The Meridian Museum of Art (MMA) is housed in the historic Old Carnegie Library building, which was constructed in 1912-13, and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and as a Mississippi Landmark. The Museum seeks to promote and support the art, artists, and art programs of our area and region through art education, exhibitions, collections, collaborations with other organizations, special events, and community involvement. MMA programs are designed to further these goals and to make art accessible to everyone in the community. The Museum serves an audience from across the state and region, but primarily from Meridian and Lauderdale County and the surrounding counties: Kemper, Neshoba, Newton, Jasper, and Clarke (in MS), and Sumter and Choctaw (in AL).

49th Annual Bi-State Art Competition and Exhibition

August 15 – September 23 (Reception September 23)

2-4 p.m. Awards will be announced at three thirty. A special invitation is extended to artists and their friends.

The annual Bi-State is a juried exhibition presented by the Meridian Museum of Art (MMA), offering over $3,000 in awards and prizes, including the $1,000 Best of Show Cash Award. The exhibition aims to showcase contemporary artists in current and past residents of Mississippi and Alabama and reward their efforts.

JUROR GARY CHAPMAN is a Professor of Painting and Drawing at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He received his Master of Fine Art from Cranbrook Academy of Art, a Bachelor of Arts, and a Bachelor of Sciences from Berea College. He has had over sixty solo exhibitions and participated in numerous group and invitational exhibitions with regional, national, and international venues.

He was awarded and named a Joan Mitchell CALL Legacy Artist and has received numerous grants and fellowships, including a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Painting from the Southern Arts Federation and Individual Artist Fellowships from the Alabama State Council for the Arts. His work has been reviewed extensively and has been published in over twenty catalogs and books, including the Four Editions of New American Paintings.

ARTISTS INCLUDED

Pat	Abernathy
J’Marcus	Alfred
Rick	Anderson
Linda	Baxter
Mark	Brown
Danny	Brunt
Laurie	Burton
Carolyn	Busenlener
Claudia	Cartee
Barbara-Ann	Carver-Hunt
Terri H.	Cribb
Anthony	DiFatta
Leslie	Dobbins
William	Dooley
Sam	Douglas
Tom	Douglas
Paulette	Dove
Mary Clare	Evans
Keith	Everett
Leigh Deen	Francis
Julia	Gary
Robert	Gibson
Shelly	Graham
Sandra	Halat
Rowan	Haug
Amber N.	Henry
Martha	Hopkins
Gary	Howse
Michelle	Jones
James	Kane
Rebecca	Korpita
Andrea	Kostyal
Alexa	Lee
Sadako	Lewis
John	Marshall
Vanda	McCormick
George Ann	McCullough
Rosanne	Mckenney
Drew	McKercher
Joan	McRaney
Nancy	Mitchell
Gail	Morton
Selena	Nawrocki
Susa	Nawrocki
Thomas	Nawrocki
Olin Perry	Norton
Anne	O’Hara
Patt	Odom
LaSheka	Payne
Magen	Pierce
Julie	Plasketes
Mary Louise	Porter
Lana Lancaster	Pugh
Karen	Rush
Martina	Sciolino
Ivah Leigh	Scitz
Ann	Seale
Lesley K.	Silver
Sabyna	Sterrett
Susan	Stevens
Robert A. (Tony)	Sturgis
Patsy	Temple
Kathy	Tosch
Kathleen	Varnell
Jessie L	Whitehead
Kim	Whitt
Jacqueline	Wooton

THE COMPLETE EXHIBITION AND INDIVIDUAL ARTISTS/WORKS CAN BE VIEWED ON MERIDIAN MUSEUM OF ART’S FACEBOOK PAGE.