‘Dear Phillis’: Women Writers Celebrate Mississippi Poets at 50th-Anniversary Festival
Women writers convened in Jackson, Miss., in November 2023 to celebrate accomplished Mississippi poets at the 50th Phillis Wheatley Poetry Festival.
Women writers convened in Jackson, Miss., in November 2023 to celebrate accomplished Mississippi poets at the 50th Phillis Wheatley Poetry Festival.
Married couple Dezron Odomes and Essence Wallace-Odomes return to Jackson, Miss., to open a film-production studio in their hometown.
Art curator and creator Alexis Noble identified a need for opportunity in Jackson’s creative community and birthed a solution: The Mash Up.
The Mississippi Museum of Art is hosting the state’s first Picasso exhibit, featuring his landscape paintings paired with Romare Bearden’s exhibit.
One summer day in 2016, lifelong artist Deborah Duncan began searching for a new creative pursuit to kick off her recent retirement from a long
On a fall evening in 1988, Dr. Andy Harper, second conductor of the Gulf Coast Symphony Orchestra, stepped into the Saenger Theater in downtown Biloxi
A group of Jackson-based rappers collaborated on a joint album titled “Thanksgiving” with tracks themed around the family-focused holiday.
Sipp Culture is planning the Homegrown Utica Festival as part of local efforts to tackle food insecurity in Utica, a Mississippi food desert.
Oxford High School students, staff and families walked a loop around the high school on Oct. 20, 2023, in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness.
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