Sheri Flournoy Selph

Assistant Professor

Sheri Flournoy Selph
(615) 898-5985
Room 311, Andrew L. Todd Hall (TODD)
MTSU Box 25, Murfreesboro, TN 37132

Departments / Programs

Degree Information

  • MFA, University of Tennessee, Knoxville (2001)
  • BFA, Louisiana Tech University (1998)

Areas of Expertise

Graphic Design, Print & Email Marketing, Interactive Design, Photography, Illustration, Typography, and Motion Graphics

Biography

Sheri Flournoy Selph is Creative Director and Assistant Professor of graphic design at Middle Tennessee State University. Sheri has 20+ years experience in the professional creative industry where her area of expertise is creative direction for marketing and advertising and its auxiliary fields of branding, photography, website and social media promotional design, direct marketing, and motion graphics. 

Sheri's professional work includes pri...

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Sheri Flournoy Selph is Creative Director and Assistant Professor of graphic design at Middle Tennessee State University. Sheri has 20+ years experience in the professional creative industry where her area of expertise is creative direction for marketing and advertising and its auxiliary fields of branding, photography, website and social media promotional design, direct marketing, and motion graphics. 

Sheri's professional work includes print and online design for Wyndham Hotel Group, MGM Resorts International, Caesar's Entertainment, Wells Fargo, BBVA Compass Bank, Disney, Ferrari, Hyundai Motor Company and the Kroger Corporation just to name a few.

Sheri has recently led creative initiatives on projects funded by grant contracts with the State of Tennessee, Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services and supported marketing efforts through design for the national nonprofit Down Syndrome Diagnosis Network (dsdn.org). Her courses taught at MTSU include Word and Image, Interactive Design I, Typography in Motion, and Graphic Design Senior Capstone.

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Presentations

UPCOMING:

A Novel Idea: Students Utilize the Literary Experience to Conceptualize Political Campaign Branding and Design in an Exhibition Called In the Books
Co-presenter with Assistant Professor Stefanie Cobb
SECAC 2020 - Hosted by Virginia Commonwealth University

Awards

Peoples Choice Award
(Co-presented with student researcher Bethani Walton)
Adobe Creative Jam 2018

Nashville, Tennessee

Research / Scholarly Activity

Find Your People: Students Create New Communities as a Way to Bring Together Outliers in an Exhibition Called "Belong".
UCDA Design Education Summit: Collaborate Poster Presentation 2019

Visualizing Success: Strategies for How to Effectively Merge Creative Design with Program Evaluation
Evaluation 2020 Accepted Speaker, AEA Eval20 Reimagined, American Evaluation Association 2020