BIO:

Camille Comer was born and raised in Murfreesboro, Tennessee where she graduated with a B.F.A. from Middle Tennessee State University.  She has studied Blacksmithing at Cannonsburgh Village in Tennessee and iron casting during the NCCCIAP in Birmingham, Alabama at Sloss Furnaces.  Throughout Camille’s undergraduate degree she was a work-study employee in the Wood and Metal Shops at Middle Tennessee State University under Michael Baggarly and was the Metal Shop Technician as well from 2021 to the present.  Camille also worked as the Book Arts Counselor for Tennessee’s Governor’s School for the Arts in 2019 and the Sculpture Counselor in 2021 and 2022.  In this time frame Camille was awarded the Charles W. and Ola Massey Memorial Scholarship, the James S. Gibson Sculpture Scholarship twice, and the Arrowmont University Fellowship Scholarship.  She has also been a part of group shows at The Walk-In Closet in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, The Glass Gallery, the 210 Gallery, and The Todd Art Gallery held in the Andrew L. Todd Building on MTSU’s campus, along with the The Rotunda of Murfreesboro, Tennessee's City Hall.  Camille has had two sculptures published, Contemplating Flight 2020 and Non-Toxic 2021, in Collage: A Journal of Creative Expression.  In 2023 Camille was an adjudicator and is the Visual Arts Coordinator for Tennessee's Governor's School for the Fine Arts, while building a Public Works piece for Cannon County, TN, continuing to work for Middle Tennessee State University's Art and Design Department as the Metal Shop Technician, participating in two shows at the Las Laguna Art Gallery in California, and beginning graduate school at Washington State University in Pullman, Washington in the fall.