MISSISSIPPI MUSEUM of ART NEWS

IN THIS ISSUE

Hearin Series Exhibitions to open September 27This September the Museum will present two intimately related exhibitions having to do with the renowned American painter, Robert Henri (1865-1929). They are the next offerings in The Annie Laurie Swaim Hearin Memorial Exhibition Series, made possible by the generosity of the Robert M. Hearin Support Foundation.

The smaller of the two is Robert Henri and Spain, Face to Face: An Exhibition about Context, Connoisseurship, and Conservation, organized by Roger Ward, Deputy Director and Chief Curator of the Mississippi Museum of Art. It brings together a fascinating group of pictures by Spanish, French, and American artists—precursors of Henri—who so decisively affected his

appreciation of Spanish painting of the Golden Age: masters such as El Greco, Jusepe de Ribera, Edouard Manet, Mary Cassatt, and John Singer Sargent. The centerpiece of the exhibition is Henri’s magnificent, full-length copy—made in July,1900, on the occasion of his first trip to Spain—of the state portrait by Diego

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Robert Henri (American, 1863-1929), La Madrileñita, 1910. oil on canvas. 41 x 33 3/16 in.Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia, Museum purchase, 1919.1

SUMMER 2014

Robert Henri and Spain, Face to Face: An Exhibition about Context, Connoisseurship, and Conservation

Spanish Sojourns: Robert Henri and the Spirit of Spain

Her Majesty’s Makeover

A Message from the Director

In the Galleries: Norman Rockwell: Murder in Mississippi; This Light of Ours: Activist Photographers of the Civil Rights Movement

Calendar for 2014 Summer Civil Rights Exhibitions and Events

Spotlight on the Collection: Tribute Dinner by Evert Witte

Recent Acquisitions: Artwork by Two of Mississippi’s Most Acclaimed Female Artists: Gwen Magee and Mil-dred Nungester Wolfe

Mississippi’s Creative Vision: Milly Moorhead West

Education and the Museum School: The Scholastic Art Awards of 2014, Artful Afternoons, Look and Learn with Hoot, Summer Art Camp

In The Art Garden: C3: Creativity. Conversation. Community.; Garden Partner Opportunities; Live at Lunch; High Note Jam; Screen on the Green; Dog Day Afternoons

Museum Staff News: MMA Welcomes New Staff Members

Highlights: MMA Announces Two New Trustees

The Art Scene: Sketches of Spain Fundraising Gala, A Trip to Italy, Unburied Treasures, Music in the City, Down-town Jazz Series, Museum after Hours, The Rembrandt Society Dinner, Lighting of the Bethlehem Tree, Portraits of Myrlie and Medgar Evers Unveiled, opening receptions for This Light of Ours, The Slave Series, An Italian Palate

New Collectors Club

Statewide Affiliate Network

Museum Information

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For her Jackson debut in September of this year, the portrait of Mariana of Austria, Queen of Spain by Robert Henri has undergone an extended treatment by Kenneth Bé, Paintings Conservator at The Gerald R. Ford Conservation Center, a division of the Nebraska State Historical Society in Omaha. The process took nearly six months and involved mainly the removal of old and discolored layers of varnish and embedded grime. This splendid, full-scale copy of the original by Diego Velázquez in the Museo del Prado, Madrid, was made in July, 1900, during Henri’s first of many visits to Spain. It will be on view at the MMA as part of the exhibition Robert Henri and Spain, Face to Face: An Exhibition about Context, Connoisseurship, and Conservation.

Robert Henri (American, 1863-1929) after Diego Velázquez (Spanish, 1599-1660), Mariana of Austria, Queen of Spain, 1900. oil on canvas. Collection of the Robert Henri Museum, Cozad, Nebraska.

HER MAJESTY’S MAKEOVER

Before… …After

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Mary Cassatt (American, 1844-1926), Spanish Dancer Wearing a Lace Mantilla, 1873. oil on canvas. The Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Washington, D. C.

Velázquez of Mariana of Austria, Queen of Spain (1652), the eighteen-year-old niece and second wife of King Philip IV of Spain. This work has never before been publicly exhibited outside the Robert Henri Museum in Cozad, Nebraska, the frontier town where the painter’s family lived during his teenage years. Thanks to the Robert M. Hearin Support Foundation, this regal and imposing image of the young queen has been cleaned for exhibition in Jackson by Kenneth Bé, Head of Paintings Conservation at the Gerald R. Ford Conservation Center of the Nebraska State Historical Society in Omaha. The second and much larger exhibition is Spanish Sojourns: Robert Henri and the Spirit of Spain, organized by Telfair Museums of Savannah, Georgia. This is the first exhibition to explore the many paintings made by Henri in Spain during seven extended trips to that country, taken between 1900 and 1926. Featured are

nearly forty works, many of them full-length portraits, of the colorful and vivacious bohemian characters to whom Henri was so obviously attracted: dancers, singers, Gypsies, bullfighters, and peasants. These have been selectively gathered from a similar number of collections throughout North America, both public and private, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City), The Phillips Collection, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum (both of Washington, D.C.). Accompanied by photo-graphs, letters, postcards, and other memorabilia accumulated over the course of three decades, these stunning paintings communicate—with intensity and panache—Henri’s passion for an ancient and proud society which had survived into the 20th century. Both exhibitions are on view in The Donna and Jim Barksdale Galleries for Changing Exhibitions from September 27, 2014, through January 4, 2015.

FROM THE DIRECTOR

values like “justice,” “equality,” and “freedom,” and give them faces that pierce our souls. This summer we have the op-portunity to see the acts and people of 1964 as artists saw them. Norman Rockwell was the painter most trusted in the 1950s and 1960s to illustrate American life with honesty, good humor, and affection. However, the murders of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner touched him deeply; and he created a work about their final moments that pulls us in and insists that we feel their terror, their courage, and the tremendous loss our nation suffered when they died. Likewise, documentary photography was a relatively young ar-tistic field in the 1960s, and Americans were feverishly taking snapshots to capture moments of everyday life. The photo-graphs on display in our galleries were assembled carefully by

Matt Herron and his colleagues who put a face on a move-ment, who frame moments of time in a way that stops us in our tracks as we confront courage, sadness, fear, and triumph. Visitors to our exhibitions have demonstrated powerful reac-tions to these images and have offered us written testimonies about the transformative power of the art they’ve seen. As an art museum in Jackson, Mississippi, the Mississippi Mu-seum of Art has a role to play in furthering understanding of ourselves through objects of beauty, artifacts created by men and women who have heightened abilities to translate what they see into concrete objects. Committed to remaining rel-evant to the people in our state, the Museum is honored to partner with other organizations who work fearlessly, inspired by hope, to create a home state as beautiful as we can imag-ine. I hope that you’ll join us on our journey to re-examine ourselves, our history, and cultures around the world through the eyes of artists. Take time out of your busy lives to indulge in looking at art; allow yourselves to be swept away by beauty; and reflect on the ways that these pictures can inspire you to create a more beautiful world—one face, one moment, one relationship at a time.

