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Wesley Stuckey, graduate of Magee High School, literally has gone from a small Southern town to a huge metropolitan city!
A designer, printmaker, and educator, Wesley is living and working in Baltimore, Maryland.
Wesley doesn’t visit Magee often! When I learned he was stopping in Magee on his way to MSU as a juror for the 50th Anniversary Alumni Exhibition for the Mississippi State University College of Architecture Art + Design’s Art Department, I insisted he make a stop at MageeNews for a short interview.
Wesley is one talented young man who followed his heart and found his dream. (I’ve been trying to get one of his paintings for years—and I’m still trying.)
I hope you will take time to listen (video) to the climb this young man has made and is making. We do not have many people from Magee, MS who reach the pentacles of design that Wesley has achieved.
Check out his website and Facebook page!
His work has been published by HOW Magazine, PRINT, Focal Press, Princeton Architectural Press, Tattly.com, a project by Swissmiss, and by Communication Arts. His work has also been featured in exhibitions across the Southeast, Mid-Atlantic, and Mid-West, in Arkansas, Maryland, Mississippi, Tennessee, Virginia, and in Chicago, Illinois.
In addition to traditional print design and printmaking, Wesley’s work \ focuses on branding, illustration, and environmental graphics, with the occasional interactive project for the web.
In 2011, he completed his Masters of Fine Art from the Maryland Institute College of Art in the Graphic Design MFA Program, where he studied with Ellen Lupton and Jennifer Cole Phillips. Since graduate school, he has taught branding, typography, hand-lettering, web design, and basic design at both the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) and the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA). Additionally, he has reviewed student portfolios for Stevenson University’s School of Design.
He is currently running his own studio practice where he gets to dabble in a little of everything related to design. On occasion, Wesley has lectured on various design related topics, including branding, color theory and usage, and environmental design, for AIGA, Creative Mornings, T. Rowe Price, Johns Hopkins University’s (JHU) Carey Business School and Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), the University of South Florida in Saint Petersburg (USFSP), and various other groups and institutions across the Mid-Atlantic.
Wesley has been a juror for Northern Virginia Community College (NOVA) Student Art & Design Competition. Recently, Wesley juried the 50th Anniversary Alumni Exhibition for the Mississippi State University College of Architecture Art + Design’s Art Department.
Let the birthday revels begin. Happy 50th Mississippi State University Department of Art! Visiting with alum panelist Wesley Stuckey. With some of his teachers- Soon Ee Ngoh, Marita Gootee, Wendy Roussin, Jamie Burwell Mixon, and David Mixon. More tomorrow- reception in Depot Gallery from 4 to 5 p.m.; then at M Club in Davis-Wade stadium from 5 to 8 p.m. Students, alumni, faculty and guests are welcome! — with Wendy Roussin, Marita Gootee, Jamie Burwell Mixon, Wesley Stuckey and Soon Ee Cafe. (Facebook)
