Major exhibition by pioneering artist Dusti Bongé opens at The Mississippi Museum of Art
Dusti Bongé (American, 1903-1993), Shrimp Boats at the Dock, Biloxi, MS, P-159, c. 1940. oil on canvas, 21.75 x 27.875. Collection of the Dusti Bongé Art Foundation.
JACKSON, MS
.-The Mississippi Museum of Art will open Piercing the Inner Wall: The Art of Dusti Bongé, an expansive survey revealing the full range of the pioneering artists oeuvre. Considered Mississippis first artist to work consistently in a Modernist style, Dusti Bongé (190393) was active in New Yorks dynamic art scene and creative communities which flourished along the Gulf Coast in the 1930s through the early 1990s. During her lifetime, she created a multifaceted body of work that transitioned from figurative and Cubist depictions of scenes of her hometown Biloxi in the late 1930s, through a period of Surrealism and into Abstract Expressionism that defines her mature work.
The Mississippi Museum of Art (MMA/the Museum) announced today it has published a digital catalogue documenting a series of five exhibitions and related public programs organized in .
Mississippi Museum of Art and Tougaloo College release Art and Civil Rights Initiative digital catalogue
Romare Bearden (1911-1988), The Train, 1975. etching, 29.875 x 22 in. Bequest of Sara Virginia Jones. Collection of the Mississippi Museum of Art. 1991.214.
JACKSON, MISS
.- The Mississippi Museum of Art announced today it has published a digital catalogue documenting a series of five exhibitions and related public programs organized in partnership with Tougaloo College through the Museums Art and Civil Rights Initiative.
In 2017, MMA and the College joined creative forces to form ACRI, a multi-layered, three-year partnership to leverage the art collections of both institutions to foster community dialogue about civil rights issues, past and present. Funded by the Henry Luce Foundation, ACRI supported work in art practice, collections development, research and scholarship, an exhibition and lecture series, and paid Internships. The topics, artworks, and programs addressed
Send The Arkansas Arts Center, undergoing a $100 million renovation and expansion, is getting a new name, too.
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Shani Peters is CAPE s 2021 Artist-in-Residence
Shani Peters. Photo: Chanel Matsunami Govreau, 2019.
JACKSON, MS
.-Mississippi Museum of Arts Center for Art and Public Exchange today announced Shani Peters (b.1981) as its 2021 national artist-in-residence. Starting in early spring 2021, Petersa multidisciplinary artist and educator based in Harlemwill embark on a multi-part project, Collective Care for Black Mothers and Caretakers.
Incorporating aspects of her multi-faceted community-based practice, Peters public, project-based, collaborative work considers painful truths and creates opportunities for collective momentum toward learning, wisdom sharing, and community exchange. Her process is informed by her lived experience and in-depth research as she examines the politics of shared society to reveal individual and community approaches to managing the weights on and demands of Black mothers and caretakers.