Wishing you all a relaxing and joyful summer,

This summer we are reflecting on the importance of events that oc-curred in Mississippi fifty years ago. At the Museum, we are examining these events through the eyes of artists, who render historic events with an eye and with skill that bring out the universal compo-nents of individualized places, times, people, and events. At the same time, artists take abstract

Hearin Series, continued

Spanish Sojourns: Robert Henri and the Spirit of Spain is organized by the Telfair Mu-seums, Savannah, Georgia. This exhibition is made possible through the generous support of the Mr. and Mrs. Raymond J. Horowitz Foundation for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts. Robert Henri and Spain, Face to Face: An Exhibition about Connoisseurship, Conservation, and Context is organized by the Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, Mississippi. Local presentation of these exhibitions is made possible through the generous support of the Robert M. Hearin Support Foundation. The Mississippi Museum of Art and its programs are sponsored in part by the city of Jackson and the Jackson Convention & Visitors Bureau. Support is also provided in part by funding from Trustmark, Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Mississippi, and the Mississippi Arts Commission, a state agency.

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Fifty years ago, on the night of June 21-22, 1964, three young American civil rights workers—James Earl Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael “Mickey” Schwerner—were murdered by members of the Ku Klux Klan, the Ne-shoba County’s Sheriff Office, and the Philadelphia, Missis-sippi, Police Department. The three had been working on the “Freedom Summer” campaign, attempting to register African Americans to vote. The result of a conspiracy, the murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner scandalized the nation and prompted a massive federal investigation. The FBI eventually found the bodies, some 44 days later, in an earthen dam not far from the site of the crime. After the state government refused to prosecute the suspected perpetrators, the federal government initially charged eighteen individuals but was able to secure convictions for only seven of them, who received comparatively light punishments considering the depravity of their crime. It has always been noted, however, that indignation over the workers’ deaths was a catalyst to the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

Norman Rockwell, having parted ways with the Saturday Evening Post in 1963, was commissioned by LOOK magazine to create an illustration for an article entitled “Southern justice” which investigated the Neshoba County murders and the unlikelihood of the murderers ever being brought to justice. Working in the days long before FAX machines, notebook computers and e-mail, Rockwell me-ticulously compiled information about the victims and their appearances, the climatological circumstances of that fateful night, and physical conditions of the venue. The artist’s 1965 painting Murder in Mississippi is the centerpiece of our exhibition, while its creation is documented in step-by-step detail thanks to his research materials, handwrit-ten notes, reference photographs, and preliminary studies. The final painting is displayed in the complete context of Rockwell’s creative process and working methods, giving the visitor an exceptionally rare opportunity to trace the development of an artwork from inception to completion. This exhibition is on view in The Donna and Jim Barksdale Galleries for Changing Exhibitions through August 31, 2014.

Murder in MississippiPainting intended as the final illustration

for “Southern justice” by Charles Morgan, jr., for LOOK, June 29, 1965

© Norman Rockwell Family Agency. All rights reserved. Norman Rockwell

Museum Collections

IN THE GALLERIES

Norman Rockwell: Murder in Mississippi has been organized by the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. Local presentation of this exhibition is made possible through the generous support of Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP, Stein Mart, Sanderson Farms, Sally and Dick Molpus Foundation, Jackson Convention & Visitors Bureau, The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation, and Southern Poverty Law Center.

NORMAN ROCKWELL: Murder in Mississippi

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THIS LIGHT OF OURS: ACTIVIST PHOTOGRAPHERS OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT

This little light of mine

I’m going to let it shine

Oh, this little light of mine

I’m going to let it shine . . .

Let it shine, let it shine,

let it shine . . .Movement Anthem and African American Gospel Song, written by Harry Dixon Loes

Ten years in the making, this exhibit presents the work of nine photographers from diverse backgrounds who in the 1960s lived and photographed from within the Southern Freedom Movement. They were “movement photogra-phers,” decidedly distinct from news photographers, and their images reflect that difference. Seven photographed for the Student Non-Violent Coordi-nating Committee or SNCC, the only civil rights organization with its own photography department. The other two photographed for the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). SNCC emerged from student protest that erupted on February 1, 1960, in Greensboro, North Carolina, when four black students refused to leave a Woolworth department store lunch counter after being denied service.

Inspired and guided by Ella Baker, SNCC became the Southern move-ment’s “cutting edge.” Ella Baker had organized Southern NAACP branches in the 1940s; she organized Martin Luther King’s SCLC in 1957; and using money appropriated by Rev. King, she organized SNCC’s founding conference at Shaw College. “Organize from the bottom up,” was her charge. “Strong people don’t need strong leaders.” This grassroots approach to organizing has been captured in this exhibit. These are photographs from the inside and from the bottom up. They por-tray community life as well as protest. Although this exhibit mainly focuses on SNCC’s work and on the battle-ground states of Mississippi and Alabama during the years 1963-66, these photographs shine a light that reveals the inner life of the whole Southern freedom struggle. This exhibition is on view in The Donna and Jim Barksdale Galleries for Changing Exhibitions through August 31, 2014.

This is an exhibition organized by the Center for Documentary Expression and Art. Major support for the exhibition has been provided by the Bruce W. Bastian Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. Local presentation of this exhibition is made possible through the generous support of AT&T, Jones Walker LLP, Wynne and Bill Seemann, Mississippi Power, Jackson Convention & Visitors Bureau, Leslie Hurst, The Clarion-Ledger Media Group, Foundation for the Mid South, Mississippi Arts Commission, and Regions.

Similar “sit-ins” spread rapidly across the South. On the weekend of April 15-17, 1960, sit-in leaders gathered at Shaw College in Raleigh, North Carolina; SNCC was born. Soon, some of these students began leaving school to engage in community organizing as SNCC “field secretaries.”

Matt Herron, Vote, Selma — Montgomery, Alabama, 1965

Bob Fitch, Conference at Kelly Ingram Park, Kelly Ingram Park, Birmingham, Alabama, 1965

IN THE GALLERIES

2014 SUMMER CIVIL RIGHTS EXHIBITIONS AND EVENTS

EXHIBITIONS

through August 31Icons of FreedomThe William B. and Isabel R. McCarty Foundation GalleryThe faces of the Civil Rights Movement belonged to unrecognized volunteers as well as to the vis-ible leaders of the movement. Artworks in this exhibition portray some of the most celebrated leaders, foot soldiers, and innocent casualties of the fight for freedom in America during the 1950s and 1960s. Three lithographs by Ben Shahn (1898-1969) are lent by David Goodman of The Andrew Goodman Foundation and depict civil rights workers James Earl Chaney, Michael Schwerner, and Andrew Goodman, who were murdered in Philadelphia, Mississippi, in June, 1964. Also on view are an etching by John Wilson (born 1922) of Martin Luther King, Jr.; portraits of Medgar and Myrlie Evers by Jason Bouldin (born1965); and an unfinished quilt by Gwendolyn A. Magee (1943-2011) that honors the participants of the historic 1961 Freedom Rides. Cost: Free to the public

through August 17This Light of Ours: Activist Photographers of the Civil Rights MovementThe Donna and Jim Barksdale Galleries for Changing Exhibitions Four years in the making, This Light of Ours: Activist Photographers of the Civil Rights Movement is a paradigm-shifting exhibition that presents the Civil Rights Movement through the work and voices of nine activist photographers—men and women who chose to document the national struggle against segregation and other forms of race-based disenfranchisement from within the movement. The core of the exhibition is a selection of 157 black-and-white photographs, representing the work of photographers Bob Adelman, George Ballis, Bob Fitch, Bob Fletcher, Matt Herron, David Prince, Herbert Randall, Maria Varela, and Tamio Wakayama. Admission: $10 adults, $8 seniors, $5 students (includes admission to Norman Rockwell: Murder in Mississippi). FREE children 5 and under. FREE Museum members

This is an exhibition organized by the Center for Documentary Expression and Art. Major support for the exhibition has been provided by the Bruce W. Bastian Foundation and the National Endow-ment for the Arts. Local presentation of this exhi-bition is made possible through the generous sup-port of AT&T, Jones Walker LLP, Wynne and Bill Seemann, Mississippi Power, Jackson Convention & Visitors Bureau, Leslie Hurst, The Clarion-Ledger Media Group, Foundation for the Mid South, Mississippi Arts Commission, and Regions.

