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By Rileigh Campbell | MSU communications student class of 2025

A senior art student at �������� State will get the opportunity to present artwork at the 2024 Mid-South Sculpture Alliance Conference in Birmingham, Alabama, in November.

Rylee Brabham of Waynesboro received the Dianne Komminsk Scholarship along with five other students in the Mid-South area. Scholarship winners will attend the MSA conference to present and explain their artwork. Brabham was encouraged to apply for the scholarship by Department of Art Assistant Professor Caroline Hatfield.

“Caroline is always very encouraging and pushes us to get our work out there and in shows! I had recently completed a body of work that felt very cohesive, so I felt good about throwing my name into the hat!,” Brabham said.

Brabham will be presenting on the overtones of binary gender performance that exist within domestic spaces. The body of work comes from a previous installation titled “You are a stranger, you always have been.”

“Many of the objects in the show were heirlooms - objects passed down, through and across generations of my family. By situating these objects throughout the simulated domestic space, I began a process of investigation (and remediation) of the conflict existing between my gender identity and my upbringing,” Brabham said.

The Mid-South Sculpture Alliance advances the creation and awareness of sculpture. The Dianne Komminsk Scholarship was created by a donation from Ohio artist Dianne Komminsk. Twenty applications were received, and six were chosen to receive the scholarship.

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