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Jere Hardy Allen

Allen is a figurative painter born in Selma, Alabama, but he now lives in Oxford, Mississippi, and teaches painting and drawing at the University of Mississippi. His work is greatly influenced by Frank Rampolla, for whom he worked for more than five years. He works primarily in oil, using dramatic colors. Typically, his works are inspired initially by myths and symbols, but they are also representations of political and social realities. His paintings have been shown in 40 states and in Europe. Currently, he has a piece touring Southeast Asia, an exhibition scheduled for Huntsville, Alabama, in September of 2000 and a show in New Orleans in October. His work is regularly displayed at the Carol Robinson Gallery in New Orleans and Southside Gallery in Oxford, Mississippi.

Henry Clay Anderson

1911-1998. African American Greenville photographer, Separate but Equal: Images from the Segregated South

James McConnell Anderson

Potter, Ocean Springs, known as Mac to his brothers Walter Inglis Anderson and Peter Anderson

Peter Anderson

Master potter. He operated, along with his brothers Walter Anderson and James McConnell Anderson, Shearwater Pottery in Ocean Springs, Mississippi. He designed unusual shapes covered with special glazes. Local scenes and birds, fish, and ocean water inspired the designs of his pottery. Ocean Springs regularly holds a Peter Anderson Art Festival.

Rick Anderson

Clinton, MS. Illustrator for M is for Magnolia: A Mississippi Alphabet and 1 Mississippi, 2 Mississippi.

The Smithsonian Institution's Arts and Industries building in Washington, D.C., presented an exhibit of Walter Anderson's art during the centennial of his birth in 2003. Ocean Springs, Mississippi, houses a museum of his work. Much of his work done on 8 x 10 paper and some of his oils and ceramics were seriously damaged by Hurricane Katrina. See photo below of Anderson's home and art after the hurricane. He is most famous for his watercolors. Many of his drawings are on typewriter paper. His wife Agnes Anderson wrote a memoir Approaching the Magic Hour about him and her relationship with him.

Blue Crab (left) by Walter Anderson

John Anderson, youngest son of Walter Anderson, surveying the damage after Katrina to Shearwater and Walter Anderson's works. Photo by Paul Jacobs, MSU.

William P. Andrews

Instructor of Art at MSU, Fortnight shown at Mississippi University for Women Fine Arts Gallery, February 25 to March 7, 2008. He is director of MSU's Art Gallery and previously taught art at Starkville High School.

John Armistead Artist and writer from Tupelo, Mississippi. He paints primarily in watercolor and oil. This painting (r.) is called Blue Mountain, Mississippi, and is a watercolor 22 x 30. He has published three mysteries and two young adult fiction works. The Tupelo Daily Journal recently (February, 2006) published a new novelette by Armistead in serialized form called Bramlett's Return.

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Lucille Baker

Louisville, MS, native, specializes in watercolors.

Antoinette Badenhorst

Potter, born in South Africa, now lives in Saltillo, MS

William Baggett

Although born in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1946, William Baggett is currently a Professor of Art at the University of Southern Mississippi, in Hattiesburg. He now lives in Poplarville, Mississippi. Prior to his current position, he taught for thirteen years at the University of Mississippi and at Auburn University. He was recognized at Auburn in 1982 with an endowed Alumni Professorship for Scholarly and Creative Achievement. He also received the University of Southern Mississippi's Faculty Award for Creative Research and Achievement.

Since 1995, his painting has focused primarily on the development and execution of three huge murals for the Library of Hattiesburg, Mississippi, the Winfred Wiser Hospital at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson, and the auditorium of the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art at Auburn University. According to the Winfield Wiser Hospital's web site, Baggett's "Sharing Life" is a dramatic streetscape mural. The 22-by-11-foot mural in the building's main stairwell is painted in alkyd enamel on stainless steel and celebrates the diverse roles of women.

Jo Bailey

Born July 4, 1918 in Corinth, MS., Died June 29, 2002. Grew up in Delta and Oxford, MS. Painter of oils and watercolors.

Van Bankston

Carrollton, MS, minimalist abstract paintings

Nevada Barr

Well-known Mississippi mystery novelist but also a painter-- Beastly Art Show in Clinton featured art works by Clinton novelist Nevada Barr and her friends Tracy Sugg and Robert Sugg which benefited the Mississippi Animal Rescue League; the sale featured paintings of animals by Barr (accompanied by tongue-in-cheek “beastly tales”) and over 50 pieces of pottery and sculpture, some solo works of Tracy’s and Robert’s, as well as several collaborations. Show dates were Oct. 22 through Oct. 30, 2004, at Olde Towne Events located at 302 Jefferson Street, Clinton.

Ann Barron

Painter in Jackson, MS, received her Bachelor of Fine Art from MSCW, In 2002 and 2003, she had paintings accepted into both the American Watercolor Society Show in New York and the National Watercolor Society Show in California, making her the first Mississippi artist to gain acceptance into the top two national juried shows in the same calendar year.

Richard Barthe

(1901-1989)

Born in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. One of the most important African American sculptors of this century. Received classical training in painting and sculptures. Some sculptures are of famous African Americans, while others are of African dancers, singing slaves, etc. Work permanently on display at Whitney Museum of American Art, also Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, University of Southern Mississippi campus in Hattiesburg, Chicago Art Institute, 1924-1928. Art Students League, New York, 1931 M.A., Xavier University, New Orleans, 1934 A.F.D., St. Francis College, Brooklyn, New York, 1947. Died 1989. Major Exhibitions: Delphic Studios, New York, 1925. Caz-Delbos Gallery, New York, 1933. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1933, 1935, 1939. World's Fair, New York, 1947.

Willie Barton

Folk artist born in Union, Mississippi, in 1905, lived in Newton County, whimsical wood carvings are in Smithsonian Institution. Died in 1983.

Blanche Batson

Pike County, Mississippi, background in decorative arts, architecture and printmaking, most recently concentrated on prints, embossings and cast paper-pulp pieces.

