Christie Nuell is a professor of art at Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro, TN where she teaches printmaking and multimedia. A native of the United Kingdom, Nuell grew up in Italy, and was introduced to art at the pre-school level. Initially, she was not encouraged to pursue art as a career, as her parents considered it unlikely that she could make a living in the field. However, after completing a degree in English, and finding that it was equally difficult to find a job, she returned to the university to study art. She later received a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Georgia.

Nuell is an accomplished painter and printmaker whose works are included in many public and private collections, including the collection of the Metropolitan Nashville Airport Authority. She has exhibited in more than one hundred juried and invitational exhibitions in more than 20 states and several countries.

Since the 1980s, Nuell has been using the computer as a tool to produce images for her prints and more recently for unique artworks that combine copper and digital prints in constructed pieces. Nuell’s airport exhibition encompasses three large icon-like images of fruit. She states, “I want my work to reflect a sense of joy, peace, beauty, and stability to the onlooker.” With these images, “People of any age and any culture will see something they recognize and understand.”

Arts at the Airport receives funding for the visual arts from the Metropolitan Nashville Airport Authority (MNAA) and the Tennessee Arts Commission (TAC). Music performances are sponsored by MNAA, Delaware North Companies, Inc. and The Paradies Shops. The Flying Solo Exhibition Series is funded in part under an agreement with the TAC and the National Endowment for the Arts. For more information about Arts at the Airport, please call (615)275-1614 or visit www.artsattheairport.com.