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 ...
By Sasha Steinberg | Mississippi State University A senior architecture major in Mississippi State’s College of Architecture, Art and Design recently received national recognition from the Building Technology Educators’ Society. Zachary R. Henry of Knoxville, Tennessee, is one of only two students who were awarded scholarships by BTES during the nonprofit’s national conference in Des ...
By Sasha Steinberg | Mississippi State University Works representing the collaborative efforts of current and former Mississippi State art, fashion design and merchandising, and theatre students are on display through Oct. 22 at the Lauren Rogers Museum of Art in Laurel. Featuring costume recreations and original designs, the “Who, What, Wear?” exhibition also showcases works ...
By Sasha Steinberg | Mississippi State University Mississippi State University’s Gulf Coast Community Design Studio is receiving a $100,000 grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation for a project that seeks to increase community engagement at the city of Biloxi’s primary recreation space. Titled “Witnessing the Beach,” the project is among 33 ...
By Allison Matthews | Mississippi State University More than a dozen Mississippi State faculty members are new graduates of the university’s Maroon Institute for Writing Excellence program. Now in its fifth year, the three-week intensive institute trains teachers from a variety of university departments to modify course syllabi to incorporate more writing-to-learn strategies into class ...
