Chelsie Blair Nunn
About: (they/them) Lives and practices in Knoxville, TN + Educator for 12 years + Dog dad + Protect trans/queer kids.
Email: chelsie.nunn@gmail.com
Website: chelsienunn.com
Social: IG @chelsienunn
Education:
2012 MS, with Distinction, Art Education, University of Tennessee Knoxville, TN
2011 BFA, cum laude, Painting, University of Tennessee Knoxville, TN
Professional Experience:
2022-Present Adjunct Faculty, Theory & Practice in Teacher Education, College of Health & Human Sciences, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
2013-Present Full-time Visual Arts Educator, Knoxville, TN
2016-Present instructional mentor to UTK pre-service teachers, Knoxville, TN
2022-2024 Fine Arts Department Chair, Knoxville, TN
2015-Present Peer Mentor and Fine Arts Leadership Team Elementary Representative, Knoxville, TN
2022 Forward Author, The Goddess Fortune: To Proper is to Die, Published February 22, 2023 Tofu Ink Arts Press
2016-2020 Lead Teacher, Knoxville, TN
2012-2013 Full-time itinerant Visual Arts Educator, Knoxville, TN
2012 Summer Art Camp Instructor, Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN
2011-2012 Visual Art Educator, Intern, Oak Ridge High School, Oak Ridge, TN
Awards, Grants, & Fellowships:
2024 TAEA East Tennessee Art Educator of the Year, Elementary
2024 Arrowmont Legacy Scholarship Recipient, Gatlinburg, TN
2024 Art Source, Dogwood Arts Festival Educator Exhibition, Downtown Gallery, Knoxville, TN, Third Place
2024 Best of the Net Poetry, Nominee
2023 & 2024 TAEA Teacher of the Year East Tennessee, Nominee
2023 Arrowmont Legacy Scholarship Recipient, Gatlinburg, TN
2023 Big Ears Festival Scholarship Recipient, Knoxville, TN
2021 Long-listed for Publication, Candy Carpeted Hymns, Lupercalia Press
2018 Teacher of the Year
2017 Faculty Tenure, Knoxville, TN
2017 Art Source, Dogwood Arts Festival Educator Exhibition, Downtown Gallery, Knoxville, TN, First Place
2015 Art Source, Dogwood Arts Festival Educator Exhibition, Downtown Gallery, Knoxville, TN, First Place
2014 Art Source, Dogwood Arts Festival Educator Exhibition, Downtown Gallery, Knoxville, TN, Directors Choice Award
2013 Tennessee Art Education Association Grant, full funding to attend the TAEA Conference, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Sevierville, TN
2013 Kappa Delta Pi, Darkroom Grant, Chilhowee Intermediate, Knoxville, TN
2012 65th Annual Student Art Exhibition, Ewing Gallery, Knoxville, TN, Jered Sprecher Painting Award
2011 All Together Now, Cookie Aytes Art Education Gallery, University ofTennessee, Knoxville, TN Third Place
2010 63rd Annual Student Art Exhibition, Ewing Gallery, Knoxville, TN, Private Donor Award
Exhibition Record:
(See exhibition record in site navigation)
Publication Record:
(See publication record in site navigation)
Professional Service:
2015-Present Professional Development Presenter (i.e. Motivating Students, District Art Education Curriculum, Fashion Design with Elementary Students, etc.), Knoxville, TN
2015-Present Mentoring teacher, University of Tennessee Knoxville, Knoxville, TN
2015-Present Peer mentor, Visual Arts Department, Knoxville, TN
2018 Juror, A-1 Gallery, Knoxville, TN
2017 Covenant Health Knoxville Marathon Volunteer
2017-2018 Graduate admissions interviewer, Art Education, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
2015-2018 Curriculum design, Knoxville, TN
2022 & 2023 Beardsley Farm Snow Day Volunteer
2022 Kids’ Place, Inc. Summer Camp Counselor
2019 Big Ears Festival Volunteer
2023 Presenter at the Melungeon Heritage Association, Berea, KY
2023 Presenter and Panelist at the St. Paul UMC Acceptance Music Festival, Fountain City, TN
2023 Collaborator, Author, & Illustrator of Sweet Things printed by Shalperta Press, Knoxville, TN
2024 Workshop Instructor & Collaborator Queer Mixer by Cleo Taurus, Grant Funding by Queer Liberation Arts Grant
Professional Organizations:
University of Tennessee
Knox Co. Schools
Tofu Ink Arts Press
National Association of Art Educators
Tennessee Association of Art Educators
Melungeon Heritage Association
Cattywampus Puppet Council’s Honkers & Bangers
Kids’ Place, Inc.
Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts
Dogwood Arts
Shalperta Press
Queer Mixer by Cleo Taurus
Vacuum Shop Studios (now closed)
Travel:
2022 Glen, MT paleontological expedition with Dr. Ethan L. Fulwood, fieldwork to obtain specimens of small mammals from the Eocence-Oligocene epoch
2018 & 2013 Taos, Los Alamos, & Santa Fe, NM to experience the culture and art history of the Pueblo
2017 Southern Utah with artistic colleague Rachel H. Principe
2012 England & Scotland with artistic colleague Ausra Parreira
2011 New York City, NY, National Art Education Conference
2009 Budapest, Hungary, lectured on the topic of “painting as prayer” at a women’s recovery home
References:
Dr. Joy Bertling, Professor of Art Education, University of Tennessee Knoxville, Knoxville, TN
Dr. Heather Casteel, Visual Arts Specialist, Knoxville, TN
Dr. Alisha Hinton, National Institute for Excellence in Teaching, Nashville, TN