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Fine Art, Facilities and Equipment, Watkins College of Art
Facilities & equipment

Watkins facilities put all the tools of fine arts fabrication into your hands, including 10 drawing, painting, sculpting, printmaking, and design studios, clay and metal fabrication facilities, and an outdoor work yard and casting area.

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pARTners.
Explorations in collaboration

Farthest North - Claudia O’Steen and Aly Ogasian

pARTners.
Explorations in collaboration

Stark Canvas

In their work, Farthest North, artists Claudia O’Steen and Aly Ogasian ventured to the North Pole to retrace a 19th-century explorer’s audacity and adversity.

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Stark Canvas

In their work, Farthest North, artists Claudia O’Steen and Aly Ogasian ventured to the North Pole to retrace a 19th-century explorer’s audacity and adversity.

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Faculty:
Full—and part-time faculty
along with professionals
in the field

Brady Haston

Associate Professor

Terry Thacker

Professor

Kristi Hargrove

Associate Professor and Chair

Brady Haston

Associate Professor

BFA Studio Art, Middle Tennessee State University
MFA Art, Montana State University
Following graduate school, Haston spent the next eight years in Chicago teaching at Columbia College before returning to Nashville. His shows include Paintings and Sketchbooks and Abstract Painting in Tennessee (Cheekwood Museum of Art), the Los Angeles Printmaking Society National Exhibition, The Portrait: An Investigation of the Self (Camberwell College of Art in London), Bacchanal (Appalachian Center for Crafts), Art Chicago, Intersection (Contemporary Artist Workshop in Chicago), Superstruct (PLUG Projects in Kansas City), and Up Close with Prints (Frist Center). Haston is the recipient of the 2016 Tennessee Arts Commission for painting and a 2016 Pollock-Krasner Foundation grantee. He is represented by Zeitgeist Gallery of Nashville.

Appointed in 2008

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Terry Thacker

Professor

BFA Studio Art, Austin Peay State University
MFA Studio Art, University of Tennessee- Knoxville
An artist and educator for nearly three decades, Terry Thacker has shown in numerous national and regional exhibitions at venues such as the Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Brooks Museum, Hunter Museum, Dulin Gallery, and Cheekwood. He has exhibited solo installations at Vanderbilt University, Western Kentucky University, Murray State University, Alexandria Museum, and the Memphis Center for Contemporary Art. An active lecturer and reviewer, Thacker has written for Art Papers and has lectured at the Southeastern College Art Association and the Frist Center.

Appointed in 2005

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Kristi Hargrove

Associate Professor and Chair

BA Fine Arts, Vanderbilt University
MFA Visual Arts, Vermont College of Fine Arts
Kristi Hargrove focuses her studio practice primarily on drawing, but she also investigates other media such as photography, sculpture, and installations. Hargrove has exhibited her work in numerous juried shows and invitational exhibitions across the country. She recently displayed her detailed pencil drawings in the Frist Center’s Metamorphoses exhibition. Hargrove is a member of the Nashville artist collective COOP, a curatorial group committed to presenting challenging, new, or under-represented artists and artworks in the community.

Appointed in 2008

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