“False Turkey Tail” by Dr. Deborah Bryan, associate professor of art at Tusculum, is an example of the topic of her lecture on Tuesday, Sept. 20, which will encourage audience members to “see” the art around them. Dr. Bryan’s lecture will begin at 7 p.m. in the Behan Arena Theatre in the Annie Hogan Byrd Fine Arts Building on campus.
Discovering inspiration for art in everyday surroundings will be the topic of a lecture by professor and artist Dr. Deborah Bryan on Tuesday, Sept. 20, at Tusculum College.
“Looking: Art Around You” will be the topic for a presentation by Dr. Bryan, associate professor of art at Tusculum. The lecture will begin at 7 p.m. in the Behan Arena Theatre on the lower level (side entrance) of the Annie Hogan Byrd Fine Arts Building.
Dr. Bryan’s presentation is the first for this academic year in the Cicero Lecture Series, which is part of the Acts, Arts, Academia performance and lecture series. Acts, Arts, Academia is a program of Tusculum College’s Arts Outreach that features outside performers and lecturers, as well as those from the college, for the enrichment of campus and community. The Acts, Arts, Academia series is supported by the late Dr. Sam Miller in memory of Agnes Ault Miller, Hearts for the Arts, the Tennessee Arts Commission, Arts Outreach and generous donors and volunteers.
In her lecture, Dr. Bryan will encourage audience members to “see” things in their surroundings that they might typically ignore through showing them artworks based on those ignoble things. She will also introduce the audience to art media with which they may be unfamiliar and demonstrate some of the technical side of those media.
A professor at Tusculum since 2007, Dr. Bryan teaches such courses as Introduction to Art, Drawing, Printmaking, Service Learning in the Arts and Art History. She received her Master of Fine Arts degree in printmaking from East Tennessee State University. She also holds a doctorate in clinical psychology from Kent State University and was a practicing clinician before deciding to make a career change. Prior to coming to Tusculum, Dr. Bryan taught for several years as an adjunct instructor in the Department of Art and Design at ETSU and worked as a studio artist specializing in etchings, monotypes and book arts.
Cirsium Negatives, aquatint reversal with chine colle
Her work has been shown in over one hundred regional, national and international juried exhibitions and is in numerous private, university and museum collections. Dr. Bryan has exhibited at the Red Clay Survey at the Huntsville Museum of Art, the New Orleans Triennial at the New Orleans Museum of Art, Prints USA at the Springfield Museum of Art, the Wrexham Print International in Wrexham, Wales, the Society of American Graphic Artists Juried Members’ Exhibition in Prague, the Halpert Biennial at the Turchin Center in Boone, North Carolina, the International Biennial Juried Print Exhibition at the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts in Taichung, Taiwan, and the Southeastern Juried Exhibition at the Mobile Museum of Art in Mobile, Alabama. Examples of some of her artwork can be found at www.deborahbryanprints.com.
Admission for the lecture is $7. For more information about the lecture, call Tusculum College Arts Outreach at 423-798-1620, or email jhollowell@tusculum.edu.