Artists
- Jere Allen, painter (Oxford)
- James McConnell Anderson (1907–1998), potter and painter (Ocean Springs)
- Peter Anderson (1901–1984), potter (Ocean Springs)
- Rick Anderson, painter and children's book illustrator (Clinton)
- Walter Inglis Anderson (1903–1965), painter (Ocean Springs)
- Earl W. Bascom (1906–1995), painter, sculptor, "King of the Cowboy Artists" (Columbia)
- Bill Beckwith, sculptor (Greenville)
- Howard Bingham (born 1939), photographer (Jackson)
- Jason Bouldin, portrait painter (Oxford)
- Marshall Bouldin III, portrait painter (Clarksdale)
- Bruce Brady (1934?–2000), sculptor of Conerly Trophy (Brookhaven)
- Andrew Bucci (born 1922), painter (Vicksburg)
- Byron Burford (1920-2011), painter (Greenville)
- William Dunlap, painter (Webster County)
- Sam Gilliam (born 1933), color field painter (Tupelo)
- Theora Hamblett (1895–1977), painter (Oxford)
- Ted Jackson (born 1955), photographer (McComb)
- Chris LeDoux (1948–2005), bronze sculptor (Biloxi)
- Ed McGowin, sculptor, painter (Hattiesburg)
- Fred Mitchell (born 1923), abstract expressionist painter (Meridian)
- Ethel Wright Mohamed (1906–1992), stitchery artist (Belzoni)
- George E. Ohr (1857–1918), potter (Biloxi)
- J. Kim Sessums, bronze sculptor, painter (Brookhaven)
- Floyd Shaman (died 2005), sculptor (Cleveland)
- Jack Spencer (born 1951), photographer (Kosciusko)
- Glennray Tutor (born 1950), painter (Oxford)
- James W. Washington, Jr. (1908–2000), painter, sculptor (Gloster)
- Dick Waterman (born 1935), photographer and blues promoter (Oxford)
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