Chattanooga State Art Club

“Fay Watson 1928”
acrylic with acrylic media transfer on canvas
7”x5” image
14”x11” approx with frame
2023
Price on Request

Art Club Trip to Nashville

Art Club Trip to Atlanta

As part of the Lyndhurst Arts and Culture Grant, Sisavanh Houghton will be coming to campus next weel on Thursday November 3rd. She will present an artist talk at the Kolwyk Library Mobile Classroom beginning at 12:30. Faculty, staff and students are encouraged to attend.

Sisavanh will also lead a hands-on workshop at 1:30 in Humanities 305 teaching the art of image transfer. This workshop has limited seating. If you would like to attend, please email Baggs McKelvey at [email protected]

Learn more about Sisavanh on her website: https://www.sisavanhphouthavong.com

Sisavanh Phouthavong Houghton is a Lao American mixed media visual artist born in Vientiane, Laos. Her artworks have been exhibited nationally at venues including Gadsden Museum of Art, Minnesota Museum of American Art, Asian Arts Initiative, Hunter Museum of American Art, Lauren Rogers Museum of Art, Huntsville Museum of Art, The Reece Museum, and upcoming exhibitions at Knoxville Museum of Art. As a refugee and immigrant from the post-Vietnam War era, these experiences are the driving force behind her body of work. Her work has been featured in The New Art Examiner, The Wall Street International, Houston Voyager, ShoutoutHTX, Click_Bait, Create Magazine, Studio Visit Magazine, The Tennessean, The Pinch Journal Publication, Voices of America, and The Next Door Neighbor. She has been a guest on Art Fight Podcast, The Art of Outreach, and Drawing South. Permanent collections include Hunter Museum of American Art, American Embassy, Paramaribo, Suriname; Legacies of War Office, Washington, D.C.; Tennessee State Museum; and Pinnacle Bank Headquarter, Nashville, TN. Houghton earned her BFA from the University of Kansas and MFA at Southern Illinois University of Carbondale, IL. She was nominated for the Joan Mitchell Foundation Arts Award 2020, a 2019 Artfields' Painting Award, and the 2017 Tennessee Arts Individual Artist Fellowship recipient. Sisavanh lives and works at Murfreesboro, Tennessee, and a Professor of Painting at Middle Tennessee State University. Houghton has won a MTSU’s Teacher of the Year Award and her research has been funded numerous times by the Tennessee Arts Commission and the generous support of MTSU grants. She has lead community art projects with non-profit organizations such as SEAD (South East Asian Diaspora), Legacies of War, The Frist Art Museum, Oasis Center, and CRIT, Center for Refugees+Immigrants of Tennessee. She is represented by Tinney Contemporary gallery in Nashville.

Jennifer "Baggs" McKelvey
(she/her/hers)
Assistant Professor of Fine Art
Chattanooga State Community College
[email protected]
423-697-3115
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Sisavanh Phouthavong Transparent Voices, 20' Tall x 10' wide x 15' diameter, gold thread, fabric, fake marigolds, ink, and sticky Rice *Installed at the Minnesota Museum of American Art 09/2020-01/2021 Artist...

Chattanooga State Community College ART CLUB goes to High Museum of Art in Atlanta!

Painting 1 - Professor Holsomback
Chattanooga State
Student-Dorsey Thompson

Holsomback’s painting class, investigating color in nature, made a “Goldsworthy” leaf line across the river walk today!