‘Access for All’: Mississippi Museum of Art Launches Free First Saturdays
The Mississippi Museum of Art in Jackson, Miss., has launched Free First Saturdays, a program offering monthly free admission to visitors through 2026.
The Mississippi Museum of Art in Jackson, Miss., has launched Free First Saturdays, a program offering monthly free admission to visitors through 2026.
The Mississippi Museum of Art is hosting the state’s first Picasso exhibit, featuring his landscape paintings paired with Romare Bearden’s exhibit.
On a summer afternoon in 2001, Jackson-born artist Felandus Thames stepped into the open atrium of the older building at the Mississippi Museum of Art,
“Fun fact: I got married on April 15, 2023. I also got married on June 24, 2023. Yes, I married the same person twice,” Nate Schumann writes. “No, we did not split during that 10-week period. We actually chose to have two ceremonies!”
The 2023 Mississippi Invitational’s theme, “Gulfs among Us,” threads through the show, resonating on multiple levels: in artwork centered in this region, and as a response to rifts of all types—social, political, cultural, environmental and internal.
Jasmine Williams is a creative producer, which encompasses not only writing, film and storytelling, but also captures the experiences of southern Black folks.
The Mississippi Museum of Art’s celebration, “Art and Voice As Healing,” featured food, crafts, and a panel with filmmaker Talameika Brice, writer Kiese Laymon and Black, queer storyteller Aurielle Marie.
Amia Edwards launched the Amiable Arts Foundation, a nonprofit foundation that helps prepare students for vocations, college, and careers in film, theater and performing arts.
ACLU staff attorney McKenna Raney-Gray looked into other organizations’ LGBTQ-based programs to find what niches ACLU Mississsippi’s LGBTQ Justice Project could fill.
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