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BFA senior Jarrod Holloway's thesis exhibition is on view at the Slocumb Galleries from November 15 - 23, 2021.  His photographic series, Chemical Cohabitation , focuses on the town of Kingsport, Tennessee, where he grew up. The images expire the socio-economic impact of the multimillion-dollar chemical company, Eastman, which is central to the town - a chemical plant so large that it is virtually its own city. This chemical company has a significant impact on the people who live in the area: through these photos, her shows the difference between social class in the Tri-Cities and how Eastman defines the lives of those who live near or work in the chemical plant. The photographs examine the many different kinds of houses and how different communities coexist in such a small area. The images of houses and the factory show a division of class created by the hierarchy of Eastman's employees and their various jobs. Eastman has an impact on most people who lives in Kingsport - even...

TEMA STAUFFER: SOUTHERN FICTION November 5 - December 23, 2021 Reception for the Artist: Friday, November 5, 6-8pm Tracey Morgan Gallery is pleased to present a selection of large-format color photographs from Tema Stauffer's ongoing series, Southern Fiction . This is Stauffer's second solo exhibition with the gallery. Southern Fiction traces the literary landscape of the American South, investigating sites which were formative to canonical fiction writers of the region such as William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, Harper Lee, Truman Capote, Alice Walker, and Flannery O'Connor, among others. An affinity for the works of these iconic writers has informed Stauffer's photographer practice, and her road trips through rural Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia are pilgrimages of sorts. Her resulting images capture a fascination with the beauty, mystery, and layered complexity of the South. Paramount to the works of many Southern writers is a strong sense of place, and Stauffer's...

William Arrowood's series of photographs, Essential,  is on view in the Spring 2021 Bachelor of Fine Arts Senior Exhibition at the Reece Museum from March 29 - April 30. Essential is a look into the home-improvement retail industry impacted by the COVID-19 crisis. William's series documents what retail workers struggled with on a daily basis, such as the enhanced safety measures, stock level issues, empty shelves, and social distancing. Being part of this business provided William an insider's view and greater accessibility to observe the trials of the retail environment during the pandemic. Throughout this project, William strives to create compelling images that show the extent of how these environments have changed and how the employees are coping in such times. William previously received a Presidential Purchase Award selection in the 2018 ETSU BFA Honor Show and will be graduating with his Bachelor of Fine Arts in May 2021. 

Meg Roussos, Pseudo Night, 1 , 2018, Archival Pigment Print  B L A Z E Meg Roussos Tipton Gallery September 19 - October  4, 2019 Closing Reception on Friday, October 4, 6-8pm Tipton Gallery is excited to announce Meg Roussos' solo exhibition, B L A Z E, comprising four different series of work made over this past year.  For their exhibition, Roussos uses the landscape as her backdrop and walking as the foundation to explore various experiences in the landscape from the highly personal to the social and technological. Rousso' artistic practice is cultivated from personal experiences in the wilderness.  She discovered that her artistic approach need to be physical.  Her art requires trekking in the landscape, often alone in unideal conditions. She carries her camera, introduces human-made entities into the landscape, or methodically walks a hillside.  Roussos works across multiple disciplines to allow her ideas to take form in photographic prints...

Tema Stauffer | UPSTATE Tracey Morgan Gallery, Asheville, NC April 12 - May 25 Reception for the artist: Friday, April 12, 6-8pm ETSU's Assistant Professor of Photography, Tema Stauffer, exhibits a selection of photographs centered on the intersection of the social, historical, and ephemeral landscape of the Hudson River Valley.   UPSTATE was recently published as a monograph with 33 color photographs by Daylight Books.

The Boone Dam Project © Jordan Whitten The ETSU Department of Art & Design and Slocumb Galleries present The Boone Dam Project exhibition by Masters of Fine Arts (MFA) candidate Jordan Whitten from March 18 - March 29 at the Tipton  Gallery. The closing reception will take place on Friday, March 29 from 6-8pm. The exhibition consists of archival inkjet prints representing a three-year exploration of immediate and residual impacts made on the environment, economy and community affected by repairs being made to the Boone Dam that have resulted in lower lake levels since 2014.   Tipton Gallery is located at 126 Spring Street, Johnson City, TN.  Gallery hours are Thursday and Fridays from 5 - 7pm, First Friday receptions, and by appointment. For more information, contact Slocumb Galleries Director Karlota Contreras-Koterbay via email (contrera@etsu.edu) or call 423.483.3179.  Parking and handicap access are available.  Please visit the ETSU...

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 ...