EAST TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY — DEPARTMENT OF ART & DESIGN
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APRIL 14–15, 2023
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Iterations is a two-day, total arts conference engaging students with communities of professional art and design practice.
The conference is centered on multi-disciplinary artists, designers, makers, career paths, and opportunities.
Programming includes speakers, panels, workshops, portfolio reviews, and social experiences.
Iterations was created for students, thus entry for students is FREE. However, space is limited and all attendees must register to attend. Attendees that register as a student must present a student ID to confirm student status.
Iterations was created for students, yet professionals are welcome and encouraged to attend. With two days of original programming, Iterations is a great professional development value for artists and designers.
Jonathan Adams is a contemporary artist exploring expanded drawing and the Arrowmont School of Art and Craft's Scholarship Awards & Outreach Manager. His drawing interests surround myth, religion, emotional health,comics, communication, and wonder; he lives with his family in Knoxville, TN.
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Natalia Arbelaez is a multi-discipline artist who often uses clay historically, conceptually, and/or physically in her practice. She uses her work to create narratives from her family stories, Colombian history, pre-Columbian ancestry, and childhood cartoons to create a multicomponent self-portrait.
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Jamaal Barber is a creative imaginative soul who was born in Virginia and raised in North Carolina. In 2013, after seeing a screen printing demo at a local art store, Jamaal started experimenting with printmaking and made it his primary focus. His woodcuts and mixed media prints can be seen on display at ZuCot Gallery. They have also been included in the Decatur Arts Festival, Atlanta Print Biennial Show and at various art shows around the Metro Atlanta area. Additionally, Jamaal has done work for Twitter, the New York Times, Penguin Random House, Black Art in America and Emory University.
In 2004, Jamaal moved to Atlanta, GA where he now resides with his wife and two children.
Kate Bingaman-Burt is a multi-disciplinary artist, illustrator, and educator based in Portland, Oregon. Kate’s teaching focuses on helping others find their creative voice and empowering people through making marks, making zines, and making prints!
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Shae Bishop, originally from Louisville Kentucky, earned his BFA in ceramics and art history at the Kansas City Art Institute. He has done residencies and research around the world and is currently based in North Carolina where he co-founded the collective Treats Studios.
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Art Brown is an award-winning graphic designer and printmaker working in Northeast Tennessee. He holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from ETSU, and his artwork has been exhibited across the United States and as far away as Australia. When outside of the computer lab, he creates relief prints that combine images of dark, robotic creatures and letterpress wood type.
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Michael Dickins is an interdisciplinary artist, curator and director. He has over 15 years of experience directing both commercial and institutional art galleries and has worked with numerous artists working in a variety of media.
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Isaac Duncan III, a Brooklyn, New York native, of Caribbean decent, that operates his Tennessee studio, Duncan Sculpture & Services, where he creates large scale sculpture and fabrication projects. Duncan large scale sculptures have been collected by Georgia Institute of Technology, Georgia, Lexington Diagnostic Center, Kentucky, African-American HeritageCenter, Kentucky, Columbia State College, Tennessee, City of Chattanooga, Tennessee, Erlanger Children’s Hospital Kennedy Outpatient Center and Le Domaine Forget, Quebec, Canada and numerous private art collectors.
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Annie Evelyn is a furniture maker, educator, event organizer, and non-profit administrator. She is head of the Wood Department at Tennessee Tech University, and co-founder and Development Director of Crafting the Future. Evelyn has been working to create community throughout her artistic practice, mentoring teens, teaching art and upholstery in community and youth centers, as well as putting on arts-based events across the country. She is the Development Director for Crafting the Future, an organization she co-founded in 2019 with a dedicated group of artists from Penland School of Craft.
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Rick Griffith is a British-West-Indian designer, collagist, writer, letterpress printer, and optimist futurist based in Denver, Colorado. He is a columnist for PRINTmag.com, 2-time programming chair for the AIGA National Conference. He is a founder and partner with Debra Johnson of the graphic design consultancy MATTER.
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Katie Hargrave is a multi-disciplinary artist and professor based in Chattanooga, TN. Her personal work explores the culture surrounding US politics and her collaborative work with Meredith Laura Lynn responds to so-called public lands.