Martin Bean

Native of McComb, Mississippi. He was born in 1972 in Montecello, Mississippi, close to McComb. He studied painting at Mississippi State University before receiving a Master's degree (2001) in painting at LSU in Baton Rouge. He currently teaches painting at Alabama A and M in Huntsville and has an exhibit at Southside Gallery. His works include still life to portrait paintings.

George Berry, Sr. Wood carver, Pearl, Mississippi, carves life-like animal statues out of wood, won $5,000 Folk Artist Fellowship from Mississippi Arts Commission, no classical training, moved to Mississippi from Oklahoma in 1972, instructor at Allison Wells School of Arts and Crafts in Canton and Craftsmen's Guild programs at the Jim Buck Ross Agricultural Museum in Jackson. Wrote Wood Carving: An Expression in Wood.

Photo from MS Craftmen's Guild

Bruce Bezaire

Head of Belhaven College art department, paints mostly in acrylics, does landscapes, some portraits and occasional still lifes, does comic strip for Indian Life Magazine, was free-lance arts in Toronto , worked as botanical illustrator at Museum of Natural Science in Ottawa

Vidal Blankenstein

She has done Human--Landscape-- 26 paintings and several mono types--on display at Pearl River Glass Studio Gallery, has worked commercially in advertising.

Dusti Bonge

1903-1993

She has done 35 colorful works on paper called "Images of Biloxi 1936-1945," which were exhibited at MUW in Columbus, MS, is represented in the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D. C., born in Biloxi in 1903, married Archie Bonge in Chicago, and then became a painter. In 1950's she was member of the Abstract Expressionists and was represented by the prestigious Betty Persons gallery. Mississippi ETV has done half-hour documentary featuring her as an abstract artist. She died in 1993.

Richard H. Booth

Has done 5-by-7 foot abstract paintings as well as intimate self-portraits, produced over 900 works, died March 7, 1999, alumnus of Hinds, born in Water Valley and grew up in Clinton, had muscular dystrophy, visionary painter, had how at Marie Hull Gallery at Hinds Community College in Raymond, degrees from University of Southern Mississippi and a master of fine arts from University of Georgia, works kept mostly hidden during lifetime

Jason Bouldin

Oil portrait artist living in Oxford, first place for portraiture in The Artist's Magazine's 16th annual art competition (1999), son of Marshall Bouldin

Marshall Bouldin

Clarksdale portrait painter, now 82 years old, has four children, one named Jason is also an artist

Matthew Brady

Early photographer, did portrait of Jefferson Davis

Glenda Shaw Brown

Portrait artist, native of Eupora, Mississippi, now lives in Arlington, Tennessee, grand prize winner at the American Society of Portrait Artists' competition, portrait was of her second cousin Hannah

Marion L. Brown

Photographer, awarded Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters award in photography in 1997, work shown in Through the Lens: Images of Mississippi at Lauren Rogers Museum of Art, one called Tombstone Detail, Girl with Rose, his photographs are in major collections in the USA, Germany, Russia, etc., such as The Museum of Fine Art, Houston, Texas; Corcoran Gallery, Washington, D.C.; International Center of Photography, New York City, International Photograph Hall of Fame in Oklahoma City; Museum Ludwig, Colgne, Germany, the famous Helmut Gernsheim Collection, Switzerland; major corporations; and many others. His work has been exhibited across the US and in Italy, Germany, Finland, and Russia -- in the US in one-person exhibits in Mississippi Museum of Art, Atlanta Center for Photography, International Photograph Hall of Fame, Oklahoma, Fine Arts Museum of the South, Mobile; George Ohr Museum, Biloxi; Mississippi State University, and many more.

Brown moved from Yazoo City to Petal in 2003.

Paul T. Brown

Greenwood, Mississippi, 1949, award winning photographer, photos in many magazines of outdoors

Jane Rule Burdine

Photographer, a native of Greenville, Mississippi. She has lived since 1984 in north Mississippi, Oxford, and currently Taylor (where she served as mayor for twelve years). Earlier she lived in Jackson for several years and in Baton Rouge for a short time where she worked for the Louisiana Tourism Bureau. She has a new book of her work being published in September of 2008 called Delta Deep Down. She has been documenting Mississippi for over 30 years.

 

 

 

Andrew Bucci

Vicksburg, Mississippi, abstracted landscapes and occasional figure with captivating color, line and pattern, variations in crayon and watercolor, 78 years old, taught by Marie Hull and Mary Clare Sherwood, exhibition at Lauren Rogers Museum of Art, called Expressions in Color: An Andrew Bucci Retrospective.

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Mara Califf

Sculptor of Clarksdale, pottery, bowls

Charles Carraway

Terry, MS. Exhibit called Outside Interiors at Gallery 119 in Jackson explores light, line and depth with paintings done inside and outside the artistes home, a 1979 graduate of Delta State University (DSU), resides in Jackson and teaches art at Jackson State University. After attending DSU, a program offered by Louisiana Tech University gave Carraway the opportunity to move to Rome, Italy, to study architecture and design. In 1983, he received a Master of Fine Arts degree in painting from the Rhode Island School of Design.

Claudia ka Cartee

Potter who received her BFA in ceramics from California State University at Fullerton and has done post-graduate work at the University of Southern Mississippi in art education. In 1988 she was awarded a scholarship to work at the Penland School of Crafts, and in 1989 she received an Artist Fellowship Grant from the Mississippi Arts Commission.

Claudia has been an active member of the Craftsmen's Guild of Mississippi since 1978 and has served on the Board of Directors and as president of the Guild. She has received the Honored Artist Award from the National Museum for Women in the Arts and has been featured in an award winning segment of Southern Expressions on Mississippi Educational Television. She was featured in the April 2005 edition of Sassafras in "A Potter's Impression." Some of her work in clay has resulted in River Dolls, which are ceramic figures which mimic river stones.

