Two Golden Triangle residents were recently named to the Mississippi Museum of Art’s Board of Trustees.

Critz Campbell of Starkville and Monique Montgomery of Columbus are among 14 new trustees joining the board with a total of 43 members for fiscal year 2022.

Campbell is head of the Department of Art at Mississippi State. He earned a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, a two-year CORE Fellowship at Penland School of Craft in Penland, NC, followed by two years studying furniture design at Parnham College in England. Campbell maintains a studio practice in sculptural woodworking. His exhibition record includes the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, New York; De Cordova Museum, Lincoln, Mass.; and Science Gallery, Dublin, Ireland. Campbell has received awards and fellowships throughout his career, including a federal Art in Architecture commission through the General Services Administration. He is a member of the National Association of Arts Administrators and serves on the Board of Trustees at Penland School of Craft.

Montgomery is a graduate of the University of Southern Mississippi. She received her doctorate from Mississippi College School of Law in 1995 and completed a guest student program at Georgia State University School of Law in Atlanta. Prior to attending law school, she served as contracts coordinator for CNN International. After law school, she was the contracts attorney for Alexander’s Home Health in Columbus, and worked in private practice with Turner and Associates in West Point and the Colom Law Firm as a litigation attorney. During this time, she also worked as an adjunct professor at Mississippi University for Women where she taught contracts, torts and paralegal studies. In 2008, she opened The Montgomery Law Firm LLC and has since served on two state boards. Montgomery recently graduated from the Mississippi’s Certified Supervisory Management Program, a nationally recognized leadership development program.