Throughout Stark Young’s fifty-year career, the author produced works of poetry, drama, literature, criticism, and painting. His most popular work of fiction, So Red the Rose, was published in 1934 and later adapted as a movie. […]
Mississippi Writers Trail – Mary Garrard
Greenville
Indianola native, Mary Garrard, is an art historian who is recognized as one of the founders of feminist art theory. She is particularly known for her work on the Baroque painter Artemisia Gentileschi. […]
Holland joined the Civil Rights movement in the 1960s, volunteering for SNCC. Her efforts in helping black people register to vote landed her in jail multiple times. Her play, Dr. Holland’s Second Doctor Lady, became the source material for her […]
Gulfport native, Natasha Trethewey, is a two-term U.S. Poet Laureate, Mississippi Poet Laureate, and member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers. In her Pulitzer Prize-winning Native Guard, Trethewey’s poems elegize, document, and provide testaments of personal and public histories that […]
Mississippi Writers Trail – Julia Reed
Greenville
Julia Reed, a native of Greenville, is known for her irreverent take on politics and for finding humor in the human condition, particularly in the South. She was a longtime editor and writer for Vogue and has authored numerous books […]
Fondren Art Gallery
Jackson
Fondren Art Gallery is a contemporary art space located in the Fondren District of Jackson. Founded by local artist Richard McKey, the gallery serves as both his studio and a showcase for artworks by regional, national, and international artists, with […]
Jam Session Mural – Community Arts Center
Hattiesburg
The Jam Session Mural is a vibrant, larger-than-life tribute to the music legends with roots in this city. Located at the Hattiesburg Community Arts Center and curated by the Hattiesburg Alliance for Public Art, these works of public art are […]
Mississippi Country Music Trail – Lloyd Green
Hattiesburg
Country music icon Lloyd Green received a Mississippi Country Music Trail marker at Marsh Hall, Fine Arts Building on The University of Southern Mississippi campus. The marker details his biggest collaborations with musicians like Tammy Wynette, Charlie Rich, Alan Jackson, […]
Kate Freeman Clark Art Gallery
Holly Springs
Kate Freeman Clark Art Gallery in Holly Springs is a museum and art gallery dedicated to the life and work of local Impressionist painter Kate Freeman Clark (1875–1957). Born in Holly Springs, Clark trained and exhibited widely in the northeastern […]
