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 national recognition. Seven artworks from Professor Brent Funderburk’s “Flying World” and New Solar Myths” watercolor painting series appear in the August issue of Watercolor Artist magazine. Published ...

Works by six students, faculty and alumni in the Department of Art at Mississippi State have again been selected by a major international publication. Based in New York City, Creative Quarterly: The Journal of Art and Design showcases graphic design, illustration, photography and fine art works of talented students and professionals worldwide. Featured in the fall 2016 online Runners-Up ...

By Sasha Steinberg | Mississippi State University For Alex Bostic, the road to a successful art career began with a spark of imagination—literally. At the age of seven, he discovered his artistic talents with help from his older brother Charles and a make-believe game of “war” the two played using wood matches. “One day, a ...

By Sasha Steinberg | Mississippi State University A longtime faculty member in Mississippi State’s College of Architecture, Art and Design is the new permanent leader of its art department. Since 2014, Angi Elsea Bourgeois has headed the Magnolia State’s largest undergraduate studio art program on an interim basis. Her permanent appointment begins July 1. In ...

[Show picture list] (Photos of the opening reception on May 20 by Lori Neuenfeldt) By Sasha Steinberg | Mississippi State University Painting creations by a Crawford artist are on display through July 22 at Mississippi State’s Cullis Wade Depot Art Gallery. Free to all, the second-floor exhibition at the university’s Welcome Center features Mississippi landscape-inspired ...

‘Making pretty colors’: Textiles artist from the Netherlands finds power in tranquility, dirt and the ‘un-pretty’ of nature at Noxubee Refuge By Jan Swoope | The Columbus Dispatch The tranquility of northeast Mississippi’s Sam D. Hamilton Noxubee National Wildlife Refuge is a far cry from the bustle of Amsterdam. That Dutch capital is the most ...