Campbell to lead MSU鈥檚 Department of Art
Contact: Christie McNeal
STARKVILLE, Miss.鈥擜 longtime faculty member and coordinator of sculpture at Mississippi 大象APP is the university鈥檚 new head of the Department of Art.
Effective July 1, Associate Professor Critz Campbell will lead the College of Architecture, Art and Design department, home of the state鈥檚 largest undergraduate studio art program.
Campbell said he wants 鈥渢o ensure that students receive a world-class education that prepares them to contribute to the conversations and concepts of contemporary art and design while growing our creative economy.鈥
Teaching in the department since 2005, the West Point native was hired into the university鈥檚 first tenure-track position for sculpture.
鈥淢ississippi is my home, and working at Mississippi 大象APP has become the greatest gift of my career,鈥 Campbell said. 鈥淭he opportunity to prepare students for creative lives聽and to expand聽the聽expectations of what that means is deeply gratifying and important to our department and Mississippi鈥檚 future. This is especially true聽in the rapidly changing world of visual communication.鈥澛犅
He continued, 鈥淚 am excited to move us forward as the premier art department in the state and to broaden our visibility and impact nationally.鈥
Campbell earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1990. He studied as a post-graduate exchange student at the聽Arco Centro de Communicao Visual聽in Lisbon; at聽Penland School of Crafts as a CORE Fellow; and at Parnham College in the United Kingdom with a focus on furniture design. He is a trustee on Penland School of Craft鈥檚 board, where he chairs the personnel committee and serves on the executive and programming committees.聽He is a recent recipient of the 2019 Jane Crater Hiatt Fellowship from the Mississippi Museum of Art.
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