Chatham Kemp

Associate Professor of Art

ckemp@wmcarey.edu
(601) 318-6528

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Chatham Meade Kemp teaches painting and drawing at William Carey University in addition to working as the curator of the Lucile Parker Gallery.  She received her Master's of Fine Arts degree in painting from Indiana University in Bloomington in 2007 and her Bachelor's of Arts degree from the University of Southern Mississippi in 2004.  Chatham has lived and studied in Italy, Germany, Switzerland, and Japan.   From an early age Chatham's life was centered around making art, traveling to museums, and interacting with artists. She is the daughter of James W. Meade who has been an art faculty member at the University of Southern Mississippi for over 42 years and Myra Meade who taught art and ceramics to high school students and elementary school students in addition to being a landscape painter.  It is her pleasure and privilege both in teaching and artistic production to give back to her native south Mississippi.