News from Art & Art History

Chattanooga’s 10x10 festival features work by Greg Pond

2012-04-22T03:34:46Z

From the Chattanooga Chamber web site: "(from Wednesday, April 18 to April 21) The Walnut Street Bridge Amphitheater will feature a musical installation by (sculpture, video and electronic media professor) Greg Pond in which strings are strung from the bridge into a giant harp-like instrument that will be played remotely with a controller."

US News & WR mentions Sewanee, Environment and Art

2012-04-22T03:02:47Z

Newly appointed professor of drawing and painting, Jessica Wohl, has her class featured in a recent US News and Word Report article.

Prof Jessica Wohl jurors Watkins Exhibition

2012-03-07T16:29:04Z

Watkins College of Art, Nashville, 2012 student show juror is Jessica Wohl, Brown Foundation Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor of Art at Sewanee. Originally trained as an illustrator, her current studio practice includes drawing, painting, collage, installation and performance. Wohl holds a BFA from Kansas City Art Institute and an MFA from the University of Georgia, and has studied at Studio Art Centers International in Florence, Italy.

Sanford Biggers at Univesity Art Gallery and Carlos Gallery

2012-02-05T06:25:28Z

The University Art Gallery of the University of the South presents "Sanford Biggers: Moon Medicine," an exhibition of recent work by the internationally acclaimed artist Sanford Biggers, curated by Miki Garcia, Executive Director of the Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum. "Moon Medicine" will be staged in both the University Art Gallery and in the Carlos Gallery of the Nabit Art Building on the campus of the University of the South. "Moon Medicine" opens to the public on Friday, February 17th at 4:30 with a talk by Biggers and Garcia, and a reception in Convocation Hall.

Greg Pond Video Screened in Trench Town, Kingston, Jamaica

2012-04-10T14:02:58Z

On Friday, January 7th at the Alton Ellis/ Trench Town Community Center in Kingston, Jamaica, the film "Born in Trench Town," was shown to an enthusiastic crowd of over one hundred and fifty local residents. Kids, adults, Sewanee students and staff gathered to view the film, produced by Professor Greg Pond.

Rachel Malde (c’00) exhibition

2012-01-27T19:59:23Z

JUMP: Photographs from Kingston, Jamaica. On view at Stirling’s Gallery, January 16 - March 25, 2012. Opening reception Thursday, February 2, 4:00-5:30. Sewanee, Tennessee. Photographs by Rachel Nance Malde (c2000), taken in the Trenchtown and Riverton neighborhoods of Kingston, while accompanying a University of the South outreach trip in January of 2011. "The Outreach program has a long connection with these neighborhoods, and as a result, I met community leaders, teachers, and families that I would not have known otherwise." In March of this year, Malde and a colleague will travel with eleven students from St. Andrew’s-Sewanee School to Kingston on another service trip with plans to reconnect with some of the children she met there a year ago. Proceeds from the sales of these photographs will support the St. Andrew’s-Sewanee School service trip to Kingston.

Lexi Namer (C’10) and Paul Dixon (C’10) exhibitions

2012-01-25T17:09:01Z

In 2007 and 2008, Sewanee students and photographers Paul Dixon and Lexi Namer traveled to Peru and Sierra Leone with the hope that photography could heal the scars of violence. Dixon traveled to Sierra Leone to work with iEarn, an organization in the capital of Freetown that uses education to rehabilitate youth who have suffered from war and its effects. Namer worked in Ayacucho with La Casa Hogar Los Gorriones, an orphanage in the poorest district of the town, taking in children from broken, weakened, and dysfunctional families, many of whom are disabled. February 21 – March 9, 2012 at The Wix Lounge, NYC Opening reception February 23: RSVP

Dr. Gregory Clark publishes catalog entries for the exhibition Flemish Miniatures: 1404-1482

2012-01-25T16:51:20Z

Gregory Clark wrote two artists' biographies and eight individual manuscript entries for the catalog that will accompany the exhibition "Flemish Miniatures 1404-1482." The exhibition is currently on view in Brussels at the Royal Library of Belgium and will run through December 30, 2011. The exhibition will travel to Paris and be on view at the National Library of France from 6 March to 10 June 2012. Dr. Clark will also speak at the exhibition colloquium in Brussels on November 18, 2011.

Sara Terry: Fambul Tok - photographs about truth-telling and forgiveness

2011-09-16T17:44:47Z

The Department of Art and Art History presents Sara Terry's photographs from an award winning film project about the ancient practice of 'fambul tok', of resolving conflict through conversation. September 15 to 24 2011 Carlos Gallery - Nabit Art Building 105 Kennerly Road University of the South Sewanee, Tennessee Mon - Fri 8:00AM - 5:00PM, Sat and Sun 1:00 - 5:00PM

Assistant Prof. Jessica Wohl exhibition at Converse College

2011-08-27T23:18:25Z

Milliken Art Gallery at Converse College, Spartanburg, SC, will host a selection of drawings by Brown Foundation Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor Jessica Wohl from Aug. 25 through Sept. 22. Titled Obsessive Constructs, the exhibition explores suburban life and how, in Wohl’s words, “Our obsessively crafted, exterior shells pleasantly conform to the masses so that we may be individuals behind closed doors.” Gallery hours are Monday—Friday, 9:00 am—5:00 pm, and Sunday 2:00—5:00 pm.

Greg Pond exhibits at the Knoxville Museum of Art

2011-08-27T23:25:13Z

The three Tennessee artists selected for the Knoxville Museum of Art's "Contemporary Focus 2011" exhibit use materials from traditional paint on canvas to zip-ties to computer sound software. Now in its third year, "Contemporary Focus" is the museum-created series dedicated to showing art by East Tennessee emerging artists who work in experimental ways. The exhibit looks to recognize, support and document art that pushes the artistic envelope. What's shown here may not find a home in more traditional galleries. It's important to offer such a venue for experimental area artists, says KMA Curator Stephen Wicks. The artists selected for the annual exhibit are Brian R. Jobe of Knoxville, Greg Pond of Sewanee, Tenn., and John Bissonette of Knoxville.

Fall 2011 Art 103: Intro. to Lens and Time (photography and digital art) media

2011-08-25T15:26:00Z

The department of Art and Art History will be offering two sections of Art 103: Introduction to Lens and Time-based Media. Course web site

Jessica Wohl exhibition in Nashville

2011-08-25T15:32:57Z

Visiting assistant professor Jessica Wohl and Adjunct visiting instructor (Fall 2010) Justin Plakas to exhibit at Zeitgeist Gallery, Nashville