Past Exhibitions

One World, Two Artists: John Alexander and Walter Anderson

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August 23 – December 3, 2011 Opening Reception: Thursday, September 22, 2011, 5:00  –  7:00 p.m. The work of Southern artists is often infused with a deep sense of place and time. Whether inspired by the small-town of the artist’s birth, the land, the waters – be it river, lake or sea – the music, the people or even … Read more

Faulkner's Geographies: A Photographic Journey

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July 12 – October 1, 2011 Opening Reception: Sunday, July 17, 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. This exhibition coincides with the 38th Annual Faulkner & Yoknapatawpha Conference and presents photographs from the permanent collection of Archives and Special Collections at the University of Mississippi Libraries and the University of Mississippi Museum.

P Quilts: Pecolia Warner of Yazoo City

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April 12 – September 24, 2011 Opening Reception/Oxford Art Crawl: Tuesday, April 26, 2011 7:00 – 9:00 p.m. This exhibition was made possible by the generosity of The Hattie Mae Edmonds Fund for Southern Folk Art       Reception sponsored by Lenora’s Restaurant 309 C North Lamar ~ Oxford, MS 662-236-1144 www.lenorasdining.com Reservations recommended.

Valerie Jaudon: White

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April 12 – July 2, 2011 Artist’s Reception: Thursday, April 14, 5:00 – 7:00 p.m. Valerie Jaudon was born in Greenville, Mississippi, on August 6, 1945. She studied at the Memphis Academy of Art, Memphis, in 1965, as well as at the University of the Americas in Mexico City (1966-67) and at St. Martins School of Art, London (1968-69). … Read more

Places We Dream of…

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  March 22 – June 25, 2011 Opening reception Tuesday, March 31st, 5:00 – 7:00 p.m. Works on paper from the permanent collection curated by Dr. Esther Sparks.              

A Survey of Gee’s Bend Quilts

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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

Defining the Mainstream: The Southern Folk Art Experience

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October 1 – December 11, 2010 Curated by Robert Krause, Doctoral Candidate in United States History, Graduate Assistant, The University of Mississippi Museum This inaugural exhibit in the new Hattie Mae Edmonds Gallery examines the complex role of Southern Folk Art in relation to the artistic mainstream developed by historians, critics, and scholars.  Works in … Read more

Teacher and Student: Abstract Works of Marie Hull and Andrew Bucci

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Teacher and Student: Abstract Works of Marie Hull and Andrew Bucci is organized by the Mississippi Museum of Art and supported with funds provided by the Museum’s statewide Traveling Exhibition Endowment, a fund made possible through significant private contributions matched by the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency, with additional funding provided by the Mississippi Arts Commission’s Arts Reinvestment Initiative.

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