PAULA TEMPLE
Professor of Art
Graphic Design, Watercolor, Figure Drawing

MFA, University of Tennessee
BFA, University of Memphis
email: ptemple@olemiss.edu

Paula Temple has worked as a teacher, graphic designer, illustrator, and exhibiting artist throughout the United States and the Eastern Caribbean (Grenada and St. Lucia on a Peace Corps contract). On the faculty at the University since 1985, Paula Temple teaches graphic design, figure drawing, and watercolor. During this period she has also served as a Visiting Artist in the Eastern Caribbean and Artist-in-Residence in Cortona, Italy.

Her active exhibition record includes over 20 solo exhibitions with shows at the International Museum of Surgical Science in Chicago, American Embassy in Bridgetown, Barbados, Louisiana Museum of Arts and Sciences in Baton Rouge and The University of the West Indies in St. Georges, Grenada, and she was included in Centennial Exhibition Artists Who Teach in Washington, DC. Her work appears in the Best of Watercolor, Portrait Inspirations and The Best of Watercolor 3, and her award-winning work “Life, Grace and Spirit” is on the cover of the recent publication of the American Cancer Society’s A Breast Cancer Journey. This painting is permanently located in the American Cancer Society’s headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia.

Awards include the MIAL (Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters) Award in Visual Arts and two Mississippi Arts Commission Fellowship awards in Visual Arts. She won a national award from the American Cancer Society to do a painting for the 30th anniversary of the Reach to Recovery Program. She toured the United States with this artwork with appearances in Boston, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Orlando, and New York with an appearance on the Rosie O’Donnell show.

She is a member of the Midsouth Watercolor Society, The National Museum of Women in the Arts, and the American Association of University Professors.