June 2, 2021
Burnaway’s bi-weekly news roundup, with news from Mississippi Museum of Art’s collaborative exhibition, curator Allison Glenn heads to Texas, and more.
Mississippi (9)
Curators Picks: Michael Ross
Jackie Clay on Michael Ross in Laurel, Mississippi.
Mississippi v. Tennessee: Flow Path
In the second of two installments, Cecil Howell explores the absurdities of our language and laws around water use in collages based on a groundwater dispute between two states.
Mississippi v. Tennessee: Water as Cake
Landscape architect and designer Cecil Howell explores the absurdities of our language and laws around water use in collages based on a groundwater dispute between two states.
Down in Yalobusha: Coulter Fussell in Water Valley, Mississippi
Carson Keith visits the studio of artist Coulter Fussell, whose quilts indiscriminately merge the influences of contemporary abstract painting and Southern craft.
Those Who Watch: Nick Cave at the Mississippi Museum of Art
Adria R. Walker examines the racial dynamics of artistic masquerade in Nick Cave’s Soundsuits on view in Jackson, Mississippi.
Promised Land: Saving Margaret’s Grocery in Mississippi
Annie Moye tells the love story behind a colorful artist environment in Mississippi and reports on efforts to preserve it following the artist’s death.
Mississippi: Poems by Ann Fisher-Wirth with Photographs by Maude Schuyler Clay
“If you’re not from Mississippi, it’s hard to claim the right to write about it,” Fisher-Wirth says. Although she has lived in the Magnolia State for the past 30 years, she says that Clay, who is fifth generation Mississippian, brought an authority to the collection that she could not. But anyone who reads Mississippi will find that Fisher-Wirth has a deep understanding of the complex lives of Mississippians.
