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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.

Wesam Mazhar Haddad:
2022 FL3TCH3R EXHIBIT JUROR

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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:
2021 FL3TCH3R EXHIBIT JUROR

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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.
CARLTON WILKINSON 2020
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Carlton Wilkinson

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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.

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.
See Sue Coe Bio

2018 JURORS CHERYL GOLDSLEGER & LARRY MILLARD



 
 


Cheryl Goldsleger exhibits in the United States and internationally. Her work has been included in exhibitions at the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, DC, the American Academy in New York, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, the Brooklyn Museum, the Islip Art Museum, The National Museum of Women in the Arts, the Virginia Museum, the New Orleans Museum, the Israel Museum, and the Tel Aviv Museum.

Larry Millard has shown nationally and internationally throughout his career. He is Professor Emeritus at The University of Georgia having taught sculpture and design for nearly forty years. During his career he has had 22 solo exhibitions and his work has been included in over 190 group exhibitions and numerous public art venues. He has received several awards and grants for creative research and teaching.

2017 JUROR DR. ANITA KUNZ

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.
http://www.anitakunz.com/

2016 JUROR DR. ERIC AVERY


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Dr. Eric Avery
a celebrated printmaker and recently retired physician who's work is found in permanent collections including the British Museum, London; Philadelphia Museum of Art; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. http://docart.com/

2015 JUROR, JOYCE OQDEN


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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East Tennessee State University

2015 Guest Artist/Presenter 
Shara  Lange
, Documentary/Filmmaker
THE DRESSMAKERS explores contemporary Moroccan identity by interweaving the stories of traditional tailors and factory seamstresses with that of Tangier-based designer Salima Abdel-Wahab as.

2014 JUROR, ELLIOTT EARLS


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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
http://www.carriedyer.com/

 
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   







 

 

The purpose of the FL3TCH3R EXHIBIT is to raise funds for an endowled scholarship that will go to a creative art and design student of merit.

We wish to thank the following individuals for their gift to the scholarship in memory of Fletcher H. Dyer.

Anita DeAngelis and Steve Jackson Sr. for their generous support of Fletcher and the Fletcher H. Dyer Scholarship.

Martha & Robert Alfonso (Passed Dec. 2018) - Martha, Director and Owner of Ralston Fine Arts (Retired): Robert - former ETSU Vice President of Academic Affairs and both life long Arts Supporters including the FL3TCH3R Exhibit.

*Randy Sanders, Retired Former Director of the REECE Museum - for his ardent support and enthusiasm of the FL3TCH3R Exhibit.

• Dr. Eric Avery, 2016 Juror

a celebrated printmaker and recently retired physician who's work is found in permanent collections including the British Museum, London.

Bill Bledsoe, Artist, Professor Tusculum University & Jennifer Bledsoe, Artist, Jonesborough, TN (Bill & Jennifer are both ETSU Art & Design Alumnus & Alumna)

David Dixon, Professor, Graphic Designer, Department Art and Design , ETSU, Johnson City, TN.

Anita DeAngelis, Director, Mary B. Martin School of the Arts, Associate Dean for the Arts, College of Arts and Sciences, Professor, Department of Art and Design, ETSU, Johnson City, TN

• Karlota Conterras-Koterbay, Director -
ETSU Art & Design's Slocumb Galleries, Johnson City, TN

Kathleen Grover, Professor, English Department, ETSU, Johnson City, TN

Peggy & Mark Jopling, Pittsburg PA

Brenda McGee, JD, Knoxville, TN

Dean Hill Rivkin, JD, Professor,
College of Law, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN

DeeAnn & Phil Smith, Johnson City, TN

Mike Smith, Professor,
Department of Art and Design. ETSU, Johnson City, TN

Comora Tolliver, Artist, Los Angeles CA (ETSU Art & Design Alumna)

 

see:

SEE OUR CALENDAR OF EVENTS

THE ROBERT J. ALFONSO AWARD

ANITA DeANGELIS, AND STEVEN JACKSON AWARD

PROTECTION OF VOTINGRIGHTS - NEW

FLETCHER H. DYER AWARD


SAMMIE L. NICELY APPALACHIAN AWARD.

AVERY HEALTHCARE & THE ARTS AWARD

JACK SCHRADER AWARD

DOROTHY CARSON AWARD

NAPPE AWARD

FL3TCH3R EXHIBIT COLLECTION

FL3TCH3R EXHIBIT VIDEO ART ARCHIVE

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How to Donate:

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.

 
We wish to thank our Community Partners for their support of the FL3TCH3R Exhibit.
 

 

SAMMY NICELY
THE FL3TCH3R EXHIBIT Thanks the
Estate of Samuel L. Nicely and Hollis Langston III for funding the SAMMIE L. NICELY APPALACHIAN AWARD.

The FL3TCH3R Exhibit is proud to honor the life and contribution of Sammy L. Nicely, artist, educator, long time supporter of the visual arts in the Appalachian region.


Health Care Award

THE FL3TCH3R EXHIBIT Thanks Dr. Eric Avery for funding the AVERY HEALTHCARE AND THE ARTS AWARD now open to ETSU Health Care Professions Student and Faculty. Dr. Avery was our 2016 Juror and celebrated printmaker, and recently retired physician.

 

WETSTHANKS - WETS-FM is the National Public Radio member station for the Tri-Cities region of northeast Tennessee and southwest Virginia.

Ad Club

AAF NETN (American Ad Federation of Northeast Tennessee) Elizabeth Saulsbury, Christian Schmid, Drew Beamer





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




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