Dominic Lippillo and Mark Schoon, Hallway (from the series Conflation), 30×40” Inkjet Print, 2014
Mississippi 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 200 esteemed jurors in mid-September.
Three photos from Gootee’s “Recreation of Memories” series will be included in the Berlin Foto Biennale.
Four works from Goote’s “Talking to Ghosts” series will be included in the Berlin Foto Biennale.
Via media release and Professor Marita Gootee
Mississippi State University Department of Art Professor Marita Gootee will exhibit seven works from two series in Emotions and Commotions Across Cultures.
The exhibit is part of theBerlin Foto Biennale, which is being held during the seventh annual European Month of Photography, the largest German festival for photography, which takes place throughout October.
Emotions and Commotions Across Cultures will present 1,230 photos by 446 contemporary artists from 41 countries of all continents – among them 65% women who have received the Julia Margaret Cameron Award for Women Photographers.
Overall, the works represent a wide spectrum of styles ranging from documentary and wildlife to portrait and experimental photography.
Four works from Gootee’s “Talking to Ghosts” series and three from her “Recreation of Memories” series will be included in the Berlin Foto Biennale.
Recognizing a wide array of artistic expression across diverse cultures, the Biennial presents a contemporary overview of the different schools of thought emerging from across the world. It also captures international trends in photography and presents a kaleidoscope of sentiments and perceptions. In this way, a photographic chronicle of our time emerges with all its emotions and commotions, visually expressed by hundreds of photographers across many cultures.
Part of the revenue from artwork sales will be donated to Save the Children.
A catalogue published by Kehrer Verlag accompanies the Biennial.
His paintings, “Syany#2″ and “Syany#3″ were selected.
According to the website, Jack Richeson & Co., operator of the Richeson School of Art & Gallery, created the Richeson75 International Art Competitions. The Richeson75 competitions offer a venue for established and emerging artists to show their latest, best work to a wide and appreciative audience. The 75 finalists for each regular contest exhibit their work in the Richeson Gallery and in the online exhibit.
Mississippi State University Associate Professor of Art Alexander Bostic unveiled his painting of legendary Mississippi bluesman B.B. King during the second-annual B.B. King Day at Mississippi Valley State University in Itta Bena earlier this month.
The daylong celebration featured panel discussions and performances around a theme of “The Influence of Jazz History.”
The evening ended with a concert at the B.B. King Museum and Delta Interpretive Center in Indianola.
A faculty member of Mississippi State’s College of Architecture, Art and Design is receiving statewide recognition.
Dominic Lippillo, an assistant professor of photography in the university’s Department of Art, has been awarded a $4,500 visual arts grant from the Jackson-based Mississippi Arts Commission (MAC).
The MAC Fellowship grant is made possible by continued support from the Mississippi State Legislature, National Endowment for the Arts, Mississippi Endowment for the Arts at the Community Foundation of Greater Jackson, as well as other private sources. For more, visit www.arts.ms.gov.
“Artists of all kinds are the heart of Mississippi’s creative economy,” said Malcolm White, MAC executive director. “They significantly contribute to the economic growth of their communities and our state, and the Mississippi Arts Commission is honored to support their outstanding work.”
Dominic Lippillo
Drawing influence from painter Edward Hopper (1882-1967) and writer Raymond Carver (1938-88), Lippillo’s new solo project “Stories We Tell Ourselves” conveys open-ended narratives that are set in non-specific American landscapes. Through depictions of mundane daily happenings, Lippillo seeks to convey visual conversations where loneliness and longing border bewilderment and hope.
An MSU faculty member since 2010, Lippillo earned his Master of Fine Arts in photography from Ohio University in 2009 and Bachelor of Fine Arts in photography from Youngstown State University in 2005. Digital photography and photography survey are among courses Lippillo has taught at MSU.
Lippillo’s work is featured in the permanent collections of the Museum of Photographic Art in San Diego, California, Museum of Fine Art in Houston, Texas, and University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa.
