Mississippi Museum of Art

Art has the power, to be the spark that ignites conversations. Monique Davis, managing director of the Mississippi Museum of Art’s Center for Art & Public Exchange (CAPE) Art Credit: Henry Clay Anderson (1911- 1998),"A Wedding at Home, on a Hot Day," ca. 1960, (printed 2007). Collection of the Mississippi Museum of Art. Purchase with funds from the Mary Mhoon Endowment, 2016.

We love this time of year. New blooms in The Art Garden at MMA are ready to be discovered! Don’t forget to visit our exhibitions Piercing the Inner Wall: The Art of Dusti Bongè and Betye Saar: Call and Response on view now until July 11th. #gardens #TheArtGarden #Flowers #art #nature #mississippi... photo credit: @amaemallette

HAPPENING THIS WEEK @ MMA! Thursday, June 3, 6 PM: Curator Talk | Call and Response with Rujeko Hockley [ZOOM EVENT] Rujeko Hockley, Assistant Curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art, connects the work within Betye Saar: Call and Response with how leaders in the art industry can reframe narratives, open spaces, and use art as a way to build deep relationships with community.... ++ Friday, June 4, 11:30 AM: Artist Look Tour | Phoenix Savage For this virtual Artist Look Tour, Phoenix Savage, sculptor and associate professor of art at Tougaloo College, gives her perspective of work within Betye Saar: Call and Response. ++Join us on Facebook (Mississippi Museum of Art) or or Instagram (@msmuseumart). Visit our site to see what's happening @ MMA in the month of June! https://www.msmuseumart.org/events/upcoming/

"This is Betye's exhibition, as an artist who is showing her sketchbook, and there's something about the kind of process and action that’s taking place within this exhibition that I hope people can just connect to being an artist. You can enter into this show with the heavy handedness of race, gender and all the things, but you can also enter into this exhibition and just enjoy sketchbooks, seeing how sketchbooks turn to objects and vice versa. - Ryan N. Dennis, Chief Curato...r and Artistic Director of the Museum’s Center for Art and Public Exchange (excerpt from article on Forbes.com, Mar 2021, written by Chadd Scott). View "Betye Saar: Call and Response", now on view at MMA until July 11, 2021. Art Credit: Betye Saar "The Edge of Ethics," 2010 , Mixed media assemblage- metal cage, figures, chain, glass bottle, and fan coral. Courtesy of the artist and Roberts Projects, Los Angeles, California. Betye Saar. photo Museum Associates/LACMACourtesy of the artist and Roberts Projects, Los Angeles, CA. #BetyeSaar #callandreponse #MMAexhibition #exhibitions #Mississippi #JacksonMS #sketchbooks