This exciting exhibit features one-of-a-kind football helmets, created by world-famous fashion designers for an auction to benefit the NFL Foundation. The University of Mississippi Museum acquired three helmets, featured in the exhibition with photographs of the remaining 45 helmets.
Part of the Oxford Arts Crawl
A Light Passage features pieces from Botanica — a new body of work by Lee Renninger using elements of the garden to celebrate the wonder and mystery of the floral world.
Blues @ Home is H.C. Porter’s collection of 30 portrait paintings of Mississippi living blues legends in their at-home settings. The paintings are paired with oral histories that give insight into the storied lives of the legends.
Admission: $5
Sponsored by:
The Friends of the Museum
Madison Charitable Foundation
Additional support provided by:
R&B Feder Charitable Foundation
The Student Activities Association
The Younger Foundation
UM Department of Music
Sally Barksdale Honors College
Fat Possum Records
T.H. Freeland IV, Esq.
The Brunt Family
Sid & Kathy Davis
Tom Davis State Insurance
Bronze sculptor, furniture designer and painter, Tom Corbin, will give a lecture about his work and career in art. He will describe how, as a self-taught artist, he carved out a unique niche in the art and design world. Inspired by the iconography of youth, whimsy and nostalgia, Corbin’s work includes bronze sculptures and paintings with the female figure being his primary muse.
Click here to read more about The Figure: Portrait and Bronze Works by Tom Corbin.
Exhibition support from the Friends of the Museum.
Part of the Oxford Arts Crawl
House & Home embarks on a tour of houses both familiar and surprising, through past and present, to explore the varied history and many cultural meanings of the American home. Originally created and exhibited at the National Building Museum.
Admission is $5
All admission fees will be donated to Habitat for Humanity.
The Wellspring gathers a handful of paintings that draw specifically from Hamlett Dobbins’ relationships with his two children, Milla and Ives. The paintings span a number of years and reflect different stages
of their rich relationships.
Annual Membership Party
Noted ceramist and Oxford native, Ron Dale, showcases
his works spanning over 20 years. Discover the evolution
of his work featuring mixed media and ceramics.
This exhibition is an exploration of the artist as a botanist. Ed Croom’s photography features the flora and landscape of William Faulkner’s personal sanctuary, Rowan Oak.
PANEL DISCUSSION:
Friday, April 26, Noon – 1:00 P.M.
Featuring Bo Bartlett, Betsy Eby, and William Dunlap
THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI MUSEUM
Sponsored by the University of Mississippi Department of Art
Home, 2010. Bo Bartlett, Oil on Linen. From the Collection of Stacy and Jay Underwood
“Into the Flatland” explores familial obligation and our conflicted relationship with “home” through the photographs of the Mississippi Delta Region.
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