As part of This Light of Ours, community members are invited to submit their own mementos to a feature wall to help us commemorate our shared history through family photos, news clippings, ob-jects, and ephemera. Do you or someone in your family have a memory from this time, an object, a photograph or an idea that you would like to share with us, as we try to bring down the “walls” that have separated us, and as we build a common future together? Email scans or photos, items, or memories for addition to the wall to Carol Peaster at cpeaster@msmuseumart.org, or bring them by the Museum and add them yourself.

through August 31Norman Rockwell: Murder in MississippiThe Donna and Jim Barksdale Galleries for Changing Exhibitions On June 21, 1964, civil rights activists Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman, and James Earl Chaney were brutally murdered in Neshoba County, Mississippi. Several months later, LOOK magazine commissioned an investigative article

about the incident entitled “Southern justice,” and painter Norman Rockwell was asked to provide an illustration for the story. Over the course of five weeks, Rockwell intensively studied the circum-stances of the murders, made many preliminary drawings, photographs, a preparatory oil-sketch, and the finished painting entitled Murder in Missis-sippi. This exhibition presents the iconic master-piece in the context of many related works and thus illuminates the artist’s creative process. Admis-sion: $10 adults, $8 seniors, $5 students (includes admission to This Light of Ours: Activist Photogra-phers of the Civil Rights Movement). FREE children 5 and under. FREE Museum members

Norman Rockwell: Murder in Mississippi has been organized by the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. Local presentation of this exhibition is made possible through the generous support of Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP, Stein Mart, Sanderson Farms, Sally and Dick Molpus Foundation, Jackson Convention & Visitors Bureau, The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation, and Southern Poverty Law Center.

EVENTS

Saturday, June 14Opening Day of Norman Rockwell: Murder in Mississippi10 AM – 5 PMThe Donna and Jim Barksdale Galleries for Changing Exhibitions Admission: $10 adults, $8 seniors, $5 students (includes admission to This Light of Ours: Activist Photographers of the Civil Rights Movement). FREE children 5 and under. FREE Museum members

Friday, June 20Members Opening Reception for Norman Rockwell: Murder in Mississippi5:30 – 7:30 PMMembers are invited to a party and reception for the Museum’s Summer exhibition, Norman Rockwell: Murder in Mississippi. For more information on becoming a member, visit www.msmuseumart.org.

Sunday, June 22“Freedom in Mississippi Series” Lecture by Deborah Solomon3 PMTrustmark Grand HallDeborah Solomon, author of American Mirror : The Life and Art of Norman Rockwell (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013), presents a lecture about Norman Rockwell and his portrayal of the fight for civil rights in America. Solomon served as the chief art critic of The Wall Street Journal and has written extensively about American painting. She is the author of several biographies of American artists, including Jackson Pollock and Joseph Cornell. Drawing from a wealth of unpublished letters and documents, Solomon explores the relationship between Rockwell’s despairing personality and his genius for reflecting America’s brightest hopes. This program is financially assisted by the National Endowment for the Humanities through the Mississippi Humanities Council with additional support provided by Carol Puckett and John Palmer. Cost: Free to the public

Thursday, June 26Freedom Summer Veterans Reception and Tour by Matt Herron6 - 8 PMTrustmark Grand HallThe Museum hosts a reception honoring the Veterans of Freedom Summer who will be in Jackson for the Mississippi Freedom Summer 50th Anniversary Conference (June 25-29, 2014). This event also features a tour and book sign-

ing by Matt Herron, curator of This Light of Ours. This event provides an opportunity for sponsors, special guests, and Veterans to come together to commemmorate the 50th Anniversary of Freedom Summer. Attendance is by invitation only. Recep-tion is sponsored by Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, PC.

Thursday, June 26Freedom Summer 1964: The Soundtrack8 – 11 PM The Art Garden at the Mississippi Museum of ArtOperation Shoestring and the Mississippi Museum of Art team up for a musical event celebrating the music born out of 1964. Sponsored by the Greater Jackson Arts Council and Mountain Dew Kickstart as part of the High Note Jam concert series. Cost: Free admission, cash bar

Sunday, June 29“Freedom in Mississippi Series” Artistic Responses to the Civil Rights Movement3 PM Trustmark Grand Hall Three distinguished guest panelists discuss Ameri-can art that responded to or that was created dur-ing the Civil Rights Movement. With the perspec-tive of having participated in the Movement, these scholars are in the unique position to talk about activist art in the context of 1960s American art. Internationally acclaimed painter Mary Lovelace O’Neal moderates the panel discussion; O’Neal is Professor Emerita from the University of California at Berkeley. The panel also features art historian and Howard University Professor Emeritus Floyd Coleman, Ph.D. and Akili Ron Anderson, who is an artist and a professor of art at Howard University. This program is financially assisted by the National Endowment for the Humanities through the Mississippi Humanities Council with additional support provided by Carol Puckett and John Palmer. Cost: Free to the public

Wednesday, July 23“Freedom in Mississippi Series”Lecture by Turry M. Flucker5:30 PM cash bar; 6-7 PM programTrustmark Grand HallTurry M. Flucker, Special Initiatives Director at the Mississippi Arts Commission, presents “Art as an Agent of Social Change: The Development of Spiral, 1963-1965, and The Art Committee for Tougaloo College, 1963-1967,” a lecture on Tougaloo College’s involvement during the Civil Rights Movement and the impact it played on art. This program is financially assisted by the National Endowment for the Humanities through the Missis-sippi Humanities Council. Cost: Free to the public

Thursday, August 14 – Sunday, August 17Performances of Voices of Freedom Summer, Produced by John Maxwell’s Fish Tale Group TheatreTrustmark Grand Hall Join us at the Museum for a ticketed dramatic performance of Voices of Freedom Summer by Frank Kuhn in conjunction with our current exhibition, This Light of Ours: Activist Photographers of the Civil Rights Movement. Ticket prices: $15 in advance, $18 at the door; students $7 in advance, $10 at the door. Tickets can be purchased through the Fish Tale Group box office at 601-714-1414 or online at www.fishtalegroup.org. This event is a partnership with John Maxwell’s Fish Tale Group Theatre.

