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Art Department Faculty
Millsaps
College
1701 North State St
Jackson, MS 39210-0001
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Elise Smith
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B.A., Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
M.A., Vanderbilt University,
Nashville, TN
Ph.D., University of North Carolina, Chapel
Hill, NC
(601) 974 -1432
Office: AC 323
Professor of Art History, Sanderson Chair in Arts & Sciences, Interim Associate Dean of Arts & Letters, and Acting Chair of Performing Arts
Elise Smith is the art historian at Millsaps, teaching a variety
of period courses as well as more specialized topics. Her dissertation
examined 16th-century Northern European artist Lucas van Leyden,
and recently her research interests have shifted to 19th-century
Victorian painting as well as women and garden imagery in English
art and literature from 1750-1850. Her most recent book analyzes
a female Pre-Raphaelite artist: Evelyn Pickering De Morgan
and the Allegorical Body (2002). She also has a book forthcoming with Cambridge University Press (2010) with her co-author Judith Page (English Department, University of Florida) entitled Disciples of Flora: Women and the Domesticated Landscape of England, 1780-1870.
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Sandra
Murchison
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BFA, Alfred
University, Alfred, New York
M.F.A., Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge,
LA
(601) 974-1431
Office:
AC 321
Associate Professor & Chair of the Art Department
Sandra teaches in all 2D areas of Studio Art. This coming year, she will exhibit her mixed media pieces about the Mississippi Blues Trail historical markers at several solo exhibitions including Delta State University, Fischer Galleries, Loyola University and at Millsaps College. She has recently had solo exhibitions at Rockhurst University in Kansas City and the Cottonlandia Museum in Mississippi. This academic year, Sandra will serve as a Visiting Artist at Appalachian State University and Lawrence University. Sandra has been a visiting artist at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, UTK, LSU, and UW at Madison. She has been granted several artist residencies at the Vermont Studio Center. She regularly exhibits her work nationally and internationally. The Southern Graphics Council, International invited Sandra to serve as their 2007 Exchange Portfolio Coordinator and continues her work for SGC as their Archives Manager. In addition, Sandra curated an exchange portfolio and traveling exhibition entitled Red Herring for the 2007 SGC conference, which is now in the permanent collection of the Center for Book Arts in NYC. Her latest portfolio exchange and traveling exhibition, entitled White Elephant, was sponsored by SGC and exhibited at Anchor Graphics in Chicago. Sandra has taught a print and book arts workshops at Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, and at the Southwest School of Art and Craft. |
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Brent Fogt
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B.A. Austin College, Sherman, TX
B.F.A. University of Texas, Austin, TX
M.S.F.S. Georgetown University, Washington, DC
M.F.A. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
(601) 974-1430
Office: AC 322
Assistant Professor
Brent Fogt teaches Sculpture, Digital Arts and Painting.
Born in Ohio and raised in Texas, Brent creates
intricate drawings and installations that reference
maps, aerial photographs and microscopic organisms.
He has exhibited his work both nationally and internationally.
Most recently, Brent’s work was featured
in the 2007 Midwest edition of New American Paintings,
an “exhibition in print” curated by
Elizabeth Dunbar, Curator of the Kemper Museum
of Contemporary Art in Kansas City.
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Abigail Susik
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B.A., Barnard College, Columbia University, New York, NY
M.A., Columbia University
Ph.D., Columbia University
(601) 974-1895
Office: AC 331
Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow in Art History, 2009-2010
Abigail Susik recently graduated from Columbia University with a doctorate in 20th Century Art History and Theory. Her dissertation, “The Vertigo of the Modern: Surrealism and the Outmoded,” performed a comparative analysis of literature, art and popular culture in early French surrealism, in relation to the theory of Walter Benjamin. During her time at Millsaps, she will teach Contemporary Art History, Theory and Methodology of Art History, and the Art and Culture of Surrealism. She has published and presented several papers related to her dissertation in the United States and abroad. This year, she has a forthcoming article in the SECAC Review, and will be giving papers at the SECAC, MLA and CAA annual conferences.
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Lucy Millsaps
M.A., University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS
Emeritus
Faculty
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