Community Art Exhibit Continues Through March 27
March 11, 2025
Exhibit Will End with Juror's Talk, Reception
蜜桔直播鈥檚 Catron Art Gallery is hosting a juried exhibit of community art
works through March 27. The gallery is located inside the R. Jack Fishman Library
on the Morristown Campus.
The work was chosen from submissions following a 鈥渃all for art鈥� for the college鈥檚
service area. The exhibit will end with a juror鈥檚 talk and reception featuring juror
Heather Wetzell at 2:30 p.m. on March 27. The public is invited.
A practicing artist, Wetzell is galleries and collections manager at Arrowmont
School of Arts and Crafts in Gatlinburg. She manages the exhibition schedule for four
rotating galleries as well as a permanent collection with over 1,000 works in a variety
of media. Wetzell holds a master of arts and humanities from Arcadia University in
Glenside, Pennsylvania, and a master of fine arts in visual studies from the Visual
Studies Workshop in Rochester, New York. She has completed the University of Iowa鈥檚
Center for the Book Graduate Certificate in book arts technologies. Her work has been
widely exhibited and can be found at the Anzenberger Gallery in Vienna, Austria and
the Momentum Gallery in Asheville, North Carolina. Wetzell will also announce art
works receiving awards.
The exhibit was organized by Amy Evans, professor of art and head of the art
department, and Jessie Van der Laan, associate professor of art and assistant dean
of the Division of Humanities. It is open during the library鈥檚 regular operating hours,
8 a.m.-5:30 p.m., Monday through Thursday. There is no admission charge.
The artists featured in the exhibit, with the name of their work, follows.
Cocke County: Lucille LeBeau of Newport, 鈥淥ne Too Many,鈥� acrylic on canvas.
Greene County: Brylee Bruner of Chuckey, 鈥淟ucky Spring,鈥� Acrylic on canvas board; Robert Whittenburg
of Mohawk, 鈥淩ock City,鈥� acrylic; Elizabeth Brown of Afton, 鈥淒riveway Snow,鈥� oil on
canvas board and 鈥淭he Yellow Fields,鈥� acrylic on canvas; Heather Jones of Chuckey,
鈥淥k, What Now?鈥� acrylic and 鈥淭he Cha Cha,鈥� clay and metal; Ronnie Luttrell of Greeneville,
鈥淭wo Coats,鈥� acrylic on canvas; Rose Davis of Greeneville, 鈥淏lackberry,鈥� oil paint
on board and 鈥淪inger,鈥� oil paint on board; Chasity Heimsoth of Chuckey, 鈥淪ubtle Thoughts,鈥�
photograph; Sarah Kesterson of Mohawk, 鈥淎crylic Painting,鈥� acrylic.
Hamblen County: Danielle Porter of Talbott, 鈥淭hanks Jared,鈥� mixed media on paper; Bill Long of Morristown,
:Undulation I,鈥� acrylic on canvas and 鈥淯ndulation II,鈥� acrylic on canvas; Michael
Murphy of Morristown, 鈥淣ot Kansas,鈥� photography; Dan Gibson of Russellville, 鈥淐attails,鈥�
watercolor; Cathy Teller of Morristown, 鈥淧oppy Power,鈥� fired porcelain tile and 鈥淔un
in the Sun,鈥� fired porcelain vase; Mike Sandlock of Morristown, 鈥淛es Ain't No Solution
to Ocean Pollution鈥� acrylic on layered plexiglass; Stephanie Swift of Morristown,
鈥淕oing Nowhere,鈥� oil on canvas; Don Britton of Morristown, :The Book Woman is Here!鈥�
colored pencil; Cosima Risolvo, Morristown, 鈥淓nergy Scape,鈥� pastels; Cheyenne Mooneyham
of Mooresburg, 鈥淪eraphim Angel,鈥� polymer clay.
Hawkins County: Laree McMurray of Church Hill, 鈥淏udding Heads," ceramic; Leona Toll of Mooresburg,
鈥淪tarry Night Mosaic,鈥� mosaic; Corena Margozzi of Mooresburg, 鈥淓gret,鈥� driftwood,
carving, metal, acrylic paint and 鈥淐edar Waxwing,鈥� driftwood, carving, and acrylic
paint.
Jefferson County: Reyn McMurry of Jefferson City, 鈥淚ron Pills,鈥� acrylic and mixed media on canvas.