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aldrummo January 11 – April 2, 2011 Opening Reception Thursday, February 3, 2011 5:00–7:00p.m. Gee’s Bend is a small rural community nestled into a curve in the Alabama River southwest of Selma, Alabama. After the Civil War, the freed slaves of Gee’s Bend founded an all-black community nearly isolated from the surrounding world. The town’s women … Read more
Is the first in a series of ongoing exhibits presenting selections from the permanent collection and includes work by Mississippi artists Marie Hull, Andrew Bucci, Bill Dunlap, John McCrady, Kate Freeman Clark, Jere Allen, Walter Anderson, and George Ohr.
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 19, 2011, 7:00–8:00p.m. NUTT AUDITORIUM THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI CAMPUS $10 for museum members $15 for general admission $5 for students with ID Dr. Robert Storr, a world renowned artist and critic, is Dean of the Yale School of Art. Dr. Storr was director of the Venice Biennale in 2007, and from 1990 … Read more
AVAILABLE NOW AT THE MUSEUM STORE. From the earliest representation of the Ole Miss logo in the museum collection, from the 1928-29 Women’s Basketball uniform. To place an order, call the museum at 662.915.7073 or visit the museum store.
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2010 1:00 p.m.–3:00 p.m. How does Greek drama resonate today? Surrounded by world-class artifacts from ancient Greece and Rome, join us for Aquila Theatre’s reading of Ancient Greeks/Modern Lives. Performance will include readings from Homer’s Odyssey, Sophocles’ Ajax, Euripidies’ Herakles and Aeschylus’ Agamemnon. Led by Peter Meineck, Artistic Director of the Aquila … Read more
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 13th, 2010 10 a.m.–12:00 noon Cost: FREE to Museum Members at the Family level and above $5 per participant for non-members Come and enjoy the new folk art exhibition at the University of Mississippi Museum, and create your own watermelon painting on board inspired by the art of Mose Tolliver! Kids, bring your … Read more
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The instruments you see in this exhibit were acquired and used at the University of Mississippi by professors John Millington and Frederick A.P. Barnard during the mid-nineteenth century. In 1848, John Millington arrived at the new University of Mississippi to teach natural sciences. He brought with him the collection of scientific apparatus he had acquired … Read more