His work also has been published in the Society for Photographic Education’s journal “Exposure” and Manifest Gallery’s International Photography Annuals Volumes II and IV. A supplement of images accompany Bruce Warren’s textbook “Photography: The Concise Guide.”
Selections from “Stories We Tell Ourselves” currently are on view in the exhibition “Narrative: People, Places and Things” at Black Box Gallery in Portland, Oregon. For additional biographical information, visit www.domlippillo.com.
MSU Gallery Director Lori Neuenfeldt also secured a $2,250 grant for the Department of Art, and Assistant Professor Suzanne Powney secured $500.
Gallery Director Lori Neuenfeldt talks with Tom Cowsert, Mississippi State University-Noxubee National Wildlife Refuge Artist in Residence for July 2016.
The 2016 Mississippi Invitational features work by 18 contemporary visual artists living and working across the state. The exhibition is on view at the Mississippi Museum of Art in Jackson from Dec. 17, 2016 – Feb. 18, 2017.
Critz Campbell is assistant professor of sculpture at Mississippi State University and has shown work at galleries and museums across the country.
“I am striving to add my voice to a rich Southern vocabulary through measured craft and familiar form. Like the great writers of the South, I employ metaphor, Southern vernacular and gothic imagery to reflect stark Southern places that are simultaneously haunting and sublime. Each piece is a study of the Southern landscape, home, family and fragments of its beautiful complexity.”
Find out more about the Mississippi Invitational at msmuseumart.org.
Assistant Professor Gregory Martin is one of 18 contemporary visual artists living and working across the state to have work selected for the 2016 Mississippi Invitational.
The exhibition will be on display at the Mississippi Museum of Art in Jackson from Dec. 17, 2016 – Feb. 18, 2017.
Guest curator, Marisca J. Pascucci, curator of collections at Boca Raton Museum of Art, selected four paintings by Martin – (“Long Term Parking,” “Spirit,” “Spiral” and “Goodyear”) for inclusion out of 115 submissions from artists across the state.
An opening reception for Mississippi Invitational artists, special guests and museum members is scheduled for Fri., Jan. 13, 2017, from 5:30 – 8:30 p.m.
The following day, Pacucci will be joined by Jane Hiatt and the recipient of the Hiatt Artist Fellowship for a panel discussion moderated by MMA Director and Chief Curator Roger Ward.
The MSU College of Architecture, Art and Design hosted a field trip for Gifted and Talented classes at Milam Elementary School in Tupelo on Nov. 3.
The group of 160 was split into four groups, who visited a variety of projects throughout the day, ending with a picnic-style lunch in the Giles Amphitheater.
The class visited Professor Robert Long in the ceramics studio for a tour of the facilities, including the glazing process and kiln. The group was also treated to demonstrations by students, faculty and community volunteers before being able to get their hands dirty and work with the clay.
The group also toured the School of Architecture in Giles Hall and did several hands-on projects with current students, including making chairs out of giant blocks, playing Giant Jenga and competing to see which group could put together a 3D puzzle house first.
The college was joined by a group from MSU’s Department of Sustainable Bioproducts for a Wood Magic Activity. Edward Entsminger and his crew taught students about various properties of wood and presented several demonstrations. The group made guesses about the strength of a toothpick-sized piece of wood and watched in amazement as Entsminger loaded nearly 300 pounds into a bucket it supported. Students then turned small red oak billets into bubble blowers as part of a demonstration of wood properties, including density, hardness and permeability.
Finally, students were treated to a private viewing of the current exhibit on display at the Depot Art Gallery, “Peri Schwartz: Paintings • Drawings • Prints.” Students were then challenged to create their own drawings, following instructions by art faculty members Lori Neuenfeldt and Matthew Gordon.
Ronnie Robinson, a senior art major (photography), recently received “Winner” status in the student photography category for two of her images: “Play Nice, Deary” and “Surfacing.”
As a winner, Robinson’s work will be featured on the Creative Quarterly website but also published in the 2017 spring edition of the CQ Journal. She was one of two students in the photography category to receive winner status.
