JACKSON — To celebrate Mississippi’s bicentennial year, the Mississippi Museum of Art (the Museum) in Jackson is curating exhibitions from its collection for 12 host venues across the state. These exhibitions feature artworks by regionally acclaimed artists — past and present — including Walter Anderson, William Dunlap, William Ferris, Ke Francis, Marie Hull, Hystercine Rankin and Sulton Rogers, among many others.
Art Across Mississippi: Twelve Exhibitions, Twelve Communities provides residents throughout the state with an opportunity to enjoy high-quality exhibitions from the Museum’s permanent collection in their own communities, to reflect on the rich heritage of Mississippi’s visual arts, and to contemplate the meaning of the bicentennial moment.
Art Across Mississippi exhibitions are companions to Picturing Mississippi, 1817-2017: Land of Plenty, Pain, and Promise, the latest in The Annie Laurie Swaim Hearin Memorial Exhibition Series. This landmark exhibition includes more than 135 artworks interpreting the state’s rich artistic legacy over two centuries, brought home to the Mississippi Museum of Art in Jackson. Picturing Mississippi will be on view Dec. 9, 2017, through July 8, 2018, at the Mississippi Museum of Art.
Bicentennial exhibitions created by the Mississippi Museum of Art are supported by the Robert M. Hearin Support Foundation and the state of Mississippi, through the Mississippi Department of Archives and History. Additional support for Art Across Mississippi is provided by Ross & Yerger, Trustmark, Entergy, Mississippi Media and Mississippi Power.
The exhibit scheduled in Starkville is Narratives of the Land Sept. 1 through Oct. 14 at the McComas Hall Art Gallery at Mississippi State University. Additional host locations throughout the year include Tupelo, Meridian, McComb, Cleveland and Greenville, among others.
For more information on Art Across Mississippi and Picturing Mississippi, visit msmuseumart.org.
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