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March 27, 2008
Contact: Anika Mitchell Perkins
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MUW art faculty accepted to annual Bi-State Competition

COLUMBUS, Miss. -- Robert Gibson, chair of the Department of Art and
Design, and Tom Nawrocki, professor of art, at Mississippi University for Women, have had pieces accepted to the annual Bi-State Competition in the Meridian Museum of Art.

Gibson had three pieces accepted:
“Prayer House 1”--mixed media/wood sculpture
“Prayer House 4”--mixed media/ wood sculpture
“Intimately Tied”--mixed media/paper, wood, metal

Nawrocki had two pieces accepted:
“Ziz Zag Zig 31”--both are shaped dimensional digital prints, editions of three
“Ziz Zag Zig 26”--each, combining linear and curvilinear elements

The exhibition reception will be held Saturday from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. with the award ceremony and presentation to follow. The exhibition will be up the month of April.

Nawrocki also has had prints accepted into other competitions: The 60th Anniversary Exhibition of Prints, The Boston Printmakers, Gordon College, Gloucester, Mass. This competition will travel in the United States and Europe through 2010 and is currently in Bristol, R.I. The Harnett Biennial of American Prints, Joel and Lita Harnett Museum of Art, University of Richmond Museums, Richmond, Va. Two-hundred-eighty-four artists entered this show but only 31 artists from 22 states were selected to participate