Biography

Sydney Harrison lives in Meridian, Mississippi, and, along with being a painter, singer, actress, and poet, she also enjoys spending time with family and friends, traveling, eating great food, and drinking strong coffee. Harrison is a believer in Christ and actively participates in church activities. She has been a barista for the past year with hopes of having her own coffee and art cafe.

Though she struggles with her mental health, she still finds beauty in God's grace, which is where her art inspiration comes from. Harrison loves to create art for other people, but her true passion lies in God's creations: sunrises, sunsets, animals, plants, and images from the Word of God. While her poems express the pain she feels, her art expresses the beauty she feels.

Harrison is from Meridian, Mississippi, and she grew up getting involved with the performing and visual arts. She began drawing book covers and images from the internet at just six years old and continuted to learn and grow on her own. She learned to play the flute in 2014 and continued playing for six years in her school's marching and concert bands. In 2018 and 2019, Harrison joined the county-wide honor band and musical theater productions (Wizard of Oz and Peter Pan) through the Meridian Community College.

For her junior and senior years of high school, Harrison attended the Mississippi School of the Arts in Brookhaven, Mississippi to study the visual arts where she learned how to take real life and transfer it onto paper or canvas. Along with being Beta Club vice president, the Student Government Association’s senior visual representative, and an arts ambassador during her senior year at MSA, she also led a student ensemble club and was a part of Total Praize, a student-led gospel choir. She graduated from Mississippi School of the Arts in the spring of 2021 as valedictorian of her class.

Harrison began her journey in Hattiesburg, Mississippi at The University of Southern Mississippi in the fall of 2021 as a Drawing and Painting Major, then, after some soul searching, she changed to a Music BA with an emphasis on the voice. Within the School of Music, she was a two-year voice student and member of the alto and soprano section in the University Treble Chorus choir. After discovering that she was not cut out for the world of music, she changed her major a second time at the end of her sophomore year and could not have been happier. Along with her studies, Harrison was also a Luckyday scholar, which is a scholarship founded on being an active servant leader. Throughout her university journey, Harrison developed generalized anxiety and moderate depression and has been learning how to heal her mental health struggles. Harrison graduated from USM in the fall of 2024 with a Bachelor of Science in Sociology and an art history minor. She stayed in Hattiesburg after graduation to be a full-time barista at a local chocolate and coffee shop, and she also landed the role as Sister Leo in Sumrall Community Theatre's 2025 production of Nunsense.

For the past sixteen years, Harrison has been an active member of First Baptist Meridian and its choirs. Under the direction of David Bishop, she was a part of the youth choir from 2015-2021 and joined the sanctuary choir in 2018 as its youngest member for six years. Along with traveling the states on choir tours with the youth choir, she has also traveled with the sanctuary choir to London, England for the 2019 Vox Anima London concert to sing Jubilate!, composed by Dan Forrest and conducted by James Meaders. In the summer of 2024, Harrison went to Trinidad for a short mission trip and Normandy, France to sing in Vox Animal London's 2024 concert: Commemorating D-Day: 80 Years On, which was directed by Mark Nabholz and James Meaders.

In the summer of 2022, Harrison went on a two-month-long mission trip to Worcester, Massachusetts to intern with The Church on Seven Hills, where she was able to experience different cultures and spread the Gospel to people of all ages. This trip impacted her life greatly and created a heart for the nations and a passion for spreading the Gospel.