“Girl with Horns” | Ronnie Robinson
Robinson was will also have an image in the “Runner-Up” student section of CQ website. Her image titled “Girl with Horns” is a multi-paneled cyanotype photogram.
“Rome” | Anna Zollicoffer
Also in the ‘Runner-Up” student section is Anna Zollicoffer, a senior graphic design student, with her whimsical poster series titled “Rome.”
“Hospital Bathroom” | Professor Marita Gootee
Professor Marita Gootee received “Runner-Up” in the professional category for her photography titled “Hospital Bathroom.”
In addition to Barnes & Noble and other major retail bookstores, issues of the publication may be purchased online at www.CQJournal.com.
Four Mississippi State administrators and faculty members are among 52 selected as 2016-17 Southeastern Conference Academic Leadership Development Program Fellows.
Since its inception in 2008, the professional development program has worked to identify, prepare and professionally advance academic leaders for key roles at each of the 14 SEC-member universities.
MSU will host an SEC ALDP workshop Feb. 22-24, 2017 on the Starkville campus.
The MSU honorees include:
—Angi Bourgeois, head of the College of Architecture, Art and Design’s Department of Art;
—Teresa Jayroe, associate dean of the College of Education;
—Melissa Moore, head of the College of Business’ Department of Marketing, Quantitative Analysis and Business Law; and
—Scott Willard, associate dean of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.
Through this academic initiative, the SEC works to sponsor, support and promote collaborative higher education programs and activities involving administrators, faculty and students. Providing an online platform to showcase achievements of these individuals on regional, national and international levels is among its primary missions.
“The opportunity to network with academic leaders across the 14 SEC universities has proven to be an excellent experience for all who have participated,” said MSU Provost and Executive Vice President Judy Bonner. “We look forward to hosting the conference for the faculty fellows on our campus in February.”
Designated by provosts at the respective institutions, ALDP liaisons serve as the conference’s primary point of academic contact.
“It is our strong belief that helping to prepare administrators for the next phase of their careers has the potential to impact all of higher education, both now and in the future,” said SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey. “Our universities make a significant investment in these individuals, and we are proud to work with them through this program.”
Bourgeois, who has headed the Magnolia State’s largest undergraduate studio art program on an interim basis since 2014, began her permanent appointment this past July. Since joining the Mississippi State faculty in 2002, the Rhodes College and Emory University graduate has taught a variety of art history courses and has climbed the academic ranks with a promotion to professor coinciding with her new appointment. Earlier this year, she was elected to a two-year term as secretary for the Italian Arts Society, an international scholarly organization where she has been a member since 2004.
Jayroe, who earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in elementary education from MSU, always wanted to become a teacher. After teaching for 12 years at Philadelphia and Winston county public schools, she returned to her alma mater to begin work on an education specialist degree in educational leadership and also completed a doctorate in curriculum and instruction. Jayroe first joined the MSU faculty as a classroom instructor and worked her way up the ranks, eventually becoming part of the College of Education’s administration.
An MSU College of Business faculty member since 1999, Moore now is leading the Department of Marketing, Quantitative Analysis and Business Law. In addition to serving on the MSU Entrepreneurship Center’s advisory board, the Kathy M. St. John Fellow and professor of marketing has served on the last two MSU presidential search committees. She was recognized as an MSU John Grisham Master Teacher in 2005, and also was named Outstanding Faculty Woman in 2010 by the MSU President’s Commission on the Status of Women.
Prior to becoming associate dean in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Willard served as head of the Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, Entomology and Plant Pathology. A 17-year MSU faculty member, he first served as professor of reproductive and environmental physiology in the Department of Animal and Dairy Sciences. Along with a bachelor’s in animal, veterinary and fisheries science from the University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Willard earned a master’s and doctorate in physiology of reproduction from Texas A&M University.
A series of posters celebrating MSU’s Crosby Arboretum will be featured in Sappi Fine Papers’ latest promo titled “Verticals.”
Currently in production, “Verticals” features excellent graphic design projects from universities across the country.
