Mississippi based artist Brent Funderburk has recently been notified that two of his artworks have been juried into international exhibitions in Fabriano, Italy, and in Barcelona, Spain.

Brent Funderburk’s watercolor painting “Soul House (Red)” was recently awarded the “Evergreen Artist Association Award” at the 46th Rocky Mountain National Watermedia Exhibition (RMNW) at the Center for the Arts Evergreen in Colorado.

No one told me I couldn't do it," said Brent Funderburk. And so, he did.

Funderburk began decades ago honing his unique style of painting with watercolors, of interpreting with intensity, of teaching with passion. For 36 years at Mississippi State University, he inspired the next generations of artists, gathering academic, teaching and research honors along the way.

Concealed in a bungalow among college student housing and campus book stores is the home and studio of one of Starkville's no table artists: Brent Funderburk, internationally acclaimed watercolor painter.

Brent Funderburk’s watercolor paintings “Soul House (Red)” (2019), and “Anteroom” (2019) are featured in the summer ’19 international magazine “Creative Quarterly: The Journal of Art and Design”.

Artworks by Mississippi’s Brent Funderburk will be featured in an upcoming national exhibit and in a noted book series, in autumn 2018.

Colorful creations by Mississippi State University’s William L. Giles Distinguished Professor of Art are featured this spring in multiple national and international exhibitions.

Funderburk’s “Angelus Vitae” a watercolor painting, was chosen by juror Stephen Quiller to be exhibited in the 44th Annual Rocky Mountain National Watermedia Exhibition, showing at the Evergreen Center for the Arts in Evergreen, Colorado from September 16 to October 28, 2017. A reception for the artists was held on September 16.

In his first visit back since teaching there in 2007, Brent Funderburk taught a course “Sketchbook/Journal for Artists, Architects and Designers” at the University of Arkansas Rome Center in Italy for five weeks during the summer of 2016.

A feature article about the art of Mississippi State University faculty member Brent Funderburk appears in the current (August 2016) issue of “Watercolor Artist Magazine”, a national publication of the ArtistsNetwork/F & W Publishing group.