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William Baggett, Jr. M.F.A.
Chair, Department of Art and Design
Professor of Graphic Design
E-mail: wbaggett@hughes.net
B.F.A., Auburn University
M.F.A., Auburn University
Visual Arts Faculty
William Baggett teaches primarily in the areas of Printmaking and Graphic Design. After 3 years of teaching at the University of Mississippi and 10 years at Auburn University, he came to Southern Miss as chair of the Department of Art (1983) and later served as acting dean of the College of The Arts. In 2009, he has again accepted the position of chair.
In 1982, he was recognized at Auburn University with an endowed Alumni Professorship for scholarly and creative achievement. In 1997, he received the Faculty Award of Excellence for Creative Research and Achievement at The University of Southern Mississippi.
In 1980, Mr. Baggett was commissioned by the French publisher Vision Nouvelle to execute a suite of three editions of multicolor lithographs in Paris. Since that time, he has worked with two other print studios--Siena Studios, N.Y., and Grapholith and I.D.L. Editions Lecureux-Possot, Paris. His printmaking work is included in collections throughout the United States, Europe and Japan; the U.S. Embassy collections in Hong Kong; Pretoria; Republic of South Africa; Santiago, Chile; Tel Aviv, Israel; Buenos Aires, Argentina; Belgrade, Yugoslavia; Mexico City, Mexico; Bangkok, Thailand; Stockholm, Sweden; and, formerly, in Tehran, Iran.
Since 1992, Baggett’s focus has shifted toward the development and execution of four monumentally scaled figurative mural commissions for public spaces in Mississippi and Alabama.
Mr. Baggett has served as chair of the Board of Trustees of the Lauren Rogers Museum of Art in Laurel, Mississippi.
Professor Baggett team-teaches the senior capstone course with the Graphic Design faculty