Twelve artists from Mississippi will begin the year with an exhibition at University of Southern Mississippi’s Hurst Gallery of Art and Design, 3000 Pearl Street. A public reception is scheduled on Thursday, January 22 from 5:30-7 PM. The show runs from January 22-February 12.
This is the first of several shows that the Collective has scheduled in 2026.
Established in 2011, the Women’s Art Collective offers ceramics, large scale metal sculpture, drawing, mixed-media, prints, painting, photography and textiles. Its members have been recognized with awards and honors in the southeast and beyond.
A special part of this exhibit features several works by the late Women’s Art Collective member, Kim Whitt (1954-2025)—painter, weaver and mixed media artist. Kim was a leader and visionary in MIssissippi arts: a Director of the MIssissippi Art Colony, Mississippi Arts Council Education Director, Member of the Mississippi Craftsmen’s Guild, and recipient of many honors and awards.
Members include Claudia Ka Cartee, a ceramics artist and recipient of the Excellence in Visual Arts Governor’s Award, Barbara Ann Carver-Hunt, who works in drawing and ceramics, and was a Mississippi Arts Commission Individual Artists Fellowship Award, painter Chatham Meade Kemp, who has also been recognized by the Mississippi Arts Commission, Melanie Eubanks, painter and ceramicist recently invited to show at the Lauren Rogers Museum, Rebekah Stark Johnson, multi-media artist, who has shown in the Southern Mississippi invitational, Andrea Kostoyal, mixed media artist and recipient of a MAC Fellowship, Betty Press, honored by the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters for Excellence in Photography, Martina Sciolino, participant in Meridian Museum Bi-State Invitational, Traci Stover, painter and member of the The Board of Governors of the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters, Jennifer Torres, sculptor and recipient of the Masters Award for the Mid-South Sculpture Alliance, and Stephanie DeArmey, ceramicist represented by Hallie Ward in Meridian.
