University of Mississippi Museum
August 1, 2014 – January 17, 2015 In celebration of Super Bowl XLVIII and in support of the National Football League, the Council of Fashion Designers of America and Bloomingdale’s have teamed up on a unique collaboration of customized football helmets created by a slew of CFDA members. The 48 helmets were auctioned off from … Read more
August 26, 2014 – February 14, 2015 Mississippi, ceramics-based, installation artist, Lee Renninger, has been creating work that treats clay as fabric by transforming it into works that are soft and fluid. Renninger’s newest exhibition, A Light Passage, at the University of Mississippi Museum is a floor-based ceramic installation, which features pieces from her … Read more
Tom Corbin founded Corbin Bronze in 1986 when he left the advertising industry to pursue a career in art. The University Museum will display recent works by Corbin beginning Spring 2014 through Summer 2014. While the female figure is Corbin’s primary subject of expression, intriguing visual elements will include a tricycle, cupcake and diving board. … Read more
Jan. 28 – Mar. 16, 2014 What makes a house a home? Throughout American history, people have lived in all sorts of places, from military barracks and two-story colonials to college dormitories and row houses. House & Home embarks on a tour of houses both familiar and surprising, through past and present, to explore the … Read more
Georgia O’Keeffe’s Untitled (Abstraction, Lake George) traveled to the Hyde Collection in Glens Falls, New York to be part of an exhibition titled, Modern Nature: Georgia O’Keeffe and Lake George, that will also travel to the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe and the deYoung Museum in San Francisco. “This intriguing painting in the collection of the … Read more
Originally using legos to bring his imagination to life, Hamlett Dobbins transitioned to paint as a means for creative expression. Dobbins’s newest exhibition, The Wellspring, at the University of Mississippi Museum is a collection of paintings that draw specifically from a diverse set of experiences with his two children, Milla (aka M.R.M.) and Ives (aka I.V.). The paintings span a … Read more
Growing up in Asheville, North Carolina, Ron Dale was exposed to the annual exhibitions of the Southern Highlands Handicraft Guild. Watching a potter throw pots, transforming wet smooth clay into a shaped vessel was magic to Dale. This sparked his interest in ceramics, and he began his journey as an artist in the 1970s. Recollecting: … Read more