ETSU Photo News

Visiting artist Rachel Bolloit will present a lecture in Ball Hall Auditorium on Thursday, February 14 at 7pm.   Bolloit  is a photographer, filmmaker, and educator based in Nashville, Tennessee. She holds a BA in Sociology from Tufts University, a BFA in Photography from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and an MFA in Experimental and Documentary Arts from Duke University. Her work has been funded by the Annenberg Foundation (Los Angeles, CA), the Riverview Foundation (Chattanooga, TN), the Tennessee Arts Commission (Nashville, TN), and the National Endowment for the Arts (Washington, D.C.). She was the recipient of the 2018 PhotoNOLA Review Prize. Her monograph  Moon Shine: Photographs of the Cumberland Plateau  will be published by Daylight Books in 2019. Her talk was organized by Slocomb Galleries and generously sponsored by the  Tennessee Arts Commission for the Arts Project Support grant for Tangibility of Faith: Art ...

All Images © Cole Brash Cole Barash (b.1987) is a visual artist based in Brooklyn, NY. Barash works in digital, analog, and archival photography. Barash has published a number of books and zines in recent years that have a contemporary approach to the practice of photography by pairing imagery that opens the viewer to an engaging take on the subject matter. He was interviewed by MFA candidate Jordan Whitten for our Contemporary Photographer Series.  You worked hard to become a staple in snowboarding photography at a young age and achieved that, what caused your shift into what would be considered more of a documentary approach to photographing? My time in snowboarding (age 16-24) was nothing but learning to work really hard in the absolute worst and extreme weather conditions (blizzards, 18 hour days in sub temps, etc), making something out of nothing, as well as learning to travel efficiently and be prepared for anything.  At the time I was also given a...

After the Stroke ©  Jocelyn Mathewes Jocelyn Mathewes is a photographer and image-maker based in Appalachia whose mixed media work explores motherhood, the body and the connections between nature and faith. She graduated from Messiah College in 2004 with a BA in Studio Art & English. She has had solo and group shows locally and nationally, including New York and Chicago. Her work also appears in publications such as The Hand, F-Stop and Photographer’s Forum. She was recently interviewed by MFA candidate Alice Salyer for our Contemporary Photographer Series (CPS).  While you work in various media, photography seems to be the bedrock of your artmaking. Could you talk a bit about the importance and history of photography in your life and work? Photography was my hobby in my teen years. My mother dug her old Pentax SP1000 and my dad taught me how to use it when I was about 12. I don’t remember what prompted them to do that, but soon thereafter I spent all my ...

UPSTATE: Photographs by Tema Stauffer at the Reece Museum at ETSU UPSTATE: Photographs by Tema Stauffer  is on view at the Reece Museum at East Tennessee State University from October 22 - December 14.  The Mary B. Martin School of the Arts has sponsored a lecture with photo historian Alison Nordström at the reception for this exhibition on Thursday, November 29 at 5pm.  Tema Stauffer joined ETSU in 2017 as an Assistant Professor of Photography in the Department of Art & Design.  She will present an artist talk through the Women on Wednesdays lecture series on November 7 at noon. Author Xhenet Aliu will give a reading from the foreword to Tema Stauffer's recent monograph, UPSTATE , published by Daylight Books as well as selections from her novel Brass published by Random House in 2018 on Wednesday, October 24 at 5pm.

© Matthew Brown Matthew Brown graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2015 from East Tennessee State University and is a current MFA Candidate at the University of Georgia. His work has been exhibited internationally and featured in articles by iGNANT, It’s Nice That, Ain’t Bad Magazine, Oxford American’s Eyes on the South, HuffPost, and Documentum, among others. Brown is included in the Looking At Appalachia collection, as well as the permanent collection at East Tennessee State.  Brown was recently interview by graduate student, Jordan Whitten, for our Alumni Series.  Your ongoing series, New Developments, made after graduating ETSU has an interesting push and pull from being a regional body of work like you often see made in East Tennessee. While stating it has “the “Anywhere USA” nature”; you also state that "These structures make the landscape non-specific and ubiquitous, homogenized by big box stores” in an area known for rural agriculture. Now that you ...

Carter Country, TN, 2014 © Mike Smith  Mike Smith | The Lost State of Frankland Tracey Morgan Gallery , Asheville, NC September 28th-November 3rd Reception for the artist: Friday, September 28th, 6-8 PM Mike Smith's work has been exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the San Francisco Museum of Art and the Cleveland Museum of Art. Smith has been awarded the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, 2001, Tennessee Governor's Distinguished Artist Award, 2001, and United States Artist Lowe Fellowship, 2011. His work is held in the collections of 
major museums throughout the United States including the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Houston Museum of Fine Art, and the Art Institute of Chicago. Smith's first monograph,  You’re Not From Around Here , 
was released in 2004 by Johns Hopkins University Press and the Center for American Places with an essay by R...

ETSU Photo graduate students  Jordan Whitten and Meg Roussos, along with recent graduate Bradley Marshall , will exhibit work at Fluorescent Gallery in Knoxville.  The opening reception is on Friday, June 1 from 6-9pm.