Dr. Meaghan Brady Nelson is an Assistant Professor of Art Education and joined the Department of Art at Belmont University in the Fall of 2018. She was an Assistant Professor of Art Education at Middle Tennessee State University from 2013-2018 and was a Visiting Professor of Art Education at The University of North Carolina, Greensboro, 2012-2013. Dr. Brady Nelson has a BFA in painting from Washington State University, a teaching certificate from Western Washington University and both her Masters and Doctorate in Art Education were completed at The Ohio State University. 

Her research and service centers around the ways collaborative artmaking experiences and critical visual literary can inspire social consciousness and social responsibility, along with her multilayered identity of becoming a ‘Mothering-ArtAdemic’. Her work has been published both nationally and internationally and as a painter, she keeps an active studio practice. Dr. Brady Nelson has been fortunate to have taught in a variety of settings with a multitude of subject and curriculum since 2000. These settings include the university level, public school classroom teacher, art specialist and in museums and community settings.  

Her ultimate goal as an educator is to empower students to use their knowledge in order to engage with their community and the greater world through teaching and service. She is an advocate of Service-Learning and has worked to include this as an element in all her courses here at Belmont. As the executive collaborative creator of the Kids Arts Festival of Tennessee, she is dedicated to community arts-based service in the Nashville area. The Kids Arts Festival of Tennessee is the first arts festival in the state of Tennessee that is fully designed for children and youth. Due to grants, she has secured, the annual event has registered increased funding which allows it to remain free to attendees and to grow in scope each year with attendance reaching over 6000.

Dr. Brady Nelson lives in Franklin with her supportive husband and their two daughters. 

Dr. Judy Bullington is a Professor of Art History and served as the chair of the Department of Art at Belmont University from 2007 to 2019. She earned a Ph.D. in American Art History from Indiana University at Bloomington (1997) where she completed a dissertation titled "Expanding Horizons-The Artist-As-Traveler in the Gilded Age." She has published articles on women artists and the intersections of art and travel literature in the American Art Journal, Woman's Art Journal, Prospects, Nineteenth Century Studies, and The Gazette Des Beaux Arts, among others. In 2009, Dr. Bullington appeared on the PBS show History Detectives as the result of her research on the African-American artist Thelma Johnson Streat (1911-1959). Awards include a Fulbright to teach American art at Tartu University in Estonia, a Winterthur Research Fellowship, and an NEH Summer Institute grant to study the 19^thc. material culture of New York City at the Bard Graduate Center for Decorative Arts. She lived and taught overseas, which included being the Acting Dean of the College of Fine Arts at the University of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates. Dr. Bullington was previously an Assistant Professor at Western Oregon University and a Visiting Professor at Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas.

Each semester Professor Bullington teaches two courses, a survey of art history and a special topics seminar, and, every other year offers a Maymester study abroad program in Greece. In 2013, with the support of funding from the Belmont Challenge for Innovation and Technology in Teaching, Dr. Bullington implemented a pilot project called Visual Histories in Virtual Spaces. iPads were introduced into the classroom with the aim of exploring how new technologies can be used to conceptually rethink the way students learn about the histories of art. In addition to teaching, being the faculty advisor to the student organization AHA (Art History Association), and carrying out administrative responsibilities as a department chair, Professor Bullington still maintains an active professional development schedule of scholarly research and presentations at professional conferences like CAA and SECAC.

"As an art historian, I am intrigued by the potential for 'new' narratives to emerge from studies that synthesize the visual, material, and garden histories of America during the formative years of the republic. Beneath every image lies a story and this is one not often told." An essay titled "Cultivating Meaning: The Chinese Manner in Early American Gardens (1763-1830)" is pending publication in an anthology on Global Trade and Visual Arts in Federal New England (2014). Currently, she is preparing a book manuscript on Imaging The Culture of Gardening in Early American Art, 1760-1830.

Dr. Michelle Corvette began her creative journey in fine arts from an early age with the encouragement of her mother and father. Upon completing her undergraduate studies in Painting and Drawing from the University of Tennessee, Summa Cum Laude, Dr. Corvette pursued her MFA at NYU in Interdisciplinary Studio Art. Her passion and drive for knowledge led her to her first empirical Ph.D. where she researched students’ experiences of hindered creativity. Prior to joining Belmont’s faculty in 2016, she completed her second theoretical Ph.D. from the University of London, Goldsmiths, where she researched the legalities and implications of utilizing color in public spaces. Dr. Corvette continues to exhibit her artwork both internationally and nationally with exhibitions around the Nashville area at the First Center for the Visual Arts, Zeitgeist Gallery, and Tennessee Arts Commission Gallery. In addition to teaching and exhibiting her artwork, she is actively involved with the creation of participatory art practices by inviting collaborations with individuals, communities, and institutions.