Phillip Bajoras, a December 2015 graduate, designed the poster series in Assistant Professor Cassie Hester’s spring 2015 Intro to Print Production class. Bajoras is currently working at a screen printing shop in Alabama.
The promo was curated and designed by Studio Hinrichs in San Francisco, Calif. Kit Hinrichs—recipient of the prestigious AIGA Medal—is principal and creative director.
Be sure to request the latest promos and samples from Sappi!
“#VIEWS” was designed as part of an Advanced Typography Independent Study with Assistant Professor Cassie Hester.
The 2016 competition theme was“Identity in Crisis,” and entries were judged by a prestigious panel of international designers—Finn Nygaard (Denmark), Fons Hickman (Germany), Michel Bouvet (France), Rysard Kaja (Poland) and Toni Vasikj (the Republic of Macedonia).
The Skopje Poster Festival kicked off on Nov. 22. All 50 finalists of the were exhibited at the Museum of Skopje (city museum) in Skopje, the Republic of Macedonia, through November 30.
Mississippi State University Associate Professor of Art Alexander Bostic unveiled his painting of legendary Mississippi bluesman B.B. King during the second-annual B.B. King Day at Mississippi Valley State University in Itta Bena earlier this month.
The daylong celebration featured panel discussions and performances around a theme of "The Influence of Jazz History."
The evening ended with a concert at the B.B. King Museum and Delta Interpretive Center in Indianola.
A North Cascades National Park-inspired poster by Mississippi State Professor of Graphic Design Cassie Hester is among more than 50 works that are on display through March 3 at the university’s Department of Art Gallery in McComas Hall. The posters are part of a “TypeHike” traveling exhibition commemorating the National Park Service’s centennial. (Submitted photo/by Cassie Hester)
A traveling exhibition of posters commemorating the National Park Service’s centennial are on display through March 3 at Mississippi State’s Department of Art Gallery in McComas Hall.
Free to all, the “TypeHike” exhibit features posters by artists and designers seeking to bring awareness to the beauty and importance of parks around the U.S.
A 5 p.m. reception for the MSU exhibit will take place Thursday [Feb. 16] in the ground-floor gallery, whose main entrance is located off the parking lot on McComas’ east side. The reception also is free to all, and refreshments will be served.
MSU Professor of Graphic Design Cassie Hester’s poster for North Cascades National Park is among works that will be available for viewing and purchase during the reception. Proceeds will benefit the National Park Foundation.
Also during the reception, MSU graphic design students will receive first-, second- and third-place prizes for original posters they created of the Natchez Trace Parkway in commemoration of the National Park Service’s centennial. Amy Genke, supervisory park ranger-interpretation for the Natchez Trace Parkway’s Jackson Branch, will present the awards on the organization’s behalf.
The National Park Service celebrated its 100th anniversary on Aug. 25, 2016. For more, visit www.nps.gov.
Exhibit hours for the McComas gallery are 1-5 p.m. Tuesday, Thursday and Friday, as well as by appointment.
The campus exhibit is supported by the College of Architecture, Art and Design’s art department.
For more gallery information or to schedule a tour, contact Lori Neuenfeldt, the MSU art department’s gallery director, at 662-325-2973 or LNeuenfeldt@caad.msstate.edu.
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Among more than 1,000 entries submitted from around the world, Mississippi State University graphic design professor Jamie Burwell Mixon’s Mumford & Sons concert poster recently was honored with a HOW International Design Award. (Submitted photo/courtesy of Jamie Burwell Mixon)
Mississippi State University graphic design professor Jamie Burwell Mixon is being honored with a HOW International Design Award for her Mumford & Sons concert poster.
Sponsored annually by HOW magazine, the International Design Award competition recognizes excellence on a global scale. Mixon is one of 292 recipients selected from over 1,000 entries submitted from around the world.
Founded in 1985, HOW encompasses a variety of different products, competitions and events. Its mission is to serve the business, creativity and technology needs of graphic designers.
