Faculty

Pamela Keller, Professor of Art Phone: 233-8232 Office location: McCandless Hall, Room 310 Pamela Keller, Professor of Art and departmental chair at Athens State University has worked at this institution since 1981. She received a Bachelor of Fine Art (BFA) from Indiana University, John Herron School of Art in May of 1979. She went on to receive a Master of Fine Art (MFA) degree from University of Wisconsin in August of 1981. Her major was in Painting and Drawing and minors Photograpy, Art History, and English. Pamela has been in numerous exhibitions including Tennessee Bicentennial Exhibition; Arts Alive Exhibition. Kennedy-Douglas Center. Florence, AL; Central South Art Exhibition. Nashville, TN; and Tennessee All-State Exhibition. Nashville, TN in which she received 1st place. Her works can be found in the corporate collections of Eastman Kodak Pharmaceutical Corporation. Malvern, PA; Third National Bank. Nashville, TN; Hunter Museum of Art. Chattanooga, TN; Helen Keller Memorial Hospital, Tuscumbia, AL; and Family Mental Health Institute. NY, NY. Pamela Keller's most recent project, in conjunction with artist Gail Bergeron is a life sized-sculpture of a Cherokee family walking on the Trail of Tears for the city of Pulaski, TN. Keller’s most recent award for exhibition is from the 2007 Chancellor’s Exhibition in Birmingham, AL.
Gail Bergeron, Assistant Professor of Art Phone: 233-8149 Office location: McCandless Hall, Room 201 Gail Bergeron is a native of New Orleans, Louisiana. She was the head of the art department at Martin Methodist College for nine years before coming to Athens State University. She has taught and shown her work in Texas, Louisiana, and Alabama. She has studied in Israel and participated in the Rotary Exchange Program in India. Her latest public sculpture can be found at the "Miss Baker Walk in the Park" at the Senior Center in Huntsville, Alabama. Professor Bergeron's most recent project is a joint effort with Professor Pamela Keller to create a life sized bronze sculpture of a Cherokee family walking on the Trail of Tears for the city of Pulaski.
Louis Argent Farlow, Adjunct Professor of Art Louis Argent Farlow has been teaching Sculpture, Design, Drawing, Painting, Printmaking, Ceramics and Ceramics Sculpture Illustration at Athens State University as an adjunct faculty member since 1999. An active artist and musician, Farlow’s most recent exhibition was the 2007 Chancellors Exhibition in Birmingham, Alabama. Other Adjunct Faculty Include: Gene Keith Jason Braly Barbara Kilgore