Category: CAPE
Jackson, Mississippi — The Mississippi Museum of Art (MMA/the Museum) has been honored with two awards from the 2025 Southeastern Museums Conference (SEMC), recognizing MMA’s excellence in media production and publication design. The Museum received a Gold Award in the 2025 SEMC Technology Competition in the “Media Production: Project Budget Over $10,000” category for Under … Read more
L.V. Hull: Love Is a Sensation on view March 20 – June 14, 2026 Jackson, MS… The first major museum exhibition devoted to the art and life of L.V. Hull opens March 20, 2026, at the Mississippi Museum of Art (MMA/the Museum). LV Hull: Love Is a Sensation is presented in partnership with the L.V. … Read more
Jackson, MS…The Mississippi Museum of Art (MMA/the Museum) today confirmed its acquisition of Fountainhead, the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed property in Jackson’s Fondren neighborhood following approval by the Jackson Planning and Zoning Board and City Council. The residence and its furnishings were designed by the renowned architect in 1948, and completed in 1954 for J. Willis … Read more
Coulter Fussell: The Proving Ground on view March 21 – June 14, 2026 Jackson, MS…Mississippi Museum of Art (MMA/the Museum) is presenting Coulter Fussell: The Proving Ground, the first museum survey of quilt-works by Mississippi-based artist Coulter Fussell (b. 1977). Featuring over 40 works from five series created since 2020, the exhibition reveals the evolution … Read more
November 1 – January 25, 2026 Jackson, MS…The Mississippi Museum of Art (MMA) is presenting Joe Overstreet: Taking Flight, the first major museum exhibition in thirty years devoted to the work of this pioneering Mississippi-born painter. Organized by the Menil Collection in Houston, where it was on view earlier this year, the exhibition brings together examples … Read more
June 28 – September 7, 2025 The Mississippi Museum of Art (MMA) announced the 12 artists participating in the 2025 Mississippi Invitational exhibition, the 14th biennial survey featuring recent works created by contemporary visual artists living and working in the state. On view June 28 through September 7, 2025, the exhibition will feature works in … Read more
Jackson, MS…Mississippi Museum of Art (MMA/the Museum) is pleased to announce the appointment of Chase Brandon Quinn as its inaugural Creative Director and Curator of Special Projects effective January 13, 2025. Quinn, recognized by Garden & Gun magazine as one of the art world’s rising vanguards, will bring his visionary approach to exhibition design and … Read more
Jackson, MS…Betsy Bradley, Laurie Hearin McRee Director, Mississippi Museum of Art (MMA), was inducted into the 2024 class of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (the Academy) in its annual ceremony on September 21, 2024, in recognition of her exceptional leadership in the cultural nonprofit sector. Since 1781, the Academy has honored individuals demonstrating … Read more
November 16, 2024 – April 13, 2025 Jackson, MS…The Mississippi Museum of Art (MMA) announces the upcoming exhibition Of Salt and Spirit: Black Quilters in the American South on view from November 16, 2024 through April 13, 2025. The exhibition will showcase over 50 handmade and machine–stitched quilts from the Museum’s permanent collection, spanning the … Read more
Free admission May 18 – September 2, 2024 Jackson, MS…The Mississippi Museum of Art (MMA) is offering free admission to active-duty military personnel and their families this summer, from Armed Forces Day, May 18, 2024, through Labor Day, September 2, 2024, as part of Blue Star Museums. Blue Star Museums is a partnership between the National … Read more
April 20 – September 22, 2024 Jackson, MS – The Mississippi Museum of Art (MMA) today announced its upcoming presentation of What Became of Dr. Smith, a large-scale, panoramic narrative painting by contemporary artist Noah Saterstrom. The exhibition delves into the life of Saterstrom’s great-grandfather, a traveling optometrist whose struggle with and treatment for mental … Read more
Mississippi Museum of Art Presents Thank You Please Come Again Featuring Photographs by Kate Medley April 6 – June 23, 2024 Jackson, MS…The Mississippi Museum of Art (MMA) today announced the upcoming exhibition Thank You Please Come Again featuring work by Mississippi’s own renowned photojournalist Kate Medley. On view from April 6 to June 23, … Read more
