By Kallie Jackson

By Whitney Keels

The MTSU Department of Art and Student Art Alliance (SAA) present the third annual joint exhibition to feature the juried work of MTSU students. The SAA is an organization with membership made up of art majors and interested students who organize events that promote the making and understanding of art’s role in our academic culture and our community at large.

Participation is open to all Department of Art majors, SAA members and interested MTSU students. Terry Thacker, former chair, Department of Fine Arts, Watkins College of Art & Design will serve as the awards’ juror. Thacker is greatly involved in the arts as a painter, teacher and public speaker, whose interest in the South is as a vernacular idiom in art.

“This show gives MTSU students the opportunity to engage in the process of submitting and showing their work in a public space, as well as competing with other artists for awards,” said SAA faculty advisor John Donovan. “This process is an essential component to the professional practice of being an artist and is a valuable experience for our students.”

The exhibit will be on display in room G040 of MTSU’s Murphy Center, located near the intersection of Greenland Drive and Middle Tennessee Boulevard, through Nov. 29. The public is welcome to view the art for free.

By Justin Barker