Kell Black
Mr. Black was a founding member of Sluggo, a post-punk band in Boston in the early 80s. He was also the keyboard player for The TLC Band, a Latin/reggae/Creole group. In 2002 he composed a solo piano soundtrack for W. F. Murnau’s 1922 film, Nosferatu, the first of many screen adaptations of Bram Stoker’s Dracula.
Mr. Black holds a BA in music and German from the State University of New York, College at Fredonia, and he studied harpsichord and Baroque performance practice at the Wiener Hochschule für Musik in Vienna, Austria. He also holds an MFA in sculpture and drawing from the University of Connecticut, Storrs. He is a Professor of Art at Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, Tennessee.
Mr. Black has exhibited widely across the United States and in Switzerland, and he was also awarded an NEA Individual Artist’s Grant. His work will be featured in a group exhibition in 2008 at the Frist Center in Nashville.
Barry Jones
Barry Jones is a digital video and sound artist with far ranging interests in music, the history of film, and new technologies. He earned his BFA in photography at Austin Peay State University, and his MFA in 3d studies at the University of South Carolina.
He is nationally and internationally known for his video installations, and has exhibited works at SPACElab in Cleveland, Ohio, at the Arlington Arts Center in Arlington, Virginia, and in Istanbul, Turkey, Sao Paulo, Brazil, and Madrid, Spain.
On a more local level, he was recently featured at the Brooks Museum in Memphis, and he has two digital works in the permanent art base collection of the New Museum of Contemporary Art’s new media branch, Rhizome.
Mr. Jones is an assistant professor at Austin Peay State University. He lives in Clarksville with his wife, Jennifer, and their three children, Marlena, Aidan and Hope.
He also performs in the vj duo [ fladry + jones ]