Former UM Basketball, Football Player Hoping to Repay Dallas Cowboys

DALLAS, Texas – University of Mississippi art professor Matt Long has a longstanding tradition of inviting his ceramics students to his home, where they make pottery in a wood-burning kiln. When the professor altered his tradition by inviting a 6-foot-6-inch, nearly 300-pound Ole Miss Rebel basketball and football player to join the group in 2008,Read the story …

Art Professor to Use Fulbright Fellowship to Explore Transformation of Indian Metropolis

OXFORD, Miss. – In the southeastern region of the Indian state of Karnataka, the capital city of Bangalore has been known for generations as the “Garden City” for its green gardens and parks. And over the last two decades, the city has gained a new reputation as the “Silicon Valley of India.” In August, digitalRead the story …

Art Department Presents Exhibit Featuring Student Work, May 26

The University of Mississippi Art Department will present an exhibit of landscape paintings on Saturday (May 26) in Meek Hall. En Plein Air: Painting the Mississippi Landscape features paintings by students and assistant professor of art Phillip R. Jackson . Guest artist David Jewell will also be showing his work. The exhibit wraps up anRead the story …