Faculty and Staff

By Sasha Steinberg | Mississippi State University Mississippi State University is sponsoring a fall-semester series of fun, educational events to commemorate the Magnolia State’s bicentennial. With support from the Mississippi Humanities Council through the Mississippi Development Authority, the official bicentennial project kicks off Sept. 6 with a 5 p.m. presentation in Mitchell Memorial Library’s third-floor ...

By Kesley Brownlee Songzhuang International Photo Biennale accepted nine of Mississippi State University Department of Art Professor Marita Gootee’s images from her “Sand Shadows Series” for the international call for photo artists/photographers. The theme “Live in This Moment, Return to the Origin” and was held in Songzhuang, Beijing, China. Songzhuang Photo is a major part ...

By Kelsey Brownlee | Mississippi State University The College of Architecture, Art and Design annually honors faculty and staff with monetary awards recognizing excellence in teaching, service and dedication. The recipients are selected by an awards committee, which includes the dean, associate dean, department heads and a faculty member from each unit. Faculty are chosen ...

Via msstate.edu A longtime art professor is moving into a new role as interim associate dean for Mississippi State University’s College of Architecture, Art and Design. Jeffrey Haupt, who previously served as the painting concentration coordinator in the Department of Art, will take on the role of the associate dean. This addition to the college ...

Via Jim Laird | Maroon Memo Mississippi State University Department of Art Professor Marita Gootee’s photograph, “The Fold,” was selected by juror Eliot Dudik for the Landscape, Grand and Personal exhibition at the SE Center for Photography. The exhibition will run during September at the center in Greenville, S.C.  Dudik is a photographic artist, educator and bookmaker exploring the ...

Leah Kemp, director of the Carl Small Town Center at Mississippi State University, was a part of “Good things with Rebecca Turner” on Mississippi’s SuperTalk Radio yesterday [Aug. 9] at 2:20.

  The director of the Mississippi State University School of Architecture’s Jackson Center, Associate Professor Jassen Callender, recently published his first book, Architecture History and Theory in Reverse: From an Information Age to Eras of Meaning. The publisher, Routledge, describes the book as follows: “Architecture History and Theory in Reverse looks at architecture history in reverse, in ...

Associate Professor Alexander Bostic’s painting, “Milayla2,” is part of the National Society of Painters in Casein and Acrylic. The painting also wont the Richeson/Shiva Award for Casein Painting – $300 in art materials. “The National Society of Painters in Casein and Acrylic was founded to give artists opportunity to exhibit works regardless of style, “school” ...

Associate Professor Alexander Bostic’s painting, “Camp,” is featured in the Southern Watercolor Society‘s 40th Exhibition. A Virtual Tour of Southern Watercolor Society’s 40th Exhibition can be viewed here: https://youtu.be/-u5CXfcD-Co. “The Southern Watercolor Society, founded in 1975, is a nonprofit corporation formed to elevate the stature of watercolor and educate the public to the significance of watercolor as ...