Author Archive
Minimum Laptop Requirement
Many of our students purchase the Apple MacBook Pro as most artists and professional design agencies utilize the Mac platform which is the industry’s standard. Also, the MacBook Pro comes bundled with some of the software that artists and designers use. However, our network in the Art Department supports all commercially available computing platforms. I […]
Wicker Wins Research Award
Department of Art and Art History faculty member and Interim Chair Dr. Nancy L. Wicker was honored Friday, May 10, 2019, by the College of Liberal Arts for her excellence in research. Wicker, Professor of Art History, became the first awardee of the Hensley Family Senior Professor Research Award in the Fine and Performing Arts […]
2019 Exhibitions
SPRING January 22nd – February 14th New Faculty Exhibition Reception: Thursday, February 14th, 4:30-6:00 pm (View Images) February 18th – March 15th Ceramics Alumni Exhibition Reception: Thurs, March 7th, 4:30-6 pm (View Images) BFA Forum Tuesday, March 19th & Wednesday, March 20th March 25th – March 29th BFA Exhibition (Group 1) Hannah Holland (Sculpture), Bobby […]
Belden-Adams Publishes Book
Associate Professor Kris Belden-Adams recently published Photography, Temporality, Modernity: Time Warped. (Routledge/Taylor & Francis, 2019). ISBN:978-1138544314. This book examines the photography’s unique capacity to represent time with a degree of elasticity and abstraction. Part object-study, part cultural/philosophical history, it examines the medium’s ability to capture and sometimes “defy” time, while also traveling as objects across […]
Vasari Society Tours Brooks Museum
The Vasari Society, the student art history organization took a field trip to the Brooks Museum of art in Memphis on Saturday, March 23, 2019. The trip was funded by a grant from the College of Liberal Arts of The University of Mississippi.
Museum Completes New Walton-Young House Art Installation
Three artists create high-visibility public art pieces on historic structure Artists Rebekah Flake, Valerie Guinn Polgar and Sarah Barch have created custom art installations on the historic Walton-Young House, next door to the University of Mississippi Museum. The installation is designed to animate the house and display the work of local artists. Each piece is […]
UM graduate, Created the Cover Art for Bruce Levingston’s New Album
New album, London concerts mark notable start of 2019 for Levingston FEBRUARY 18, 2019 BY JONATHAN SCOTT Concert pianist Bruce Levingston, holder of the UM Fant Chair and Chancellor’s Honors College Artist-in-Residence, stands onstage at the Teatro Fraschini di Pavia in Italy, one of the theaters where he performed with renowned ballerina Alessandra Ferri and Herman […]
The Virtual Middle Ages: A User’s Guide
Dr. Nancy Wicker gave a talk, Andvari: Bridging the Gap across Disciplines and Institutions, in the Bondurant auditorium February 7 at 4:00pm. Lilla Kopár who will be giving an official lecture in the same series March 21st will also be speaking about Anglo-Saxon art and inscriptions in Dr. Nancy Wicker’s AH 334 class on that same day. […]
Aluminum Pour Fundraiser
The Rebel Sculpture Society will be hosting their first ever Aluminum Pour Fundraiser on February 8th! Resin bonded sand blocks will be ready to carve into and have aluminum poured into. All participants can leave with a one-of-a-kind aluminum tile. There will be the option of either a regular square tile or a heart shaped tile […]
Student to Work with Smithsonian on Expat Women Artists
Grace Moorman will research influence of American female artists living in Paris in 1920s JANUARY 14, 2019 BY MICHAEL NEWSOM OXFORD, Miss. – University of Mississippi student Grace Moorman is going to Washington for the spring 2019 semester to work as a curatorial intern at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Portrait Gallery on a project that highlights the contributions […]