Performances:Thursday, August 14 – 7:30 PMFriday, August 15 – 7:30 PMSaturday, August 16 – 2 PM and 7:30 PM Sunday, August 17 – 2 PM and 7:30 PM

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SPOTLIGHT ON THE COLLECTION

Museum of Art’s Franklin Sirmans for the Mississippi Museum of Art. His work has been shown internationally and at American institutions including the Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans, the Mobile Museum of Art, and the New Orleans Museum of Art. A longtime resident of Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, Witte was born in Nijme-gen, The Netherlands, in 1951. He now resides in New Orleans. The Jane Crater Hiatt Artist Fel-lowship seeks to support an artist whose works demonstrate the poten-tial to make a significant cultural impact and to express adventurous and imagi-native ideas. Only artists whose work is selected for inclusion in the Mississippi Invitational exhibition, held every two years at the Mississippi Museum of Art, are eligible to apply—and only in the year that their work is chosen. The artist is required to donate one original work of art to the permanent collec-

tion of the Museum from those created during the grant period. The fellowship provides study and travel funds of up to $15,000 to sup-port an individual artist in the develop-ment and creation of art. Established in 2005, the fellowship is administered through the Mississippi Museum of Art. The fellowship’s benefactor, Jane Crater Hiatt, and her late husband Wood shared the Museum’s conviction that the people of Mississippi are enriched by the presence of a strong base of artists living and working in our com-munities.

Evert Witte (born 1951), Tribute Dinner, 2013. acrylic on canvas. 60 in. x 48 in. Gift of the artist, courtesy of the Jane Crater Hiatt Artist Fellowship. 2013.082. © Copyright the artist.

Evert Witte recipient ofthe 2011 Jane Crater Hiatt Artist Fellowship As part of the fellowship, in 2012, Everet Witte travelled to Rome where he stayed as a visiting artist at the American Academy. He crossed the Tiber River daily to study the city’s abun-dance of Renaissance art. The resulting body of work is a series called Crossing the Tiber, which was exhibited at Cole Pratt Gallery, New Orleans, in 2013.

Witte says that Tribute Dinner, which is from the Crossing the Tiber series, began with brush strokes of a deep red reminiscent of many Renaissance paintings. He worked the canvas surface, adding and scraping off paint and changing the directions of the marks until he had “a vertical hierar-chy in composition and organization.” This process and the finished painting brought to his mind “the archetypical Italian dinner ; good friends and fam-ily, lots of wine and beautiful food, laughter and inspired conversation.” It also reminded him of the “Tribute Dinners” that he had experienced at The American Academy in Rome. His paintings were exhibited in the 2011 Mississippi Invitational, which was curated by Los Angeles County

Mississippi Invitational 2014 will be on view

November 1, 2014 through

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“Textiles, fibers, and threads are my artistic medium of choice in honor of ancestral matriarchs who toiled untold hours in servitude and painstakingly made quilts to keep their families warm […] “I find it fitting to use versions of those humble, unpreten-tious quilts to tell their stories and those of their descendants; to use the quilt format as the medium through which their trials and tribulations are depicted as well as present day issues and challenges.” Gwendolyn A. Magee

In 2013, the Mississippi Museum of Art acquired twelve quilts by Gwendolyn A. Magee (1943-2011) about slavery in America. The artist used appliqué, embroidery, layered fabrics, and embellishments, such as rhinestone jewelry, to illustrate some specific practices of slave owners and of slaves. Eleven of the recently acquired quilts are part of The Slave Series, which Magee began in Summer, 2010, at the Tougaloo Art Colony and which she completed in early 2011. Another quilt, When Hope Unborn Had Died, is from her first narrative series, Lift Every Voice and Sing, made from 2000-2004. Along with a quilt borrowed from the Mississippi Department of Archives and History, these twelve quilts were exhibited in The Slave Series: Quilts by Gwendolyn A. Magee at the Museum from March 7 through May 18, 2014. Educated as a sociologist, Magee was determined that history should recognize the suffering of slaves. “I made this quilt to keep their deaths from being pointless,” she said in Journey of the Spirit: The Art of Gwendolyn A. Magee (Mississippi Museum of Art, 2004) about a quilt depicting a lynching. In 2011, the state of Mississippi awarded Magee the Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Visual Arts. In 2007, she received the es-teemed Ford Fellowship through United States Artists. The Mississippi State Committee of the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D. C., honored her in 2006, and the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters recognized her in 2003 with its Visual Art award. Her quilts have been exhibited nationally and are in the collections of the Mississippi Museum of Art and the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D. C. The exhibition, Journey of the Spirit: The Art of Gwendolyn A. Magee, and accompanying book were produced by the Museum in 2004.

Expendable Cargo, 2010. pieced, quilted, and appliquéd cotton, with cording. 82 in. x 18 in. Collection of Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson. Purchase, with funds from McCravey Fund. 2013.014. © Estate of Gwendolyn A. Magee.

RECENT AQUISITIONS

ARTWORK BY TWO OF MISSISSIPPI’S MOST ACCLAIMED FEMALE ARTISTS

On view at the Mississippi Museum of Art is a four-panel mural entitled Four Freedoms by Mildred Nungester Wolfe (1912-2009). The mural was inspired by President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s famous “Four Freedoms” speech, which was part of his Annual Message to Congress on January 6, 1941. Near the end of his address, President Roosevelt articulated four “essential human freedoms” that should be secured everywhere in the world: freedom of speech and expres-sion, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear. Concerned with human rights around the globe, Roosevelt’s address came at a time when World War II was well underway in the Pacific and in Europe. America had a peace-time army, not one prepared for war, and Roosevelt’s 1941 speech made the appeal for higher taxes to fund a strong military defense program. Eleven months after his speech, Japan bombed Pearl Harbor. Mildred Nungester Wolfe was commissioned in the late 1950s by Benjamin McClellan Stevens, Sr., owner of B. M. Stevens Company store and Richton Tie & Timber Com-pany in Richton, Mississippi, to paint the mural. He suggested the theme and supplied her with four Masonite boards. The paintings were completed in 1959 and hung for years above the produce section of his country store, which was the largest and oldest in Mississippi. “We sell hardware, silks, satins, fertilizer and feed. Used to sell coffins but we gave that up,” said Stevens in the article “Richton Grocer Buys Mrs. Wolfe’s Murals” written by Jane Reid-Petty for The State Times in Jackson, Mississippi, in1959.

Wolfe described each panel of the Four Freedoms for Jane Reid-Petty’s article: “I painted a newsboy, because freedom of speech is something forever young, forever be-ing fought for and renewed,” she said about the first panel. In Freedom of Religion, praying figures are rendered as in a stained glass window. A frail, elderly woman with hands folded in Freedom from Want is “touched with the thin sun-light of afternoon.” A terrified woman protects two children as an airplane drops a bomb in Freedom from Fear. The artist said, “I think the fear of a mother for her children must be a climax to all fears, possibly more powerful than any other.” Along with her husband Karl Wolfe (1903-1984), Mildred Nungester Wolfe established The Wolfe Studio in Jackson in 1946. Her work was included in exhibitions at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York; the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; the Butler Insti-tute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio; and the National Portrait Gallery Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. In 2009, she posthumously received a Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts. After the B. M. Stevens Company store closed in the late nineteen-eighties, the Four Freedoms hung in the atrium of the Perry County Courthouse in New Augusta, Mississippi. In 2013, the descendents of arts patron Benjamin McClellan Stevens, Sr. donated the Four Freedoms to the Mississippi Museum of Art. Stevens’s timber operation, now called Richton Tie & Timber, LLC, is still in the family and is run by two of his grandsons.

Four Freedoms by Mildred Nungester Wolfe

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Mildred Nungester Wolfe (1912-2009), Four Freedoms, 1959. oil on Masonite. 104 3/4 in. x 56 in. Collection of Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson. Gift of Daisy McLaurin Stevens Thoms; Benjamin McClellan Stevens, Jr.; Henry Nicholson Stevens; William Forrest Stevens; 2013.024.a-d.

