The Muse Artist Lecture Series is geared towards artists and students
who have a strong interest in the arts. This particular series focuses
on professional artists and critics who are dealing with contemporary
ideas and trends in art. Participating lecturers are both regional and
national and offer various perspectives that are not always available
to our membership or the general public. The lectures are free and open
to the public. Past visiting artists include Chakia Booker, Kojo
Griffin, Hamlet Dobbins, and Bill Thelen. The Muse Lecture series is produced by both AVA and the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga's Department of Art.
PAST MUSE EVENTS
Chris Scarborough Seminar & Lecture
Utilizing diverse elements ranging from Japanese pop
culture and art historical references, to science fiction, Chinese
propaganda posters, and real life experiences, Scarborough creates a
pluralistic body of work that examines the effects of what happens when
the boundaries of culture and context cross paths and erode. Working
fluently in both photography and drawing, Scarborough is known for his
meticulously constructed and detailed images of people and objects that
have been fastidiously manipulated to reveal and deconstruct
preconceived cultural concepts of beauty and perfection.
Chris Scarborough currently resides in Nashville. He has been the
recipient of numerous awards including the Tennessee Arts Commission
Individual Artist Fellowship. His work has been exhibited in New York,
Chicago, Miami, Los Angeles, D.C., Atlanta, New Orleans and Nashville.
He received his BFA from Savannah College of Art and Design and has been
featured in Art Papers, Alarm Magazine, Hi-Fructose Magazine, NY
Magazine and New American paintings.
Chris Scarborough will be presenting a professional development
seminar and a lecture on his work and his creative process at the UTC
Fine Arts Center. Both events are free and open to the public.
Wednesday, March 31
UTC Fine Arts Center, Room 356
11:00am-1:00pm - Professional Development Seminar
Thursday, April 1
5:30-7pm - Lecture
Free and open to the public
Amy Pleasant Seminar & Lecture
The Association for Visual Arts and the University of Tennessee at
Chattanooga Department of Art invite you to this year’s Muse Artist
Lecture featuring Birmingham based artist, Amy Pleasant.
Pleasant’s work explores the simple and mundane everyday acts that
permeate our daily lives. From private moments to the routine acts of
sleep and rest, Pleasant examines the idea of intimacy and anonymity
while concurrently allowing the viewer to project their own identity on
the work in question. Pleasant’s work continually shifts scale from
intimate to vast, simultaneously anchoring and opening each
composition, while placing the viewer at close range.
Amy Pleasant received her BFA from the School of the Art Institute
of Chicago and her MFA from the Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA.
Pleasant has exhibited nationally and internationally at venues such as
Jeff Bailey Gallery, NY, The Columbus Museum of Art, GA, The Wiregrass
Museum of Art, Dothan, AL, The National Museum of Women in the Arts,
Washington, D.C., The Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, GA, The
Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC, The Art
Museum of the University of Memphis, TN, The Mobile Museum of Art,
Mobile, AL, The U.S. Embassy, Prague, Czech Republic, and The
Huntsville Museum of Art, Hunstville, AL. Pleasant’s work has been
reviewed in Art in America(2004), and Art Papers (2005/2003) and is
included in numerous collections throughout the country.
Thursday, April 2, 2009
11am - Professional Development Seminar, AVA Center
5:30pm - Lecture, UTC Fine Arts Center, Room 356
Free and open to the public
PAST MUSE EVENTS