Art

[Show picture list] Photos by Megan Bean | Mississippi State University In the first week of Assistant Professor Neil Callander’s ART 1123: Design I class, students completed a series of straight-line-only design projects using black permanent marker on paper. Then, students expanded on these ideas by collaborating in small groups to create large-scale public chalk drawings. The drawings ...

Hard at work: [Show picture list] By Sasha Steinberg | Mississippi State University With a grant provided by Arkansas-based nonprofit Windgate Charitable Trust, Mississippi State’s Department of Art recently established a residency program that is advancing the university’s fine arts programming efforts. Under the direction of Associate Professor of Sculpture Critz Campbell, the MSU Emerging ...

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 ...

By Sasha Steinberg | Mississippi State University For the second year, Mississippi State’s art department is hosting a Great Chalk Walk event. Taking place Thursday [Aug. 18] in front of the department’s Visual Arts Center Gallery at 808 University Drive, the free 4-6 p.m. event is open to all interested members of campus and surrounding ...

[Show picture list] By Sasha Steinberg | Mississippi State University A Macon, Georgia, professional painter who has lived and worked for two decades in Spain is Mississippi State’s newest artist-in-residence. As part of his month-long exploration of the Sam D. Hamilton Noxubee National Wildlife Refuge, Thomas V. “Tom” Cowsert will be sharing his talents and ...

[Show picture list] (Photos by Mississippi State University and Aaron McElfish) Upper-level high school students participated in the Mississippi State Department of Art’s annual INvision summer camp from June 13-17. Campers participated in workshops on photography, graphic design, drawing, ceramics and sculpting, among other media. Artist presentations, gallery exhibitions, movie nights and field trips were among the ...

Pascagoula millennial’s invention a glowing success in Starkville bar scene BY JEFF CLARK | The Sun Herald A 2012 Pascagoula High School student is literally lighting up the beverage world with her new invention. Kaylie Mitchell, a senior graphic design student at Mississippi State University, is one half of the duo that created Glo, the ...

[Show picture list] (photos by Laura Smith Daniels) Assistant Professor Suzanne Powney has been keeping her students busy in her letterpress course this summer. At Mississippi State, the letterpress is specific to the graphic design program. Letterpresses are used to print textured designs, generally on invitations or posters, and these kinds of prints were common throughout ...