EDUCATION: Yorkshire
Coast College, Scarborough, England, 1995; (Summer Study: Art & culture Transfer Program/Grant)
MFA~University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC, 1985;
(Major: Painting/Drawing), (Minor: Art History/Sculpture)
BFA~ Middle Tennessee State University, 1983; (Major:
Painting), (Minor: Drawing/Sculpture)
AA~ Motlow State Community College, Tullahoma, TN, 1981
University
of the South, Sewanee, TN, 1978 & 1980; (Special Studies)
WORK EXPERIENCE:
Coordinator
of Art Department/Art Instuctor/ Gallery Curator: Meridian Community College, Meridian, MS; July 1985-Present.
(Courses taught: painting, drawing, figure drawing, design, 3-D design, art appreciation & developed online course.
duties include: organize/manage departmental activities, such as budget, guest lectures, art students league, gallery volunteers,
student workers, community outreach, etc.)
Director/Curator: Meridian Museum of Art,
july 1986-1990. Duties included: Implementing/managing budget, fundraising, grant writing, Liaison to MS Arts Commission,
Board member for the Meridian Council for the Arts, planning/scheduling art exhibits in 4 galleries, maintaining/cataloging
permanent collection, creating children's art classes/activities for community and elementary schools, sponsorship of
annual Bi-State Art competition, etc.
WTOK-TV, PRODUCTION ASSISTANT: 1991-1993 parttime: graphics,
audio & camera
Art Instructor: Mississippi State University, 1987 taught Modern Art History
Curator: Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC, 1985-1986
Assistant Curator: Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Universtiy of North Carolina, Greensboro,
NC, 1984-85
Registrar/Curatorial Assistant: Weatherspoon Art Gallery, 1983-84
Art Instructor: Motlow State Community College, Tullahoma, TN, 1983; Summer Workshop: painting,
drawing and sculpture for children/adults
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITS: (Abbreviated List) Miller Art Gallery, Meridian, MS, 2006 Miller Art
Gallery, Meridian, MS, 2003 Casteel Gallery, Meridian, MS, 2002 Bonnie Busbee Gallery, Meridian, MS, 2001 Marie
Hull Gallery, Jackson, MS, 1998 Architecture Gallery, MSU-Starkville, MS, 1998 Casteel Gallery, Meridian, MS, 1997 Sylvia Schmidt Gallery, New Orleans, LA 1997 Horne-Marshall Gallery, Meridian, MS, 1996 & 1997 Eula Bass Gallery,
Ellisville, MS, 1996 Coleman Art Center, York, AL 1995 Ms State University, Art Gallery, 1993 Tusculum
College Gallery, Greeneville, TN, 1992 Winfield Gallery, Gulfport, MS 1991 MS University for Women, Gallery,
Columbus, MS, 1990 Miller Art Gallery, Meridian, MS, 2006 Middle Tennessee State University, Art Gallery, 2006 Lauren Rogers Museum of Art, 2005
SELECTED GROUP SHOWS: Abbreviated List People's
Choice Exhibit, Meridian Museum of Art, 2003 Queen City Exhibition, Meridian Museum of Art, 2003 Southern Breeze
Gallery, Jackson, MS, 2003 Meridian Museum of Art, Members Show, 2002 Faith & Hope: Religious Art, MMS, 2002 Walter Anderson Museum, MS Artists Invitational, "Motifs of Time, 2002 Bi-State, Meridian Museum of Art, 2002,
2001 award Mississippi Art Instructors Traveling Exhibit, 2000 Art of the 90s, Meridian Museum of Art, 1999 Meridian
Museum of Art, Members Show, 1999 Bi-State Competition, 1998, 1997, 1996 Arts in the Park, (award winner), 1998,
1996, 1994, 1990, 1989 MS Art Colony Traveling Exhibit (award winner), 1995 Space One-Eleven Gallery, Birmingham,
AL (reviewed by Laura Lieberman, Art Papers, Atlanta, GA), 1990 Birmingham-Southern College Art Gallery, 1990 Millsaps
College Gallery, Jackson, MS, 1990 Weatherspoon Art Gallery, NC (Invitational), 1989, 1986, 1985 Kansas Outdoor
Sculpture Exhibit, 1989 ArtWave Competition, Gulfport, MS, 1988 10th Annual MS Juried Exhibition, USM, 1988 Henri
Gallery, Washington, DC, 1986-87 Waterworks Gallery, Salisbury, NC, 1985 Sawtooth Gallery, Winston-Salem, NC, 1985
HONORS/PUBLICATIONS Poetry National (poem published),
2001 Who's Who in Education, (current edition) Who's Who in American Art Who's Who in South-Southeast
Art American Artists: An Illustrated Survey of Leading Contemporaries Strathmore's Who's Who in Art Art
Educator of the Year, 1996 MS Lamplighter Award (Outstanding in Teaching), 1996 Travel Grant, (Scarborough, England),
1995 MS Art Instructors Association: President, 1994-95 Leader: Student Europe Travel- Italy & France, 2006 Leader: Student Europe Travel- Greece & Italy, 2004 Europe Study Travel Grant, 1991 Active Learning Award,
1991 Art In Mississippi: 1720, 1980 Literacy Review:(poetry), 1999 Homer Casteel: An Artist
and His Students, 1998 Literary Magazine, 1987 Weatherspoon Art Gallery Bulletin, 1986 Coraddi
Arts Magazine, 1985-86
MEMBERSHIPS: Mississippi Community College Instructors Association Meridian Community College Faculty Association Meridian Arts Council Meridian Museum of Art
GALLERY AFFILIATION: Southern Breeze Gallery, Jackson,
MS Bonnie Busbee Gallery, Meridian, MS Lucas Road Gallery, Meridian, MS
ART IN COLLECTIONS: John Marshall's
work is in numerous private/corporate collections from Paris, France to Meridian, MS
