Directed Individual Study course.
Two undergraduate graphic design students from the Department of Art, James Karlson and Mary Katherine Sanders, designed and painted a mural on the first floor of Harned Hall, home to the Department of Biological Sciences at Mississippi State University.
History of Photography is a three hour lecture course teaching the history of still photography as a fine art from its beginning to present.
Below is an assignment with student work examples.
Gootee, who has been teaching in the Department of Art at Mississippi State University for more than 30 years, had two images selected.
Alex Bostic, an associate professor in the MSU Department of Art, illustrated the 32-page book, “Free at Last: A Juneteenth Poem.”
Video created by student Jeremiah Joswick as part of an internship, spring 2022
Marita Gootee received a $500 mini grant from the Mississippi Arts Commission in 2021.
I struggle with a disease called keratoconus. My cornea is thinner in one spot, and outside stimuli from when I was younger have caused light to be reflected twice in one area. This makes dark versus light contrast hard to visualize and impairs some aspects of my life even with glasses. I worried about going blind, so I now use texture in my art to counteract that fear.
“Being oneself is, always, becoming that other that we are and that we carry hidden inside us, more than anything as a promise or possibility of being.” -Octavio Paz