"A Columbus Stroll" is a personal insight of the city and its surroundings from a stranger's point of view. The houses, the architecture, the small details and nature itself all converged into something unusual to the European photographer. This is a collection of visuals which caught the photographer's eye during her Mississippian wandering.

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"I am a voracious hunter-gatherer: arts, books and graphic culture-related things are my favorite foods. I'm a stray cat, I have no fixed abode and I get bored easily, which is why I found in travels and graphics some sort of fellow activities that fit my life's rhythm, which I would call relentlessly and annoyingly curious. For the rest of the day, I am a hard working and enthusiastic freelancer always keen on finding fellow souls."

Italian born in the mid-eighties in Federico Fellini's very hometown. Caterina is a restless young creative who spends her time -- when not globetrotting -- experimenting and mixing different media of expression, tools and techniques. She started practicing analogical photography and set design while still in high school, turning digital during the university years.

In 2011, she graduated as an architect at Venice University, leaving soon after for Edinburgh, Scotland where she gained an additional architectural master degree. Although she considers herself a natural born architect, graphics and photography soon consistently grew from side jobs to equals in her life. In fact, besides working for architectural practices, freelancing became her main activity.

In Columbus, she joined the Arts Council and taught a drawing class at Mississippi University for Women. In addition, she has painted several commissioned works for both the local Air Force Base Command as well as individual citizens. Travels and architecture are her main interests and can be always found in her work. Recently turned first-time mom, Caterina is currently developing a photographic/digital painting project called "Enlightenment", which speculates on structured decay and the layering of memories.

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1921-2005

Legendary professor of art history, from 1946 through the ‘90s Dr. Stringer nurtured an appreciation of this branch of knowledge in many a “W” student. Her formal education was by way of a Danforth Teacher Grant to study art history at Harvard University. During this time she was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to study Medieval Art in West Germany, specifically stained glass windows. Her research tomes on medieval Art, published by Harvard, are referenced to this day. Dr Stringer’s slide project, cataloging stain glass windows in Mississippi churches can be seen at the library on the “W” campus.

Internationally recognized contemporary folk artist Elayne Goodman credits both Mary Evelyn Stringer and Eugenia Summer for shepherding her along her road of artistic integrity.

Wide recognition and appreciation of her watercolors has landed Mary Evelyn’s work in the permanent collections of the Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans, the National Women’s Museum of Art in Washington, DC and the Mississippi Museum of Art in Jackson.

Mary Evelyn and Eugenia frequented artist retreats at the Mississippi Art Colony, established in 1948 at Allison’s Wells. An ardent traveler, Dr. Stringer painted en plein air across Europe, Provincetown, MA, Colorado and Columbus, MS.