MMA Launches Access for All: Free First Saturdays to Boost Art Access and Community Engagement Free Admission on First Saturdays through 2026 via Access for All Jackson, MS… The Mississippi Museum of Art (MMA) announced today they will be offering free admission to exhibitions on the first Saturday of every month through the end 2026. … Read more
Installation in one of MMA’s Gardens holds space for Black Southerners to honor and reckon with grief. Jackson, MS… Mississippi Museum of Art’s (MMA) Center for Art and Public Exchange (CAPE) unveiled the exhibition How We Get Over: We Grow On from 2023 national artists-in-residence Sarah Jené and Jasmine Williams. On display through September 3, … Read more
Brown-David’s work is on view in the 2023 Mississippi Invitational from June 10—September 17, 2023 Jackson, MS…The Mississippi Museum of Art (the Museum/MMA) today announced the 2023 recipient of The Jane Crater Hiatt Artist Fellowship. The grant of $20,000 has been awarded to Adrienne Brown-David of Water Valley, whose artwork is featured in the 2023 … Read more
2023 Mississippi Invitational on view June 10—September 17, 2023 Jackson, MS…The Mississippi Museum of Art today announced 15 artists participating in the 2023 Mississippi Invitational exhibition, a survey of recent works created by contemporary visual artists living and working in the state. The exhibition will feature works across a variety of media by the following … Read more
Jackson, MS…The Mississippi Museum of Art (MMA) announced today that it has been chosen as one of 10 art museums to participate in the Association of Art Museum Directors (AAMD) annual paid internship program. For the program, which focuses on college students from underrepresented backgrounds, MMA will host an intern for 12 weeks and provide … Read more
Works by Randy Hayes, Shani Peters, Edgar Praus, and Willie White were also acquired by the Museum in 2022 Jackson, MS…The Mississippi Museum of Art (MMA) today announced its 2022 acquisitions which include a significant collection of quilts by crafters from Mississippi and beyond, along with works by Randy Hayes, Shani Peters, Edgar Praus, and … Read more
2023 Scholastic Art Award Gold Key-Winning Works on View through April 2, 2023 Jackson, MS…The Mississippi Museum of Art (MMA) has announced the winners of the Mississippi Regional Competition of the 2023 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards. Presented by the nonprofit organization the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers, the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards … Read more
To celebrate our exhibition A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration, this podcast series explores conversations with Mississippians on both sides of the Great Migration: those that left and those that stayed. This limited series dives deep into how the U.S. has evolved due to this historical phenomenon that saw more than … Read more
Exhibition to be presented in three additional venues located in U.S. cities greatly impacted by the Great Migration. Today, the Mississippi Museum of Art (MMA) and Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA), co-organizers of A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration, announced the groundbreaking exhibition will travel to three additional venues on a five-city … Read more
MMA welcomes six new trustees and two returning Jackson, MS…Today, Christy Jones, chair of the Mississippi Museum of Art’s Board of Trustees, announced eight trustees joining the board with a total of 36 members for fiscal year 2023. Jones said, “We are excited to welcome these outstanding individuals to the Museum’s Board. Each brings talents, … Read more
Forward, by 2020 in-state artist in residence Charles Edward Williams, is a seven-track audio album with interviews and original music and is the result of an interactive community engagement project that considered race relations in the early 1900s. The album’s title, Forward, was inspired by the 1961 song We’ll Never Turn Back by Bertha Gober, an activist … Read more
2023 Mississippi Invitational Exhibition on View June 10‒August 31, 2023 Jackson, MS…The Mississippi Museum of Art announced today its call for artists for the 2023 Mississippi Invitational exhibition, a biennial survey of recent works created by contemporary visual artists living and working in the state. Artists from across Mississippi are invited to submit photography of their work … Read more
