Contact: Sasha Steinberg
STARKVILLE, Miss.—Works of 14 graduating art/graphic design majors at Mississippi State will be on display Dec. 1-7 in the university’s McComas Hall Art Gallery.
Free and open to all, the art department-sponsored show titled “Fresh Cuts” features various creations by the students during their final year of thesis studies.
The exhibit includes web designs, posters, illustrations, packaging, self-promotional materials, as well as editorial, typeface, advertising and identity design, among others.
Also open to all, a public reception honoring the seniors begins at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday [the 1st] in the ground-floor gallery. Complimentary refreshments and finger foods will be served.
Lori Neuenfeldt, the MSU art department’s coordinator for gallery and outreach programs, said the student designers “are extremely talented and put in a large amount of hard work and effort this semester to produce a wonderful show.”
The graduating “Fresh Cuts” exhibitors include (by hometown):
CALEDONIA—Andrew W. Schaeffer.
EAGAN, Minnesota—Shannon J. Acker.
GULFPORT—Jordan A. West.
HORN LAKE—Jeffrey Knichel.
HUNTSVILLE, Alabama—Phillip T. Bajoras.
JACKSON—Mark A. Slawson.
KILN—Cameron A. McMaster.
LUCEDALE—Lauren E. Ingram.
MADISON—Anna L. Callaway, who has a double-concentration in fine arts.
OCEAN SPRINGS—Charley R. Walker.
RICHMOND, Virginia—Dupree G. Bostic.
TUPELO—Kaitlyn A. Anderson.
VICKSBURG—Paul T. Prudhomme.
WINONA—Erin W. Estrada.
For more information on the students and their exhibit, see www.freshcutsmsu.com.
The McComas Hall Art Gallery is among several departmental venues that regularly feature traveling exhibits, student shows, and group and solo exhibitions by professional artists. For more, visit bit.ly/MSUArtGalleriesFB.
Graphic design is one of seven areas of study offered through the College of Architecture, Art and Design’s art department. Complete details for the college and its art department are available at www.caad.msstate.edu, facebook.com/CAADatMSU and twitter.com/CAADatMSU.
For detailed information about the graphic design curriculum, contact professor Jamie Burwell Mixon at 662-325-2970 or jmixon@caad.msstate.edu.
MSU is Mississippi’s leading university, available online at www.msstate.edu.