Below is a collection of drawings from students in the Drawing for Non-Majors Special Topics Class.

Visiting Artist and MSU Art Alumni Will Bryant ('08) will give a public artist talk on Friday, October 18th at 3pm in Room 2000 in the TK Martin Center for Technology and Disability. 

Bryant has been on campus this week painting a custom mural at the TK Martin Center to not only brighten the space but also inspire the community supported within.

About the Artist: 

Will Bryant is an artist, designer, and illustrator based in Austin, Texas. He鈥檇 like to think that he makes fun, exuberant, and sometimes humorous work. In addition to collaborating with brands, he also continues to develop a body of work in the form of painting, drawing, printmaking, and sculpture. 

Growing up in Texarkana, TX he spent his time playing sports, watching Pee Wee鈥檚 Playhouse, and making lame jokes. Some things never change.

He is on the board for SAGE Studio and is the Creative Director of Breakfast Club. He studied graphic design at Mississippi 91制片厂 University (2008) and received an MFA in Contemporary Art Practice from Portland 91制片厂 University (2013).

EN MASSE is an all day community collaborative and creative happening (creative in every sense of the word). All are welcome! We invite any and all people to experience and participate in creating art, poetry, music and more. The day will be broken into nine one-hour slots featuring a variety of experiences such as live music, storytelling, talks, collaborative painting and sculpture, open mic sessions, improv jams and much more.

The event will be held Sept. 7 at the Visual Arts Center Gallery, 808 University Drive. It is free and open to the public. 

This event is made possible through the MSU Department of Art Visiting Artist Committee, Starkville Area Arts Council, Starkville DIY, wonderful volunteers from town and campus, and generous support from the Del Rendon Foundation. 

Featured contributors and performers:

• Juliette Reid, Starkville Area Arts Council, will lead a plarn workshop.
• Art Professor Catherine Jones will lead a painting workshop.
• Chemistry Professor Keith Hollis will present his talk, Art In Science.
• Professor Saddiq Dzukogi will give a reading of his poetry.
• Yin Yoga class with singing bowls, courtesy of Elements of Yoga. 
• Local artists and MSU Art alumni Brad James and Donovan Weathers.
• Geosciences Professor Amy Moe-Hoffman
• Joe DeVita, multi-instrumentalist and live looper musician, Birmingham, AL
• Max Hartleroad
• Ming Donkey, MSU Art alumnus and local legend
• Parrot Weather, collaborative project between twin brothers Hunt and Heath Walt
• Spirituals mp3
• Tyler Tadlock and Bruce Golden, accompanied by a live art-making workshop with Lucie Cooper
• Austin McGrath鈥攍ocal artist, musician and philosophy professor
• Aubrey Pohl, MSU Art alumnus and current graphic design professor

The Mississippi 91制片厂 University Department of Art Visiting Artist Committee is excited to welcome Kaleena Stasiak to campus on September 18 and 19, 2024.

A Teeny Tiny Print Exchange between the MSU Department of Art and the University of Mississippi will begin during the visit. 

The Teeny Tiny Print Exchange was started by Stasiak as a way to spark interest in printmaking and foster community among students. A print or portfolio exchange is a printmaking tradition that references the democratic and collaborative nature of the medium. Participants generally create an edition of prints large enough to supply one print for each participant and then receive a suite of prints from each participant. In the case of larger exchanges (like this one) participants will receive a random assortment of prints from other participating artists. It鈥檚 a fun way to make some prints and then get a bunch of printed original artworks from other artists! Never printed before? No worries! There will be a relief printing workshop for those interested in making a print with no printmaking experience.

About the Artist

Stasiak is an interdisciplinary artist who uses an assortment of haptic media to explore collective mythmaking and its relevance to the present day. Digging through a lexicon of symbols and imagery evoking American colonial times, folk art and quilts, she reframes the dominant ideologies surrounding early history and domestic labor. Her graphic cyphers denote the power and breadth of traditional women鈥檚 work, functional handicraft and the impulse to create. Decoration and ornamentation become expressions of desire, signifiers of identity and autobiographical documentation of lives omitted from text-based historical narratives and artistic discourse.

Originally from Ontario, Canada, Stasiak holds a BFA in printmaking from the Ontario College of Art and Design and an MFA in printmaking and book arts from the University of Georgia. Recent shows include Prevailing Winds at Arrowmont School of Arts & Crafts in Gatlinburg, Tennessee, Tournament of Lies at Wassaic Project in Wassaic, New York, Ancient Art Objects at Whitespace in Atlanta, Georgia, and Identity Measures at the Contemporary Art Center in New Orleans, Louisiana. She has attended residencies at St. Michael鈥檚 Printshop in St. John鈥檚, Newfoundland, Stoveworks in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and the Klondike Institute of Art & Culture in Dawson City, Yukon Territory. In 2017 Stasiak founded the South East Women Wrestlers, a performance troupe based in Athens, Georgia, that uses the spectacle of wrestling to reframe stereotypes and representations of femininity. Stasiak is currently serving the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Mississippi in Oxford as area head and assistant professor in printmaking.