Cool off at the Museum this Summer! 
  • July 4th: OPEN with fresh exhibitions | (Cafe closed)
  • Summer camps resume July 10 - spots available
  • Details announced for July Third Thursday
Karl Wolfe (1904-1984),  Xanadu (view from Studio window) , 1960s. oil on board. 29 x 23 in. Courtesy of Elizabeth Wolfe, Jackson, Mississippi.
ON VIEW THROUGH OCTOBER 1
Three lifetimes of creativity from one of Mississippi's most influential artist-families.


Pictured: This building on the grounds of The Wolfe Studio was named Xanadu, a reference to a Samuel Taylor Coleridge poem. Many artists worked there, including Ron Lindsey, who became the Wolfes' apprentice in 1969. Lindsey made his first oil painting inside Xanadu alongside Elizabeth "Bebe" Wolfe.  

Join Ron Lindsey on Tuesday, July 11 at 11:30 AM for "An Artist's Look" tour of the exhibition.
Camps and classes for ages 3-17 continue into August. 
Teacher Spotlight
Lesley Collins, featured in the current issue of BOOM Jackson, is the Assistant Director of Children’s Services at Stewpot Community Services. Collins has been with that program for the last 17 years, and in the capacity of Assistant Director for the last two. She received her bachelor’s degree in studio art in 2011 from Jackson State University. She is also an artisan at The Wolfe Studio.   

Lesley leads a camp for 5-7 year olds during the week of July 10.

Learn more about all of our Mississippi teaching artists and register your child for a camp today!
Also the week of July 10:

Monday - Friday, 9 AM – 4 PM

Museum After Hours | Uncommon Spirit
Thursday, July 20
5:30 PM - until

Stand up. Stand out. Stand together.

This month, we celebrate the aspirational spirit of home and community – from ethereal Mississippi landscapes to homegrown Civil Rights heroines. A one-night pop up exhibition of work by artists  George “Sky” Miles  and  Rosalind “Roz” Roy  finds extraordinary meaning in familiar people and places. Partnering with  upGrade Mississippi , the Museum screens a locally-produced documentary about activist Dorie Ladner, a Hattiesburg native and former Jackson State University and Tougaloo College student who, during the 1960s, protested the wrongful jailing of the Tougaloo Nine, fought to integrate the Woolworth's lunch counter, and worked alongside Bob Moses, Medgar Evers, and others to give voice to disenfranchised Mississippians. 
Lunch Counter 2.0 | 'sipp Sourced with Chef Nick Wallace
Thursday, July 20 to Saturday, July 22
Lunch 11 AM – 2 PM; dinner Third Thursday night, 5:30 PM until

Chef Nick Wallace reclaims the symbolism of the 1960s Southern lunch counter and honors the courage of homegrown activists, like Mississippian Dorie Ladner (Ladner was arrested while fighting to integrate the Woolworth's lunch counter in Jackson in 1963). Lunch Counter 2.0 re-imagines short-order diner classics with a modern twist and a side helping of history, and invites diners of all backgrounds to share a common table.
Twelve Statewide Exhibitions Celebrate Mississippi's Bicentennial
 
To celebrate Mississippi’s bicentennial year, the Museum is curating exhibitions from its collection for twelve host venues across the state. These exhibitions feature artworks by regionally-acclaimed artists - past and present. 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. We hope you'll join us!
December 9, 2017 — July 8, 2018

The Donna and Jim Barksdale Galleries for Changing Exhibitions

With more than 175 works by more than 100 different artists, this unprecedented exhibition illuminates the perception and depiction of Mississppi from the time of European settlement to the present day.

Featured will be individual masterpieces by artists seldom exhibited in the state, including George Caleb Bingham, Winslow Homer, Thomas Hart Benton, John Steuart Curry, Normal Rockwell, and Andy Warhol – as well as a plethora of works by native Mississippians such as James Tooley Jr., Eudora Welty, William Dunlap, and Randy Hayes.
www.msmuseumart.org | 601-960-1515

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