Frank Estrada serves as Multimedia Specialist III for the School of Business Administration. He is a creative and technically skilled multifaceted professional artist with expertise in audio, video, web design, printmaking, illustration, graphic design, motion graphics, animation, 3D, and augmented reality.
Biography
Frank Estrada is a Memphis, TN native who moved to Oxford, MS in 2007. He is a local artist, printmaker, illustrator, graphic designer, and animator.
He has received several honors: Artist Mini-Grant recipient (2022), Emerging Leaders of Color for South Arts (2022), Mississippi Arts Commission Visual Arts Fellowship Grant recipient (2016), and Double Decker Arts Festival featured artist (2015). During his undergraduate career, he received the Roy Frank Finger Scholarship from 2011 to 2013. He is also a contributing illustrator to a local business, Invitation Oxford Magazine.
Frank worked for the RJ Young Company as the Document Imaging and Design Specialist at Ole Miss Athletics for five years. There, he digitized sports memorabilia, everything from photo negatives and newspapers to programs and media guides. In 2018, he joined the Department of Art & Art History staff as the Visual Resource Specialist and Gallery Curator. Estrada created content for the department’s social media platforms and maintained the website. He promoted the department in a modern era and represented the many talents of its students through social media for four years.
Education
B.A. Sociology, The University of Mississippi (2013)
B.F.A. Art, The University of Mississippi (2013)
M.S. Integrated Marketing Communication, The University of Mississippi (2024)