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Raquel Adams
Title: Assistant Professor
Phone: 901-333-5173
Email: radams11@southwest.tn.edu 

Raquel Adams is an Assistant Professor teaching Introduction to Art, Drawing, Photography, and International Studies courses in the Communications, Graphic, and Fine Arts department. She served as Co-Chair of the Academic Master Plan, working to designate a data-driven strategic plan for the institution, she serves as an Equity & Inclusion Practitioner, as well as a Teaching Fellow for STCC Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence. She’s also an online course developer for Intro to Art courses. She’s served the college for 10 years and is focused on creating engaging and equitable practices that promote student success, essential skills, and fostering a culture of digital literacy for all.  

Lake Newton
Title: Instructor
Phone: 901-333-4985
Email: lnewton1@southwest.tn.edu

Lake Roberson Newton is an artist and educator based in Memphis, Tennessee, and is currently an Instructor at Southwest Tennessee Community College. He holds a MFA from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and a BA from Rhodes College. As an educator, Lake has taught at numerous institutions including Rhodes College, Memphis College of Art, New Mexico State University, Loyola University Maryland and the Carver Center for Arts and Technology. Lake’s work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally, with recent shows at Manifest Gallery in Cincinnati (2022), the Contemporary Arts Center in New Orleans (2021), Katonah Museum of Art (2021), Susquehanna Art Museum (2020), Masur Museum of Art, (2020), Texas Woman’s University (2020), Oklahoma State University (2019), Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts (2019), and Fort Wayne Museum of Art (2018). His work has appeared in numerous online and print journals including Float Magazine, Art Papers, Oxford American, The Sun Magazine, F-Stop Magazine, and Leica Fotographie International. His creative research explores both banal moments and historical contexts, and tests how these can be elevated as signs or signifiers of human existence and communication. The work is generated utilizing the diverse media of digital photography, flatbed scanners, video, drones, sound and installation.

Alexander Paulus
Title: Associate Professor
Phone: 901-333-4246
Email: apaulus@southwest.tn.edu

Alex Paulus is originally from southeast Missouri, but has been a resident of Memphis, Tennessee since 2007.  He received his MFA in 2009 from the Memphis College of Art and is now an Associate Professor at Southwest Tennessee Community College.  Paulus’s work has been shown in numerous galleries in Memphis, Nashville, Dallas, Houston, Aspen, St. Louis, Los Angeles, Edinburgh, London, Paris, and many others.  

His work has also been published in New American Paintings, Studio Visit magazine, It’s Nice That Printed Pages magazine, Electra magazine, Ladybeard magazine, Osso Magazine, Neon Magazine, Beautiful/Decay, Memphis Current, and Glasstire.  

He has gallery representation with the Cohle Gallery in Paris,, France- https://www.cohlegallery.com, as well as representation from the Arusha Gallery in Edinburgh, Scotland- http://arushagallery.com.

Tad Lauritzen-Wright
Title: Assistant Professor
Phone: 901-333-5157
Email: tlauritzen@southwest.tn.edu

Tad Lauritzen Wright’s work has been shown extensively throughout the United States including venues like the Katonah Museum of Art in New York, the Arkansas Arts Center in Little Rock, the Brooks Museum of Art in Memphis, Scope Miami, Art LA, Bridge Chicago, and Pulse NYC.  He has had recent exhibitions with the Cheryl Hazan Gallery in New York, David Lusk Gallery in Memphis and Nashville, Cuevas Tilleard Gallery in New York, Koelsch Gallery in Houston, and at ACME Gallery in Los Angeles. Tad has taught art at the college level for the past 20 years. He has been a Professor at SWTCC for the last 5 years.