Faculty and Staff

Alex Bostic, an associate professor in the Department of Art at Mississippi State University, has had two meritorious entries in the 2016 Richeson75 International Art Competition. His paintings, “Syany#2″ and “Syany#3″ were selected.  According to the website, Jack Richeson & Co., operator of the Richeson School of Art & Gallery, created the Richeson75 International Art Competitions. The Richeson75 competitions offer a venue for established ...

Via media release and Professor Marita Gootee Mississippi State University Department of Art Professor Marita Gootee will exhibit seven works from two series in Emotions and Commotions Across Cultures. The exhibit is part of the Berlin Foto Biennale, which is being held during the seventh annual European Month of Photography, the largest German festival for photography, which ...

By Sasha Steinberg | Mississippi State University Mississippi State’s School of Architecture is hosting a Timber Innovations for Mississippi Buildings Reimagined (TIMBR) Symposium Thursday-Friday [Sept. 15-16] on the Starkville campus. Registration is free and must be completed by Sept. 10 at www.msstate.edu/timbr. American Institute of Architects (AIA) continuing education units will be provided. Funded in ...

Mississippi State University Department of Art Assistant Professor of Photography Dominic Lippillo and his collaborative partner, Mark Schoon, assistant professor at the University of West Georgia, are finalists in the Photolucida Critical Mass 2016 portfolio review competition. The pair was recognized for their series titled “Conflation.” The finalists will now have their work viewed and voted on by ...

Mississippi State University Department of Art Professor Marita Gootee had a photograph accepted into the 2016 SECAC Juried Exhibition. Her image titled “The Ocean,” a lumin print, was selected for the exhibition that will be presented at the Eleanor D. Wilson Museum at Hollins University in Roanoke, Va., from Sept. 1 through Oct. 22. More than 300 artworks from 103 ...

Alex Bostic, an associate professor in the Department of Art at Mississippi State University, had work featured in the “National Society of Painters in Casein & Acrylic Upper Gallery” in June. According to the website, the “National Society of Painters in Casein and Acrylic” was founded to give artists opportunity to exhibit works regardless of style, ...

[Show picture list] (Images by Aaron McElfish) Fall Convocation for the Department of Art was held on Aug. 19 at noon in the Robert and Freda Harrison Auditorium. Important information about the upcoming year was shared, and faculty were introduced. Students who participated in summer internships and other programs as well as student organizations spent ...

Fall 2016 convocation for the School of Architecture was held on Aug. 17 in the Robert and Freda Harrison Auditorium in Giles Hall. Jim West, dean of the College of Architecture, Art and Design, welcomed the group and gave an update on the college before Director and F.L. Crane Professor Michael Berk started with the rest of the ...

[Show picture list] When one door closed for Zachary Henry, four more opened. Henry, a fourth-year MSU architecture student from Knoxville, Tenn., was disappointed when his proposal for a travel scholarship to Australia didn’t come out on top. However, when his boss, School of Architecture alumnus Briar Jones heard about Henry’s plan, he and his ...

(Video by Kamau Bostic) [Show picture list] (above photos by Lori Neuenfeldt) By Sasha Steinberg | Mississippi State University Mississippi State’s College of Architecture, Art and Design recently hosted a design camp for students from the Boys and Girls Clubs of Central Mississippi. Held June 20–24, the five-day summer experience in Jackson had a goal of helping students in ...