Thomas D. Jenkins
Lewisville, NC  USA

Curriculum Vitae

​​Born: 4/20/1949 in Nashville, Tennessee, USA; he, him, his, cis, het

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Education

 

• B.S., Political Science, 1971, Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, Tennessee

• B.B.A., Accounting, 1983, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, Tennessee

• B.F.A., Painting, 2013, Tennessee Technological University, Cookeville, Tennessee

 

Art Workshops and other Art Education

 

• University of Tennessee-Nashville – art history, drawing and painting, 1978-80

• Nashville Parks and Recreation – sculpture, watercolor, figure drawing, 1979-80

• Middle Tennessee State University – Painting I and II. 1980-82

• Indianapolis Art League - figure drawing, color theory, enameling, welding, foundry, various from 1989-2008

• Kent State University, large-scale enameling, 1991

• Heron School of Art, Indiana University – 3D design, 1989

• Art New England at Bennington College - painting, drawing, sculpture 8 weeks total between 1989 and 1993

• Appalachian Center for Craft (ACC) – papermaking, bookmaking, metalcraft and enameling, 2010-2019

• Arrowmont School of Art - drawing, metalcraft, enameling, encaustic painting, and mural painting, 2010-2023

• Seattle Art Institute – printmaking, 2011

• Sawtooth School of Art – metalcraft, enameling, figure drawing, pastel painting, 2021-2025
   

Exhibits and Sales Events

 

• Primary School self-portrait, the Parthenon (replica) basement gallery, Nashville, TN, c 1960

• “Demon Hand” plaster cast, Tennessee Art League 1980, cast in aluminum 2008 and deposited in the ACC art graveyard, 2021

• "Mostly Paint," a one-person show featuring 78 works, Utrillo’s Gallery, Indianapolis, 1996

• Peace in the Park, and other festivals in Indianapolis, 1996-1998 and Gainesboro, TN, 2009-10

• Tennessee Technological University, juried student shows, 2010-2013, 2 paintings and 1 enameled pendant

• "High Contrast," an invitational show of drawings including my "Vanitas," 2011

• Tennessee Technological University, “Free Style”, senior thesis, non-representational oil paintings, 2013

• Fall Creek Falls State Park, enameled jewelry, 2014

• Think Pink exhibit, “Line,” sandpaper, 606 Trade Street Gallery, Winston-Salem, NC, 27023

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Travel

Since 2011, I have participated in Swing and Blues social dance festivals in the US and Europe. I visit art museums, galleries, and archaeological sites in most of the cities where these occur, over 25 cities in Europe and about the same number in the USA. You miss so much just looking at pictures of art in books or online!