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Katie Murphy holds a BFA in Studio Art from East Tennessee State University and is currently pursuing an MFA in Studio Art from Maryland Institute College of Art. Murphy is a painter working with ideas of personal feminism. She grew up in Mississippi where cultural norms and expectations had a profound impact on her and continue to provide avenues to questioning and rethinking contemporary womanhood. Questions of propriety and inhabited space inform her expressive figurative paintings. Murphy currently lives and works in Johnson City, TN.
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Kristen Necessary is an artist-printmaker raised in the mountains of southwest Virginia. These days, you’ll most likely find her at Starfangled Press, a quirky art and gift shop inside a working printmaking studio in Brevard, NC.
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Victoria Sambunaris photographs the continuing transformation of the American landscape with specific attention given to expanding political, technological, and industrial interventions. Her work has been widely exhibited in museums and galleries throughout the United States and abroad. She is the recipient of numerous awards including the 2021 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship and the Anonymous Was a Woman Award. Radius Books Published her first monograph Taxonomy of a Landscape. She is represented by Yancey Richardson Gallery in NewYork.
Learn MoreCheck-in and registration will be held in the lobby of Ball Hall.
Iterations
Annie Evelyn
Build Community Wherever You Go: Annie Evelyn will discuss the importance of bringing people together to share experiences and ideas, celebrate, and try and make the world better.
Isaac Duncan III
Being a Steward for the Arts: Duncan will talk about his experience as a member of the arts community that believes making, displaying, and selling art is not "just enough" in educating, inspiring and sharing art in our communities.
Kristen Necessary
You Can’t Fail At An Experiment: Adventures in building community at Starfangled Press—a big dream driven by the simple belief that art makes life better, and a mission to connect more art to your everyday experience with prints that are both fine and affordable.
There are several food options on campus and within walking distance to campus. Attendees may also choose to venture downtown to find lunch.
Welcome to the Outlet Risograph Basics course: a printing, collage, experimentation, and mark-making extravaganza! Get to learn about Outlet and the amazing print machine that is the Riso! In this workshop you will learn the basics of this fun and unique print method with Kate Bingaman-Burt!
This workshop is a great place to start if you’re new to Riso, or if you’d like a refresher! We’ll take a deep dive into Risograph history, an overview of how these machines work, the stencil-duplicator process, and the quirks and fun (sometimes unpredictable) outcomes of Riso printing. The main focus of this class is EXPERIMENTATION. We’ll share print and zine inspiration, favorite mark-making tools and how to use them for Riso, and we’ll walk through a print demo on two of our Riso printers!
This class culminates in making a printed mark-making worksheet and a 2-color Riso print edition—we also do a share-out and print exchange so you can take home a copy of everyone else’s prints from the class (your own starter print collection)!
Taxonomy of a Landscape: Victoria Sambunaris structures her life around a photographic journey traversing the American landscape for several months per year. Her project-based photographs document the continuing transformation of the American landscape with specific attention given to expanding political, technological and industrial interventions.
Presenters from the days activities will come together for a Q & A session with conference attendees. Presenters and attendees will have a chance to reflect on the days conversations and connect for movement into the evening's social gatherings.
Johnson City Public Art Committee (JCPA) will lead a guided tour of local public art in the Downtown Johnson City area, specifically Founders Park and King Commons. Interested attendees should meet at the Farmer’s Market Pavilion in the center of Johnson City.
Community
ETSU Graphic Design BFA Portfolio Exhibition
Slocumb Galleries, 232 Sherrod Drive
Conditional Surroundings
Environmental Exhibit curated by Shai Perry and Brooke Day
Tipton Gallery, 126 Spring Street
Mr. December: The Life, Art, & Experience of William Nealy
Tune in on My Memories: The Work and Play of Richard Blaustein
Old Deery Inn & Museum: Tennessee Antiquities & the Social Life of Stories
Spring 2023 Senior BFA Exibition
Reece Museum, 363 Stout Dr
Hybridity
ETSU Core Student Exhibition, Opening Reception, 6–8 p.m.
