2024 Young Tennessee Artists - Frist Art Museum

The Frist Art Museum’s tenth biennial Young Tennessee Artists exhibition will showcase over thirty two-dimensional works of art by students enrolled in Advanced Placement (AP) and International Baccalaureate (IB) studio art programs during the 2023–24 academic year. Artworks for the exhibition will be selected by a jury of artists, educators, and museum professionals. Confirmed jurors include Michael Ewing, Frist Art Museum associate curator; Erin Anfinson, artist and associate professor at Middle Tennessee State University; Karlota I. Contreras-Koterbay, director of Slocumb Galleries at East Tennessee State University; and Rose Marr, artist in Cordova, Tennessee.

Upper-level studio art courses make it possible for highly motivated students to build and refine their portfolios through ongoing investigation, practice, and reflection. The dedicated teachers in AP and IB programs challenge their students’ artistic perceptions and encourage them to develop aesthetic methods both conceptually and in execution. At the end of the school year, each student’s portfolio is reviewed by AP or IB examiners. Students may subsequently receive college course credit or other recognition of their accomplishments.

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Image: Safiya Margarette Austria. Suppression, 2023. Charcoal on paper; 14 x 22 in. Courtesy of the artist. © Safiya Margarette Austria

Exhibition gallery

Drawing of a close-up view on a hand massaging the other hand, where the person is wearing bright red and black robes

Knight Pineda. Pulang KamayP, 2024. Ink, alcohol marker, colored pencil; 8 1/4 x 8 in. Courtesy of the artist. © Knight Pineda

Color drawing of two children smiling while laying in a pile of corn, in the backdrop of a neighborhood street

Michael Kong. Kernels of Happiness, 2023. Colored pencil on paper; 13 x 10 in. Courtesy of Montgomery Bell Academy. © Michael Kong

Black and white graphite drawing of a man touching the sculpted bust of a figure with one finger, with the sculpture's carved shavings in front of it on the table

Cecilia Knaphus. Shaping a Generation, 2023. Graphite on paper; 11 x 9 in. Courtesy of the artist. © Cecilia Knaphus

Four darkly lit, black and white photographs; the first one is a man in front of a chair and a blurry woman behind a tall, lit lamp; the second is the same but zoomed further out and the woman is not blurry; the third has the two figures blurry and switched places; the last is well-lit with only the chair and lamp

Shae Camardo. Leaving Home, 2023. Analog photography; 15 1/2 x 12 in. Courtesy of the artist. © Shae Camardo

Black and white print of a girl playing in a backyard of a home at the top and a long view of the ground below it, filled with fossils, layers of earth, a space with aliens and a saucer, and then magma

Olivia Ashurst. Earth, 2024. Linoleum, carving tools, roller, ink, paper; 21 x 13 in. Courtesy of the artist. © Olivia Ashurst

A digital print of a girl holding a smaller girl in a round, cylindrical transparent encasing while an owl and black birds fly toward her from above and beside

Maribel Velazquez-Meza. Trapped Faze, 2024. Digital print; 15 x 15 in. Courtesy of the artist. © Maribel Velazquez-Meza

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