University of Mississippi Museum
MARCH 5 – AUGUST 17, 2013
Opening Reception: Thursday, March 7, 2013, 6:00 – 8:00 p.m.
Come view Alain Desvergnes’ silent images of the mythical Yoknapatawpha County inspired by the writings of Willam Faulkner.
NOVEMBER 13, 2012 — JANUARY 11, 2013
This exhibition traces the histories of coiled basketry in Africa and America and explores the evolution of an ancient art. Featuring baskets from the low country of South Carolina and Georgia as well as from diverse regions of Africa, the exhibition traces the story of coiled basketry from the domestication of rice in Africa, through the trans-Atlantic slave trade and the Carolina rice plantation, and then into the present day.
OCTOBER 9–DECEMBER 8, 2012
Opening Reception: Tuesday, October 23, 2012, 7:00 – 9:00 p.m.
Part of the Oxford Art Crawl
In the words of Rolland Golden: “I have always had an attachment to the Mississippi River. In the 1930’s and 40’s, I grew up in various parts of Mississippi and also visited my Grandmother, who lived on Sixth …
September 11 – October 27, 2012
Opening Reception: Thursday, October 11, 2012, 5:00 – 7:00 p.m.
Annual membership party
From its inception, the University Museum has thrived due to the generosity of its many supporters. This exhibition celebrates recent donations to the Museum featuring work by acclaimed artists such as Mary T. Smith …
September 25, 2012–December 19, 2012
Opening Reception: Tuesday, September 25, 2012, 7:00 – 9:00 p.m.
Part of the Oxford Art Crawl
The Department of Archives and Special Collections at the University of Mississippi recently acquired the “Martha Alice Stewart: Time on Parchman Farm, 1930s” Collection. Ms. Stewart was Head Nurse at Parchman Farm from 1930 until 1939. The collection consists of nearly 200 …
July 3 – October 6, 2012
Opening Reception:
July 24, 7:00 – 9:00 p.m.
The University of Mississippi Museum is pleased to present paintings by Estelle Faulkner, many of which have never been seen by an audience. Mrs. Estelle Faulkner was known for painting, reading, and playing the piano. She began painting while living in China in the 1920’s with her first husband who was a district judge and later had her art studio in Charlottesville, Virginia.
On her own work, Estelle Faulkner stated, “I used to give away most of my paintings. When someone offered to pay for them, I said to myself, ‘Now there’s an idea.’ ” Mrs. Faulkner usually did not enter her work in art shows.
“My inspiration for painting is a snatch of poetry or a sentence out of a book. I don’t paint from nature,” Mrs. Faulkner commented.
Lee Caplin writes, “We shared an artists studio in 1969-70. She had the patina of a real southern lady, spoke with precision and directness, a fine vocabulary, not colloquial in approach, but also had an artist’s passion for color and form. Her paintings were of medium size, organic shapes, deep, vibrant color, painted for herself, as an outlet for her vision-not a commercial orientation at all.”
This exhibit has been made possible by Lee Caplin and the Summers family.
Photography by Stephen Kirkpatrick March 20 – June 9, 2012 Opening Reception: Tuesday, March 27, 2012 7:00 p.m.- 9:00 p.m. Part of the Oxford Art Crawl The UM Museum presents an exhibition of photography by acclaimed wildlife photographer, Stephen Kirkpatrick, based on his award-winning book, Sanctuary: Mississippi’s Coastal Plain. Released in November 2010, Sanctuary focuses … Read more
April 17 – August 25, 2012 Opening Reception: Tuesday, April 17, 2012 7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. Part of the Oxford Art Crawl Curated by Mattie Codling, a junior at Ole Miss completing a professional internship at the UM Museum, this exhibit highlights the work of several well-known and not-so-well-known folk artists or “self-taught” artists … Read more
June 26 – September 1, 2012 Opening Reception: Sunday, July 8, 2012 1:00 p.m.– 3:00 p.m. “Why did I wake since waking I shall never sleep again?” William Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom! Inspired by William Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom!, John Shorb explores ideas of memory and loss in the American South using a mixed-media approach of printmaking … Read more
January 24 – August 18, 2012 Opening Reception: Thursday, February 16, 2012, 5:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. Since the second century BCE, the so-called “Silk Road” stretched for thousands of miles from eastern China to the Black Sea, thus linking the great civilizations of east Asia with those of southwest Asia and, thereby, to Europe. … Read more