Tennessee Governor's School for the Arts
Visual Art
Governor’s School Visual Arts Gallery
Tennessee’s Young Visual Artists
Visual Art in Tennessee’s schools should seek to:
- Provide an understanding of the ways mankind has expressed ideas and recorded experiences through the medium of visual art.
- Provide a means of communicating ideas, feelings and beliefs.
- Promote human understanding, achievement and self-development through the study of visual art.
- Equip students to be knowledgeable of the influence of visual art in daily life.
- Facilitate the development of technical skills in the production of a work of art.
- Acquaint students with career opportunities in visual art.
- Facilitate the development of aesthetic awareness of natural and man-made environments.
- Equip students to analyze, criticize, interpret, and evaluate the components of a work of art.
- Encourage quality craftsmanship.
Visual Art Faculty
Ashton Ludden
Ashton Ludden is a printmaker, educator and sign artist. Her prints explore our relationship with…
Bryan Wilkerson
Bryan Wilkerson is a TN Native and Professor of Art and Design at Roane State…
Dawn Martin Dickins
Dawn Martin Dickins is a drawing/installation artist originally from a small farming community in Georgia. Dawn…
Dave Rollins
Dave Rollins is a book maker, sculptor, Alchemist, and self-proclaimed Wizard. He received his MFA…
Patrick DeGuira
Patrick DeGuira (born 1972) lives and works in Nashville, TN. He has exhibited his work at…
Michael Baggarly
Chair for Visual Arts Michael Baggarly is an Associate Professor of Art at Middle Tennessee…
Melody Tang
Graphic Arts Melody Tang is a graphic designer and educator based in Middle Tennessee. She…
Ambrose Prince
Painting Ambrose Prince is an artist and educator originally from Oakland, California. He earned an…
S. Camille Comer
S. Camille Comer is a mixed media sculptor who makes Fluxus style works about the…