Kiss kid, by Scott Walker, on exhibit through Sept. 25 at City Hall Rotunda
Murfreesboro Creative Group Meet-Ups
Wednesday, Sept. 3, 5 p.m.–8 p.m. and Wednesday, Sept. 17, 5 p.m.–8 p.m.
Two-Tone Gallery, 113 W. Lytle St.
Artists of all genres meet up at Two-Tone Art Gallery bi-monthly to create. Each person brings his or her own project, and meets up with other artists to connect, learn from and support each other.
Robots!
Through Oct. 9
Mayday Brewery, 521 Old Salem Rd.
Robots will be invading Mayday Brewery! View them all through Oct 9. Support your local art community and purchase a unique piece of art. An opening reception will be held from 5–7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 4.
Diane Fox, Mass Grave, photograph
2014 MTSU Art Alumni Exhibit
Through Friday, Sept. 5
Todd Art Gallery, MTSU campus
The MTSU Department of Art presents the 2014 MTSU Art Alumni Exhibit. Curated by art alum Hans Schmitt-Matzen (who currently serves as the Frist Center for the Visual Arts’ exhibition designer), 42 works were selected from over 100 submitted for consideration. The exhibit includes ceramics, painting, printmaking, sculpture, video, photography, animation, drawing and mixed media. Participating are Anna Torrence, Barry Sparkman, Beth Keesler, Brady Haston, Carolyn Ford, Charles Clary, Charles Massey, Dan Brawner, Diane Fox, Emily Holt, Hannah Rowell, Jackson Martin, Jere Chumley, Joshua Petty, Lani Asuncion, Lisa Weiss, Mary Cunningham, McLean Fahnestock, Melody Vaughan, Nick Butcher, Patrick Brien, Paul J. Dodez, Rachel Brown Gresham, Rebecca Parker, Sarah Sullivan, Shaun MacDavid, Thomas Everett Green and Wayne White, representing graduates from each decade since the department was formed in 1959.
NOH8 Open Photo Shoot
Saturday, Sept. 6, 2–5 p.m.
Tribe Nashville, 1517 Church St., Nashville
Join the NOH8 Campaign and Human Rights Campaign for this photo shoot. Come camera-ready, wear white, pose and make a statement. Cost is $40 for a solo photo. Your photo also includes an annual #HRC membership. Celebrity photographer and NOH8 co-founder Adam Bouska will photograph 5–10 frames for each person who attends the photo shoot.For more information, e-mail info@noh8campaign.com.
Terra Cotta Warriors, Museum Xian, by Sidney McPhee
China: Through the Eyes of an American University President
Sept. 10–12
Todd Art Gallery, MTSU campus
MTSU President Sidney McPhee tells of the beauty and wonder of China’s past, its undeniable progress and evolution through photography that illustrates the people’s history, traditions and contemporary life. Comprised of 15 years of photographic work by McPhee and more than 300 images, the exhibit promotes a positive new understanding of a modern China that is a rising economic and cultural world power. The exhibit opens with a lecture at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 10. A reception for the MTSU Arts Patron Society will follow from 6–8 pm Thursday, Sept. 11.
This work by Monica Provence is part of the Art Education and the Human Figure exhibition at MTSU
Art Education and the Human Figure
Through Sept. 11
TAG 210, MTSU campus
Art Education and the Human Figure is an exhibition of works by MTSU art education majors that explore portraiture and the human form. Curated by senior art major Kelsey Rogers, the work is housed in TAG 210, the Student Art Gallery located in room 210 of MTSU’s Todd Hall. Rogers’ fellow exhibitors include Erin Porter, Gina Wills, Katie Scoggins, Leanne Hannington, Lindsey Shannon, Madison Land and Monica Provence. The selected works in this exhibition demonstrate a varied range of themes and approaches to the human form, from simple portraiture to anthropomorphized troll figures.
Greenway Arts Festival
Saturday, Sept. 20, 10 a.m.–4 p.m.
Old Fort Park, 1025 Old Fort Pkwy.
Talented artists will display and sell their work along the Greenway trail at Old Fort Park. Browse through booths of original artwork in a family-friendly setting. Free admission. Oils, acrylics, watercolors, pottery, sculpture, jewelry and other original artwork will be available, as well as music, food vendors and kids’ art activities.
Photography by Scott Walker
Through Sept. 25
City Hall Rotunda, 111 W. Vine St.
Scott Walker is the President of WGNS Talk Radio in Murfreesboro but in his spare time he explores a side of life that is invisible to the mainstream of our population. He seeks out the poorest among us. Scott photographs life, capturing addiction, homelessness, pain, happiness, and sorrow. The exhibit of Walker’s photographs and the people he befriended will be in the Rotunda at the Murfreesboro City Hall until Sept. 25. For more information, visit smalltownbigworld.com.
AJ Kiel, Mix-Up (detail), acrylic paint on canvas,
Denver, Co., Autism
In/finite Earth Coming to MTSU
Sept. 16–Oct. 1
Todd Art Gallery, MTSU campus
The MTSU Department of Art plays host to In/finite Earth, to be held Sept. 16–Oct. 1. The university is participating as one stop on a nationwide tour of artists organized by the VSA to showcase its Emerging Artist Program. The VSA, the International Organization on Arts and Disabilities, was founded by former U.S. ambassador Jean Kennedy Smith in 1974 and strives to discover and recognize young artists living with disabilities while also working to create equal access and equal opportunities for them. The organization merged with Washington D.C.’s Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in 2011. This year’s exhibit showcases 15 artists aged 16–25. The artists showcased in In/finite Earth do not allow their disabilities to handicap their lives, but rather embrace their differences and employ them in creating their art.
Identity: Who Are You?
Sept. 16–Oct. 3
TAG 210, MTSU campus
This work by the Photography Society of MTSU focuses on the contemporary challenges and perceptions of identity. The social landscape now exists in both a physical and digital version, challenging each person with new form of identity. Self-identity has always been important, but in the world of the “selfie” and the “profile” the question remains, who are you? Identity: Who Are You? is curated by senior Mass Communications major Matt Masters. An opening reception will be held Monday, Sept. 15 from 5–7 p.m.
