'Start to See What Everybody Sees in You' by Sarah Grider
ETSU Department of Art & Design and Slocumb Galleries with support from ETSU College of Arts & Sciences, Jerry’s Artarama of Knoxville and Tennessee Craft NE TN Chapter announced the winners for the Mary & Jim Martin Student Juried Art Exhibition 2025.
The Mary & Jim Martin Student Juried Art Exhibition 2025 is an annual exhibition of ETSU students art at Slocumb Galleries. Made possible by a generous donation from a benefactor, the Department of Art & Design and Slocumb Galleries award almost $10,000 cash prizes each year. This year’s juror is Leticia Bajuyo, artist and board director of the MidSouth Sculpture Alliance. Juror Bajuyo selected 57 students out of more than 115 submissions from graduate and undergraduate students at ETSU.
The top awards were conferred to Sarah Grider for her works ‘Start to See What Everybody Sees in You’ and ‘Chasing Songbirds in My Sleep’ as Best of ShowandKatie DavidsonasFaculty Choice Awardfor her body of work ‘On the Line’ with The AccuserandBird Cage.Students Grider and Davidson received $2,000 and $1,500 respectively as purchase awards.
There were also 12Area Awardees who received $500 each for their purchase prize. The area awardees areJohn Quintin McSpaddenfor Ceramic‘Erosion’;Olivia Chaffinfor Drawing ‘Turtles’;Ellerie Spradlin, Lucy Chisholm, Micah LeggeandTori Mathesonfor Extended Media / Digital Tools animation ‘The Fox and the Crow‘;Stella Rodenbergfor Fibers‘The Quilt Eaters’;Hannah Eisenzopffor Foundations work ‘Ossis Vitae’;Haleah Maukfor Graphic Design‘Helene Poster’;Sarah Spillersfor Graduate award ‘Gas Station Chips’;Don Millerfor Jewelry/Metals ‘Lion Cuff’;Blake Sanfor Painting‘CalmLodgment’;Aydan Polsonfor Photography ‘Spectrum’;Nathan Lanningfor Printmaking ‘Gone Fishing’; andKatie Davidsonfor Sculpture ‘On the Line.’
The Tennessee Craft Northeast Tennessee Chapter also awarded the first, second and third Prizes for Craft Awards to Sarah Grider, Katie Davidson and Don Miller. The Craft awardees received membership and cash awards from Tennessee Craft. Jerrys Artarama of Knoxville also provided gift certificates to students Brianna Hagy and William Arrowood as Honorable Mention. The works including all the other students accepted in the exhibition are on display at Slocumb Galleries until May 8, with viewing hours from 9 am to 5 pm.
ETSU students who are also featured at the highly anticipated event include Cassandra Bartlett, Anastasia Boris, Catie Daniel, Alison Maddux, Lindy pass, Paidge Riegel, Elizabeth Carpenter, Xander Brown, Emma Burris, Taylor Wayne, Sara Tendulkar, Gabrielle Clark, Kinsey Lewis, Madeline Rodenberg, Emeline Sharpe, Eva Currie, Madeline Frazier, Summer Martin, Lacey Church, Alson Condon, Rebecca Cox, Kyndal Thomas, Ava Shuppert, William Arrowood, Annie Hutchins, Alysen Mathews, Bailey Adkins, Cait Maltbie, Lee Morrison, Sarah Peplow, Brooke Godwin, Brianna Hagy, Ray Scott, Injee Kim, Kellsie Hick, Madison Holman, Faith Jenkins, Alex Malina, Obsidian Ravenwood, Kamden Davis, Audrey Wood, Audrey Holladay, Trinket Callahan, Emily Pendergrass and Rebecca Tolley.
The exhibition is on view until May 9 at the Slocumb Galleries, located at Ernest C. Ball Hall, 232 Sherrod Drive, ETSU campus. For more information, email contrera@etsu.edu.