RECENT AQUISITIONS

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MISSISSIPPI’S CREATIVE VISION

“I rarely set out to take a particular picture, but rather I take the picture I find,” wrote photographer Milly Moorhead, who now goes by Milly Moorhead West, in 1987. She has “found” and created pictures since childhood. In addition to photograph-ing extensively in the Mississippi Delta, where her paternal grandfather and uncle owned Lewis Drug Store in Rosedale, she has photographed for

about two decades in Cuba. Her Cuban photographs were published in the book Cuba for Keeps (krowswork-books, 2013) and were exhibited in 2014 at the Fielding Wright Art Gallery at Delta State University in Cleveland, Mississippi, and in 2013 at Krowswork Gallery in Oakland, California. In June 2014, she received the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award in Photography for Cuba for Keeps. One can’t describe Milly Moorhead West’s photography without bringing up the significance of color in her work. “I began to work in color, seeing the world changing and knowing that some things just could not be expressed fully in black and white,” she said in a 2014 interview with Catherine Kirk for Delta State University. In West’s 1983 photograph, Schwer-ner, Chaney & Goodman, black and white portraits of the murdered civil rights workers are surrounded by mundane objects such as batteries in color. The effect is one of a collage and of a

testament to the impact that civil rights volunteers such as Michael Schwerner, James Chaney, and Andrew Goodman have had on our daily lives. West’s pho-tograph was made in the Clarksdale drug store of Aaron Henry, a legend in Mississippi for his leadership in voter registration and in the Mississippi House of Representatives to advance civil rights. Born in Memphis in 1949 to Mis-sissippi parents, Milly Moorhead West spent her formative years in Oxford, Mississippi, where she lives now. Her work is in numerous permanent collec-tions including those of the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; the Delta Blues Museum, Clarksdale, Mississippi; the Memphis Brooks Mu-seum of Art, Tennessee; the Meridian Museum of Art, Mississippi; the Missis-sippi Museum of Art; the Museum of the Mississippi Delta, Greenwood; and the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans.

Milly Moorhead West

Milly Moorhead West (born 1949), Schwerner, Chaney & Goodman, 1983. chromogenic color print. Collection of Mississippi Museum of Art. Purchase. 1997.099. Copyright © the artist.

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EDUCATION

The Scholastic Art Awards of 2014The Mississippi Museum of Art is pleased to recognize Mississippi’s outstanding art students whose work was selected for inclusion in The Scholastic Art Awards of 2014 Mississippi Regional Competition. The Museum has hosted the regional competition for nearly forty years. One thousand three hundred statewide entries in a wide variety of visual art categories, including painting, drawing, mixed-media, pho-tography, sculpture, graphic design, as well as portfolios, were reviewed by a panel of local, in-dependent jurors. Of the 1,300 entries, seventy works received Gold Key Awards, eighty-five received Silver Key Awards, and 261 received Honorable Mention. Five Gold Key works were selected for American Visions Award nomina-tions as best of show in the regional competi-tion: Nadeene Elshamy, Germantown High School, Apricots; Stuart Grady, Jackson Prepara-tory School, Earth Vessel; Stephanie Hill, Perry Central High School, Scarlet; Sarah Neal Secrest, Jackson Preparatory School, Last Bow; and Morgan Villavaso, Starkville High School, Forever Young. Established in 1923 by M. R. Robinson, who also founded Scholastic, Inc., The Scholastic Art Awards are open to students in grades 7 - 12, recognizing outstanding achievements in the arts. The Alliance for Young Artists & Writers, Inc. is the non-profit organization that adminis-ters the program. Located in New York City, the Alliance oversees all national judging. This year’s competition and awards ceremony were sponsored by Atmos Energy and Kathryn L. Wiener.

Stephanie Hill, 11th Grade, Perry Central High SchoolAmerican Visions Nominee, Printmaking, Scarlet

Nadeene Elshamy, 9th Grade, Germantown High School American Visions Nominee, Painting, Apricots

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Stuart Grady, 10th Grade, Jackson Preparatory SchoolAmerican Visions Nominee, Ceramics & Glass, Earth Vessel

Sarah Neal Secrest, 12th Grade, Jackson Preparatory SchoolAmerican Visions Nominee, Photography, Last Bow

Morgan Villavaso, 11th Grade, Starkville High School, American Visions Nominee, Photograph, Forever Young

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Artful AfternoonsYoung people from Jackson’s Midtown neighborhood con-tinue to enjoy afternoon art experiences with the Museum. In collaboration with Midtown Partners and with generous funding from The Walker Foundation, Museum educators work with approximately twenty-five fourth- and fifth-grade students from Brown Elementary. Students are able to tour the Museum’s current exhibitions, deepen their creative awareness, and learn about the day-to-day activities of the MMA. Our Midtown friends also have had the opportunity to explore concepts of urban design and landscape through a variety of artistic media. Several functional art pieces cre-ated by Midtown students, Museum staff, and local artists are now being used and enjoyed in their neighborhood.

Little ones enjoy Look and Learn with Hoot, a monthly educational opportunity for children that emphasizes creative play and literacy through a hands-on art activity and story time. Museum educator Carol Cox Peaster and former Millsaps College student Jayson Porter are pictured with kids at a recent Look and Learn with Hoot session.

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The Museum SchoolMuseum School summer art camps are in full swing. Children and young adults have the opportunity for a more concentrated training in fine art that is both fun and intensive. In the Museum School Summer camps, students are instructed by Museum staff and local artists who draw inspiration from the Museum’s exhibitions and permanent installations and also bring attention to a wide range of ar-tistic disciplines. Students have opportunities for in depth studio instruction and gallery experiences to inspire and create individual artwork.

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Students enjoy FREE admission on Thursdays. This benefit is made possible through the generous support of Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Mississippi.

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Since 2012, the Museum has hosted a unique and original project as part of its ongoing series, C3: Creativity. Conversation. Community. Each Spring, local or visiting artists have lead a participatory art installation in The Art Garden. The goal of the series is to bring together the diverse citizens of the community for the purpose of fueling an artwork that is representative of this place and of Mississippi. In 2014, the Museum partnered with Significant Devel-opments*, an art and research team led by daniel johnson and his wife Amber. During “Core Sample,” the title of this year’s project, participants were invited into the Museum’s Entergy classroom to create bells with clay through a 5-step hand-building ceramic process, which included inscribing the bells with symbols they felt resonated with their own iden-tity and the identities of their communities. The bells were fired in the Museum’s kiln and hung together in a cylindri-cal sculpture during Spring Break week and unveiled to the public on March 20. Participants ranged from all ages and

came from our local and state communities as well as from states as far away as Wisconsin, Rhode Island, and Ohio. The international population was represented by visitors from the United Kingdom. This year’s participants also included school groups, Girl Scout and Boy Scout troops, nursing home residents and home school groups, among numerous oth-ers. The success of “Core Sample” is a benefit to the Museum as it looks forward to developing more partnerships within the community.

*Significant Developments is a socially engaged art work acting within the legal framework of a limited liability company. CEO daniel johnson leads a team of artists to facilitate communities and organizations in strategic advancement through capacity-building aesthetic interactions.

This year’s project was made possible with support from Alternate ROOTS.

Join us in the Museum Garden!

We pull weeds, cut and arrange flowers for the Museum, study native flora, nourish the Mississippi Artist’s Garden and fellowship with other gardeners.

