Renaissance Center employees featured in new exhibit

Release Date: 7/16/2001. Expired: 8/18/2001

For the first time since its opening two years ago, The Renaissance Center is featuring its own employees in an exhibit in the Visual Arts Gallery.

The Faculty Art Exhibit opened in the gallery July 13 and runs through Aug. 18. An opening reception will be 4-7 p.m. Friday, July 20. The exhibit and reception are free and open to the public.

Not only does the exhibit feature works by The Renaissance Center’s art department faculty, but it also includes works by employees in other departments such as drama, marketing, administration, food services and the center’s Toy Shop.

The pieces on display include a variety of mediums, from pencil drawings to oil paintings, from photographs to cut paper, from steel sculpture to pottery, from handmade paper to mosaics and even the car from the recent production of Grease!.

“We knew there would be some interesting submissions from the full- and part-time members of the Visual Arts Department,” said gallery Curator Curtis Southerland, “but it was just amazing to see what artistic talent we have on staff in other departments. This exhibit is the first time we have featured the employees of the center and we were surprised by the variety and number of pieces submitted.”

Employees included in the exhibit are:

• Curtis Southerland, Bob Kucher, John Kohlburn, Julie Houdeshell, Pat Qualls, Anita Lewis and David and Susan Allsbrooks from the Visual Arts Department;
• Jacque Cato, Cathy Mumford, Clay McKinney and Chris Norman from the Marketing Department;
• Erin Calvert and Amy Arrington from the Renaissance Repertory Company;
• Kimberly Daniel from the Animation Department;
• Robbie Melton of the Tennessee Board of Regents;
• Allison Curd Kruse of the Learning Lab;
• Sally LaFave from the Virtually Unlimited Bookstore;
• Laural Hughes and Casey Hughes from Food Services;
• Blake Kruse and Regina Betty from administration, and;
• Robert Cooper, Cory Lankford and Doug Dowler of the Toy Shop, which builds sets for theatrical productions and much of the furnishings in the center. A slide show on the television monitors inside the Visual Arts Gallery displays some of the set work by the carpenters of the Toy Shop while Greased Lightnin’, the car from Grease!, is on display in the gallery.

The Visual Arts Gallery is open 9 a.m.-9 p.m. Monday-Saturday. Admission is free.

For more information on the Faculty Art Exhibit, call (615)740-5600. The Renaissance Center is a not-for-profit arts and education center at 855 Highway 46 South in Dickson, just two miles north of Interstate 40.

Visit the Visual Arts Gallery page for more about the gallery.

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