Shu Chang

Photographer, black and white landscapes, stirring effects of light on a variety of natural shapes, White Sand, Monument, N. M. show windswept dunes, Wave is featured at Hinds Community College. She is chemistry professor at Hind, some color photos from China, mostly black and white.

Kate Freeman Clark

Student of William Merritt Chase, lived in Holly Springs in 1922 and left her home and several hundred canvases and sketches from her New York years to town of Holly Springs, exhibited in New York prior to move back to Mississippi, died in 1957.
Langdon Clay Sumner, MS

Maude Schuyler Clay

Photographer, her book Delta Land: Photographs by Maude Schuyler Clay shows rural Mississippi in its beauty, exhibit at Mississippi Museum of Art in Jackson, into to book by Lewis Nordan, a Mississippi writer, many black and white photos, show Delta landscapes, began the project in 1993, also photo editor for The Oxford American magazine. Maude Schuyler Clay lives in Sumner, Mississippi. Her photographic work has appeared in Vanity Fair, Esquire, The New York Times Magazine, The London Observer Magazine, Mothers and Daughters, Women Photographers, and other books. A new book, called Her Circle, the collection of her low light color portraits of family, friends, and familiar surroundings, will be published in 2003, by Twin Palms/ Twelve Trees Press.

Photo above by N. Jacobs

Wallace Colvard

Art director and animator for NBC-TV's Video Imaging Centers, Late Night With David Letterman (1982) - Computer Animation/Design, son of Dr. Dean W. Colvard (MSU president 1960-1966)

Dorree Cooper

Born in Pass Christian in 1953, works in motion pictures as a set decorator, large sculptures, Academy Award nomination for set of Legends of the Fall in 1995.

Fletcher Cox

Woodworker, makes clock of various wood, member Craftsmen's Guild and Chimneyville Crafts Festival since beginning

Charles "Chuck" Crossley

McComb, Mississippi, mixed-media artist, had military career, work in acrylics reflect his interest with how things work, eye injury in Navy, retired, attended Coronada School of Fine Arts in San Diego, mast of fine arts from University of California, taught at San Diego City College for a while, now lives again in McComb, where he grew up, he is a collagist working in mixed media with acrylic, very figurative and abstract, shows in California, Seattle, Las Vegas, Gulfport, Municipal Gallery in Jackson, Gulf South Gallery in McComb

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Martin J. Dain

Photographer from Greenville, MS. Martin Dain photographed Oxford in the 1960's, including its courthouse square, and the surrounding countryside during the last year of William Faulkner’s life. Born in Massachusetts, his love for the writings of Faulkner convinced him to travel to Mississippi and photograph the state. Southside Gallery has a comprehensive collection of Dain's Mississippi work taken from 1961-62, exhibit at Wetherbee house in Greenville. His works are featured in the book Faulkner's World: The Photographs of Martin J. Dain, edited by Tom Rankin and published by the University of Mississippi Press, 1997.

Anne Dennis

Exhibit at Dueringer Galleries, watercolor, denser combination, work has look of leaded stained glass, paintings also of angels, landscapes and architecture, one exhibit called A Tribute to Walter Anderson.

George Deloach

Alligator, MS, landscape impressionist painter.

Lucinda Devlin

Hattiesburg photographer and winner of Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award, 1999

S. L. Dickey

Columbus, MS, works use an altarpiece-like construction for moral, social and spiritual plays, such as Condemned to Live-- Juxtaposed images of a solder with a bum parachute, a reclining woman and peeping man and a central figure divining an "Outlook not so good" message from the innards of a Magic 8 ball.

Scott Didlake

Crystal, Mississippi, died in 1994, best known as an artist but also a gifted musician and a writer. He was a craftsman who made gourd banjos, which he called banzas, which originally came from Africa. "Banza" is one of the old African names for this instrument, which is the predecessor of the banjo, the only truly American instrument. He became a member of the craftsmen's guild of Mississippi. He died of als (Lou Gehrig's disease) at the age of 46 in 1994. His instruments are now collectibles. He and a handful of others sparked the now fast-growing movement of gourd banjo players and makers.

Anthony DiFatta

Native of Hattiesburg, Miss., currently lives in Jackson with his wife Melissa and son Preston. He grew up in the swamps of southern Louisiana near New Orleans; painter did About Jackson solo show at Nunnery's Gallery in Jackson

Jim Dollarhide

Greenwood, 1952, grew up in Jackson, commercial cinematographer and film producer, many advertising awards.

G. Ruger Donoho

Book about him done by Rene Paul Barilleaux, and Victoria J. Beck called G. Ruger Donoho: A Painter' Path. born in 1857 in Church Hill, MS, became one of America's foremost Impressionist painters and a pioneer of the East Hampton, NY, artist community, exhibit in Jackson showed over 30 paintings and drawings and then toured nationally through 1996, Mississippi Museum of Art, painted countryside of France.

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William Eggleston

1939, well-known photographer, born in Memphis but grew up on cotton plantation in Mississippi, attended University of Mississippi but did not graduate

Carol Epperson

Born in Philadelphia, MS and currently living in Raymond, MS

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Martha Ferris

Vicksburg, MS, painter, married to writer Kos Kostmayer. She won several public art commissions, including the first riverfront mural for Vicksburg in 2001. In 2003 she was commissioned to paint a mural on stainless steel for the 55-foot central rotunda of the new McWillie School in Jackson. This year she will create the Mill Street Project, in which she will provide 22 masonry inlays for the new viaducts at the renovated train station in Jackson. Ferris has begun exploring the theme of shadows through a combination of photography, printmaking, collage and painting. She lives and works in her studio on her family's farm near Vicksburg

Charles Henri Ford

(Feb. 10, 1913-2002) Brookhaven, Mississippi, the son of Charles Lloyd Ford and Gertrude (Cato) Ford, grew up in small towns all over the South, where his family operated hotels, American poet, editor, artist, and filmmaker, helped introduce surrealism to America through his poems and his avant-garde magazine of the 1940s, died on Friday, September 27, 2002, in Manhattan at the age of 94.

