MURFREESBORO — Monday, May 12, at MTSU's Todd
Art Gallery will offer area art lovers a veritable garden of delights as a trio
of special exhibits — including two national student competitions — open to the
public through month’s end.
The top 10 works of
art created by Tennessee high school students across the state's 4th
Congressional District for the 2014 Artistic Discovery Contest will go on
display beginning at 5 p.m. May 12 with a special reception in the Todd
Gallery.
The competition's
winner also will be announced then, and he or she will be able to travel to
Washington, D.C., with a guest to see all 435 U.S. congressional district
winners on display through May 2015 in the Cannon Tunnel, a pedestrian walkway
leading to the U.S. Capitol. The local winner also will receive a scholarship
and recognition from Congressman Scott Desjarlais, R-South Pittsburg, Tenn.,
who is hosting the Todd Gallery reception.
The student artists
hail from the 16 counties that comprise the district: Bedford, Bledsoe,
Bradley, Franklin, Grundy, Lincoln, Marion, Marshall, Maury, Meigs, Moore,
Rhea, Rutherford, Sequatchie, Van Buren and Warren counties. They have created
paintings, drawings, collages, prints, mixed media, computer-generated art, and
photography to enter the contest sponsored by the U.S. House of
Representatives.
Just down the hall in
Todd Room 224A, an opening reception for "NSEW: What Grew Us," a
group exhibition by undergraduate artists across the United States, also is set
to begin at 5 p.m.
The exhibition,
curated by MTSU senior ceramics major Laura Brake and junior sculpture major
Mika Mollenkoph, consists of 32 various sized 2-D and 3-D works by student
artists showcasing their origins and how those origins have shaped their lives.
"NSEW" stands for "North South East West."
"I am excited to
see this showcase of student artwork come to fruition," Brake says.
"The planning of the show has been a several month endeavor, and … we both
are looking forward to the opening night and hope to have this show develop
into an annual show here at MTSU."
The third show is the
return of the Todd Gallery's most successful studio Bachelor of Fine Arts
Exhibition in the last 10 years, "The Best of Eye Candy." That 5 p.m.
opening reception in Todd Room 210, also known as the "210 Gallery,"
will feature “best of show" ceramics, painting, printmaking and sculptural
work from last month's popular "Eye Candy" exhibit at Todd.
The works were
created and chosen by Brake and her fellow MTSU seniors Carmen Elkins, Kayla
Connelly, Joshua Petty, Noelle Yeargins, Alex Otarola and Alison Ford.
"Not only did
(the April 2014) 'Eye Candy' surpass attendance numbers for turnout to the
opening night of a studio BFA exhibition," explains Todd Gallery Director
Eric Snyder, "but as a group, these students presented a unified body of
work that at once maintained their individuality as artists while visually
reaching a level of cohesion that many professional galleries struggle to find
with each new exhibit of work."
Each of the exhibits
will be open through Thursday, May 29.
MTSU’s Todd Art
Gallery is open from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday and is closed
on weekends and state and university holidays, including the upcoming Memorial
Day holiday May 26.
For more information,
including parking and directions, contact Snyder at 615-898-5653 or eric.snyder@mtsu.edu or visit http://www.mtsu.edu/art.
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