Artist Bob Dunaway Gives Back to Mississippi College

Bob Dunaway and MC art education major Caitlin Bullock of Oxford

Mississippi artist Bob Dunaway remains passionate about his alma mater in Clinton.

One way the award-winning artist gives back to Mississippi College is by supporting a scholarship endowment to benefit students in the Art Department.

Dunaway is a 1961 MC graduate who teamed with Sam Gore as the Art Department’s only two faculty members in the 1960s.

A retired Hinds Community College art instructor and Clinton resident, Dunaway set up the MC scholarship a few years ago. The funds assist Mississippi College art students who transferred from a community college.

An art education major from Oxford, Caitlin Bullock, 20, is the latest recipient of the award in late January.

“I’m very grateful for it,” Bullock, an MC senior, said Tuesday at MC’s Art Department studios in Aven Hall.

Bullock transferred to MC from Northwest Mississippi Community College. She plans to begin her student teaching this semester. Caitlin hopes to attend graduate school and become a high school teacher. Down the road, Bullock wants to become a college professor.

A native of Walthall County, Dunaway is a retired art teacher at Jackson Public Schools.

Dunaway’s interest in art as a vocation began when he served as an illustrator technician while on active Air Force duty. Serving in Morocco, Germany and Libya, he visited many historical art centers. Dunaway remained in the active reserve and the Air National Guard where he retired as chief master sergeant with 30 years of service.

Bob and his late wife, Jeanette, started the Art Department endowment at MC.

Last summer, Bob’s paintings and his wife Mary Lynn Dunaway’s photography were featured in an exhibit at the Gore Galleries on the Clinton campus.