Susan Ford

Glass blower

Brent Funderburk

Painter who creates large watercolor paintings on paper, primarily of nature. He is professor of painting and drawing at Mississippi State University in Starkville where he has been awarded the John Grisham Faculty Excellence Award as well as the Burlington Northern Teaching Excellence Award. He has exhibited widely in regional, national and international exhibitions; and has shown in 22 one-person exhibitions across Mid-America and the South. He is a native of North Carolina.

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Steve Gardner

Portrait of Son Thomas called Playing the Blues

John Gaddis

Jackson, watercolorist

Sam Gilliam

Born in 1933 in Tupelo, Mississippi, famous in the 1960's for abstract canvases and paintings with brilliant colors. He draped with brightly colored cloth buildings and made enormous paintings that resembled quilts.

Amy Giust

Lives in Hattiesburg (10 years), born in Cincinnati, best-selling visual artist at Southern Breeze Gallery, acrylic paintings, some watercolor, show at SBG called People and Places

Edwina Goodman

Jackson, watercolorist

Samuel Marshall Gore

Winner of MIAL award for Visual Arts in 1997. On faculty at Mississippi College since 1951. Most familiar works are Student Nurse, a bronze nurse which stands in the lobby of Mississippi Baptist Medical Center in Jackson, The Working Man, located in front of the Jim Buck Ross Mississippi Agriculture and Forestry Museum in Jackson. Head of Christ, Madonna and Child on other religious figures.

Edwin Phillips Granberry

Created comic strip Buz Sawyer for more than 30 years, also a writer. See Mississippi Writers page.

Jason Greene

BFA from Mississippi State University in 1997 where he was an illustrator for archaeologists at the Cobb Institute of Archaeology at MSU. He worked for several years as a designer and fabricator of interactive children's exhibits. He lives in Portland, Oregon, with his wife Jill and their two dogs.

Les Green

Miniature works of art, Meridian, figures in landscape, arrangement of florals, works now almost entirely with colored pencils, now legally blind

Myra Green

Exhibited at the Municipal Art Gallery in Jackson, daughter Lynn Green Root is also an artist, exhibit called Crossing the Threshold: Five Paths through Mississippi at Mississippi Museum of Art, Nov. 7, 1999. She died in 2002. A book celebrating Myra and her daughter has been published entitled Breathing Art: The Lives and Art of Myra Hamilton Green and Lynn Green Root (2008).The double biography, with text by historian and author Patti Carr Black and 80 reproductions of paintings plus family pictures, features a choice of two covers, one by each artist. See Lynn Green Root below.

Dan Guravich

Photographer for 19 books, first was Man and The River - The Mississippi published in 1968 with Hodding Carter, lived in Greenville, died in 1997, founded Polar Bears Alive, photographer for National Geographic

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Theora Hamblett (1895-1977) Became primitive painter at 54 years of age, first Mississippi artist to have work exhibited at Museum of Modern Art in New York bought house in Oxford, MS, worked in primitive, innocent style, based her drawings on visions and dreams and girlhood memories, grew up on farm in north Mississippi, colorful, childlike paintings of children playing games, rural scenes reflections of farm life in Mississippi, known as visionary but primitive artist.

Sarah Frances Hardy

Solo exhibition in Jackson at Pearl River Glass Studio/Gallery called Nature's Pieces (29 recent works in acrylic on paper) one show called Elements of Nature at Agora Gallery, Soho, NY., now lives in Tupelo, uses thick, sturdy rag paper, scenes from Noxubee Wildlife Refuge and Wall Doxey State Park, flower and still lifes, degree in studio art from Davidson College in NC, also studied in NY and Paris, went to law school.

Katrina Estes Hill

Acrylic painter on recycled wood, born in Louisville, MS, and now lives in White Bluff, TN, just outside Nashville

William Hollingsworth

1910-1944, Jackson born, regionalist, drawings, paintings, lithographs, watercolors of Jackson, shown at Mississippi Museum of Art's Collection Gallery (called William Hollingsworth: The Back Road Home-- paintings of days gone by), 300 works in the museum's collection given by wife Jane Oakley Hollingsworth. He died at 34, book about him called Hollingsworth: The Man, the Artist, and His Work

Joseph Horn

Fine art bird sculptor in wood, does wood carvings of birds of prey, owls, hawks,
eagles, falcons

Robert Hubbard

Photographer, Artist of the Year 1990 at Rembrandt Society of the Mississippi Museum of Art, many awards.

Joe Mac Hudspeth

Freelance wildlife photographer, published work more than 500 times in state, regional, and national publications, including Mississippi Outdoors, Birder's World, Ducks Unlimited, Awarded the Roger Tory Peterson Institute for National History's Grand Prize for Wildlife of a least bittern that appeared in The Nature Conservancy's calendar, his photos were selected for the 1997-98 and 99 Mississippi Duck Stamp and on the Mississippi Sportsman's License for more than three years

Florence Huffman

Photographer, photographed the land and people who came to Deer Camp in the Mississippi Delta, historically significant.

