Jake Weigel
Jake Weigel is Associate Professor of Sculpture at California State University, Stanislaus. He is a multidisciplinary artist with a focus in object making and installation methods that combine his research in architecture, ecology and theoretical physics. The experience working for his father’s construction business in Wisconsin has led to an additional interest in the role […]
Britton Yerger Vaughn
I’m Britton Vaughn from Water Valley, MS, and I wear many hats: portrait artist, graphic designer, photographer, web designer, wife, and mother of a toddler! My diverse work has been featured throughout the Southeast and can be found in homes, banks, universities, hotels, restaurants, and retail establishments. Even though I love my commercial art, I cherish […]
Avery Cordray
Avery Cordray explores connected shape and color to spotlight the situational illusions and allowances that muddle our perceived realities. Atmospheric interplay of layered shapes in space clot and coagulate to a respiratory like effect. The oil paintings revel in the bliss of an unorthodox marriage between the subjective and the projective. Cordray lets the work […]
Dason Pettit
Bio/Artist Statement: Equally inspired by cinema, literature, and philosophy, Dason Pettit’s photographic work often explores notions of stability and memory within both the narrative and documentary framework. Disintegration, distortion and reconstitution/alteration are key themes within his work and they reveal multiple perspectives regarding relationships and and how humanity negotiates what it constructs. Metaphors function as […]
Benny Melton
After teaching 3-painting classes while Philip Jackson was out on sabbatical in the Fall of 2014, I taught a semester at Memphis College of Art (Spring 2015). The following summer I got a job teaching high school art in my hometown of Yazoo City. My wife Jennifer and I moved to Yazoo City from Oxford. […]
Earl Dismuke
Earl Dismuke is a Mississippi sculptor who is dedicated to enhancing community life through the power of public art, all the while pursuing his passion of creating his own body of work. He graduated in 2007 from the University of Mississippi with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree with an emphasis in sculpture. His […]
Ross Turner
Ross Turner’s parents won him as the 2nd place prize in a watermelon-eating contest at the Yockanookany County Fair in 1986. He grew up in Chickenbone, Mississippi, subsisting on a heart-healthy diet of fried catfish, fried okra, and fried Dr Pepper. Ross spent his days chasing frogs in shallow creeks, wrestling with dogs, building forts, […]
Sarah Hammond
I was born in New Orleans and raised in central Mississippi. I graduated from the University of Mississippi in 2016 with a BFA in Painting. Since then, I’ve moved back to Louisiana to be closer to my family. When it comes to making art, I love to use everything from painting to wood carving, and […]
Jessica Richardson
Jessica Richardson is a 26 year old photographer and printmaker from Meridian, MS, currently living in Oxford, MS. She specializes in both digital and alternative process photography. Richardson’s conceptual interests lie in understanding the human psyche, and giving her subjects a platform to visually express themselves, whether that’s physically, or embodying struggles with mental health […]
Ashley Smith
Ashley Smith was born and raised in Western Kansas where she received her B.F.A from Fort Hays State University. Pushing her materials past their boundaries to create large and small scale works, Smith exposes the world of mental health through non-objective forms. Smith hopes her work will help others who suffer from mental illness to […]