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‘Lost and Found’ Collage Prints on Display at Meek Hall
Work of UM art professor emerita Jan Murray exhibited through Feb. 28 JANUARY 30, 2020 BY EDWIN B. SMITH UM art professor emerita Jan Murray (right) supervises Frank Estrada (left), gallery curator; Lauren Cardenas, assistant gallery director; and Tyler Barnes, gallery director, as they hang prints for her ‘Lost and Found’ exhibition in Meek Hall’s Gallery […]
Art History Professor Receives First Hensley Award
Hensley family members (from left) are Rusty, Missy, John, Camille, Baby Mack, Pauline and Hunt. Below: UM art history professor Nancy Wicker, demonstrating Viking jewelry, is the first recipient of the Hensley Family Senior Professor Research Award. A University of Mississippi art history professor is the first recipient of a new research award that […]
Made in Mississippi
WRITTEN BY CALYN HOERNER (Invitation Oxford Magazine) Delta Grind Grits – Water Valley Stone-ground products grown in the heart of north Mississippi Diners at Ravine or McEwen’s may notice the brand of the grits served with their meal is specified on the menu. Sourced from farms across Mississippi and hand-ground in Water Valley, the grits, […]
Five new mod sculptures on Poydras Street are ‘greatest drive-by art exhibit’
By Doug MacCash | Staff Writer for Nola.com | OCT 3, 2019 Click here for the original article including all artists. As Poydras Street commuters have surely noticed, five eye-catching new sculptures have appeared recently along the street’s neutral ground. One was created by an internationally renowned Louisiana artist, who also happens to be a […]
Meet Trailblazer Jennifer G. Thompson
August 28, 2019 Today we’d like to introduce you to Jennifer G. Thompson. Thanks for sharing your story with us Jennifer. So, let’s start at the beginning and we can move on from there. I started researching Texas female typographers and designers for a project I was working on and I couldn’t find very much […]
Life and Work with Allie Gilmore
August 19, 2019 Today we’d like to introduce you to Allie Gilmore. So, before we jump into specific questions about the business, why don’t you give us some details about you and your story. I was born and raised along the Mississippi River in the city of Cape Girardeau, Missouri. Following high school, I journeyed […]
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 […]
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 […]