Marie Atkinson Hull

(1890-1980) Born in Summit, lived in Belhaven of Jackson for many years, known for her landscapes and still-life oil paintings in several impressionistic styles. classifies her work in three categories,---traditional , transitional, and contemporary, vivid colors of near abstract flowers and landscapes, much of work features European scenes, but also sharecroppers, participated in Allison's Wells Art Colony, Hull was the recipient of a gold medal at the Mississippi Art Association (1920); first prize at the Southern States Art League (1926); second prize at the Davis Wildflower Competition, San Antonio, Texas (1929); watercolor prizes, Southern States Art League (1931); and the New Orleans Art Association and the Benjamin prize at the New Orleans Arts and Crafts Club (1932)--both in Louisiana. Her work is represented in private and public permanent collections, including the Mississippi Art Association; high schools in Laurel and Jackson, Mississippi; Southwestern Texas Normal School; the Witte Memorial Museum, San Antonio, Texas; and others

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Timothy T. Isbell

Gulfport, Mississippi, is a photojournalist with the 2006 Pulitzer Prize-winning Sun Herald in Biloxi. He is a former photojournalist-in-residence at the University of Southern Mississippi and a Knight Foundation/National Endowment of the Arts recipient for his photographic study of the Vietnamese people of the Mississippi Gulf Coast. He is the author and photographer of Gettysburg: Sentinels of Stone and Vicksburg: Sentinels of Stone

Birney Imes

Photographer, books JukeJoint and Whispering Pines (photos of people, artifacts of a roadhouse in Columbus, Mississippi) editor of Columbus Commercial Dispatch

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Paul Jackson

Starkville, MS, born in Kansas, but he grew up in Starkville, attended SHS and graduated from MSU, world-renowned for his watercolor art and technique. He was primarily responsible for the use and perfecting of a reflection technique used by many watercolor artists now, designed the public's favorite design of Lewis and Clark for the quarter for Missouri and created a spectacular tile mural at the University of Missouri-Columbia that was used in tandem with the local schools teaching the complicated math required to design and place the mural.

Don Jacobs

Carrollton, muralist, painted conference room in Mississippi's Governor's mansion in 2005

Elizabeth Johnson

Vibrant still lifes, 35 paintings on display at Brown's Fine Art and Framing in Jackson.

Bessie Johnson

African American basket maker from West Point, MS.

Bonnie Jones

Artist living in Natchez, makes dolls in polymer clay which are fired or air dried

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Eyd Kazery

Photographer at Delta Blues Festival 1979-1984, exhibited at Hinds College, Feb. 7, 1999.

Bern and Franke Keating Greenville, photographers, world travelers on assignment for leading periodicals, Photo of Bern Keating and Franke Keating from Mississippi book flap. Photo by Franke Keating.Bern Keating published 24 books and several hundred articles in Life, The New Yorker, Reader's Digest, Playboy, National Geographic, Bern and Franke compiled and wrote Mississippi (Mississippi Department of Economic Development). Bern Keating died in 2004.

J. B. Keith

Hammer dulcimer maker in Clinton, member Craftsmen's Guild, made dulcimers for 35 years, about 3000 instruments.

Stephen Kirkpatrick Wildlife photographer from Jackson, highlighted on Wild Things, has published more than 1700 photographs in magazines and books rainworldwide, twice named winner in International Wildlife Photographer competition in London, publisher of many books including Whistling Wings: The Beauty of Ducks in Flight, The Naturalist's Journal: A Book for Records, Notes and Observations, Wild Mississippi: A Natural View, Romancing the Rain, First impressions: A photographic collection of nature's moments, moods & memories and Wilder Mississippi with his wife Marlo Carter Kirkpatrick.

Dennis Krueger

of Springwood Pottery.

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John Lawrence

Photographer for Walls of Light (book of the murals of Walter Anderson).

Ross Lunz

Raised in Vicksburg, MS, and born in 1969. Ross makes concept-based sculpture or forms based on an ideas rather than traditions within a sculptural medium. Themes of his pieces generally revolve around the environment and ecological issues. He works primarily as a metalsmith, using fine hand skills and many jewelry tools. Ross creates detail-oriented pieces from metal, wood and found objects such as bone, plastic, and glass.

He taught art on the university level for five years at University of Kansas, Loyola University in New Orleans and guest lectured all over the country. Ross was chosen for fifth Mississippi Invitational (2005) at Mississippi Museum of Art and exhibits work nationally.

 

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Joe MacGown

Lives in Starkville and does surreal artwork, mostly in the form of ink drawings. He won first place in the Starkville Cotton District Arts Festival in 2007 and third in 2006. Work has been shown in a number of exhibitions --mostly in the South, although currently he has a work in a gallery in France. He works at Mississippi Entomological Museum at Mississippi State University where he is a scientific illustrator, has illustrations in journals, books, cd cover designs, numerous tshirt designs, ad layouts, book covers.

Sally Mann

Photographer

Doug Marlette

Cartoonist from Laurel,Mississipppi; best known for comic strip Kudzu, which depicts minister modeled on Will Campbell; killed in a car accident in 2007 in Mississippi; also author of two novels: The Bridge and Magic Time

Merigold Potters known for creations from Mississippi mud

Mary Katharine Loyacono McCravey

Lives in Forest, Mississippi. A leading contributor to many state wide charities, she donated thousands of dollars of paintings for auctions each year to such organizations as Mississippi Cancer Hospital for Children, Mississippi Heart Association, Mississippi Animal Rescue League. She was a teacher for many years. The McCravey-Triplett Student Center opened in Jackson, Mississippi, at Belhaven College is partially named for her. Born April 1, she was 93 in 2003. She has been painting since 1928. She has had several one person shows at the Mississippi Museum of Art. Her distinct impressionistic style is sought after by collectors in Mississippi and across the country but are very difficult to acquire at this point. She received the Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts in 2004 for Lifetime Achievement.

Eric McDonald

Best known for his maritime paintings and portraits. A member of the American Society of Marine Artists, he comes from a long line of Gulf Coast residents; his family has lived there since the 1880s and the sea is a way of life to him. McDonald works out of three different studios: one in Jackson, one in Florida, and the third aboard Ti Kabana, his two-masted topsail schooner. He was the featured artist in the Mississippi Heart Association’s Art for Heart program in 1999 and his paintings are collected around the country

F. S. McKnight

Photographer from 1894 to 1930 in Aberdeen

Fannie McMurtry

Work exhibited in Crossing the Threshold at MS Museum of Art

Ethel Wright Mohamed

Born in 1908 in Fame, MS, lived in Belzoni, did stitchery, needlework, (Sacred Harp Singing), Style has flair for color influenced by family and community traditions and memories, primitive artist, died in 1992.

