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Emerging Craftsperson Resident Audrey Bell recently gave an upholstery demo to Associate Professor Critz Campbell’s Furniture Making class.  About the course: The chair-making class revolves around bent laminations. Students employ skateboard-decking veneer in learning bent lamination techniques to create a batch of curved seats and backs. They find individual solutions for employing this common curved, laminated element. Students are encouraged ...

�������� State University Department of Art Assistant Professor of Photography Dominic Lippillo and his collaborative partner, Mark Schoon, assistant professor at the University of West Georgia, are finalists in the Photolucida Critical Mass 2016 portfolio review competition. The pair was recognized for their series titled “Conflation.” The finalists will now have their work viewed and voted on by ...

�������� State University Department of Art Professor Marita Gootee had a photograph accepted into the 2016 SECAC Juried Exhibition. Her image titled “The Ocean,” a lumin print, was selected for the exhibition that will be presented at the Eleanor D. Wilson Museum at Hollins University in Roanoke, Va., from Sept. 1 through Oct. 22. More than 300 artworks from 103 ...

By Sasha Steinberg | �������� State University A exhibition spanning the 60-year career of artist Carole McReynolds Davis will be open Sept. 6-Nov. 18 at �������� State’s Visual Arts Center Gallery. Titled “Figures and Faces Not Far From Home,” the special university event features selections from an estimated 1,000 original works created by the local ...

[Show picture list] Photos by Megan Bean | �������� State University In the first week of Assistant Professor Neil Callander’s ART 1123: Design I class, students completed a series of straight-line-only design projects using black permanent marker on paper. Then, students expanded on these ideas by collaborating in small groups to create large-scale public chalk drawings. The drawings ...

Hard at work: [Show picture list] By Sasha Steinberg | �������� State University With a grant provided by Arkansas-based nonprofit Windgate Charitable Trust, �������� State’s Department of Art recently established a residency program that is advancing the university’s fine arts programming efforts. Under the direction of Associate Professor of Sculpture Critz Campbell, the MSU Emerging ...

Alex Bostic, an associate professor in the Department of Art at �������� State University, had work featured in the “National Society of Painters in Casein & Acrylic Upper Gallery” in June. According to the website, the “National Society of Painters in Casein and Acrylic” was founded to give artists opportunity to exhibit works regardless of style, ...

[Show picture list] (Images by Aaron McElfish) Fall Convocation for the Department of Art was held on Aug. 19 at noon in the Robert and Freda Harrison Auditorium. Important information about the upcoming year was shared, and faculty were introduced. Students who participated in summer internships and other programs as well as student organizations spent ...

By Sasha Steinberg | �������� State University For the second year, �������� State’s art department is hosting a Great Chalk Walk event. Taking place Thursday [Aug. 18] in front of the department’s Visual Arts Center Gallery at 808 University Drive, the free 4-6 p.m. event is open to all interested members of campus and surrounding ...

[Show picture list] By Sasha Steinberg | �������� State University A Macon, Georgia, professional painter who has lived and worked for two decades in Spain is �������� State’s newest artist-in-residence. As part of his month-long exploration of the Sam D. Hamilton Noxubee National Wildlife Refuge, Thomas V. “Tom” Cowsert will be sharing his talents and ...