MMA and UMMC receive $250,000 for exhibition, programming, and art therapy partnership related to artist Noah Saterstrom’s “What Became of Dr. Smith?” Jackson, MS…Today, the Mississippi Museum of Art (MMA) and University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC) announced they are the recipients of a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). The … Read more
Jackson, MS…The Mississippi Museum of Art (MMA) will present Maude Schuyler Clay: Portraits of a Place, an exhibition of nearly 100 photographic works by the artist from the early 1980s to the present, including intimate family portraits, still-life images of fruit, haunting landscapes, and glass plate images taken by Clay’s grandfather, Joseph Albert May. Judge … Read more
Jackson, MS…The Mississippi Museum of Art (MMA) presents Jamal Cyrus: The End of My Beginning, the first museum survey of celebrated Houston-born artist Jamal Cyrus (b.1973). On view from October 29, 2022 – March 3, 2023, the exhibition spans 15 formative years of Cyrus’s multidisciplinary practice from 2005 to 2020, assembling over 50 artworks including … Read more
First Southeast museum to join more than 70 cultural institutions around the globe on the Bloomberg Connects app Today the Mississippi Museum of Art (MMA) launched a new, digital guide on Bloomberg Connects, the free arts and cultural app created by Bloomberg Philanthropies. The Bloomberg Connects app, available for download from Google Play or the … Read more
Dear friends, What a glorious Spring we have had! I don’t remember the fragrances from the gardens’ early blooms ever being so intoxicating, but perhaps the joy of the return of Spring, the opening of our new exhibition, and the return of so many visitors to our galleries all combined to make such a special time for your Museum. … Read more
MMA’s own Megan Hines, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellowship, Art History, recently had an article published in the peer-reviewed journal Media-N, in a special issue title No Template: Art and the Technologies of Race. This article discusses the visual culture of the feminist biotechnological imaginary, a technofeminist belief that a feminist society could be technologically engineered at … Read more
At the heart of A Movement in Every Direction are deeply personal, familial stories. Some have been passed down through generations, some are recollected around artifacts and heirlooms, and some are imagined in the absence of traceable histories. The artists’ creations convey these stories to reveal a vibrant new understanding of the legacies of the … Read more
Exhibition on view at the Mississippi Museum of Art April 9 through September 11, 2022 Throughout the presentation of its landmark exhibition A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration, the Mississippi Museum of Art will present a free series of critical conversations, films, performances, activities, and celebrations focused on the exhibition themes … Read more
Hear from Mississippi musicians Queen Iretta and Johnie B. Queen Iretta was born in Tunica and moved to Chicago where she met Johnie B, whose family was also from Mississippi. In today’s conversation, these musicians share how Mississippi hospitality brought them back to our special state. To celebrate our exhibition A Movement in Every Direction: … Read more
Prior to the opening of A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration, MMA’s Education team sat down with co-curators Jessica Bell Brown and Ryan N. Dennis. Learn more about how the exhibition was created, the collaborative process with MMA and BMA, with the co-curators and artists, and with communities in this conversation. … Read more
Mississippi chefs Nia Minard and Enrika Williams join the conversation about the Great Migration. Nia spent her childhood in Yazoo City, where she learned the importance of Southern food, including fish frys, collard greens, and pimiento cheese. Enrika is a West Point native whose family taught her how food brings communities together. In this conversation, … Read more
Hear from Mississippi authors Ralph Eubanks and Kiese Laymon. Born in Mount Olive, and a graduate of Ole Miss, Ralph’s books explore our state’s landscape and history. Kiese is a Jackson native whose writing focuses on race and family. In this incredibly open conversation, both authors share family stories, what keeps them connected to Mississippi, … Read more
In Summer 2022, the Mississippi Museum of Art, in collaboration with the Mississippi Department of Archives, will host a National Summer Teacher Institute. The Institute will be presented in conjunction with A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration, an exhibition that will unveil newly commissioned works by 12 of the most acclaimed African … Read more
