Chatham Kemp

Associate Professor of Art

ckemp@wmcarey.edu
(601) 318-6528

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Chatham Meade Kemp has taught painting and drawing at William Carey University since 2007.  She received her Masters of Fine Arts degree in painting from Indiana University in Bloomington. From early on in life, Chatham's life was centered around making art, traveling to museums, and interacting with artists. She is the daughter of two fine artists, James W. Meade who has been an art faculty member at the University of Southern Mississippi for over 40 years and Myra Meade who taught art and ceramics to high school students and elementary school students in addition to being an active landscape painter.

Chatham Kemp enjoys networking and collaborating with other artists through the Mississippi Art Colony and Hattiesburg Women’s art collective where she met artists across the state and surrounding states and has enjoyed having exhibitions with these artists.  It is her pleasure and privilege both in teaching and artistic production to give back to her native south Mississippi.

Chatham was awarded an artist fellowship grant as well as mini grants by the Mississippi Arts Commission. She hosted an artist symposium for the Mississippi Arts Commission. Her paintings were also selected to be a part of the prestigious Mississippi Invitational at the Mississippi Museum of Art by guest juror Carla Hanzal.  Her work is represented in commercial galleries across the state of Mississippi and the South East. She also exhibits her work at universities in the surrounding region including most recently a National Juried exhibition at the University of Southern Mississippi (juror Bill Scott) as well as a National Invitational at Southeastern University in Hammond, Louisiana.