Visiting Artist Anna Tsouhlarakis

The Mississippi State University Department of Art is pleased to announce the next Visiting Artist to the department, university and greater Starkville area: Anna Tsouhlarakis. 

On April 11, a public workshop covering printmaking, critical geography and indigenous translation will be held in the Briscoe Hall Printmaking Studio from 10 a.m. to1 p.m.  

The workshop is free but space is limited. For more information and/or to reserve your spot, email Dixie Boswell at dboswell@caad.msstate.edu.

At 2 p.m. in Old Main Academic Center's Room 1220, Tsouhlarakis will deliver be featured in an artist talk, and time will be reserved for a question-and-answer session.

Tsouhlarakis studied Native American studies and studio art at Dartmouth College. She went on to receive her MFA from Yale University in Sculpture. Tsouhlarakis has participated in various art residencies, including Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Yaddo, and was the Andrew W. Mellon Artist-in-Residence at Colorado College for the 2019-2020 academic year.

Tsouhlarakis’s work has been part of national and international exhibitions at venues such as NEON Foundation in Athens, Greece; White Frame in Basel, Switzerland; Rush Arts in New York; the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto; the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art; the Museum of Contemporary Native Arts; the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art; the National Museum of the American Indian; the National Portrait Gallery; and a recent solo exhibition at MCA Denver.

She is a Creative Capital Award recipient for 2021. Other awards include fellowships from the Harpo Foundation, the Eiteljorg Museum, the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities, the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation, and most recently, the Louis Comfort Tiffany Award.

Tsouhlarakis is an assistant professor in the art and art history department at the University of Colorado Boulder. She is Greek, Creek and an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation.