Andrew Blanchard
Andrew Blanchard was born in the wild swamps of Louisiana, though was raised in Waveland, a small beach community on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Like most boys who grew up close to a beach, he fished and swam until the ring of the dinner bell. At a young age, he became fascinated with the bold, […]
William N. Beckwith
William Beckwith has produced public and private bronzes for over 30 years. His work is mainly figurative. He is widely known for his portrait busts, many of which are modeled from photographs of deceased subjects. Originally from Greenville, MS he now lives & works out of Taylor, MS, winner of the “Governor’s Award of Excellence […]
Frank Estrada
Frank Estrada is a Memphis, TN native who moved to Oxford, MS in 2007. He holds a B.F.A. with an emphasis in Printmaking and a B.A. in Sociology from the University of Mississippi. As of Spring 2023, he is currently earning his Master of Science in Integrated Marketing Communication through the School of Journalism and […]
Sheri Fleck Rieth
Sheri Fleck Rieth has a BFA in Drawing and Painting from the University of Kansas and an MFA in Studio Arts from Memphis College of Art. Rieth worked for ten years as a puppeteer/artist with Puck Players Puppet Theatre in Bloomington, Indiana, and taught at Watkins Institute of Art and Design in Nashville, TN, Memphis […]
Bill Beckwith
William N. Beckwith was born in Greenville, MS, in 1952. In 1966 at the age of fourteen he became an apprentice in the studio of Leon Z. Koury. Mr. Koury had studied with Malvina Hoffman in New York who had studied with Auguste Rodin in Paris. From 1970 to 1976 Mr. Beckwith attended the University […]
Paula Temple
Paula Temple has worked as an exhibiting artist throughout the United States, Europe, Central America and the Eastern Caribbean (Grenada and St. Lucia on a Peace Corps contract). She was on the faculty at the University of Mississippi beginning in 1985 and was a Professor of Art at the University of Mississippi. She taught Graphic […]
Jan Murray
Jan Murray is a native New Yorker who was born and raised in midtown Manhattan. Encouraged by her parents from the beginning, Murray recalls always having art materials at home and always engaging in the art of drawing. She attended Yale College, receiving her BA in 1975. After graduation she worked as an arts specialist […]