We are Garden Partners and you are needed!no joining fee – set your own volunteer hours

If you are interested in joining Garden Partners, please contact

Mindy Kunz mkunz@msmuseumart.org601.960.1515

C3: CREATIVITY. CONVERSATION. COMMUNITY.

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Sundays in The Art Garden

Dog Day Afternoon noon - 5 PM

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sponsored by Pepsi.

In partnership with the Greater Jackson Arts Council, the Museum presents a quarterly outdoor evening concert series featuring local musicians of all genres performing on the C Spire Stage.

Screen on the Green The Museum and Crossroads Film Society present an outdoor film series on the BankPlus Green. This year’s lineup has included Groundhog Day, City Lights, Toy Story, and What’s Eating Gilbert Grape. Funding for Screen on the Green is provided by Horne, LLP.

High Note Jam

Live at Lunch

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MUSEUM STAFF NEWS

Kathy Acerrajoined the Museumstaff in January as Chief of Engagementand Learning. Prior to joining the Museum staff, sheworked as an educa-tional consultant throughout the United States and Canada, and prior to that, as a classroom teacher for twenty-four years, nineteen of which were spent teaching choral music. Kathy is a graduate of Bowling Green State University with a degree in music education. She will lead the Museum’s efforts to develop interdis-ciplinary curriculum aligned with Missis-sippi State Standards as well as Common Core Standards.

Marika Cackett,Director of Events,is originally from Washington D.C. and comes to the Museum with more than 15 years of event and marketing experience. She has previously managed events for the Jackson Convention & Visitors Bureau, The Home Depot, State Farm, and The Salvation Army. Marika received her bachelor of science degree from the University of Maryland.

Causey Cato joined the Museum staff in January as Studio Programs Coordinator and Master Teaching Artist. She is a practicing visual artist and arts educator. She previously served as manager of Art Part-ners, a Boys and Girls Club after-school art education program, and as a studio assistant for an artist who works in Biloxi, Miss. Causey was one of eleven artists admitted to the Museum’s 2011 Mississippi Invitational. She graduated magna cum laude from Mississippi State University,

earning a degree in fine art and sculpture. Causey and husband Zack Harris have plans to move to Athens, Georgia, this Fall, where Zack will attend the University of Georgia as a graduate student.

Amanda Lucius joined the Museum staff in November of 2103 as Graphic Designer. She is a graduate of The University of Southern Mississippi, earning a degree in graphic design. Previously, she was employed as a design-er and brand manager with ARAMARK Food Services on Southern Mississippi’s campus in Hattiesburg. As a designer here at the Museum, Amanda works to develop and maintain the Museum’s visual identity in advertising, events, and programming.

Caitlin Podas joined the Museum staff in February as Registrar. Prior to joining the Museum staff, Caitlin held positions as Director of Collections and Programming as well as Collections Specialist at the Missis-sippi Agriculture & Forestry Museum. She served as Assistant Registrar at the McKis-sick Museum at the University of South Carolina and held registrarial internships at the South Carolina State Museum and at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, among others. Caitlin received her bachelor’s degree in history from Colo-rado State University and her master’s degree in public history from the Univer-sity of South Carolina, from which she also earned a certificate in museum manage-ment. As Registrar, Caitlin is responsible for caring for, handling, and storing works of art in the Museum’s collection and those on loan. Other responsibilities include maintaining collection records as well as packing, insuring, and shipping loans from the Museum’s permanent collection and temporary exhibitions.

Morgan Samuels, CPA, joined the Museum staff at the end of 2013 and serves as Director of Finance and Administration. Morgan earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from The University of Mississippi. Her responsibilities include the oversight of the Museum’s day-to-day financial operations as well as all Museum resources, including building maintenance, human resources, and technology.

Chef Nick Wallace has been serving up his culinary creations for party guests and diners at The Palette Café for a little over a year. Chef Nick was born and reared in Edwards, Miss. He has always given credit for his cooking abilities to his grandmothers. His culinary philosophy and passion reflect the growing trend towards a healthier lifestyle while work-ing with local farmers. Chef Nick has been awarded several distinctions from his peers. He was named in the 2013 Best Chefs of America, and had the great pleasure to participate in the James Beard Foundation’s third Chef ’s Boot Camp for Policy & Change in New York last Sep-tember. In December, he had the honor to serve a sold out “Southern Hospitality” dinner at the famed James Beard House in New York City, and, as of this writing, he has been signed to appear on the popular cooking reality show, Cutthroat Kitchen. Chef Nick is also working on the develop-ment of a new restaurant that is sched-uled to open around January on Capitol Street.

MMA Welcomes New Staff MembersThe Museum is pleased to announce the addition of the following new staff members. Each brings extraordinary knowledge, experience, and skills that reinforce the Museum’s mission of engaging Mississippians in the visual arts.

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Alfredo Donelson is an attorney in the law firm of Adams and Reese LLP where he is a member of the firm’s Banking and Finance Team and the Corporate Prac-tice Team. He earned his undergraduate degree from Cornell University and his J.D. degree from Georgetown University Law Center. Alfrado’s professional memberships and community affiliations include the Mississippi and New York bar associations, Mississippi Children’s Home Services, and Leadership Greater Jackson. Alfrado and his wife Shirley are the parents of two daughters.

Nan Sanders, a native of Cleveland, Mississippi, is a graduate of Delta State University and a life-long arts advocate. She is a painter and has spent most of her life dedicated to promoting the Arts in the Delta. She has served as a founding member of the Delta Arts Alliance Board of Directors. The Sanders Family endows the Jimmy and Hazel Sanders Sculpture Garden at Delta State University. Nan has received Awards for Community Service from the Chamber of Commerce as well as the President’s Award for the Arts at DSU. She is in her third year as a member of the Mississippi Arts Commission, currently serving as chair. Nan and her husband Mike are residents of Cleveland, Mississippi. They have three children and six grandchildren.

MMA ANNOUNCES TWO NEW TRUSTEES

MMA Director Betsy Bradley, 2nd row middle, is pictured with fellow

Southeastern Art Museum Directors (SEAMD) at their annual meeting in

Knoxville, Tennessee. This organization is one of several professional regional and national groups in which Betsy is active.

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The Museum is pleased to announce the addition of new trustees Alfrado Donelson and Nan Sanders.

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Sketches of Spain, the Museum’s 2014 major fundraising event, offered guests a taste of Spanish Sojourns: Robert Henri and the Spirit of Spain, this Fall’s fourteenth installment in The Annie Laurie Swaim Hearin Memorial Exhibition Series. The Museum honored

gala sponsors with a seated dinner in The Art Garden, which was transformed into scenes of Bilbao, Barcelona, Madrid, Toledo, and Seville. A Spanish-inspired menu was created by Chef Nick Wallace and was served under the stars of a perfect April evening. Diners enjoyed the strands of live Spanish guitar music and a lively performance by festive Flamenco dancers. A live auction capped off the dinner portion of the evening. Following dinner, the popu-lar Latin/jazz band Latinismo entertained at the after party where guests browsed silent auction items and enjoyed Spanish-themed cocktails and hors d’oeuvres. Proceeds from the annual event benefit the Museum’s exhibitions, programs, and community partnerships.

