ARTISTS
Betty Press
Press is a documentary photographer who splits her time between Mississippi and Kenya. In 2012 she received the Excellence in Photography Award from the Mississippi Institute of Arts & Letters for the photobook I Am Because We Are: African Wisdom in Image and Proverb. She received the Visual Artist Fellowship from the Mississippi Arts Commission in 2013 and 2018 for Finding Mississippi. In 2020 she was included in Photolucida Critical Mass Top 50 for They Were Us: Stories of Victims and Survivors of Police Brutality in Kenya (2020).
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Andrea Kostyal
Kostyal is a painter and mixed media artist who exhibits her work statewide, nationally and internationally. Among her recent exhibitions and works are Converging Voices a two-person exhibition with Allen Chen at the University of Southern Mississippi Art Gallery, Hattiesburg, MS, 2021 and New Norm 2020, public mural in downtown Hattiesburg, MS, 2020. Kostyal was invited to show her work at in 2019 at the Mississippi Invitational, Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS.
Visit Andrea Kostyal Website here.
Traci Stover
Stover is an artist and educator who has exhibited widely with solo exhibitions and group and juried shows in Mississippi and nationally. She taught studio classes at Belhaven College, Hinds County Community College and the University of Southern Mississippi. Stover is a member of the Board of Governors of The Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters and has served as the Chair of the Visual Arts Award Committee, Vice President of the Board of Governors and is as the 2022-2023 President. She has been a member of Singing River Art Studio in Hattiesburg, MS since 2023.
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