Brooke White
Brooke White lives in Oxford, Mississippi, where she is Professor of Art and Head of Imaging Arts at the University of Mississippi. As an artist White embraces, a cross-disciplinary lens-based approach to image making that combines traditional analog techniques alongside digital strategies. For the past twenty years she has made work about the landscape, nature […]
Durant Thompson
Durant Thompson is a Professor of Art and the Area Head of Sculpture in the Department of Art and Art History at The University of Mississippi. He is also the BFA Program Coordinator for the department. In 1997, he received a BFA in Sculpture from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville and in 2001 he […]
Matt Long
Matt Long received his MFA in Ceramics from Ohio University in 1997 and his BFA in Ceramics from the Kansas City Art Institute in 1995. After receiving his MFA, Matt went on to become a Teaching Lab Specialist, adjunct faculty, and Visiting Assistant Professor at The University of Florida in Gainesville for six and a […]
Philip Jackson
The tenor feature of Philip R. Jackson’s work is his ability to take the common object and elevate it to an object of wonder. Jackson’s still life paintings have a pervasive sense of classicism in his deftly controlled and elegant arrangements, imbuing them with heightened worth and poetic presence. An emerging force in contemporary realist […]
Virginia Rougon Chavis
Virginia is a designer, artist, educator and lover of all things printed. Originally from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, she has been a part of the faculty in the Department of Art & Art History since January 2002. She earned her MFA in graphic design from Savannah College of Art & Design in Savannah, Georgia, where she […]
Joshua Brinlee
Joshua Brinlee originally hails from Morgan City, Lousiana, but was raised in Franklin, Tennessee. He has lived and worked in Memphis, Tennessee for the past sixteen years and received his BFA and MFA from Memphis College of Art. Joshua is an alumnus member of the AICAD New York Studio Residency Program. At the University of […]
Tyler Barnes
Tyler Barnes, a second-generation artist, originally from Alexandria, Louisiana, received his BFA in Graphic Communications from Northwestern State University, Natchitoches, Louisiana in 2008 and his MFA in Graphic Design from Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi in 2016. Throughout his career, he has worked in a number of professional design studios, including Marc English Design in Austin, […]
Dr. Thomas Dewey
Thomas Dewey holds B.A. and M.A. degrees in Art History from Southern Illinois University and a Ph.D. in Art History from the University of Wisconsin. Dewey’s research interest was contemporary American printmaking and drawing. He has taught at Wisconsin State University, Oshkosh and was an Associate Professor at the University of Mississippi. He presented more […]
Dr. Edward Sisson
As a graduate student at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and Harvard University, I conducted research on the Maya at Palenque, Chiapas and on the Olmec in the Western Chontalpa, Tabasco. Prior to returning to the University of Mississippi, my undergraduate institution, I was engaged in teaching and contract archaeology at the University […]
Dr. Bokyung Kim
Dr. Bokyung Kim received her Ph.D. in art history from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2007 with a dissertation titled Indefinite Boundaries: Reconsidering the Relationship between Borobudur and Loro Jonggrong in Central Java (Indonesia). Her current research involves several topics in the early interactions between Java (Indonesia) and the mainland of Southeast Asia. […]