Mary Moran

Daughter of Joe Moran, who taught her to paint. She specializes in underwater scenes and wildlife and angels and manages Moran's Art Gallery in Biloxi.

Tommy Moran

Son of Joe Moran who also paints the beauty of the gulf coast on canvas, uses a true-to-life form and a build-up of paints to give a scene an almost three dimensional effect.

Thomas Morrison

Morrison, a Jackson artist, created "Virtuous Woman," which is believed to be the largest porcelain sculpture in the country. The 14-by-8-foot outdoor sculpture hangs above the Winfield Wiser Hospital's main entrance.

Alice Latimer Moseley Folk artist living in Bay St. Louis, began painting at age 60 to deal with her mother's Alzheimer's disease, now 92, Until today I thought I was folks by Alice L. Moseley has shop where she sells reprints of her work, Miss Alice, as she is known, lived in Birmingham, AL and Memphis, TN, before moving to Bay St. Louis, MS, after attending an art show there in 1988.

David Rae Morris Photographer and son of Mississippi writer Willie Morris. Morris had a one-man show at MUW in Columbus, Mississippi, in October, 2002, which highlighted his work for My Mississippi, a book he and his father did together. The exhibit was entitled "Look Away," a photographic narrrative.

Photo of David Rae Morris by Nancy Jacobs.

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Gloria Norris

Ridgeland, MS, painter and sculptor, Nicaraguan artist married to a Mississippian.

Jean Cappadonna Nichols

Does ceramic sculptures, received MIAL Award for Visual Arts in 1999, from Tupelo, moved to Florida.

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Robbie O'Kelly

Lives in Southhaven, Mississippi, commissioned to do stained-glass portrait of Bill Clinton for the Clinton Presidential Library. Owns the MidTown Art Glass Studio in Memphis.

Alex O'Neal

Painter, a Mississippi native, born in Starkville, raised in Jackson and Greenville, now lives in Brooklyn, NY., had an installation at Mississippi Museum of Art in 2005. In 1999 received a Guggenheim Fellowship in Painting. Has received other awards from National Endowment for the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, and Tennessee arts Commission. His drawings and paintings address American community, especially the American South. Drawn images are combined with collage materials from the 1930s to the 1970s and depict typically American themes, such as the homestead and family, Hollywood, or dramatic landscapes.

Mary Lovelace O'Neal

Born Jackson, Mississippi, 1942. B.F.A., Howard University, Washington, D.C., 1964. Currently, O'Neal has a one-woman art show at the Mississippi Museum of Art in Jackson open December 7, 2002--February 9, 2003. MFA. Columbia University, 1969. Painter/printmaker. Teaches painting and drawing at Berkeley. Works included in SF MOMA, CA; Oakland Museum, CA; National Museum of Fine Arts, Santiago, Chile. Recipient of "ARTISTE EN FRANCE" Award from French Government. Included in international traveling exhibitions: The Biennale Internationale des Arts, Dakar, Senegal; The Troisieme Triennale Mondiale D'Estampes Petit Format.

Dan Overly

Originator of the Craftsmen's Guild of Mississippi

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Sherry Pace

Photographer who lives in Madison County, MS. Her first photography book, Victorian Houses of Mississippi, was published in October 2005 by University Press of Mississippi. Her second book, Historic Churches of Mississippi, was published in June 2007.

Laurie Parker

A collage artist who cuts and pastes colored paper to create illustratons for her ten books, also creator of unique jewelry (pins and pendants)

James Patterson

Photographer of Willie Morris, Eudora Welty, Beth Henley, master printer 911 Gallery owner.

Clive William Pates

Columbus, MS, In 2003, Pates relocated his studio from Britain to rural Mississippi. He spent his first six months painting the transition from autumn to winter to spring in a local slough. When the lushness of late spring had completely taken over, he moved back to his former, and more open, view in the shade of the Old Bridge by the Tombigbee River. In this period of time he has delighted Mississippi art lovers with solo exhibitions at Delta State University, Mississippi University for Women, and Twenty Minutes of Light at Gallery 119 in the capitol city of Jackson, invited to represent the state of contemporary arts in Mississippi in the 2005 Mississippi Museum of Art’s Mississippi Invitational.

Lallah Miles Perry

Perry is the 2008 winner of the Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts for Artistic Achievement. Born in 1926, she began studying art in Starkville, Mississippi, at the age of fifteen. She enrolled in Auburn College to study art and was married a year later, receiving a degree in commercial art in March 1946.

In 1956, her work was selected for the “First Mid-South Exhibition of Painting” at the Brooks Memorial Gallery in Memphis, Tennessee, and her work was chosen for inclusion for the following ten years.. Her work was also chosen for the “Second Delta Art Annual” at the Museum of Fine Arts in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1959. Her paintings have been exhibited from New York to New Orleans, and her work has hung in the National Watercolor Exhibition at the Smithsonian, as well as in the American Embassy in Rabat, Morocco.

Perry taught in the Choctaw School System, at Delta State University, and at Meridian Community College. In 1963 when a fire burned Allison's Wells Arts Colony, Perry is credited with keeping the colony alive. Perry became the first Director of the Mississippi Art Colony, which, with the aid of the Mississippi Library Commission, started the the Colony Traveling Exhibit, which continues today to be been hung in small town libraries, hotels, schools, and restaurants throughout Mississippi. At age 81, she has been an artist and educator for many years.

Mary Anderson Pickard

Eldest daughter of famed artist Walter Anderson, she lives in Ocean Springs, MS, and wrote essays in Form and Fantasy: The Block Prints of Walter Anderson, which features full-color and black-and-white reproductions of over 250 of the artist's prints.

Co-editor of the book is Patricia Pinson, curator of the Walter Anderson Museum of Art, with a chronology by Christopher Maurer, author of Fortune's Favorite Child: The Uneasy Life of Walter Anderson (University Press of Mississippi).