2022 Scholastic Art Award Gold Key- and Silver Key- Winning Works on View through March 20 For a full list of 2022 winners, click here. Jackson, MS…The Mississippi Museum of Art (MMA) has announced the winners of the Mississippi Regional Competition of the 2022 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards. Presented by the nonprofit organization the … Read more
Exhibition to Open at the Mississippi Museum of Art on April 9, 2022, Before Traveling to the Baltimore Museum of Art On April 9, the Mississippi Museum of Art (MMA) will open A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration, which explores the profound impact of the Great Migration on the social and cultural … Read more
YOUNGER FOUNDATION CRÈCHE AND BETHLEHEM TREE COLLECTION This inspiring display features more than 150 authentic eighteenth-century Neapolitan angel and Nativity figurines in an opulent Italian crèche setting. In addition to the traditional figures of Mary, Joseph, Jesus, and the Three Magi, the collection includes a host of angels and more than 75 townspeople. The tree … Read more
Jackson and Starkville, MS— The Mississippi Museum of Art (MMA) and Mississippi State University (MSU) today announced a new partnership that includes expanded educational opportunities and professional growth for MSU students. “MSU’s new partnership with the Mississippi Museum of Art will offer several advantages to students, including free unlimited admission for all students with a … Read more
CAPE Toolkit activates commitment to community, diversity, equity, access, inclusion, transparency, and truth Jackson, MS…The Center for Art & Public Exchange (CAPE) at the Mississippi Museum of Art (MMA/the Museum) today announced the release of two publications in service to the art museum sector thanks to generous support from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. Established in 2018, … Read more
Jackson, MS…Today, Christy Jones, chair of the Mississippi Museum of Art’s Board of Trustees, announced 14 new trustees joining the board with a total of 43 members for fiscal year 2022. Jones said, “We are delighted to welcome these dynamic individuals to the Museum’s Board. Each brings an array of expertise and experience across sectors. … Read more
Jackson, MS…The Mississippi Museum of Art (MMA) today announced the acquisition of works by Kristen Dorsey, Ruth Miller, and Charles Edward Williams. The three artworks individually and collectively affirm Mississippi’s position as a contemporary wellspring of creativity, originality, and resilience—each artist making compelling connections across time and place. MMA Executive Director Betsy Bradley said, “The … Read more
As the pandemic hit and museum professionals were faced with new challenges of limited access to their collections, working virtually, and travel restrictions, we had to come up with innovative and collaborative solutions for typical museum activities. Traveling exhibitions such as Betye Saar: Call and Response were impacted the most by these obstacles. Not only were schedules affected as museum doors were shuttered, … Read more
MMA receives $100,000 for fabrication of A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration Jackson, MS…Today, the Mississippi Museum of Art (MMA) announced it is a recipient of a grant from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. The $100,000 grant will support the fabrication of commissioned works for the upcoming exhibition … Read more
2021 Mississippi Invitational on view August 14—October 10, 2021 Jackson, MS…The Mississippi Museum of Art today announced 42 artists participating in the 2021 Mississippi Invitational exhibition, a survey of recent works created by contemporary visual artists living and working in the state. This is the largest number of artists represented since the Museum launched the … Read more
Twelve artists with ties to the South commissioned to create new works across media Members receive free admission. To make a donation to the exhibition, click here. May 10, 2021—The Mississippi Museum of Art (MMA) and the Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) today announced the co-organization of a major exhibition that will unveil newly commissioned … Read more