Special thanks to this year’s gala committee:Katherine and David McRae, Chairs

Jennifer and Peder Johnson, Honorary ChairsMary Clift and Jerry Abdalla

Phyllis BarrLauren and Maury Breazeale

Lanier and Vaiden ClarkFrances and Justin Croft

Jennifer HammCarley and Cable Hawkins

Jenny Tate and Richard LadnerJessica and Josh Swain

Scott Williams

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Music in the CityThe Mississippi Story exhibition provides an intimate set-ting for Music in the City. Here John Paul accompanies violinist Thomas Lowe. Music in the City is presented monthly in collaboration with St. Andrew’s Episcopal Cathedral and sponsored by Wise Carter Child & Caraway, P. A.

Downtown Jazz Series Pat Confer opened the Museum’s 2014 Downtown Jazz series, which features monthly performances by local and regional jazz and blues art-ists. Downtown Jazz is sponsored by Carroll Warren & Parker PLLC.

Designed for young professionals (but all ages are welcome), Museum after Hours is a monthly event that highlights different exhibitions and provides an opportunity to explore the Museum after normal operating hours. Funding for Museum after Hours is provided by The Clarion-Ledger and Gannett Foundation. Occasional exhibition fees apply and a cash bar is offered.

A Trip to Italy

Guests enjoyed an Italian-flavored evening highlighted with a journey through the exhibition An Italian Palate. Artist Wyatt Waters and restau-rateur Robert St. John led the way through the scenes of Italy depicted in Waters’s paintings and St. John’s newest cookbook An Italian Palate. The event was sponsored by Dale and Associates.

Charles Alexander, Doug Dale, and Jeff Barnes of Dale and Associates are pictured with Wyatt Waters and Robert St. John

Jamie Weems (left) and Johnny Rawls perform at the December 17, 2013, Unburied Treasures: Cover to Cover program.

Unburied Treasures This series brings the humanities to life through art, literature, and music. Now in its twelfth year, Unburied Treasures continues to educate and en-tertain audiences with monthly presentations, each featuring a different work of art from the Museum’s permanent collection. Complementary literary and musical selections by guest presenters enhance various ele-ments found in the artwork. Funding for Unburied Treasures is provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities through the Mississippi Humanities Council.

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The Rembrandt Society DinnerThe Museum hosted its twenty-sixth annual Rembrandt Society dinner to honor members who support the MMA at the high-est levels of giving. Guests dined family style and enjoyed a farm-to-table menu prepared by Executive Chef Nick Wallace. The black tie event was sponsored for a third consecutive year by Harriet and Warren Stephens, Stephens Inc.

Robert Langford, Laurie McRee, and Walter and Frances Jean Neely enjoy family style dining.

Branch Manager and Senior Vice President of Stephens Inc. Jackson Greg Frascogna and wife Claire

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Rembrandt Society click here.

Lighting of The Bethlehem TreeThe Museum celebrated the 2013 holiday season with its sixth presentation of The Bethlehem Tree: Younger Foundation Crèche Collection in Trustmark Grand Hall. The official tree lighting took place during a special program of Music in the City, which fea-tured seasonal music and hymns performed by the Cathedral Choir of St. Andrew under the direction of Choirmaster John Paul. The Bethlehem Tree tableau was generously sponsored by St. Dominic’s, and Music in the City by Wise Carter Child & Caraway, P. A. in partnership with St. Andrew’s Cathedral.

Museum Director Betsy Bradley takes children on a tour of the Bethlehem Tree.

Betsy Bradley is shown with St. Dominic’s representatives Claude Harbarger, Sister Dorothea, and Sister Thecla.

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Cynthia Palmer, Wynn and Bill Seemann, Betsy Bradley, Leslie Kelen, Gale and Henry Laird, and Roger Ward at the opening of This Light of Ours: Activist Photographers of the Civil Rights Movement

The Slave SeriesBeth Batton, Obie McNair, and D. E. Magee are pictured at the opening of The Slave Series: Quilts by Gwendolyn A. Magee.

President and CEO of the Community Foundation Jane Alexander and her husband Brent

Andy Treadway of Atmos Energy and Betsy Bradley

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This Light of Ours

Portraits UnveiledThe Museum commemorated the 50th anniversary of Medgar Evers’s death with the presentation of the exhibi-tion Portraits of Medgar and Myrlie Evers by Jason Bouldin and Paintings by Mary Lovelace O’Neal. The law firm of Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell, & Berkowitz, PC underwrote the por-trait of Mr. Evers and raised the funds to pay for Mrs. Evers’s portrait from twenty-seven Mississippi women.Alan Moore of Baker Donelson and MMA

Chief Curator Roger Ward unveil the portrait of Myrlie Evers-Williams.

OPENING RECEPTIONS

Artist Jason Bouldin and subject Myrlie Evers-Williams embrace following the unvieling of her and her late husband’s portraits.

Sponsored by Atmos Energy and the Community Foundation of Greater Jackson

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NEW COLLECTORS CLUB

New Collectors ClubThe New Collectors Club continues to offer its members art educational experi-ences in fun and relaxed environments. Be-ginning in January, programs have included a visit to the Millsaps-Wilson Library to view an exhibition of original work by Mildred and Karl Wolfe held by Millsaps College, along with artifacts and memorabilia. In February, Jackson artist Jerrod Partridge hosted the group at his private studio in Fondren, and in March members partici-pated in the MMA’s 2014 installment of the C3 Project “Core Sample” led by daniel johnson of Significant Developments LLC. Lecturer Diane Williams, storyteller and fi-ber artist, delivered a lecture at the Muse-um in April on African American quilts. The presentation was open to the public and at-tended by New Collectors Club members. The most recent gathering was a day trip to Vicksburg to visit Lesley Silver’s fun and fantastic Attic Gallery; H. C. Porter’s Gallery of contemporary art; the Firehouse Gallery, headquarters of the Vicksburg Art Associa-tion; and Vicksburg National Military Park. The group stopped long enough to enjoy a lively lunch at historic Walnut Hills. The latest gathering was at an event in conjunction with the U. S. A. International Ballet Competition when it honored one of Mississippi’s most nationally-acclaimed artists, Andrew Bucci, on June 17. In celebration of its thirty-fifth year, the USA IBC commissioned Bucci to create this year’s commemorative poster image. More events are in the planning stage for late Summer and Fall, so be on the lookout for eblasts and other notices for the lineup.

Anyone interested in becoming a member of the New Collectors Club may do so by calling the Museum at 601.960.1515. Remember, you do not have to be an art historian, artist, or even a collector to join. Bring your enthusiasm for learning and enjoyment of being part of a diverse group which sharesyour interest in art. You just might catch the collecting bug after all!

Join now!

Club members are shown at H.C.Porter’s Gallery.

Group enjoys lunch at Walnut Hills in Vicksburg.

Collectors Club members browse Attic Gallery.

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STATEWIDE AFFILIATES

after Simone Cantarini (Italian, 1612-1648), Rest on the Flight into Egypt, no date. etching. Collection of Mississippi Museum of Art. Bequest of Sara Virginia Jones. 1991.040.

Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College Fine Art Gallery, Jackson County Campus, Gautier

Mississippi State University, Starkville

Mississippi University for Women Fine Art Gallery, Columbus

Museum of the Mississippi Delta, Greenwood

Northwest Mississippi Community College, Senatobia

Ohr-O’Keefe Museum of Art, Biloxi

Pike County Arts Council, McComb

Southern Cultural Heritage Foundation, Vicksburg

Union County Heritage Museum, New Albany

United States District Court, Aberdeen

United States District Court, Oxford

The University of Mississippi Museums, Oxford

The University of Southern Mississippi Museum of Art, Hattiesburg

Walter Anderson Museum of Art, Ocean Springs

The Mississippi Museum of Art’s Statewide Affiliate Network covers all four corners of the state and serves to showcase the numerous and varied holdings in the Museum’s permanent collection. Thirty-two official sites at varying times host exhibitions organized by the Museum. These exhibitions are supported with funds provided by the Museum’s Statewide Traveling Exhibition Endowment, a fund made possible through signifi-cant private contributions matched by the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency, with additional funding provided by the Mississippi Arts Commission’s Arts Reinvest-ment Initiative. For information about upcoming exhibitions in your area, visit www.msmuseumart.org or call 1-866-VIEWART (843.9278).

Next up:August 26 – October 31, 2014 Italian Prints from the Mississippi Museum of Art Department of Art Gallery in McComus Hall, Mississippi State University, StarkvilleSeptember 1 - September 30, 2014Choctaw Gardens: Photographs by Hilda Stuart McComb Public Library, McComb

DATES ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE

A performance of the actual historical dia-

Mississippi Museum of Art Statewide Affiliate NetworkAmory Regional Museum

B.J. Chain Public Library, Olive Branch

Belhaven University, Jackson

The Brookhaven Trust

Charleston Arts Revitalization Effort (CARE)

Coahoma County Courthouse, Clarksdale

Crossroads Museum, Corinth

Delta Blues Museum, Clarksdale

Dollye M. E. Robinson College of Liberal Arts Gallery, Jackson State University

Eula Bass Lewis Gallery at Jones County Junior College, Ellisville

Fielding Wright Art Center, Delta State University, Cleveland

The Gallery at Colbert Commons, Forest

Greenville Arts Council

Gumtree Museum of Art, Tupelo

Historic Jefferson College, Washington

Meridian Museum of Art

Mississippi Cultural Crossroads, Port Gibson

Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College Fine Art Gallery, Jefferson Davis Campus, Gulfport

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M U S E U M I N F O R M AT I O N

MAILING ADDRESS 380 South Lamar Street, Jackson, MS 39201TELEPHONE 601.960.1515 or toll free 1.866.VIEWART (843.9278)FAX 601.960.1505 WEBSITE www.msmuseumart.org

Directions to MMA From Interstate 55 take the Pearl Street Exit (Exit 96A) into downtown Jackson. Turn left at Lamar Street. The Museum is located two blocks south at the northeast corner of Lamar and Court streets.

Hours Tuesday – Saturday 10 AM – 5 PM, Sunday noon – 5 PM. Closed Monday. Hours may vary during special exhibitions.

Admission $5 adults, $4 seniors (60+), $3 students age 6 – college, FREE for Museum members and children under 5. Admission may vary during special exhibitions.

Admission is FREE for The Mississippi Story exhibition.

BlueCross BlueShield FREE Thursdays Students enjoy FREE admission on Thurs-days. This benefit is made possible through the generous support of Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Mississippi.

Group Tours The Museum offers personalized guided tours for adults and stu-dents with two week’s advance reservations. To make group tour reservations, please contact Dorian Pridgen at 601.960.1515 or dpridgen@msmuseumart.org, or visit our website at www.msmuseumart.org for printable tour forms. A Museum staff member will call you to confirm your reservation.

Parking Metered parking is available on Lamar and Pascagoula streets, and paid parking lots are adjacent to the building. Passenger drop-off and complimentary parking for tour and school buses is located adjacent to the building on West Street.

Accessibility Entryways and all galleries are accessible to the physically impaired. Free wheelchairs are available upon request. Please reserve in advance.

The Palette Café by Viking is open Tuesday through Saturday.* Coffee served 10 AM. Lunch served 11 AM – 2 PM. Closed Sunday and Monday.*Limited menu on Saturdays. Please call 601.960.9900 for up-to-date information.

The Museum Store is open during regular Museum hours. Closed Monday.

Mississippi Museum of Art Staff Roster: Betsy Bradley, Director; Morgan Samuels, Director of Finance and Administration; Mindy Kunz, Director of Operations; Allison England, Office Manager; Nina Moss, Director of Communications; Roger Ward, Deputy Director and Chief Curator; Beth Batton, Curator of the Collection; Kathleen Varnell, Curatorial Associate; Caitlin Podas, Registrar; L. C. Tucker, Jr., Chief Preparator; Melvin Johnson, Associate Preparator; Tom Jones, Preparator; Kathy Acerra, Chief of Engagement and Learning; Carol Cox Peaster, Director of Family and Community Programs; Dorian Pridgen, Director of School Programs; Causey Cato, Studio Programs Coordinator and Master Teaching Artist; Jenny Tate, Chief of Marketing and Development; Julian Rankin, Director of New Media; Amanda Lucius, Graphic Designer; Annette French, Receptionist; Elizabeth Tyler, The Museum Store Manager; Stacey Heidelberg Langford, The Museum Store Sales Associate; Nick Wallace, Executive Chef; Marika Cackett, Director of Events; James A. Steverson, Chief of Security; Julia Stewart, Deputy Chief of Security; Alexis L. Durr, Tammy Ervin, Matt Malouf, Charles Moaton, Cary Smith, Darrell D. T. Winston, security officers; Willie Gordon and Eric Ward, maintenance

Mississippi Museum of Art Board of Trustees Executive Committee: Laurie H. McRee, Chairman; Mayo Flynt, Vice Chairman; Roy Campbell, Past Chairman; Ellen Leake, Treasurer; Art Spratlin, Secretary; Peder Johnson, at large; Jerry Host, at large; Steve Edds, at large; Trustees: Robert Alexander, Jr.; Dea Dea Baker; Jason Bouldin; Geraldine Kearse Brookins; Margaret Carl; Joanne Cheek; Steven Chevalier; Harold Corbin; Tommy Darnell; Alfrado Donelson; Haley Fisackerly; David Fowler; Jack Garner; Robert Gibbs; Robert E. Hauberg, Jr.; Jane Crater Hiatt; John Horhn; Leslie Hurst; Mavis James; D. E. Magee, Jr.; Katherine McRae; Walter Neely; Denise Owens; John Pearson; Lisa B. Percy; Nan Sanders; Laurie Smith; Ward Sumner; Stacy Underwood; Gloria Walker; Blake Wilson; Nancy Yates; William Dunlap, emeritus; Kathryn Wiener, emerita

The mission of the Mississippi Museum of Art is to engage Mississippians in the visual arts.

The Mississippi Museum of Art and its programs are sponsored in part by the city of Jackson and the Jackson Convention & Visitors Bureau. Support is also provided in part by funding from the Mississippi Arts Commission, a state agency, and in part by the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency.

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Spanish Sojourns: Robert Henri and the Spirit of Spain is organized by the Telfair Museums, Savannah, Georgia. This exhibition is made possible through the generous support of the Mr. and Mrs. Raymond J. Horowitz Foundation for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts. Robert Henri and Spain, Face to Face: An Exhibition about Connoisseurship, Conservation, and Context is organized by the Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, Mississippi. Local presentation of these exhibitions is made possible through the generous support of the Robert M. Hearin Support Foundation. The Mississippi Museum of Art and its programs are sponsored in part by the city of Jackson and the Jackson Convention & Visitors Bureau. Support is also provided in part by funding from Trustmark, Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Mississippi, and the Mississippi Arts Commission, a state agency.

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