Jennifer Baggs McKelvey

Education

MFA, 2 Dimensional Studies, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL 2004

BFA, Drawing and Painting, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 1993

Teaching Experience

Associate Professor, Visual Arts 2019 -current
Humanities and Fine Arts Department, Chattanooga State Community College

curriculum development, instructional planning, student evaluation, classroom management for Sculpture I & II, Foundations I & II, and Art History Survey I & II
Taught online Art Appreciation using Cengage, Mindtap and D2L elearn
Grant writing, grant management, and partnering with non-profits to facilitate visiting artists
Introduced Foundation students to the process of commissioned art projects through involvement in my installation, Indigo, at the Hunter Museum of American Art
Integrated multi-media assignments into Art History research projects to reach across multiple learning styles. Development of an OER for Art History Survey 2
Maintained 3D inventory, tools, and shop
Integrated instructional technology to enhance pedagogy

Adjunct Instructor, Visual Arts 2016-2019
Humanities and Fine Arts Department, Chattanooga State Community College

Planned, taught, and maintained records 3D Foundations
Taught and maintained records for online Art Appreciation utilizing Cengage, Mindtap and elearn
Integrated proposal and reflection writing exercises into 3D Foundations

Adjunct Instructor, Visual Arts 2014-2019
University Tennessee Chattanooga, Department of Art

Planned, taught and maintained records for Drawing V and Art Structures (gen education course)
Taught and maintained records for Drawing I, Drawing II, Studio Processes 2D Foundations, Space and Sequence 3D Foundations and Art History Survey
Integrated lecture, studio projects, and on-site learning exercise at the Hunter Museum of American Art as curriculum for Art Structures
Taught hands on and digital applications including Adobe Premiere, InDesign, Photoshop, and Audacity in studio applications
Used instructional technology to enhance pedagogy

Adjunct Instructor, Visual Arts 2013-2016
Lee University, Communication of Arts Department

Planned, taught and maintained records for Drawing I & II, and Mixed Media Painting
Used instructional technology to enhance pedagogy
Ordered supplies and maintained inventory for mixed media studio

Adjunct Instructor, Visual Arts 2006-2011
University of Alaska Fairbanks, Department of Art

Planned, taught and maintained records for Beginning, Intermediate & Advanced Drawing and Art Appreciation: Interrelation Art/Music/Theater
Used instructional technology to enhance pedagogy
Art Appreciation focused on the intersection of visual, musical and theatrical arts utilizing local talent as guest speakers and multi-media student led projects.
Used instructional technology to enhance pedagogy

Visiting Artist April, 2006
Division of Human Studies, Alfred University

Team taught with an innovative, interdisciplinary approach investigating philosophy and foundation level art

Guest Instructor Summer 2005
University of Alaska Fairbanks, Department of Art

Planned, taught and maintained records for Advanced painting
Focused on studio and en plein air painting techniques

Instructor of Record 2002-2004
School of Art & Design, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale

Taught and maintained student records for Drawing I & 2D Foundations Studio A

Professional Work Experience

Managing Director 2013-2022

Mid-South Sculpture Alliance, Chattanooga, TN

Contracting visiting artists, speakers, exhibition jurors, panelists and workshop leaders
Primary grant writer for all programs
Managing indoor and outdoor exhibition including writing RFP’s, call to artists, selection process, gallery and artist contracts, installment, advertisement, and events
Planning, managing and executing bi-annual conferences and confabs
Managing Scholarship competition
Primary liaison to MSA members, MSA Board of Directors, the public and the press
Website design and maintenance

Gallery Associate 2005-2008
Well Street Art Co, Fairbanks, AK

PR including writing exhibition press release and designing exhibition graphics
Design, installation, and de-installation of exhibitions
Limited curatorial responsibility
Sales and customer service

Freelance 2001-2007
Fairbanks, AK

Curating Summer Art Exhibition Series at the Sheldon Center in Denali, AK
Curating Group 62901 Exhibition at Well St. Art Company
Writing Press Release for regional exhibitions
Designing exhibition graphics using the Adobe Creative Suite
Teaching summer art camp, Denali Education Center, Denali, AK
Substitute Elementary Art Specialist, Fairbanks North Star Borough Schools

SOLO EXHIBITIONS & COMMISIONS

Indigo Hallow, University of the South, Suwannee, Tn 2025

Indigos Absence, Creative Discovery Museum commission, Chattanooga, Tn 2024

Indigo Kaleidoscope, Jacksonville State University, Jacksonville, AL 2024

Houston Indigo, Houston Contemporary Craft Center, Houston Tx 2024

Beyond Indigo, Gadsden Museum of Art, Gadsden Al 2024

Carjam, permanent installation Children’s Discovery Museum commission, Chattanooga, TN 2022

