Sandra Murchison

Sandra Murchison is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Art Department at Millsaps College, where she teaches printmaking, painting, drawing and book arts. Sandra has shown her work in over 40 national and international juried exhibitions, and has received a Merit Award for one of her shaped etchings in the Americas 2008: All Media exhibition held at Minot State University. She has had solo exhibitions at such places as Rockhurst University in Kansas City and the Cottonlandia Museum in Mississippi. This past fall, she had a solo exhibition showcasing her series about the Delta Blues at Delta State University in Cleveland, Mississippi. This coming spring her more recent works having to do with the Mississippi Blues Trail will be exhibited at her solo exhibitions at Loyola University and Fischer Galleries. Sandra has been a visiting artist in the printmaking departments of the Univ. of Louisiana at Lafayette, UTK, LSU, and UW at Madison and the Southwest School of Art & Craft. This past November, Sandra served as one of the “master printers” during the MONOTHON at the Center for Contemporary Printmaking in Norwalk, CT. This spring she will be a Visiting Artist at Lawrence University and Appalachian State University. She serves as the Southern Graphics Council International Archives Liaison and was the 2007 SGC International Exchange Portfolio Coordinator in KC. In addition, Sandra curated two exchange portfolios and traveling exhibitions entitled Red Herring for the 2007 SGC conference, which is now in the permanent collection of the Center for Book Arts in NYC and White Elephant which was shown at Anchor Graphics in Chicago. Sandra has taught print and book arts workshops at Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, and at the Southwest School of Art and Craft. Sandra contributes to the printmaking blog www.pressplayprint.com. She is represented by Fischer Galleries in Jackson, Mississippi.

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