School of Art Welcomes New Faculty in Photography, Art History

August 15, 2025

The UT School of Art is thrilled to welcome two new school members.

Assistant Professor Bucky Miller joins the School of Art’s Photography space. An artist and author who images to unearth stranger prospects for pleasure, Miller is a recipient of the Aaron Siskind Foundation Individual Photographer’s Fellowship, has had solo exhibitions at areas together with the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, and has proven at quite a few galleries internationally. His first self-published guide, The Picture of the Afghan Hound, was chosen as considered one of photo-eye’s finest photobooks of 2016. Miller’s work has been featured in publications like n+1, Der Greif, and The Believer. He has an MFA in Studio Art from the University of Texas at Austin and a BFA in Art (Photography) from Arizona State University and has additionally studied on the Royal College of Art Program in Sculpture. He has participated within the Stove Works Residency, Recycled Artist in Residency, Welcome To My Homepage Digital Artist Residency, and the Little Brown Mushroom Camp for Socially Awkward Storytellers. Miller is a frequent contributor of picture essays to the Texas arts publication, Glasstire, and is 1/3 of the Brooklyn-based pop-up gallery Wraymour and Flanigan.

“I have been with the UTK School of Art in a different capacity for the past year and a half. Over that time, I have found this to be a fantastic place full of delightful people,” stated Miller. “Now, I get to keep teaching here. What a boon! I am excited that, in my new role, I might help build a conversation around photographic literacy at UTK and around Tennessee. Photography is both a vital medium in contemporary art and a crucial tool for helping to understand one’s place in the world. I can’t wait to see what kinds of pictures come out of Knoxville.”

Assistant Professor Zoe Weldon-Yochim joins the Art History space. She is a scholar of up to date artwork whose analysis examines how visible and materials tradition engages the intertwined histories of nuclear colonialism, ecological violence, and U.S. militarism. Grounded in artwork historical past, her work strikes throughout Indigenous research, environmental humanities, and science and expertise research to discover how artists visualize contested environments, poisonous temporalities, and other ways of figuring out and regarding land. Her first guide undertaking, Atomic Afterlives, Earthly Hauntings: American Art and Nuclear Remains, examines how artists working from the late Cold War to just about the current second expose the durational residues of nuclear presence and unsettle dominant types of nuclear-scientific visuality. Weldon-Yochim’s analysis has been supported by the Henry Luce Foundation and American Council of Learned Societies, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Center for Advanced Study within the Visual Arts, and the College Art Association, amongst others.

“I’m honored to join the School of Art at UT and be part of such a welcoming and intellectually vibrant community. Even on my first visit, I could feel the care, curiosity, and commitment shared by the students, faculty, and staff,” stated Weldon-Yochim. “As an art historian focused on contemporary art and environmental justice, I’m excited to contribute to a community that values experimentation and exchange across disciplines. I’m looking forward to exploring Knoxville’s rich arts scene and building meaningful connections within and beyond the UT campus.”

To be taught extra about Professors Miller and Weldon-Yochim and their art work and analysis, go to their school profiles.