Artist Bio: Critz Campbell, a native of West Point, Mississippi, earned a B.F.A. from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. A two-year CORE Fellowship followed his undergraduate degree at Penland School of Crafts in Penland, North Carolina, and he spent another two years studying furniture design at Parnham College in the United Kingdom. Campbell joined the Department of Art at Mississippi State University in 2005 and was appointed department head in 2019. Critz maintains a studio practice in sculptural woodworking. His exhibition record includes the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York; the De Cordoba Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts; and Science Gallery, Dublin, Ireland. Campbell has received numerous awards and fellowships throughout his career. In 2021, he was awarded a federal Art in Architecture commission through the General Services Administration. Professor Campbell has served on the Board of Trustees at Penland School of Craft and the Mississippi Museum of Art. Through his work, Campbell seeks to employ metaphor and symbols to create exceedingly simple, stark reflections of Mississippi that are simultaneously haunting and sublime.
