Elise Smith EMAIL
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 & Department Chair
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.

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Sandra Murchison EMAIL
BFA, Alfred University, Alfred, New York
M.F.A., Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA
(601) 974-1431
Office: AC 321

Associate Professor
Sandra teaches in all 2D areas of Studio Art and serves at the Lewis Art Gallery Director. She has recently had solo exhibitions at Rockhurst University in Kansas City and the Cottonlandia Museum in Mississippi. Sandra has been a visiting artist in the printmaking departments of UTK, LSU, UW at Madison and will be at Appalachian State University in 2008. She has been granted several artist residencies at the Vermont Studio Center. She regularly exhibits her work natoinally and internationally. The Southern Graphics Council 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. Sandra has taught a print and book arts course at Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, and will be instructing a workshop on box making and monotypes at the Southwest School of Art and Craft in 2007.

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Brent Fogt EMAIL
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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