See NPR story on A Family of Artists Picks Up the Pieces by Debbie Elliott and photo of Mary Anderson Pickard by Tracy Wahl

Elijah Pierce

From Baldwin, Mississippi, said by some to be one of greatest folk wood carvers in American history.

Gail Pittman

Jackson-based artist of pottery , ceramics studio, on NBC's Today, business specializing in hand-painted dinnerware and home accessories, illustrator for Catherine Carter's book Anna's Choice (2005, Quail Ridge Press)

H. C. Porter

Jackson, MS, born 1963, painter and photographer, creates serigraphs by creating hand-painted film positives representing each color, owns and exhibits at Creative Spirit Studio, Art Director and master printer for sports artist Rick Rush. Limited Edition serigraphs for NBC Sports, Wimbledon, Churchill Downs, and the NFL. She currently has an exhibit at the Mississippi Museum of Art entitled
Backyards & Beyond: Mississippians and Their Stories - the first year after Katrina which will run from March 8, 2008 - June 8, 2008. Porter's interactive, multimedia experience includes painted portraits paired with live field recordings, floor installations, and video.

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Chase Quarterman

Youngest artist of the gallery of The South's show, entitled QuARTet. QuARTet exhibition, a 2003 graduate of Mississippi College, Quarterman has traveled in Europe and Asia, drawing inspiration from different cultures and the arts that influence those cultures. Utilizing elements of post-impressionism, Oriental art, and expressionism, and the influence of different Southern artists, Quarterman has created a timeless sort of art, one that is both retro and modern, and like a good song or fine wine, will connect with different viewers at different levels. Quarterman’s mentor is Clinton’s Wyatt Waters.

Kenneth Quinn

Show called God's Graces and Special Places, does watercolor/prismacolor pencil, of houses, schools, churches, art instructor at Mississippi College.

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Marshall Ramsey

Ramsey is a political cartoonist for the Clarion-Ledger in Jackson, has been nominated for five Pulitzer prizes and was a finalist in 2002. He has also appeared in USA Today, Newsweek, U.S. News and World Report, The New York Times and 450 other newspapers. In college he won the top prize for collegiate cartoonists (The John Locher Memorial Award), has been featured in Editor and Publisher magazine. He is syndicated nationally by Copley News Service. His cartoons appear in Marshall Ramsey's Greatest Hits.

Herbert Randall

Photographer, exhibit at University of Southern Mississippi Museum of Art in Hattiesburg called "Freedom Summer: The Photographs of Herbert Randall"

Hysterine Rankin

Exhibited in Crossing: Five Paths, modern-day African-American applique quilter.

Lee Renninger

Gulfport, MS, ceramic artist, wife of artist Jeff Schmuki, chosen for fifth Mississippi Invitational (2005) at Mississippi Museum of Art, born and raised in Miami, Florida. Originally a painter, Renninger was part of the Movimiento Artistico del Rio Salado (MARS) Artspace in Phoenix, Arizona from 1995-2000. While there, she teamed up with fellow artist and ceramist Jeff Schmuki, who introduced her to clay. Since then she has worked in that medium, creating ceramic-based installations. Her work has been exhibited at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York, the Mississippi Museum of Art, and The Clay Studio in Philadelphia, among other venues. Renninger was a recipient of a 2003 Mississippi Arts Commission Fellowship Award.

Elizabeth Robinson

Jackson glass artist , works on display at the Mississippi Museum of Art, November, 2002

Jack Robinson, Jr.

Photographer, born in Meridian and grew up in Clarksdale, for more information go to this web site. Born September 18, 1928, he died in November 1997.

Lynn Green Root

Died in 2001 at age 46, daughter of Jackson artist Myra Hamilton Green and Josh Green. Painted mural at Bravo Italian Restaurant and Bar and portrait of Thalia Mara in Thalia Mara Hall in Jackson. A book celebrating Lynn and her mother Myra Green, has been published entitled Breathing Art: The Lives and Art of Myra Hamilton Green and Lynn Green Root. The double biography, with text by historian and author Patti Carr Black and 80 reproductions of paintings plus family pictures, features a choice of two covers, one by each artist.

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Jeff Schmuki

Gulfport, MS, ceramics, husband of ceramic artist Lee Renninger, hand-built, laminated and compressed sculptural objects, site responsive installations and clay drawings represent the Mississippi landscape, chosen for fifth Mississippi Invitational (2005) at Mississippi Museum of Art,

Earl Simmons

Bovina artist, featured in Karekin Geokjian's book, Light of the Spirit: Portraits of Southern Outsider Artists.

Joey Kim Sessums, Dr.

Sculptor, Brookhaven OB-GYN, born in Forest, MS, did bust of Eudora Welty at MUW. He also created a life-sized bronze bust of Dr. Wiser for the Winfield Wiser Hospital. Sessums is a physician and one of Wiser's former students.

Pam Sharp

Ceramic artist, Rankin County

Lesley Silver

Photographer, owner of Attic Gallery in Vicksburg, uses pinhole cameras, toning, hand tinting , double exposures, etc.

Cliff Speaks

Brandon, MS, Member of the Jackson-based Brecon Arts group . A recent graduate of University of Southern Mississippi, Speaks has been a working professionally as a graphic artist for more than six years, and has been active in the fine arts for three. Speaks enjoys painting landscapes and still life works, but lately he has done more abstract and figurative expressionistic art. He uses various shapes, colors, and textures to create designs that are unique and are immediately recognizable as his own. His has a deeply rooted interest in portraying Southern culture and uses it as a source of inspiration.

Jack Spencer

Photographer, Did Native Soil: Images of the South with Ellen Douglas.

Christopher Inglis Stebly

Son of Mary Anderson Pickard, Walter Anderson's first born and first daughter, born in 1967 in Ocean Springs, Mississippi, where he still lives. He decorates pottery at his family's business, Shearwater Pottery. He formally trained for one year at New Orleans Academy of Fine Arts under Auseklis Ozols (the founder), in 1991. but he has been painting on his own ever since. His paintings are for sale at the Walter Anderson Museum.

