MSU fine arts seniors celebrate upcoming graduation with āPassageā exhibition
Contact: Sasha Steinberg
STARKVILLE, Miss.āFourteen graduating seniors in Ā鶹“«Ć½ Stateās Department of Art are celebrating their upcoming graduation and passage into bright futures with an aptly named exhibition.
On display April 29-May 1, āPassageā gives viewers insight into the journeys of these talented young artists earning degrees from the stateās largest undergraduate studio art program.
The studentsā work can be viewed in-person at MSUās Visual Arts Center Gallery and the art galleries at Cullis Wade Depot and Colvard Student Union. An online gallery will be available at .
āPassageā student exhibitors include (by hometown):
BAY MINETTE, AlabamaāBobbye E. Jackson, who combines traditional craft techniques with drawing to create repetitive images.
BOGUE CHITTOāEmily R. Goss, whose thesis work explores politics and human rights activism events of 2020 and 2021.
BROOKHAVENāAarron D. Lunn, a ceramic artist whose body of work involves the manipulation of materials and captures moments in the making process.
CARLISLE, ArkansasāMadeleine P. Brown, a mixed media artist who uses acrylic and oil paints to create works influenced by her familyās farm, agriculture and landscapes.
DALLAS, TexasāHanna R. Bewley, whose thesis work titled āLeftā features graphite and colored pencil drawings celebrating family relationships and the beauty of the natural world.
LONG BEACHāGrace A. Bennett, whose recent body of work explores intimacy, security and relationship through the bond she shares with her mother.Ģż
MADISONāElaina G. Hart, a painter whose works combine acrylic pouring and stenciling.
OLIVE BRANCHāSarah G. Steen, an abstract mixed media artist whose work is inspired by biological forms and natural design.
RICHLANDāMecca S. Givens, who uses charcoal to reimagine Kodak images from her childhood in a new context, connecting past and present.Ģż
STURGISāEmily A. Braa, whose gothic and art deco-style artwork often is inspired by the European places she has visited growing up in a military family.
TUPELOāAutumn Ferguson, who enjoys creating business logo designs, personalized paintings and photography; andĢżMary Morris Jackson, a sixth-generation artist whose work explores the details of humanity on a large scale through themes of contrast, identity and the body under stress.
WAVELANDāSavannah C. Bonds, an illustrator who explores grief and loss through digital memoirs as her motherās caregiver.
WEST POINTāAnna E. Terry, a ceramic artist whose work focuses on plants, flowers, mushrooms, bugs and other aspects of nature.
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