Two Jackson State University faculty members have art showing at the Mississippi Collegiate Art Faculty Juried Exhibition at the Lauren Rogers Museum of Art in Laurel, Miss.
The exhibit showing through June 24, features art by Associate Professor Charles Carraway, chair of the Department of Art, and Assistant Professor Chung-Fan Chang.
The juried art competition was open to all full-time and part-time art studio faculty at any Mississippi college or university. The media is varied and ranges from traditional paintings to cutting-edge sculptures, to video.
Its purpose was to see what direction art in Mississippi is taking and to showcase the diversity of art in Mississippi today, according to Tommie Rodgers, registrar, Lauren Rogers Museum of Art.
“Our state’s art professors work in all media, from the traditional oil on canvas to digital, film and installation, so this exhibition promises to have something for anyone interested in contemporary art and artists,” Rodgers said.
Dr. Graham Boettcher, William Cary Hulsey Curator of American Art at the Birmingham Museum of Art, was this year’s juror. He selected 60 works from approximately 200 submissions.
For more information, contact Rodgers, at the museum, 565 North Fifth Avenue Laurel, MS 39441, 601-649-6374, or email Trodgers@LRMA.org or see: https://lrma.org.
The Lauren Rogers Museum of Art opened to the public in 1923 as Mississippi’s first art museum.