Betye Saar: Call and Response April 10‒July 11, 2021 Jackson, MS…The Mississippi Museum of Art (MMA) presents Betye Saar: Call and Response, the first exhibition examining the relationship between Saar’s found objects, sketches, and finished works, thereby shedding new light on her distinctive practice. One of the most significant artists working in assemblage and collage … Read more
2021 Scholastic Art Award Gold Key- and Silver Key- Winning Works on View through March 21, 2021 For a full list of the 2021 winners, click here. Jackson, MS…The Mississippi Museum of Art today announced the winning students from this year’s Mississippi Regional Competition of the 2021 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards. Presented by the … Read more
New e-catalogue documents five exhibitions and related programs designed to spark dialogue about justice, history, and identity through art. Jackson, MS…The Mississippi Museum of Art (MMA/the Museum) announced today it has published a digital catalogue documenting a series of five exhibitions and related public programs organized in partnership with Tougaloo College (the College) through the … Read more
The Mississippi Museum of Art (MMA) was born of a state art association by a group of artists and supporters of the arts who organized an exhibition of local art for the 1911 Mississippi State Fair. Enthusiastic about the outcome of that exhibition, the Mississippi Art Association continued to exhibit artwork, established a permanent collection, … Read more
The Honorable William Winter died, December 18, 2020, at the age of 97. Mississippi and the nation have lost a tireless advocate for social justice and educational reform. His many accomplishments range from the adoption of the Education Reform Act of 1982 to founding The William Winter Institute for Racial Reconciliation (the Winter Institute). It is the Winter Institute that had such an impact on … Read more
Multi-disciplinary artist and educator will examine Collective Care for Black Mothers and Caretakers during yearlong project Jackson, MS… Mississippi Museum of Art’s Center for Art and Public Exchange (CAPE) today announced Shani Peters (b.1981) as its 2021 national artist-in-residence. Starting in early spring 2021, Peters—a multidisciplinary artist and educator based in Harlem—will embark on a multi-part … Read more
Piercing the Inner Wall: The Art of Dusti Bongé February 20‒May 23, 2021 Jackson, MS…The Mississippi Museum of Art today announced its presentation of Piercing the Inner Wall: The Art of Dusti Bongé, an expansive survey revealing the full range of the pioneering artist’s oeuvre. Considered Mississippi’s first artist to work consistently in a Modernist … Read more
#JXNStands invited residents of and visitors to Mississippi’s capital city to assume the role of monument; to stand proudly for whatever value, belief, or idea they believe belongs in the public square. The Center for Art & Public Exchange at the Mississippi Museum of Art and Ourglass Media partnered with area photographers to produce a visual … Read more
Today, the Mississippi Museum of Art (MMA) announced it is a recipient of a grant from the South Arts Resilience Fund. The $100,000 grant will enable MMA to create new initiatives to secure the institution’s financial stability and longevity. The South Arts Resilience Fund grants were awarded to 34 small- and mid-sized arts organizations across … Read more
Click Here to View The ACRI Digital Catalogue In 2017, the Mississippi Museum of Art (Museum) and Tougaloo College (College) joined forces to form the Art and Civil Rights Initiative (ACRI). The ACRI is a multi-layered, multi-year program that included work in Art Practice, Collections Development, Research and Scholarship, an Exhibition Series and Lecture Series, … Read more
Leonardo Drew: City in the Grass September 26, 2020 – February 21, 2021 Free and open to the public daily during Museum hours Jackson, MS…The Mississippi Museum of Art (the Museum) is presenting Leonardo Drew: City in the Grass, a participatory, public art sculpture that invites viewers to engage directly with the work, the space … Read more
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(Jackson, Miss) The Mississippi Museum of Art, the largest art museum in the state, is pleased to announce Jana Brady has been appointed to Director of Marketing. Brady has more than a decade of experience in strategic marketing and communications. “We are thrilled to have Jana join the Mississippi Museum of Art team again,” said … Read more
Click here to view MMA’s press release on the announcement of new curatorial appointments.
