The Museum offers free admission to exhibitions, drop-in artmaking (11 AM – 2 PM), and a free guided tour (2pm) on the first Saturday of every month as part of Access for All, provided by the Art Bridges Foundation.

Some current exhibits, according to MMA’s website www.msmuseumart.org, include:

Nuestro Mississippi, which uses photography and oral history to document Mississippi’s fastest-growing population: its Hispanic community. Immigrants from Latin America have set down roots and created communities across the Magnolia State for generations. Today, from Hernando to Biloxi, they work as farmers, public health professionals, business owners, professors, dancers, artists, archivists, and community organizers. A series of portraits by Austin-based photographer Roj Rodriguez and related programming highlight their resilience, historical impact, and ongoing contributions to Mississippi culture.

New Symphony of Time, expands and illuminates the boundaries of Mississippi’s narrative. Mississippi, as a real place and also as a metaphor for the basic struggles of our country, has inspired artworks that express the need to understand our concrete realities of living with each other in this moment, as well as our deep connection to those gone before us and our legacies to those who follow.

McCarty Pottery: Love. Life. Clay. In 1952, William Faulkner gave Lee and Pup McCarty permission to dig all the clay they wanted from a gulley on his property. That was the beginning of a 64-year love affair with clay, Mississippi clay. In 1954, the McCartys lived and worked in a mule barn in Merigold, Mississippi, creating together a pottery design that would become nationally and internationally known. The trademarked “river,” a small black wavy line would become synonymous with the signature glazes of nutmeg brown, cobalt blue, and jade.