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This three-dimensional work is cetered around a common folding lawn chair.

Gallery Features Alumna's Unique Work

The Catron Gallery, located inside the R. Jack Fishman Library on the Walters State Morristown Campus, features a one-of-a-kind exhibit this fall.  
 
Artist April Childers builds three-dimensional scenes from ordinary items. You’ve seen these items before, but you’ve never seen them as Childers does. The exhibit is called “Turkey Minding Business” and runs through Nov. 11. Childers will give a gallery talk at 2 p.m. on that day. 
 
A Walters State alumna and adjunct faculty, Childers is an interdisciplinary artist whose work reimagines objects and imagery from pop culture to unearth and reveal the complexities. Exhibits featuring Childers’ work include the Brooklyn Academy of Music, VSOP Projects in Greenport, New York, CR’10 in Linlithgo, New York, the Carnegie Visual and Performing Arts Center in Kentucky, the Contemporary Art Museum in Tampa, Florida, and Atlanta Contemporary in Georgia. 
 
Childers is also a respected exhibit curator who extends the same sensibility, treating an exhibit as a work of art rather than a collection of art. Childers is the residency director at Stove Works, a contemporary museum, in Chattanooga.  
 
“I enact the role of a weary outsider as opposed to a well-tempered consumer,” Childers said. “I weave the jaded detachment with personal and sentimental memorabilia, and autobiographical artifacts to portray the ever-shifting vantage of my own lived perspective.” 
 
The Catron Art Gallery is open during regular library hours, 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., Monday through Thursday, and 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Friday. Admission is free.