Since 1923, the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards have recognized the vision, ingenuity, and talent of our nation’s youth, and provided opportunities for creative teens to be celebrated. The Awards are presented by the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers, whose mission is to identify students with exceptional artistic and literary talent and present their … Read more
“This was a life-changing experience” – Jasmine Williams | Beyond the Cave recap Beginning with “please silence your cell phones and you are welcome to take pictures,” our show was about to start. But this wasn’t any regular show, and this wasn’t a regular stage. Instead, the Mississippi Museum of Art (MMA) decided to take … Read more
With pencils, markers, paint, and every kind of art supply in-between, our studio classrooms will soon be busy in this new year. What will be the first project for Creative Healing Studio? Butterflies. Creative Healing Studio (CHS) is a bi-monthly art therapy gathering for adults being treated for cancer or those with a cancer diagnosis … Read more
LAND & POWER THE SUMMIT Sunday, November 17, 2019 Lafayette County, Mississippi 10 AM – Noon Belonging to the Earth An experiential workshop to engage with the power of the land with Lydia Koltai The landing @ Entrance to Whirlpool/South Campus Rail Trails on Chucky Mullins/Coliseum Drive, South of Highway 6, Oxford Participants experienced connection to … Read more
This past Saturday, January 12, the first gathering of the Museum’s Community Advisory Council (CAC), took place. Eighteen council members, including high school students, artists, a university professor, a pastor, a farmer, a rapper, and others, representing a diverse cross-section of Greater Jackson-area residents, engaged in passionate and meaningful conversations throughout the morning. The CAC is tasked … Read more
On Tuesday, December 4, Art Nights participants were introduced to the new CAPE Lab. The night’s program began with Museum Director Betsy Bradley giving an overview of recent W.K. Kellogg Foundation-funded art acquisitions and sharing the collection strategy used to inform the acquisitions. Monique Davis, CAPE’s new managing director, then presented the Lab’s purpose and … Read more
“It almost feels like this has been so bottled up, it just needed someone to come and just, you know, pop the cork on it.” – artist Jeffrey Gibson We could not have asked for a more appropriate contemporary artist for our first CAPE National Artist Residency than Jeffrey Gibson, who unleashed upon us this Summer … Read more
Wednesday, Sept. 5 | McComb, Miss. … CAPE joined forces with the Pike County Arts Council, McComb Creative Economy Partnership, Pike County Chamber of Commerce, and Pike School of Art to gather public input as part of the Art + Exchange Story-Gathering Tour. This research serves as part of Phase 1 of a new program of place-based … Read more
Wednesday, Aug. 30 | Wiggins, Miss. … CAPE joined forces with the City of Wiggins, Stone County, and Stone County Economic Development Partnership to gather public input as part of the Art + Exchange Story-Gathering Tour. This research serves as part of Phase 1 of a new program of place-based artist residencies that will fund community-engaged artworks across … Read more
Thursday, Aug. 23 | Utica, Miss. … CAPE joined forces with the Town of Utica, Friends of Utica, and Sipp Culture to gather public input as part of the Art + Exchange Story-Gathering Tour. This research serves as part of Phase 1 of a new program of place-based artist residencies that will fund community-engaged artworks across Mississippi. … Read more
Cotton, we’re told, is the fabric of our lives. But what does that look like for contemporary Mississippians, at a time in history when most are removed from the agricultural realities of the cotton field? How does cotton’s global history of social stratification still infiltrate our lives? How do modern folks alter the conversation by … Read more
Wednesday, July 27 | Meridian, Miss. … CAPE joined forces with the City of Meridian, Main Street Meridian, and Mississippi Arts + Entertainment Experience to gather public input as part of the Art + Exchange Story-Gathering Tour. This research serves as part of Phase 1 of a new program of place-based artist residencies that will fund community-engaged artworks … Read more
Using the bicentennial exhibition Picturing Mississippi, 1817-2017: Land of Plenty, Pain, and Promise as a lens through which to consider historical conceptions of Mississippi, as well as the larger South, this symposium engaged artists and scholars who are translating this history into new, multi-dimensional narratives and helping to chart a new path forward. Keynote – … Read more
Thursday, July 19 | Oxford, MS… CAPE joined forces with the Yoknapatawpha Arts Council and The University of Mississippi Museum to gather public input as part of the Art + Exchange Story-Gathering Tour. This research serves as part of Phase 1 of a new program of place-based artist residencies that will fund community-engaged artworks across … Read more
