Sandra E. Murchison

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School Director ​  

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Professor of Studio Art

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at Eastern Michigan University

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​Professor Sandra Murchison is the Director of the School of Art & Design at Eastern Michigan University and the Director of the Parsons Center for Arts & Sciences.  

 

Murchison serves as the Secretary and Incoming President for the National Council for Arts Administrators (NCAA) Board of Directors, and as the Chair of the Program Committee for the Riverside Arts Center Board of Directors. 

 

Prior to EMU, she was a faculty member at Millsaps College for 17 years, including as Chair of the Art Department and where she founded a non-profit arts center off campus in Jackson, Mississippi.

 

Murchison served the printmaking organization known as SGC International as both their Archivist and then Vice President for Internal Affairs of the organization. 

 

Her mixed media prints and paintings have shown internationally, and she has been an invited visiting artist at institutions across this country.  In addition, she has taught at such places as the Center for Contemporary Printmaking and Arrowmont School of Arts & Crafts.  She earned her MFA in printmaking and painting from Louisiana State University and a BFA from Alfred University, with teaching certification.