Fischman Gallery / Atelier 133, 133 N. Commerce Street
Message 2023
Melissa Kay Glaze
JC Small Art Gallery / Atlantic Ale House, 111 McClure Street
!!! Panic Loop !!!
Sage Perrott
JC Small Art Gallery / Crumb Bakeshop, 500 W. Walnut Street
Same/Other
ETSU Student Painting & Drawing Association Juried Exhibition
Nelson Fine Art & Framing, 205 Colonial Way
Join us for socializing in downtown Johnson City with presenters and conference attendees.
Check-in and registration will be held in the lobby of Ball Hall.
Navigating Space: A presentation that includes intimate narratives to historical research. Natalia includes her research of ancestral histories, pop culture influences of American cartoons, and dance music. She will talk about navigating spaces and using resources as a part of her practice.
Shae Bishop
Ceramic Wear: In this talk Shae will discuss his work at the intersection of ceramics and textiles. He will discuss the influence of historical research and travel on his practice, and how he uses writing and photography to create context for his work.
Michael Dickins
Moving Aside: This talk will discuss how this artist’s multi-disciplinary practice has given insight into the self-realization that the best use of his voice is not through new works of art but through his generosity, reciprocity, time, and energy in making space for others to start the conversation.
Katie Hargrave
Prismatic Practice: This talk will highlight the benefits of multi-disciplinary practices and discuss ways to find legibility when the work crosses media and conceptual boundaries.
There are several food options on campus and within walking distance to campus. Attendees may also choose to venture downtown to find lunch.
Black Baby Project: Screenprinting workshop.
Presenters from the days activities will come together for a Q & A session with conference attendees. Presenters and attendees will have a chance to reflect on the days conversations and connect for movement into the evening's social gatherings.
Students, don't miss this great opportunity to have your portfolio reviewed by working art and design professionals. Space is limited, so please indicate your interest to participate during the registration process.
Bring an organized digital or physical portfolio to share. Discussion time is limited, so we recommend bringing no more than 5–10 pieces for review. Documentation is acceptable in cases where large scale or delicate pieces are prohibitive to present.
Portfolio Reviewers
Jonathan Adams
Art Brown
Katie Murphy
Location
Mulligan's Gaming Pub
308 E. Main St.
Johnson City, TN 37604
(423) 406–1580
Join us for socializing in downtown Johnson City with presenters and conference attendees.
Ernest C.Ball Hall
232 Sherrod Drive
Johnson City, TN 37614
Flying to Campus
Tri-City Regional Airport (TRI)
Approx. 12 miles from campus
Asheville Regional Airport (AVL)
Approx. 60 miles from campus
McGhee Tyson Airport, Knoxville (TYS)
Approx. 98 miles from campus
Greenville Spartanburg Int'l Airport, Greenville (GSP)
Approx. 98 miles from campus
Driving to Campus
From the north, south, west, use I-81
Take exit 57A onto I-26 toward Johnson City/Asheville. Take exit 24 onto University Parkway and follow the signs to campus. ETSU will be located on your left.
From the east, use I-26
Take Exit 24, turning left onto University Parkway. Follow the signs to campus. The campus will be on your left.
Iterations conference attendees may park in the Faculty/Staff and Student lots while displaying a valid parking permit. Please print, fold, and display the permit date side up on the front driver’s side dashboard of the vehicle when parked on campus. Please review all procedures listed on the back of the permit. Please note that Visitor Parking Permits are not for use by ETSU faculty/staff or students.
Download PermitThose needing accessible parking, may park in designated accessible space with their existing placard.
More information can be found on the ETSU parking website.
211 Mockingbird Lane
Johnson City, TN 37604
(423) 929–2000
Register before March 17, 2023, to receive the $105 ETSU Art & Design Iterations Conference group rate.
Atlantic Ale House
111 McClure Street
Johnson City, TN 37604
Crumb Bakeshop
500 W. Walnut Street
Johnson City, TN 37604
Iterations is created and directed by professors Sage Perrott and Johnathon Strube at East Tennessee State University. Iterations is provided as a service to the Appalachian highlands art and design community—created to support both students and professionals alike.