Limestone University Art Gallery Announces First Exhibition Of Upcoming Academic Year

The first exhibition of the new academic year is now underway at Limestone University, and it will run through Friday, Sept. 13, at the Art Gallery located inside the Hines & Riggins Center.

This exhibit features the work of Limestone’s own fine arts faculty, including Carolyn Ford, Brett Schenning, Lynn Miller, and Emily Tuttle.

A reception will take place on Thursday, Sept. 5, at 6 p.m., and the public is invited to attend.

Ford attended Middle Tennessee State University where she earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts with an emphasis in Ceramics, Drawing, and Painting. There she studied abroad and exhibited in Italy. She then earned her Master of Fine Art from Washington State University in Ceramics and Drawing. Ford has worked at Limestone University since 2003 where she is a Professor of Art and served as the Chair of the Art Department for 10 years.

Actively creating while teaching, Ford’s works have been exhibited nationally and internationally. She was a part of the Asheville Art Museum’s inaugural reopening exhibit “Appalachia Now” where six of her pieces were purchased for the museum’s permanent collection. Ford earned a sabbatical in 2021 and completed an artist-in-residence at Mission Clay Art and Industry in Phoenix where she has carved three two-ton pipes for public art. One of her works is currently on display in Napa, CA as the Rail Arts District Terracotta Corridor public art exhibit along the Napa Wine Train tour. Ford has been a featured demonstrating artist for Laguna Clay, one of the largest ceramic clay manufacturer and distributor in the United States.

Schenning is an image-maker occupied primarily with traditional and alternative film photographic processes. His work focuses on environmental sustainability and rural community politics and relationships. Schenning completed his Bachelor of Fine Arts at University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, before earning a Master of Fine Arts with distinction at the Savannah College of Art & Design in 2014. He has exhibited across the United States and been the focus of several online features. He is currently a Professor for the Art program at Limestone where he is teaching a variety of lecture-based and studio-based courses.

Miller’s interests live at the intersection of art and faith. She holds the Bachelor of Fine Arts in graphic design from Mississippi University for Women in addition to a Master of Art in the history of art from the University of Georgia, where her thesis explored John Calvin's theology of art. An ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), Lynn completed the Master of Divinity at Union Presbyterian Seminary in Richmond, Virginia, and the Doctor of Ministry degree from Pittsburgh Theological Seminary in conjunction with the University of Aberdeen (Scotland). Her doctoral research focused on the theological motivations of church architectural styles.

She works in a variety of media including paint, textiles, and glass. She has served as conference artist, workshop presenter, and graphic designer for worship and education conferences across the country. In 2022, she was called to Gaffney as pastor of the Limestone Presbyterian Church. She serves at Limestone as an adjunct faculty member, teaching graphic design courses.

Tuttle is an art historian specializing in the Middle Ages. Tuttle completed a Bachelor of Arts in Art History at Winthrop University, a Master of Science in Art in the Global Middle Ages at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, a Master of Art in Art History with Florida State University, and a doctorate from FSU. Her research considers the home and household objects and how they represent individual and familial identity that is developed through social constructs, exemplified in her dissertation “Documenting Domesticity: An Examination of the Home in Late Medieval Yorkshire, England.”

Tuttle joined the Fine Arts Program at Limestone in 2015 as an adjunct instructor while she pursued her graduate coursework. In that time, she developed an online art appreciation course, making classes in art available for long-distance learners at Limestone for the first time. Upon her return to in-person teaching in 2020, Tuttle has expanded art history classes with special topics in art and narrative, and this year she will offer a class focusing on the art of Disney. In 2021, she became a full-time member of the faculty with combined teaching and gallerist responsibilities.