Award winners will receive exposure in the upcoming spring 2017 edition of HOW magazine, as well an online feature at www.howdesign.com.
Mixon has been designing concert posters for the Verizon arena since 2004. She typically illustrates four to five each year.
“I’m excited to have my Mumford & Sons poster chosen for this competition. It always feels good to have your work recognized internationally,” said Mixon.
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Three cross-college departments commemorated a new raingarden at the university with a ribbon cutting Friday [April 21] in observation of Earth Day. The raingarden is located in the courtyard of the landscape architecture facility on the Starkville campus.
Landscape architecture students in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences built the garden, funded by a $20,000 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency grant to create a green infrastructure training and demonstration project. Those also contributing to the project include graphic design and engineering students, as well as the MSU facilities management department.
Mississippi State University President Mark E. Keenum spoke about the importance of sustainability at the ceremony.
“I am so pleased to see so many students who took an active role in leading this effort to make a difference. Having a wonderful raingarden to demonstrate the sustainability of water is something we are all going to learn from for years to come,” Keenum said. “Our university must address critical challenges like this for the future and instill in our younger generations knowledge of how to develop innovative solutions.”
Cory Gallo, associate professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture, said the raingarden manages one-fourth of the building’s rainwater runoff, but the project’s main purpose is to serve as an educational showpiece that teaches students, faculty and the broader community about green infrastructure technologies.
“The focus of this is really about education. This is the most comprehensive raingarden demonstration project in Mississippi and perhaps even in the Southeast. I don’t know of any that communicate what a raingarden does as well as this one,” Gallo said.
The raingarden’s focal piece is a 2,000 gallon cistern that collects rainwater and directs excess water into a 1,500-square-foot bioretention basin where it is managed with soil and plants. The raingarden is a sustainable water management demonstration in three steps — conveyance, storage and management. As water comes off the roof, it goes into the cistern for storage and then into the garden. Once in the garden, the water is cooled, filtered, absorbed and delayed.
Gallo explained the effects of the process.
“If you come here a day or two after it rains, you’ll hear water making its way into the basin because that’s how much water flow has been slowed down. When there is less water, it becomes much slower and takes more time, and it’s cleaner and cooler as it comes through. It’s an audible experience,” he said.
In previous semesters, landscape architecture students installed the basin in addition to surrounding benches. Part of that previous work included collaboration with the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering in the Bagley College of Engineering. Civil engineering students completed water quality testing prior to construction as part of the preliminary work.
“This is one of the most amazing projects where landscape architects, graphic designers and civil engineers worked together marching toward environmental sustainability. It is a win-win situation for all involved,” said Veera Gnaneswar Gude, assistant professor in the Department of Civil and Environment Engineering.
Graphic design students from the College of Architecture, Art and Design also worked alongside landscape architecture students to develop informational graphics to communicate the project’s purpose in an effective, concise manner.
Both landscape architecture and graphic design students enrolled in a cross-college collaborative course were tasked with designing, creating and installing the cistern; building out the garden; and developing, creating and implementing the demonstration component.
Suzanne Powney, assistant professor in the Department of Art, discussed how that hands-on collaboration, especially the opportunity for graphic design students to assist in the construction of the garden, resulted in a better design. She said while the work was challenging at times, the students took it in stride and did an incredible job.
“All of the students worked really hard. I am very proud of them,” she said. “This is a permanent structure they can come back to years in the future and say, ‘I built this.’”
In addition to Friday’s ribbon cutting, students also participated in a ceremonial first planting in the new MSU Community Garden immediately adjacent to the raingarden. Graphic design students contributed to this garden with a wall graphic, numbering system on the planters and educational graphic explaining when to plant various crops.
For more information, visit MSU’s Department of Landscape Architecture online at lalc.msstate.edu; the College of Architecture, Art and Design at caad.msstate.edu; and the Bagley College of Engineering at bagley.msstate.edu. The Water Resources Research Institute, housed at Mississippi State, facilitated the raingarden project’s grant and budget.
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