Robert Sugg

Pottery, Beastly Tales art show in Jackson with novelist Nevada Barr

Tracy H. Sugg

Pottery, Beastly Tales art show in Jackson with novelist Nevada Barr, Bronze sculptor, originally from New Mexico, now resides in Jackson and has exhibited across the country, most notably in the Rotunda of the Russell Senate Building in Washington, DC. She sculpted the monument to Congressman “Sonny” Montgomery on the MSU campus, and the “General Kosciuszko” monument for the town of Kosciusko, along with numerous other pieces across the state in public and private collections.

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Sarah Mary Taylor

Folk artist and quitter, now 82, quilts have figures and animals, Left Hand, drawings.

Emmitt Thames Gulfport, paints in watercolor, oil and egg tempera scenes of and around Mississippi, self taught artist, work sold at Brown's Gallery since the early 1970's, born in Lincoln County, Mississippi.

Stanley Thomas, Jr

Artist in wood from Batesville, Mississippi; a member of the Craftmen's Guild of Mississippi, who has been featured on PBS
Photo right: Wooden bowls by Thomas of Batesville.

George T. Thurmond

Impressionist landscape painter from Starkville, born in 1949 in Hollandale, graduated from Delta State in 1968. Thurmond bookHis book Nature and Light: A Personal View explains his view of light and painting. A devoted adherent of Plein-air, he made the pilgrimage to Provincetown, Mass in 1969, 1970, 1971, and 1973 to confront the teachings firsthand, MSU 2004 ART EXHIBITION SHOW featured George T. Thurmond Color Studies: Light Keys in the Landscape, The Gallery in McComas Hall, October 4, 2004.

Kevin L. Turner

Gautier, MS, $5000 Artist Fellowship-Visual from Mississippi Arts Commission

Glennray Tutor

Oxford, MS, Paints contemporary commonplace items such as home canned as well as store-bought jars of vegetables, fruit, jellies; toys; fireworks; candies; marbles transforms them and creates photorealistic works from them. Tutor is able to create a sort of three-dimensional representation of these common items, making the items jump off the canvas at the viewer, and turning the common into something unique.

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Gary Walters-- Painter, attended Hinds Junior College and studied with Louis Walsh and Katherine Denton where he won honors as the school's most outstanding art student. Later, attending Mississippi College, he studied with Dr. Sam Gore and received the Bellaman Award for the most creative art student. He later earned a Master's Degree from Mississippi College. Over the past 35 years Walters has had numerous one man shows. He has also taught art for Mississippi College, Mississippi State University, Hinds Community College, Belhaven College, and many workshops on painting. In 1993, he was honored as the Art Alumnus of the Year for Mississippi College. He is represented in many public and private collections throughout the United States and has been featured in Mississippi Magazine, Delta Magazine, The Clarion-Ledger, Scope, and others. His book Delta Dreamin' will be released in September 2008 with a foreword by Samuel Gore.

Ben Watts Sculptor who three years ago took up sculpting full time. Sculptor Ben Watts and his work of Walter Payton. He has won numerous awards in these years and has just completed a large commission piece of Walter Payton (see photo right) for Columbia High School. His piece named "Ptocowa" of a wounded Indian with a maiden pouring water on him is now on the Mississippi Governor's desk. Tocawa means "healing Waters". Tocowa, Mississippi, is a spring south of Batesville where former Mississippi Gov. Ronnie Musgrove grew up.

Eudora Welty Photographer and world-famous author. Click on highlighted name for information about her life and works.

Elizabeth Wolfe

Artist based in Jackson, Mississippi, who runs Wolfe Studio, she is Mildred Nungester Wolfe's daughter , editor of book of her mother's art

Mildred Nungester Wolfe

(b. 1912) one of Mississippi's most prominent artists. Her portrait of Eudora Welty hangs in the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., her paintings and sculptures are included in the collections of the Mississippi Museum of Art, Millsaps College, Montgomery Museum of Art, and the Library of Congress. Wolfe has worked in oils, watercolors, ceramics, prints, and stained glass for over seventy years. She blends impressionism with postimpressionism, and her technique is influenced by the effects of light on her subjects

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Andrew Carey Young

Stained glass artist and winner of 2002 Governor's Artist's Achievement Award, owner of Pearl River Glass Studio in Jackson, which he established in 1975. He has studied with German glass artists and a Russian master iconographer. He has also designed stained glass for St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church in Madison and St. Peter's by the Sea Episcopal Church in Gulfport.

D. C. Young Photographer, stained glass Photo by Barb Gauntt, Clarion-Ledger

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List of photographers in Exhibition at Lauren Rogers Museum : Through the Lens: Images of Mississippi October 28 - November 23, 1999. Exhibit featured 46 artists from Mississippi's photographic history, the exhibition included images from the 1880s to the present. Organized by LRMA, the exhibition concept was inspired by Patti Carr Black's recent book, Art in Mississippi, 1720-1980 (University Press of Mississippi, 1998). Photographers included Bette Barber, Michael Barrett, Richard Beadle, Lyle Bonge, Edward Boynton, Mathew Brady, Marion Brown, Jane Rule Burdine, Kevin Cooper, Maude Schuyler Clay, J. R. Cofield, Jack Cofield, J. C. Coovert, martin Dain, William Eggleston, Roland Feeman, Steve Gardner, Charles Gillespie, M. R. Harrington, Lewis Hine, Robert Hubbard, Birney Imes, III, Tim Isbell, Eyd Kazery, Franke Keating, Stephen Kirkpatrick, Jack Kotz, Dorothea Lange, F. S. McKnight, Marguerite H. McMullan, J. Mack Moore, Henry C. Norman, James Patterson, Herbert Randall, Tom Rankin, Wynn Richards, Cecil Rimes, Kim Rushing, Eric von Seutter, Jack Spencer, Theodore Sweeney, Leo Touchet, Eudora Welty, Ed Wheeler, Marion Post Wolcott and D. C. Young.