Indigo at Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, TN 2020-21

Phase VII, Children’s Discovery Museum, Chattanooga, TN 2014

Phase IV, The International Gallery, Anchorage, AK 2007

Phase III, The Annex Art Space, Fairbanks, AK 2006

Phase II, The Annex Art Space, Fairbanks, AK 2005

Blow Fly Inn, MFA Thesis Exhibition, Surplus Gallery, SIUC, Carbondale, IL 2004

Latitude & Longitude, Surplus Gallery, SIUC, Carbondale, IL 2003

Recent Paintings, Well St Art Company, Fairbanks, AK 2002

Vertical Studies, Charles Sheldon Center, Denali Park, AK 2002

Offerings, Charles Sheldon Center, Denali Park, AK 2001

Rhythmic Symbols, Main Street Arts, Ketchikan, AK 2000

JURIED EXHIBITIONS & COMPETITIONS

Fiber in 3d, print and digital edition, Fiber Art Now Magazine 2024

Jurors: Lori Butanis, Barbara Delaney, Beth Smith, Cami Smith

MSA Select, Vulcan Materials Gallery, Alabama School of Fine Arts, 2024

Birmingham, Al. Juror: Vanessa German

MSA Open, SOVA Galleries, University of Oklahoma, Norman Ok 2023

Juror: Gary Holstein

MSA Select, City Galleries, Lexington Ky 2023

Juror: Amanda Vandenberg

Embattled Bodies: Displacement, Trauma, and Resistance, Vinegar Gallery, 2022

Birmingham, AL, Juror: Karlotta Contreras-Koterbay

MSA Select, ETSU Galleries, Johnson City Tn, Juror: Leticia Bajuoy and Mike Barclay 2022

Interdisciplinary Sculpture Exhibition, Reed Gallery, University of Cincinnati, 2021

Cincinnati, OH, Juror: Jean Shin

Dogwood Arts Regional Art Exhibition, Emporium Center, Knoxville, Tn 2021

Juror: Althea Murphey-Price

ArtFields: Art Competition and Festival, Lake City, SC, Selection Panel: 2021

Erin Jane Nelson, Jacqueline Keane Adams, Toya Northington, Willie Little,

Peter J. Baldaia

House on Fire, Community Gallery, Lexington, KY: Juror Alicia Henry 2020

MSA Select: Atlanta, Gallery 72, Atlanta GA: Juror Kate Creason 2016

I Guess You Had to Be There, Association for Visual Arts, Chattanooga, TN 2013

Latitude 64, Bear Gallery, Fairbanks Arts Association, Fairbanks, AK 2010

Latitude 64, Bear Gallery, Fairbanks Arts Association, Fairbanks, AK 2007

High Roads & Low Roads, Museum of Fine Arts, Florida State University, 2006

Tallahasee, & Okaloosa-Walton Community College,

Niceville, FL: Juror Allys Palladino-Craig

Kalliphilia, Gallery HQ, Carbondale, IL Jurors: Cheonae Kim, Che Rhodes, 2004

Carole Loeffler, Chris Wildrick

Suspension: Sonic Absorption, CAA Member’s Exhibition, Consolidated Works 2004

Seattle, WA Jurors: Heather Dwyer, Sara Krajewski, Alex Muse

Look to the Horizon, Artboat 2003, organized by Bridge Magazine & 2003

Standard Gallery, Navy Pier, Chicago, IL Juror: Bridge Magazine Staff

Defining the Abstract, International Gallery, Anchorage AK Juror: Hal Gage 2001

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2 Kinds of Funny, Invitational touring exhibition 2025-28

Grand Opening of the Denise Heinly Art Center and Faculty Exhibition, CSCC 2024

MSA Board Member Exhibition, Sloss Furnaces National Historic Landmark (Power House) 2024

Faculty and Alumni Exhibition, Chattanooga State Community College, Chattanooga, TN 2025

Faculty Exhibition, Chattanooga State Community College, Chattanooga, TN 2019-2020

Faculty Exhibition, Cress Gallery, UTC, Chattanooga, TN 2017

Faculty Exhibition, Cress Gallery, UTC, Chattanooga, TN 2015

Faculty Art Exhibition, Art Department Gallery, Fairbanks, AK 2011

Faculty Art Exhibition, Art Department Gallery, Fairbanks, AK 2010

Faculty Art Exhibition, Art Department Gallery, Fairbanks, AK 2009

Alaskan Concept and Abstraction, Well St Art Co., Fairbanks, AK, invitational 2009
Dolls, The International Gallery, Anchorage, AK, invitational 2009

