Artist Bio: Critz Campbell, a native of West Point, Mississippi, pursued his artistic education at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Penland School of Craft in North Carolina, and Parnham College in Dorset, England. He joined the Department of Art at Mississippi State University in 2005 and was appointed department head in 2019. Through his work, Campbell seeks to employ metaphor and symbols to create exceedingly simple, stark reflections of Mississippi that are simultaneously haunting and sublime.
