Art Council and the Quebec Art Council. During this event, fine arts students from the college will display their own video work on the outside walls of the school.

BREAKING NEWS: Well-known actor to visit Watkins

Anthony Azizi, an actor on series including 24 and Commander in Chief will visit the Watkins College campus to speak with students and faculty on Monday, October 1 from 1-2:30 pm. This event is open to the public.

Azizi is in town to act in a film by Andrew Newell, a professor in the Watkins Film School.

September 7-28, Annual Faculty Exhibition
September 7 - 28, Brownlee O. Currey Jr. Gallery, Watkins College. Gallery hours are Monday - Friday 8am-9pm, Saturday 10am-4pm and Sunday 2-4pm.

BREAKING NEWS- Watkins announces new degree option and record breaking entering class
Watkins is pleased to announce a record-breaking entering class - the largest in the school’s history. This semester also marks the beginning of the new Bachelor of Arts in Art degree program. To read the full press release, please click here. To read the related article in the Tennessean, please click here.

NEWS: Community Education Fall Schedule Available
The Fall Community Schedule is now available online. Classes and workshops begin as early as September 10. To view the complete schedule, click here.

BREAKING NEWS: Watkins College Announces Two Academic Partnerships
Beginning this fall, degree-seeking students from Fisk University may enroll in an 18-credit hour Minor in Film Studies or an 18-credit hour Minor in Interior Design, both taught at Watkins College. Fisk students seeking their Bachelor of Science in Art may earn their Concentration in Graphic Design by completing a 48-credit hour program, 36 hours of which will be taken at Watkins College.

Columbia State Community College students who complete a specified group of courses leading to an Associates Degree may transfer to Watkins College for an additional 66 credit hours to receive their Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Film, Graphic Design or Fine Arts.

BREAKING NEWS: Film School announces New Chair
Watkins College of Art&Design is pleased to announce the appointment of Professor Steven Womack as the Chair of the Film School. Professor Womack, an accomplished author and screenwriter, joined the faculty of the Watkins Film School in 1995. He earned his Master of Fine Arts in Writing rom Southampton College in 2003 and his BA from Tulane University . He is a member of the Writers Guild of America. To read the full press release, please click here.

BREAKING NEWS: Graphic Design Announces New Chair, Assistant Professor
Watkins College of Art&Design is pleased to announce the appointment of Associate Professor Michael Niblett as Chair of the Department of Graphic Design. Niblett, who has 25 years of experience as a practicing graphic designer, has been on the Watkins College faculty since 2003. Niblett earned his Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Oklahoma and his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Texas Christian University.

Dan Brawner, a prominent Nashville illustrator, will join the faculty of the Department of Graphic Design as an Assistant Professor. Brawner has taught a number of highly regarded illustration classes as an adjunct, and this appointment represents an expansion of his role. Brawner received his aster of Arts degree from Syracuse University and his Bachelor of Fine Arts from MTSU.

To read the full press release please click here.