JAN MURRAY
Associate Dean of Liberal Arts and Professor of Art
2-D Design

MFA, Yale University
BA, Yale University
email: jmurray@olemiss.edu

As a member of the faculty at the Yale School of Art from 1987 to 1997, Murray taught graphic design and typography to undergraduate and graduate students. She was a College Dean, a member of the graphic design faculty, and director of undergraduate studies for the art major.

With bachelor's and MFA degrees from Yale, Murray also worked as a senior graphic designer for Weekly Reader, a graphic design consultant, director of the Migrations Project: Folk Arts to Enhance the Curriculum, and coordinator of special programs for the James Weldon Johnson Collection at Yale.

Murray, whose special interests include community-oriented design and out- reach and interdisciplinary projects involving folk arts and poetry, holds a broad view of the value of art education.

"I feel that art courses offer all kinds of students a very special liberal arts ex- perience," she says. Studying art can enrich students' experiences and help them discover their role in society. " In all our classes we want to provide a nurturing en- vironment for creative work — a place where people develop critical cognitive skills and self — discipline as well as self-expression and creativity."