Exhibition to be presented in three additional venues located in U.S. cities greatly impacted by the Great Migration.  Today, the Mississippi Museum of Art (MMA) and Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA), co-organizers of A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration, announced the groundbreaking exhibition will travel to three additional venues on a five-city U.S. tour. The exhibition, with newly commissioned works by 12 of among the most acclaimed artists working today, premiered at the MMA from April 9 to September 11, 2022, before traveling to the BMA, where it is ..read more

2023 Scholastic Art Award Gold Key-Winning Works on View through April 2, 2023 Jackson, MS…The Mississippi Museum of Art (MMA) has announced the winners of the Mississippi Regional Competition of the 2023 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards. Presented by the nonprofit organization the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers, the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards are the country’s longest-running and most prestigious scholarship and recognition program for creative students in grades 7–12. This year, which marks 100 years of the Awards, more than 100,000 teens from across the United States a ..read more

MMA and UMMC receive $250,000 for exhibition, programming, and art therapy partnership related to artist Noah Saterstrom’s “What Became of Dr. Smith?” Jackson, MS…Today, the Mississippi Museum of Art (MMA) and University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC) announced they are the recipients of a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). The $250,000 grant will support the upcoming exhibition What Became of Dr. Smith?, along with public programming and expanded art therapy partnerships between the two institutions. The exhibition and public programs will be presented at MM ..read more

Forward, by 2020 in-state artist in residence Charles Edward Williams, is a seven-track audio album with interviews and original music and is the result of an interactive community engagement project that considered race relations in the early 1900s. The album’s title, Forward, was inspired by the 1961 song We’ll Never Turn Back by Bertha Gober, an activist with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). The song specifically relates to incidents in Pike and Liberty counties during the early 1960s and throughout the 20th century. SNCC considered the song its anthem and, in ..read more

Mississippi Museum of Art Presents Thank You Please Come Again Featuring Photographs by Kate Medley April 6 – June 23, 2024  Jackson, MS…The Mississippi Museum of Art (MMA) today announced the upcoming exhibition Thank You Please Come Again featuring work by Mississippi’s own renowned photojournalist Kate Medley. On view from April 6 to June 23, 2024, in MMA’s Trustmark Grand Hall, Medley’s first solo museum exhibition features twenty-two photographic prints recording her ten-year journey through the heart of the American South. The images capture service stations, convenience stores, and ..read more

MMA Launches Access for All: Free First Saturdays to Boost Art Access and Community Engagement Free Admission on First Saturdays through 2026 via Access for All Jackson, MS… The Mississippi Museum of Art (MMA) announced today they will be offering free admission to exhibitions on the first Saturday of every month through the end 2026. Access for All: Free First Saturdays is made possible through the Art Bridges Foundation‘s Access for All program, a transformative three-year funding initiative that aims to increase access to museums across America and foster engagement with local audiences. Th ..read more

Jackson, MS…The Mississippi Museum of Art (MMA) will present Maude Schuyler Clay: Portraits of a Place, an exhibition of nearly 100 photographic works by the artist from the early 1980s to the present, including intimate family portraits, still-life images of fruit, haunting landscapes, and glass plate images taken by Clay’s grandfather, Joseph Albert May. Judge May was a photo hobbyist and influence on Clay’s career. The glass plates shown for the first time in an exhibition document the agrarian lifestyle of the 1920’s Mississippi Delta.  Portraits of a Place will also feature select im ..read more

First major American traveling exhibition devoted to the legendary artist’s inventive landscape portraiture on view November 11, 2023, through March 3, 2024   Jackson, MS…The Mississippi Museum of Art (MMA) will present Picasso Landscapes: Out of Bounds, an exhibition that will explore the artist’s lifelong fascination with landscape by spotlighting his innovative reimagination of this traditional genre. On view from November 11, 2023, through March 3, 2024, Picasso Landscapes: Out of Bounds, features 30 paintings and sculptures spanning Picasso’s full career. From his earliest days in ar ..read more

Installation in one of MMA’s Gardens holds space for Black Southerners to honor and reckon with grief. Jackson, MS… Mississippi Museum of Art’s (MMA) Center for Art and Public Exchange (CAPE) unveiled the exhibition How We Get Over: We Grow On from 2023 national artists-in-residence Sarah Jené and Jasmine Williams. On display through September 3, 2023, We Grow On is an outdoor installation that reminds us we don’t get rid of grief: we grow through it. This exhibition invites audiences into MMA’s gardens to settle into difficult and variegated experiences and to find new experiences of softness ..read more

Brown-David’s work is on view in the 2023 Mississippi Invitational from June 10—September 17, 2023 Jackson, MS…The Mississippi Museum of Art (the Museum/MMA) today announced the 2023 recipient of The Jane Crater Hiatt Artist Fellowship. The grant of $20,000 has been awarded to Adrienne Brown-David of Water Valley, whose artwork is featured in the 2023 Mississippi Invitational exhibition on view from June 10 through September 17, 2023. The achievement was recognized in a special reception honoring all the Invitational artists on Thursday, June 8. Administered through MMA, The Jane Crater Hiatt ..read more