JFP staff and volunteers worked hard to decorate and set up for the Best of Jackson 2020 party held on Sunday, Jan. 26, at the Arts Center of Mississippi. Photo by Acacia Clark Credit: Captures by Caci
JFP staff and volunteers worked hard to decorate and set up for the Best of Jackson 2020 party held on Sunday, Jan. 26, at the Arts Center of Mississippi. Photo by Acacia Clark Credit: Captures by Caci
JFP staff and volunteers worked hard to decorate and set up for the Best of Jackson 2020 party held on Sunday, Jan. 26, at the Arts Center of Mississippi. Photo by Acacia Clark Credit: Captures by Caci
JFP staff and volunteers worked hard to decorate and set up for the Best of Jackson 2020 party held on Sunday, Jan. 26, at the Arts Center of Mississippi. Photo by Acacia Clark Credit: Captures by Caci
JFP staff and volunteers worked hard to decorate and set up for the Best of Jackson 2020 party held on Sunday, Jan. 26, at the Arts Center of Mississippi. Photo by Acacia Clark Credit: Captures by Caci
JFP staff and volunteers worked hard to decorate and set up for the Best of Jackson 2020 party held on Sunday, Jan. 26, at the Arts Center of Mississippi. Photo by Acacia Clark Credit: Captures by Caci
JFP staff and volunteers worked hard to decorate and set up for the Best of Jackson 2020 party held on Sunday, Jan. 26, at the Arts Center of Mississippi. Photo by Acacia Clark Credit: Captures by Caci
JFP staff and volunteers worked hard to decorate and set up for the Best of Jackson 2020 party held on Sunday, Jan. 26, at the Arts Center of Mississippi. Photo by Acacia Clark Credit: Captures by Caci
JFP staff and volunteers worked hard to decorate and set up for the Best of Jackson 2020 party held on Sunday, Jan. 26, at the Arts Center of Mississippi. Photo by Acacia Clark Credit: Captures by Caci
JFP staff and volunteers worked hard to decorate and set up for the Best of Jackson 2020 party held on Sunday, Jan. 26, at the Arts Center of Mississippi. Photo by Acacia Clark Credit: Captures by Caci
JFP staff and volunteers worked hard to decorate and set up for the Best of Jackson 2020 party held on Sunday, Jan. 26, at the Arts Center of Mississippi. Photo by Acacia Clark Credit: Captures by Caci
JFP staff and volunteers worked hard to decorate and set up for the Best of Jackson 2020 party held on Sunday, Jan. 26, at the Arts Center of Mississippi. Photo by Acacia Clark Credit: Captures by Caci
JFP staff and volunteers worked hard to decorate and set up for the Best of Jackson 2020 party held on Sunday, Jan. 26, at the Arts Center of Mississippi. Photo by Acacia Clark Credit: Captures by Caci
JFP staff and volunteers worked hard to decorate and set up for the Best of Jackson 2020 party held on Sunday, Jan. 26, at the Arts Center of Mississippi. Photo by Acacia Clark Credit: Captures by Caci
JFP staff and volunteers worked hard to decorate and set up for the Best of Jackson 2020 party held on Sunday, Jan. 26, at the Arts Center of Mississippi. Photo by Acacia Clark Credit: Captures by Caci
JFP staff and volunteers worked hard to decorate and set up for the Best of Jackson 2020 party held on Sunday, Jan. 26, at the Arts Center of Mississippi. Photo by Acacia Clark Credit: Captures by Caci
JFP staff and volunteers worked hard to decorate and set up for the Best of Jackson 2020 party held on Sunday, Jan. 26, at the Arts Center of Mississippi. Photo by Acacia Clark Credit: Captures by Caci
JFP staff and volunteers worked hard to decorate and set up for the Best of Jackson 2020 party held on Sunday, Jan. 26, at the Arts Center of Mississippi. Photo by Acacia Clark Credit: Captures by Caci
JFP staff and volunteers worked hard to decorate and set up for the Best of Jackson 2020 party held on Sunday, Jan. 26, at the Arts Center of Mississippi. Photo by Acacia Clark Credit: Captures by Caci

Every Best of Jackson party requires a solid amount of preparation. The Jackson Free Press staff and a number of wonderful volunteers and guests work hard to ensure the setup is incredible, and this year they transformed the already lovely Arts Center of Mississippi into an impressive scene for the evening’s festivities. This gallery spotlights the decor and other elements that went into the party held Sunday, Jan. 26.

Mississippi native Donna Ladd and partner Todd Stauffer founded the Jackson Free Press in 2002 in the capital city. The heavily awarded local newspaper did many investigations heralded across the state and nation and served as a paper of record due to its diversity, inclusion, in-depth reporting and deep connection to readers and dedication to narrative change in and about Mississippi. In 2022, the nonprofit Mississippi Free Press, founded by Ladd and JFP Associate Publisher Kimberly Griffin in 2020, purchased the journalism assets and archives of the Jackson Free Press. A Google grant through AAN Publishers enabled Newspack's integration of the JFP archives into the Mississippi Free Press website to become part of a more searchable archive of recent Mississippi history and essential journalism.