Mirel Crumb
Chattanooga, TN
mirelcrumb@gmail.com
www.mirelcrumb.com
Education
2018 BFA Painting and Drawing, Magna cum laude with Departmental Honors, The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, Chattanooga, TN
Professional Experience
2019-P Co-curator, Versa Gallery, Saint Andrews Community Center, Chattanooga, TN
2019 Curatorial Intern, The Association for Visual Arts (AVA), Chattanooga, TN
2019-20 Guest Services Assistant Manager, Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, TN
2018 Intern, Number: Inc, An independent journal of the arts for TN, KY, VA, NC, SC, FL, GA, AL, MS, AR, LA, and TX
2015-18 Gallery Director’s Assistant, Cress Gallery of Art, The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, Chattanooga, TN
Awards/Scholarships
2018 SGA Outstanding Senior Award
2018 Award of Merit, UTC Department of Art Juried Student Exhibition, Juror Melissa Vandenberg
2017 Peggy Stagmaier Art Award Scholarship, The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, Chattanooga, TN
2016 Lillian B. Feinstein Scholarship, The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, Chattanooga, TN
2015 Student Achievement Award, UTC Department of Art Juried Student Exhibition, Juror Joshua Bienko
Exhibitions
2018 Group Exhibition, BFA Senior Thesis Exhibition, Cress Gallery of Art, Chattanooga, TN
2018 Group Exhibition, Things We Like, Apothecary Gallery, Chattanooga, TN
2018 Juried Exhibition, UTC Department of Art 2018 Juried Student Exhibition, Juror Melissa Vandenberg, Cress Gallery of Art, Chattanooga, TN
2017-18 CCA Alumni Exhibition, Chattanooga High School Center for Creative Arts, Chattanooga, TN (Invited to Display Work)
2017 Group Exhibition, Japan, Apothecary Gallery, Chattanooga, TN (Exhibition of work from Graphic Design in Cultural Context, a study abroad in Tokyo, Japan)
2017 Two-Person Exhibition, Lillian B. Feinstein Exhibition, Cress Gallery of Art, Chattanooga, TN (Lillian B. Feinstein Scholarship Exhibition Component)
2017 Juried Exhibition, UTC Department of Art 2017 Juried Student Exhibition, Juror Jeffery S. Morton, Cress Gallery of Art, Chattanooga, TN
2016 Group Exhibition, To SANGRAM from SMALDECK, Apothecary Gallery, Chattanooga, TN (Exhibition of work from UTC BFA Painting and Drawing Class of 2017 and Class of _ 2018. This exhibition was arranged for a group critique with visiting artist Sangram Majumdar.)
2016 Group Exhibition,ˈVerēənt, Association of Visual Arts (AVA), Chattanooga, TN (Student group exhibition of work produced during coursework for “Drawing V” arranged by _ Douglas Degges.)
2016 Juried Exhibition, UTC Department of Art 2016 Juried Student Exhibition, Vesna Pavlovic, Cress Gallery of Art, Chattanooga, TN
2015 Collaborative Project, Carmen Papalia “How to Close Your Eyes,” Fall 2015 UTC Diane Marek Visiting Artist, Cress Gallery of Art, Chattanooga, TN (Carmen Papalia prompted _ a group of UTC students to write descriptions of paintings and a group of UTC art students to create paintings from descriptions of the works to reveal the relationship _ between sight and verbal description.)
2015 Juried Exhibition, UTC Department of Art 2015 Juried Student Exhibition, Joshua Bienko, Cress Gallery of Art, Chattanooga, TN
2015- Installation, Butterfly, Southeast Center for Education in the Arts (SCEA), Chattanooga, TN (This installation was prompted by an assignment, the piece was temporarily _ installed outside of SCEA’s office. It now is displayed inside of their building.)
Presentations/Public Events
2019 Exhibited with definite print, Zine Fest! Chattanooga Public Library, 4th Floor, Chattanooga, TN
2018 Open Studios, BFA Painting & Drawing 2018 Open Studios, Caretaker’s Quarters, The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, Chattanooga, TN
2018 Artist Talk, BFA Painting & Drawing 2018 Artist Talks, Fine Arts Building, The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, Chattanooga, TN
2018 Artist Talk, Sideshow Slideshow Presented by Stoveworks, Barley Chattanooga, Chattanooga, TN
Curatorial projects
2020 Impractical Magic, Christina Lee, Kirby Miles, Emily Marie Charles, and Mary Badillo, Versa Gallery, Saint Andrews Community Center, Chattanooga, TN
2018 Strange-Making, Eleanor Aldrich, David Onri Anderson, and Amy Pleasant, Apothecary Gallery, Chattanooga, TN
2017 Incline Art Crawl, W40th and Old Mountain Road, Chattanooga TN