CAPE is excited to announce “Art + Exchange,” a story-gathering tour across Mississippi to invite communities to share local histories, personal stories, and aspirations for the future. “Art + Exchange” is intended to introduce communities to the work of CAPE, lay the groundwork for future collaborations, and help the Museum respond to issues and histories … Read more
Over the course of Summer 2018, artist Jeffrey Gibson will be making a new video artwork as part of a Jackson, Mississippi-based national artist residency program supported by the Mississippi Museum of Art and CAPE. His midcareer survey exhibition, Jeffrey Gibson: Like A Hammer, opens at the Museum on September 8, 2018. Meet Jeffrey, speaking … Read more
Works by Benny Andrews, McArthur Binion, Jeffrey Gibson, Titus Kaphar, Glenn Ligon, Deborah Luster, Toyin Ojih Odutola, Noah Saterstrom, and Hank Willis Thomas The Mississippi Museum of Art is excited to announce a slate of important new acquisitions of contemporary art to the collection. These acquisitions reinforce its mission of engaging Mississippians with visual art and further … Read more
Civil Rights veteran Hollis Watkins held an invisible rifle. He sang of the high-powered .30-06 Enfield used by Byron De La Beckwith to assassinate Medgar Evers outside his Jackson, Mississippi home in 1963. A group of fifty encircled Watkins in the gallery of Picturing Mississippi, 1817-2017: Land of Plenty, Pain, and Promise, on view at … Read more
Talamieka Brice had a vision for a living monument to represent the future of Mississippi. As part of #JXNSTANDS (a collaboration of CAPE and OurGlass Media Group), she collaborated with model Laurie Walker-Hall, make up artist Monet Jackson, and artist and designer Laurin Stennis. Brice photographed Walker-Hall, painted gold, along with the Stennis flag (part of … Read more
This is a story about time travel. It begins in 1964. First National Bank (now Trustmark), headquartered in Jackson, commissioned a study to celebrate the company’s 75th anniversary. They predicted what Jackson would be like 75 years hence, in 2039. In the introduction to the Jackson/2039 report, signed by Bank President Robert M. Hearin, the … Read more
Blue accent lighting. An oversized, audience-triggered “play button.” Prizes. A musical guest. Setting the stage for an honest conversation about mass incarceration and Parchman Penitentiary, Mississippi’s infamous farm-prison, the roots of which trace back to the post Civil War prison boom that preyed on African-American freedmen. Don’t Lecture Me A mash up of variety show, town hall … Read more
Michael N. Foster is a photographer in Water Valley, Mississippi, who makes pictures using the collodion wet-plate process, a Civil War-era, pre-digital technique. The chemistry is deliberate and intimate, as is the act of capturing the image itself. This is the story of Foster and Mr. Kelly, a pig farmer, whose unlikely friendship was aided … Read more
What do you stand for? Public monuments represent values of certain peoples and moments in the past. How can contemporary people create their own, living monuments that speak to the changing tides of modern life? #JXNStands invites residents of and visitors to Mississippi’s capital city to assume the role of monument; to write down and … Read more
Recording artist 5th Child in front of the Basquiat. More from him at 5thchildmusic.co Jean-Michel Basquiat’s 1985 painting, Natchez, has a limited-time engagement in the Mississippi Museum of Art’s bicentennial exhibition, Picturing Mississippi, 1817-2017: Land of Plenty, Pain, and Promise (the Basquiat is only on view through December 26; exhibition on view through July 8, 2018). We asked … Read more
As we near the December 9 opening of the Mississippi Museum of Art’s landmark bicentennial exhibition, Picturing Mississippi, 1817-2017: Land of Plenty, Pain, and Promise, we reflect on the diversity of experience and connotation that Mississippi inspires. CREDITS: Music by Kevin MacLeod. Artwork (in order of appearance): Bruce Davidson (b. 1933), “Time of Change (National … Read more
Mississippi Museum of Art Launches Center for Art & Public Exchange to inspire new narratives in contemporary Mississippi. The Mississippi Museum of Art (the Museum) in Jackson announces a new community-centered initiative, the Center for Art & Public Exchange, that will use original artworks, exhibitions, programs, and engagements with artists to increase understanding and inspire new … Read more
Participants in the Museum’s Hoot & Holler Family Creation Lab class recently made a large collaborative drawing. It’s 50” x 32”,made in oil pastel on paper, and illustrates downtown Jackson. Hoot & Holler Family Creation Lab is held each second Sunday, and is open to families with children ages 6 – 10. Led by Hollingsworth … Read more
The Mississippi Museum of Art was recently featured in How to Do Creative Placemaking: An Action-Oriented Guide to Arts in Community Development, a resource published by the National Endowment for the Arts. Highlighted as a case study, the Museum’s Art Garden is used as an example of designing and activating public space. “The book is meant … Read more
