The annual international FL3TCH3R Exhibit thanks the following for their assistance with the exhibition and the various associated activities. We appreciate everyone's collaboration and assistance in making the exhibit a success. |
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Wesam Mazhar Haddad: |
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Wesam Mazhar Haddad has 25 years of experience in the advertising and design industry where he worked with many worldwide agencies such as SAATCHI & SAATCHI, TEAM Y&R, Publicis Graphics, and M&C SAATCHI. Moreover, Haddad is a Social Poster Designer, and International (Artist, Curator, Jury, Lecturer, Speaker, Awards Winner, and Exhibitor). He won more than 72 global awards in the USA, UK, Italy, Spain, France, Germany, Poland, Belgium, Austria, Slovakia, Ukraine, Russia, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, China, Ecuador, Mexico, Egypt, and Jordan. Haddad is an invited Jury, Speaker, and Critic at many institutions such as International Design Center Nagoya "IdcN", The Visual Communication Centre-Jordan, Temple University, San Jose State University, Pratt Institute, A' Design Award, and Graphis NY. | |||||
MICHAEL RAY CHARLES: |
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Michael Ray Charles is a contemporary American painter. His work explores historic African American stereotypes from the Antebellum South, appropriating images from advertising and pop culture to expose the underlying racism prevalent in contemporary culture. Mr. Charles is the Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Distinguished Professor of Painting since 2014 at the University of Houston’s School of Art. In 2001, Charles was part of the first group of artists to participate in the PBS series titled Art21. He has exhibited internationally, notably in the Austin Museum of Art, the Knox Art Gallery, and The Museum of Modern Art in New York. |
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CARLTON WILKINSON 2020 FL3TCH3R EXHIBIT Juror |
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Carlton Wilkinson is a photographer whose dramatic images reflect contemporary life and its relationship to the African American experience. His work has won the Tennessee Arts Commission Fellowship and a number of art competition awards as well as being included in major collections such as the Schomburg Center in New York, Gaylord Entertainment, and BellSouth, in Nashville. He is the founder and past-president of the Nashville African American Arts Association and owner of In The Gallery, a contemporary art space. |
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2019 JUROR : SUE COE | |||||||
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Sue Coe is one of the foremost political artists working today. Sue has trained her gaze on a wide variety of ills from the first, translating such diverse topics as the perils of apartheid, the life of Malcolm X, and the horror that is the American meat industry into artworks, exhibitions and books. An illustrator with politically pointed illustrations gracing the pages of a variety of disparate publications, including The New YorkTimes, the New Yorker, Rolling Stone, Entertainment Weekly, The Progressive, The Nation among countless others. Her work appeared in numerous museum collections and exhibitions, including retrospective at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington. Ms. Coe’s work received rave reviews in her recent solo exhibition at MoMA PS1. |
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2018 JURORS CHERYL GOLDSLEGER & LARRY MILLARD | |||||||
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2017 JUROR DR. ANITA KUNZ | |||||||
Dr. Anita Kunz - Kunz has lived in London, New York, and Toronto. She has been widely published in Germany, Japan, Sweden, Canada, France, England, and others world wide. Kunz's work has been seen in Time magazine, Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, GQ, The New York Times, and many others. Her work has been featured in articles in Graphis and Novumgebrauchsgrafik magazines (Switzerland), Communication Arts, and others worldwide. |
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2016 JUROR DR. ERIC AVERY | |||||||
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Dr. Eric Avery |
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2015 JUROR, JOYCE OQDEN | |||||||
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Joyce Ogden, artist based in Southern Indiana whose work explores the human relationship to nature, time, and space. She has exhibited at the Carnegie Center for Art and History, Morlan Gallery, Barr Gallery, Indiana University Southeast, Cressman Center for the Visual Arts, University of Louisville; Zephyr Gallery; Owensboro Museum, Speed Museum, Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, among others.
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2015 Guest Artist/Presenter |
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2014 JUROR, ELLIOTT EARLS | |||||||
2014 juror, Elliott Earls, is Artist-in-Residence and head of the Graduate Graphic Design Department at Cranbrook Academy of Art. Earls work as a designer, performer and artist is represented in major collections including the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, The Wolfsonian Museum and The Miami Art Museum. Art Base, Masion des arts de Créteil, Music Hall, Detroit, and Triennale Museum in Milan. | |||||||
2013 JUROR, MICHEAL AURBACH, | |||||||
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Michael Aurbach, Vanderbilt University, Nashville TN. Michael Aurbach is a Professor of Art, Emeritus at Vanderbilt University (2016) in Nashville, TN. For the last three decades his socially inspired sculpture has addressed issues associated with identity, death, institutional power, and contemporary forms of scholarship. Among the institutions and foundations that have provided support for his work are the National Endowment for the Arts, the Southern Arts Federation, the Tennessee Arts Commission, Art Matters Inc., the Puffin Foundation, the Beren Foundation, and Vanderbilt University. |
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Thanks to Our Designer and Creative Director, Carrie A. Dyer, Asociate Professor Graphic Design at Highpoint University |
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How to Donate: |
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If you would like to contribute to the Fletcher H. Dyer Memorial Scholarship fund by making a Tax deductible donation please use the Donate button below. |
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We wish to thank our Community Partners for their support of the FL3TCH3R Exhibit. | ||
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![]() AAF NETN (American Ad Federation of Northeast Tennessee) Elizabeth Saulsbury, Christian Schmid, Drew Beamer |
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East Tennessee State University |
• Mary B. Martin School of the Arts, Anita DeAngelis, Director; Heidi Ehle, Assistant Director; Lise Cutshaw, Media & Marketing Coordinator | |
• Reece Museum, Rebecca Proffitt, Interim Director; Spenser Brenner, Exhibitions Coordinator & Staff, ETSU | |
• Slocumb Galleries, and Tipton Gallery Karlota Conterras-Koterbay, Director& Staff | |
• Center for Appalachian Studies & Services, Director, Dr. Ron Roach | |
• College of Arts & Sciences, Developement Denise Asbury, Director of Developement College of Arts and Sciences | |
• Honors College, former Dean, Dr. Judy Slagle | |
• Dept. of Art & Design | |
• University Relations, Joseph E. Smith, Excutive Assistant to the President for University Relations, Jennifer Hill, Assistant Director for Communications | |
• ETSU, Department of Art and Design, Graphic Design, M. Wayne Dyer, Professor emeritus, David Dixon, Professor, Kelly Porter Associate Professor | |
• ETSU, Department of Art and Design, Graphic Design Collective, Advisor Kelly Porter | |
• ETSU Office of Equity and Diversity | |
• Department of Appalachian Studies | |
• Department of History | |
• The Africana Studies Program | |
• WETS Public Radio - Wayne Winkler |