Art Across Mississippi: Twelve Exhibitions for Twelve Communities

To celebrate Mississippi’s bicentennial year, the Mississippi Museum of Art is curating exhibitions from its collection, to be placed into twelve host venues across the state. Exhibitions feature artworks by acclaimed Mississippi artists past and present, including Walter Anderson, William Dunlap, William Ferris, Ke Francis, Marie Hull, Hystercine Rankin, and Sulton Rogers, among others. Art Across Mississippi: Twelve Exhibitions, Twelve Communities aims to enable local 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 will serve as companions to Picturing Mississippi, 1817-2017: Land of Plenty, Pain, and Promise, which will include 135 artworks interpreting the state’s artistic legacy over two centuries, which will open in Jackson this December. Opening this summer, find the first few traveling exhibitions at the following: 

• Until June 16: A Social Art: Mississippi Art in the Early 20th Century at the McComb Public Library

• June 16—August 19: Narratives of the Land at the Charleston Arts Center in Charleston, MS

• June 8—July 27: Home and Away: On the Road with Marie Hull at the Fielding L. Wright Arts Center at Delta State University, Cleveland.

For a complete listing of Art Across Mississippi exhibitions appearing around the state this year, visit msmuseumart.org.