Catron Features Work of M. Kobe Ling
January 20, 2026
Exhibit to End March 25 with Artist Talk
Walters State’s Catron Art Gallery will feature the work of M. Kobe Ling through March
25. The Gallery is located inside the R. Jack Fishman Library on the Morristown Campus.
Ling will give an artist talk at 2 p.m. on March 25.
Ling mixes textiles, natural materials and “lucky” objects to create multimedia work.
Her art contends with the religious mythologies of her upbringing, superstition, notions
of home, and cultural inheritance. She has received the Esther B. and Albert S. Kahn
Career Entry Award, the Boston University Women’s Council Scholarship, Constantin
Alajalov Visual Art Scholarship, and the Michael Crespo Memorial Scholarship. Ling
holds a Master of Fine Arts in Painting from Boston University and both a Bachelor
of Fine Arts in painting and a Bachelor of Arts in Art History from Louisiana State
University.
Her work has been shown at galleries in New York, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Tennessee.
“As an artist from the American South, primarily Louisiana and Tennessee, I make work
that speaks to our fears of the dark, of death, of the unknown, questioning what it
means to choose to live in these regions today,” said Ling “Drawing from the myths
of my religious upbringing, folk tales, and country music, I navigate inherited superstition
and write my own.”
The Catron Gallery is open during regular library hours, 8 a.m.-5:30 p.m., Monday
through Thursday, and 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m. on Friday. Admission is free.
In the picture: The unique artwork of M. Kobe Ling is on display through March 25 at the Catron Art Gallery, located in the R. Jack Fishman Library on the Walters State Morristown Campus.