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Locate Arts Co-Director Brian R. Jobe visited 7 of the MFA Studios at the University of Tennessee School of Art in Knoxville on Friday, September 16, 2016. We're happy to share the travel log with you! Tom Wixo, studio visit (9-16-16)Austin Pratt, studio visit (9-16-16) [also includes header image]MaryAnne Carey, studio visit (9-16-16)Abigail Lucien, studio visit (9-16-16)Cassidy Frye, studio visit (9-16-16)Erica Mendoza, studio visit (9-16-16)Johanna Winters, studio visit (9-16-16)

Jason Sheridan Brown received his M.F.A. from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1999, and has been teaching Sculpture at the University of Tennessee since 2001. Brown’s artwork has been exhibited nationally, including solo and group exhibits in Arizona, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Virginia and West Virginia. Recent public art projects include large-scale outdoor sculpture installations at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota; North Carolina Arboretum in Asheville, No...

Jennifer Danos (b. Chicago) comes to Chattanooga by way of Berlin, Germany, where she lived for almost three years working as a professional artist, gallery assistant, and translator. Jennifer also participated in a six-month artist residency at Kuenstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral in Bad Ems where she created new site-specific installations for locations throughout Europe, such as the Staatskanzlei Mainz, Artissima Art Fair in Torino, the Thermen am Viehmarkt in Trier, and Mila Kunstgalerie in Berlin. She has shown nationally and internationally...

A native of Mississippi, Marlos E’van; painter, musician, filmmaker, honed his signature style of obsessive scribbling, found materials, and commercial imagery while observing cultures in different cities and communities across America. E’van earned his BA from Watkins College of Art in 2016 and resides in Nashville where he currently has a residency at the McGruder Center. Both he and his work are being nationally recognized as an important voice on cultural and social commentary. Growing up in Mississippi, E’van wa...

My work is about the places where the concerns of modernist painting meet my own experiences and the physical reality of the body. Often the subject matter is a visual bridge between painting tropes and the objects of everyday life. The lines of a lawn chair seat serves as a veiled reference to the grid, and its breakdown – presumably by human weight – to an imagined encounter with the human body. Eleanor Aldrich - studio visit July 2016 My work is textural and...

As an artist I make paintings that exist in the sliver of space between abstraction and representation. I look to the lived daily experience of the world coupled with the artifacts of the past. My work compresses time into the surface and touch of painting, that old technology. Increasingly flora, fauna, and natural phenomenon have held my attention as I wrestle with this imagery within my paintings. Birds, plants, flowers, stones, and fires dissolve into the light of the screen,...

My work is a glimpse into the experiences and circumstances of African Americans throughout history. My work reveals the peculiar history and circumstances of African Americans, as well as addresses the lack of attempts to understand people of color. This work is being created from the point of view of a young black man, who grew up with constant awareness of his “otherness”. Being raised in an all white neighborhood, being told by kids parents that I couldn’t play with t...

Century Zoo VII Century Zoo VII (Preparations) Studio - July 2016 Andrew Scott Ross received his BFA from the Atlanta College of Art, and his MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He subsequently studied at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Ross has exhibited throughout the United States and abroad including; The Museum of Arts and Design in New York, The Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia in Atlanta, The Guggenheim Museum in New York, The...