Faculty

Full-Time

Terry Thacker (2005) – Professor and Chair – BFA Studio Art (1977) Austin Peay State University; MFA Studio Art (1980) University of Tennessee

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.

Kristi Hargrove (2008) – Assistant Professor – BA Fine Arts (1988) Vanderbilt University; MFA Visual Arts (2004) Vermont College of Fine Arts

Kristi Hargrove has over 15 years experience as an artist and educator. She has shown in numerous national and regional exhibitions.  Her practice primarily 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 investigates the ideas of language, desire, instinct, and the body.

Ronald Lambert (2008) – Assistant Professor – BFA (1997) University of Connecticut; MFA (2004) School of Art and Design at Alfred University

Brady Haston (2008) – Assistant Professor and Studio Facilities Manager – BFA Studio Art (1993) Middle Tennessee State University; MFA Art (1997) Montana State University

William Martin (2008) – Assistant Professor of Art History – BA Art History (2002) Sewanee, the University of the South; MA Art History (2005) State University of New York at Stony Brook 

Derek Cote (2009)- Assistant Professor -  BFA Western Washington University; MFA Virginia Commonwealth University

Adjunct

Madeline Reed (1986) – Professor – BS Art Education (1978) George Peabody College; MFA Art Education (1981) Maryland Institute College of Art

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 Chair of the Department of Art 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.

Elizabeth Sanford – BA Fine Arts (1976) University of Virginia; MFA Painting (1980) East Carolina University

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.

Rob McClurg – BFA Ceramics (1978) East Texas State University; MFA Ceramics (1985) Texas A&M University. Post Graduate studies: School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Penland School of Crafts NorthCarolina

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 shows

James Darr -BFA (2003) in Sculpture Herron School of Art and Design; MFA (2005) in Sculpture, University of Delaware

Farrar Hood - BA Fine Arts (1998) Sewanee, The University of the South; MFA (2004) Pratt Institute

Jonathan Bowers - BFA in Painting University of Tennessee at Chattanooga; MFA in Painting New York Academy of Art

Robert Sack - BA English (1990) Boston College; MFA (2004) School of the Art Institute of Chicago