University of Mississippi Museum
As the Mississippi sun blazes high and the cicadas sing their summer song, there’s a place where time slows down and childhood memories bloom in vivid color. Inside the cool, quiet galleries of the University Museum, Theora Hamblett’s Children’s Games series invites you into a world of laughter, imagination, and timeless play. Children gather beneath … Read more
Walter and Florence Lewisohn researched and partly lived in the Caribbean for nearly a quarter century. In the 1950s many Caribbean islands successfully campaigned to attract the new post-war wealth of American, Canadian, and Europeans with new hotels and pristine beaches. The Lewisohns spent their winters in St. Croix, Virgin Islands, beginning in 1957, due … Read more
Frank Estrada, a Memphis native, is a multidisciplinary artist based in Oxford, Mississippi. Although Estrada views himself as a printmaker first, he also employs digital illustration, animation, and augmented reality in his visual storytelling. He most often creates prints by the relief technique, in which the image is carved into a surface such as wood … Read more
Mary Carter Skipwith Buie and Kate Anderson Skipwith were half-sisters from Oxford, Mississippi, who, because of their shared love of history, art, and travel, built what would become the University of Mississippi Museum. Their foundational collection included over 300 fans from Europe an and Asian cultures, decorative art of fine porcelain and silver, Mary Buie’s … Read more