artist-in-residence program

Webb School of Knoxville is a Pre-K through 12th grade independent, private day school of about 1,050 students, located in Knoxville, Tennessee. Since 2001, we have welcomed two visiting visual artists each year – one in October and one in February – for immersive five-week residencies on campus.

During their tenure, visiting artists devote half of each day to their own creative work and the other half to engaging with students in formal art classes. These interactions are planned in collaboration with Webb’s six visual arts teachers: one in the Lower School, two in the Middle School, and three in the Upper School. Each residency culminates in an exhibition of the artist’s work, and participants are invited to contribute a representative piece to Webb’s visiting artist study collection. In return, artists are provided with a dedicated workspace within a classroom; full use of our arts facilities, including a well-equipped digital lab, ceramics studio, painting/drawing studio, photography classroom, wood shop, darkroom, kilns, and print presses; and 24-hour access to their work studio.