Faculty Art, UAF Art Department Gallery, Fairbanks, AK 2007

Group 62901, Well St Art Co, Fairbanks, AK 2007

New Talent x 10, Well St Art Co, Fairbanks, AK 2006

Faculty Art, UAF Art Department Gallery, Fairbanks, AK 2006

Gallery Artists, Well St Art Co, Fairbanks, AK 2005

Installation Art, The Annex Art Space, Fairbanks, AK 2005

Soft Boundaries Invitational, Biggin Gallery, Auburn University, AL 2005

Annexed, The Annex Art Space, Fairbanks, AK 2004

All City Graff Gallery, Graff Gallery, Chicago, IL 2004

Ménage a Cinq, Mad Art Gallery, St. Louis, MO 2004

Cosmopolitan, Surplus Gallery, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, IL 2003

In the Margin, Des Lee Gallery, St. Louis, MO

AWARDS, HONORS, RESIDENCIES

Kaleidoscope Guest Artist, Kaleidoscope Festival of the Arts, Jacksonville AL 2024

Solo Exhibition Award, curator Sarah Darro Fiber in 3D, Fiber Arts Now magazine 2024

Emergency Relief Grant from Current Art Fund 2020

Awarded full tuition scholarship, teaching and graduate assistantship, 2001-2004

Southern Illinois University Carbondale

Robert Maxwell Fellowship, MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH 2000-2001

Fellowship, MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH 2000

BIBLIOGRAPHY

"Indigo Hallow: the Denim Wilderness", by Phoenix Tillman, Arts and Entertainment Editor
The Sewanee Purple, online article

"A Closer look at Indigo Hallow" by Cate Traywick, Arts and Entertainment Editor
The Sewanee Purple, online article

“Life and Work of Jennifer “Baggs” McKelvey”, Nashville Voyager online article

“ChattState Art Professor Hosts Fiber Exhibition in AL and TX” online article

HCC Stafford TV, Art Beat, Fiber in 3D at HCCC, youtube

“Fiber in 3D”, Houston Contemporary Craft Center, website article

“Fiber in 3D: Indigo Houston”, selvedge , online blog

Fiber in 3D, Fiber Art Now Magazine, spring 2024 edition

Embattled Bodies: Displacement, Trauma, and Resistance exhibition catalog, October 2022

MSA Select, exhibition catalog, December 2o22

“Baggs McKelvey’s Indigo Opens Week at Hunter Museum” The Chattanoogan, March 10, 2020

“Local Artist Creates Plastic Bag Art Installation for Creative Discovery Museum”, The Chattanoogan,

May 19th, 2014

“Recycling into Art”, Anchorage Daily News, Dawnell Smith, August 2nd, 2007

“Art News”, Anchorage Daily News, Dawnell Smith, May 31st, 2007

High Roads & Low Roads exhibition catalogue, Museum of Fine Arts, Florida State University, 2006

“Paper or Plastic?”, Art in the Heartland, WEB11, Susan Steinnerd, July 27th 2006

“’Blow Fly Inn’ on display at SIUC”, In the Flipside Zone, Tonia Howerton, “May 27th-June 2nd 2004

“Visual Arts Picks, Sonic Absorption”, Seattle Weekly, Elise Richman, March 24-30th 2004

“ConWorks Shows Delivered Fun and Heartbreak”, Seattle Post Intelligencer, Hackett, Regina, February 27th 2004

TEACHING AND ART ORGANIZATION GRANTS

Lyndhurst Arts and Culture Grant, Chattanooga State Community College Workshops 2019

ABC Grant, Tennessee Arts Commission, MSA Confab: Intercepting the Waste Stream 2019

Lyndhurst Grant for MSA: Women in Sculpture Exhibition 2019

APS Grant, Tennessee Arts Commission, MSA Conference: Knoxville 2018

Lyndhurst Grant for MSA: Riverwalk Outdoor Exhibition 2017

Benwood Foundation Grant for MSA: Riverwalk Outdoor Exhibition 2017

ABC Grant, Tennessee Arts Commission, MSA Cofab 2016

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

Faculty Sponsor, Art Club, Chattanooga State Community College 2019-20

Chattanooga, TN

Co-Chair, Transforming Communities through Sculpture and Public Art, 2019

Panel Discussion, SECAC Conference

Mural project assistant to middle school group, Mark Making, Chattanooga TN 2014

Informational text writer, Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga TN 2012-2013

Board Member and Exhibitions Committee, Fairbanks Children’s Museum 2011

Panel member for solo exhibition selection, Fairbanks Arts Association 2008

FREEZE ART volunteer, Alaska Design Forum 2008

Advisory Board member, Annex Art Space, Fairbanks, AK 2007

Treasurer, Graduate Association of Painters and Printmakers, SIUC 2002-2003