Art by Carl E. Moore
March 2 – April 9, 2021 @ Slocumb Galleries
JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. — The ETSU Department of Art & Design and Slocumb Galleries present “ART NOW America: National Juried Art Exhibition” from March 2 to April 9 at the Slocumb Galleries. This year’s juror is artist, writer, educator and curator Mike Calway-Fagen, who selected 37 contemporary artists out of 139 submissions for this year’s exhibition. He will present a virtual talk March 24, from 5 to 7 p.m. via ZOOM ID 710 908 4999.
Art NOW America stems out from the long standing 35 years of Positive/Negative, an annual, open national juried exhibitions that provided survey of contemporary art in the U.S. The current Art NOW America continues its commitment to provide platform for excellent, creative and innovative work by contemporary artists living in the US that provide the academic and regional communities' access for critical discourse through art.
The participating artists are J. Bradley Adams, John Allen, Scott Andrew, Jose Santos P. Ardivilla, Ryan Borzoie, Maggie Callahan, Hector Carmona Miranda, Nathan Carroll, Suzanne Dittenber, William T. Dooley, Asha Glover, Jenne Glover, Robly Glover, Aspen Golann, Jenny Hager, Nora Hartlaub, Caroline Hatfield, Holland Hopson, Newel Hunter, Christine Kuhn, Jeremy Lange, Matthew LaPaglia, Tasha Lewis, Beauvais Lyons, Carl E. Moore, Katie Murphy, Joe Nolan, Ray Ogar, Evie Richner, Jesse Ring, Lilly Saywitz, Nancy Slagle, John Thrasher, Scott Vander Veen, Kaley Waters, Mark Williams and Hannah Alex Younger.
Calway-Fagen is an artist, writer, curator and educator who received his BFA from University of Tennessee, with MFA from the University of Calitornia, San Diego, and attended Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture. Recent exhibitions include Horse and Pony in Berlin; MASS Gallery in Austin, Texas; University of Arizona; University of Nevada, Las Vegas; Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia; with upcoming solo exhibitions at ArtSpace in Raleigh, North Carolina; with Tiger Strikes Asteroid, SOIL in Seattle; and Texas Tech University. He attended residencies at Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts, and Sculpture Space in Utica, New York, among others. He has lectured at Yale University, Universities of California, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and institutions in Tennessee, Oregon, Ohio, Alabama and Georgia. Calway-Fagen is co-organizing a symposium and contributing to a book on humor and art, that accompany a traveling exhibition currently staged at the Pensacola Museum of Contemporary Art. He was former Head of Sculpture at the University of Georgia in Athens, prior to accepting the post at Stove Works.
The Slocumb Galleries are partially funded by the Tennessee Arts Commission's Arts Project Support and Arts Build Communities grants, the Arts Grant from the East Tennessee Foundation and the ETSU Student Academic Allocation Committee. It is recipient of Award of Excellence for Exhibition Programming and Award of Commendation for Publication from the Tennessee Association of Museums in 2020. Located at 232 Sherrod Drive, ETSU campus, gallery hours are Mondays through Fridays from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., with extended hours via appointment. All events are open to the public free of charge. For more information, email contrera@etsu.edu.
Category: Exhibits
