By Sasha Steinberg | Mississippi State University Mississippi State’s art department again is inviting creative upper-level high school students to participate in its annual INvision summer camp. Taking place June 13-17, the visual arts experience is designed for students age 16 and older, including incoming freshmen at the university. Now in its fourth year, the ...
By Sasha Steinberg | Mississippi State University A Mississippi State art faculty member is positioned to officially join the policy making body of an international institution specializing in craft education. Critz Campbell, an associate professor at the university, recently was elected to an eight-year term as a board trustee at North Carolina’s Penland School of ...
[Show picture list] (Photos by Aaron McElfish) An opening reception was held on Tuesday [April 26] at the Cullis Wade Depot Art Gallery for 19 fine art seniors specializing in graphic design at Mississippi State. Free to all, the second-floor “(dis)ARRANGE” exhibition celebrates the conclusion of the students’ art department studies and will remain on display through May 4. ...
By Sasha Steinberg | Mississippi State University Works of 19 fine art seniors specializing in graphic design at Mississippi State are on display April 26-May 4 at the Cullis Wade Depot Art Gallery. Free to all, the second-floor “(dis)ARRANGE” exhibition at the university’s Welcome Center celebrates the conclusion of the students’ art department studies. The ...
[Show picture list] (Photos by Aaron McElfish) A reception was held on April 21 for works by eleven graduating fine art majors at Mississippi State are on display through April 28 in two university art galleries. Free and open to all, the weeklong Bachelor of Fine Arts thesis exhibition, “Epitome,” features images reflecting the students’ ...
Mississippi State junior Daniel J. Mooney of Brookhaven talks about one of his artworks with Student Support Services Coordinator Elizabeth Williams during a “One Night Only” exhibit at the university’s Howell Building. The show represented a culmination of ACCESS program students’ semester-long artwork created with volunteer guest instructors from the Department of Art and Starkville ...
By Sasha Steinberg | Mississippi State University A longtime faculty member and former head of the Mississippi State College of Architecture, Art and Design’s art department is receiving international recognition. Professor Brent Funderburk’s watercolor painting, “Flying World,” is among 150 works selected for inclusion in one of the world’s largest competitive exhibits dedicated to water-based ...
By Sasha Steinberg | Mississippi State University Mississippi State’s newest artist-in-residence has begun her month-long exploration of the Sam D. Hamilton Noxubee National Wildlife Refuge. Elin de Jong, a contemporary textiles and crafts artist from the Netherlands, is documenting colors of the landscape and wildlife and experimenting with plants to come up with natural dyes ...
Via media release Memphis, Tenn. – Memphis full-service marketing agency Kelley & Associates Advertising has named Senior Art Director Kim Strickland as vice president. In this role, Strickland will supervise the delivery of services to clients and the professional development of junior staff while continuing to generate leading-edge visual communications and e-solutions. “Kim brings the skill, creativity ...
[Show picture list] (Photos by Aaron McElfish) A reception was held for “Contact S16: BFA Photography Thesis Exhibition” on Thurs., April 14. Works of three graduating art/photography majors at Mississippi State will remain on display through May 6 in the university’s Colvard Student Union Art Gallery. Regular gallery hours are 8 a.m.-5 p.m., Monday-Friday, as well as ...