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[Don’t Miss It!] Cinco de Mayo: The Kid Version
File Photo
by Kelly Bryan Smith
May 2, 2012
If taking your kids out for virgin margaritas on May 5 isn't quite what you had in mind, consider attending the second annual Cinco de Mayo event at the Mississippi Children's Museum.
[Don’t Miss It!] Arts, More Arts
April 11, 2012
This weekend, check out one or both of these arts-related activities.
Project Cocoon
Eric Etheridge
by Sharon Dunten
March 7, 2012
In a couple of weeks, Jacksonians will have an opportunity to participate in an international art event: Cocoon Jackson.
African American Art at MMA
Courtesy MS Museum of Art
by Tam Curley
February 29, 2012
Growing up in the 1940s in the South, Walter O. Evans never had the chance to visit museums or galleries because of racial divides in society. In 1978, however, Evans began collecting art, starting with Jacob Lawrence's portfolio of…
For the Love of Art
Samuel McCain
by Sharon Dunten
February 15, 2012
Toddlers dance around the dining room table as Samuel McCain absorbs the musical notes from his iPod. The tunes might inspire his next piece of artwork. Sitting against the patio window, his easel holds the blank canvas where a…
Flat on the Floor
H.C. Porter and Gretchen Haien
by Sharon Dunten
November 23, 2011
The sculpture of tiles is made of black-and-white photographic images of floors stripped of possessions and lifelines. Left on the homes' slabs are scatterings of personal items discarded after a deluge of waves and wind. The tiles form checkerboards…
Coming to Art Late in Life
Amelia Senter
by Amelia Senter
June 15, 2011
Charles Smith's favorite story is one of revelation: "Cutting grass one day, I had this urge to look up at the pear tree. I saw white blooms. Two weeks later ... the white blooms had turned into small pears,…
Women of Substance
SITES
by Briana Robinson
June 1, 2011
In 1961, Charlayne Hunter-Gault succeeded in integrating the University of Georgia alongside Hamilton Holmes. Hunter-Gault became the university’s first black graduate in 1963. From there, she went on to excel in broadcast journalism, winning two Emmy Awards and two…
Institute Honors Mississippi Artists, Writers
May 25, 2011
In June, the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters will award prizes for works first published, shown or performed in 2010. Categories include poetry, fiction, nonfiction, visual arts, photography and music composition. Out-of-state judges select winners, who must have significant ties to the…
An Unlikely Artifact
daniel johnson
by Lacey McLaughlin
May 4, 2011
While walking in the woods along the Pearl River in Jackson last year, Millsaps College senior art student daniel johnson discovered a 1948 Westinghouse Refrigerator. Finding an appliance mysteriously placed in a natural setting was the catalyst for The…
Integrating Nature
Amile Wilson
by Charlotte Blom
April 13, 2011
She composed poetry on the backs of horses. He was a "wannabe cowboy." Sticks, rocks, earth and animals integrate the livelihood of mother Gayle and son Lee McCarty. Neither could conceive of existence that doesn't include being active in…
Breaking The Rules
Casey Holloway
by Lacey McLaughlin
March 23, 2011
See more art therapy photos here.
Like many 12-year-old girls, DeAsia Scott tries to maximize the amount of hot pink she can wear on a daily basis. She loves oatmeal-raisin cookies, has a crush…
Etude of an Artist
Lorenzo Gayden
by Charlotte Blom
March 9, 2011
When he was 5 years old, Lorenzo Gayden loved cars. He played with and drew them and, eventually, imagined designing them. But unlike most of us who abandon our childhood love for art, casting it off as simple doodling,…
Storytelling
Courtesy Smith Robertson Museum
by Natalie A. Collier
March 2, 2011
Diane Williams is a neo-griot, along the lines of the storytellers from times gone by when oral historians were crucial to maintaining black folks' history because book publishers didn't believe the history worth chronicling. Williams is also a…
Words Not Required
Courtesy Smith Robertson Museum
by Dylan Watson
February 23, 2011
If a picture is worth 1000 words, portraits lining the walls of the Mississippi Museum of Art tell story after story after story. Fifty years ago this year, hundreds of activists rode buses through the Deep South in…
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May 16, 2012National Bicycle Month Events
awelch1213: Ride of Silence today (Wednesday, 16th) in Ridgeland 6:30pm at Northpark Mall
Mentioned, but not elaborated on: EPIC BIKE…
May 16, 2012
[Editor's Note] Boys Will Be Boys
Laurie Bertram Roberts: Ugh I didn't know taking photos of people in public places was now a matter of state security…
May 16, 2012
[Letter] Ashamed
Jenni Watson: I agree. It's also downright cheating because the Repubs who passed it know exactly who it's going to disenfranchise- that's why they did…
May 16, 2012
[Editorial] Don't Just Complain; Engage!
Jenni Watson: It's not like we are trying not to be engaged. Look at that, a 5:30pm meeting. You don't want us…
May 16, 2012
[Editorial] Don't Just Complain; Engage!
RobbieR: This is a great editorial. Couldn't agree with it more.
May 16, 2012
One Lake Set to 'Run Pretty Rapid'
DonnaLadd: Golden, Mr. McGowan says there will be no economic gain for him, that he put his land in a…
May 15, 2012
One Lake Set to 'Run Pretty Rapid'
golden eagle: We definitely need as much transparency as possible. Just because there could be huge economic gain for the…
May 15, 2012
One Lake Set to 'Run Pretty Rapid'
DonnaLadd: As someone who has been on this flood-control beat for a while now, I'd be a whole lot more…
May 14, 2012
Family Remembers a Fallen Hero
justjess: Could the poem be published in the Jackson Free Press. I would like to read it.
May 14, 2012
Three Could Face June Execution
rlnave: Attorney General Jim Hood's spokeswoman confirmed in an email that Hood will "file motions to reset the execution dates on all…