Milly Moorhead West is a recent graduate from the MFA program at the University of Tulsa. She has a notable 20 year career as a photographer,
but also considers herself a writer. She has won several writing awards
from Stylus, the literary/art magazine of the University. Her photographs
have been published in Nimrod, The Tulsa World, and several issues of
The Collegian. In 2005 she won 2nd place in the graduate division of the prestigious Gussman Show, the juried exhibition of student art held
annually at the Alexandre Hogue Gallery.
From 1993-2002, Milly Moorhead (now West) was owner and director of Southside Gallery of Oxford, Mississippi. Her interest in folk and self-taught artists gained her status as an authority on some major Southern artists, while her interest in photography brought many well-known national artists
to the small town of Oxford. William Eggleston, William Christenberry, Sally Mann, and the Cuban photographers of the Revolution, Alberto Korda, Roberto Salas, and Ernesto Fernandez, have all been featured at her gallery. |
Since selling the gallery in 2002, West has maintained her ties with Cuba and continues to travel there to collect paintings, photographs, posters, and sculpture. With the collected work from Southside, her own color and black and white images, and the new art recently acquired while in Cuba in June, she has continued her interest in the arts, both as a promoter and photographer.
Back in Oxford, West hosts quarterly art shows at her home which feature one or two artists. After dinner, the patrons sit in the gallery while the artist talks about his or her work. |