Christine Rogers is an artist from Nashville, Tennessee. She received her BA in Anthropology from Oberlin College in 2004 and her MFA in Studio Art from Tufts University in 2008. She has exhibited widely across the United States and was in a two-person show at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Santiago, Chile in the fall of 2012. She has lectured on her work across at various institutions such as Vanderbilt University, Watkins College, Chitrakala Parishath in Bangalore and Cooper Union in New York. From 2012-2103 Christine was a Fulbright-Nehru Senior Research Scholar completing research for her project, "Photographing Imagined Landscapes: The Switzerland of India" and her first solo show in India was in the spring of 2013 at 1 Shanthi Road Gallery in Bangalore, Karnataka. She has since shown again in Mumbai in group shows at Clark House Initiative, Project 88 and Chemould Prescott. Her work has been written about in Time Out Bengaluru, The Bangalore Mirror, The Hindu, New Landscape Photography, Hyperallergic, Dazed Digital, Burnaway, The Tennessean and the Nashville Scene. She is an Assistant Professor of Photography at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee.

Casey Schachner is an Assistant Professor of 3D/Fine Art joining the Department of Art at Belmont University in the Fall of 2019. She received her BFA in Sculpture from Baylor University and her MFA in Studio Art from the University of Montana. Casey was born and raised in the southeast United States, growing up in Florida and coastal South Carolina.

Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, ranging from temporary site-specific installations to permanent public artworks. In 2011, she served as an Artist in Residence at the University of Georgia Lamar Dodd School of Art in Cortona, Italy, where her solo exhibition "Panni Stesi: The Laundry Series" was shown in collaboration with the Commune di Cortona and the Museo dell'Accademia Etrusca. She was selected as an Artist in Residence at the Carving Studio & Sculpture Center (CSSC) on the grounds of Vermont’s West Rutland marble quarries. In 2017, she was selected as the UM Emerging Artist for Blackfoot Pathways: Sculpture in the Wild (BPSW), an International Sculpture Park in Lincoln, Montana. In 2018, she exhibited at the Public Art Exhibition on Hilton Head Island in South Carolina, where she received a People's Choice award. Casey served as Co-Director of FrontierSpace Gallery, a nonprofit contemporary art gallery space in Missoula, Montana. Casey currently lives in Nashville, TN with her husband and their two dogs.

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Brandon Williams was born in Easton, PA with an inherent passion for art. While pursuing art academically, his interests in precise drawing, attention to detail and processes, led him to printmaking. He enjoys the diversity of the medium along with its challenging technical difficulties and surprising results. He specializes specifically in intaglio where he creates prints with contemporary techniques, approaches, and imagery focusing on the competition between the built environment and the natural environment.

He received his BFA from Kutztown University of Pennsylvania in 2013, and his MFA from Kansas State University in 2017. He has held previous teaching positions at Kansas State University and Oklahoma State University. Recently, he was an Artist in Residence and Visiting Artist at Emmanuel College in Boston, MA.

His prints have been shown extensively nationally and internationally in both invitational and competitive juried exhibitions. Some works have been published, won awards, and are in permanent and private collections. He continues to uphold an active and engaged studio art practice by creating/exhibiting prints, completing artist residencies, and giving demonstration and lectures about his art. You can view more at brandonwilliamsart.com and meet him in person at a conference or in the studio where he spends his free time.

Kristi Hargrove focuses her studio practice primarily on drawing, but she also investigates other media such as photography, sculpture, and installations. Hargrove has exhibited her work in numerous juried shows and invitational exhibitions across the country. She recently displayed her detailed pencil drawings in the Frist Center’s Metamorphoses exhibition. Hargrove is a member of the Nashville artist collective COOP, a curatorial group committed to presenting challenging, new, or under-represented artists and artworks in the community.

Paris was born in Atlanta, GA, but at some point, has called Washington, Colorado, and California home. She has been photographing since she was 12-years-old when her father gave her a small Instamatic camera. She has continued the practice, but the cameras have changed. Several of her photographic projects have focused on community members in a small town (Sewanee, TN) and prisoners on Tennessee’s death row. Their work with prisoners has resulted in 11 exhibitions, including one at Apexart in New York. That work has also been featured in The Guardian, El Pais, Hyperallergic, Huffington Post, and many other publications.

Katie Mitchell is a Tennessee native. After completing her BFA in studio arts at Belmont, she then migrated to the University of South Carolina in Columbia to pursue an MFA in Painting. Most recently, she was selected as a participant in the Contemporary Chinese Art Institute sponsored by the Confucius Institute of Western Kentucky University. 

When she is not busy teaching, running around the studio, working in the gallery, or knitting, she delights in life's seemingly insignificant moments!