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NOVEMBER 2019

FROM THE DIRECTOR


Warmest of Fall greetings from your University Museum, where we conclude our institution’s 80th anniversary year with a high volume of exceptional programs and exhibitions. In this season, our Museum team has been notably strengthened by the arrival of our new Preparator, Travis Turner. Travis completed his undergraduate degree at Allegheny College near his hometown of Meadville, ... MORE...

ON VIEW IN NOVEMBER

September 17, 2019–February 15, 2020

Explore ethereal Mississippi delta landscapes and soul-stirring portraits by photographers Langdon Clay and Maude Schuyler Clay, in their first-ever joint exhibition. ... MORE...

Image above by Sarah Benham Spongberg.


Mississippi Women highlights works by fifteen Mississippi women artists of the 20th century from the Museum's permanent collection.

Image above: Untitled, n.d., by Mae Helen Flowers.


POP UP EXHIBIT!

Image above: Portrait of Katherine Anderson Skipwith, ca.1941–1942, by Edward McCrady.

FAMILIES AND CHILDREN

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2019
10:00 a.m.–noon
COST: FREE!

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2019
4:30-5:30 p.m.
COST: FREE! (donations accepted)
For grades 6–12



Thankful for Theora
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2019
3:45 – 4:30 p.m.

At the Museum

COST: $5 per family for each
drop-in session


TRAVELING TRUNKS
Book a traveling trunk for your class or children’s program.


STORYTIME WITH THE UNIVERSITY
OF MISSISSIPPI MUSEUM
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 2019
10:30–11:00 a.m. 
COST: FREE!

At the Lafayette County &
Oxford Public Library
401 Bramlett Blvd.
Oxford, Mississippi 38655

FOR EVERYONE

   

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1
10:00 am – 6:00 p.m. (drop-in)
COST: FREE!



FRIDAYS, NOVEMBER 8, and 15
11:30 a.m.–1:00 p.m.
Walton-Young Lawn

November 8: Wendy Garrison
November 15: Chance Moore



GROUP TOURS
Book a guided group tour of the museum.



The Beautiful Mysterious: The Extraordinary Gaze of William Eggleston, co-published by the University Museum and University Press of Mississippi, is an examination of the life and work of William Eggleston. Widely considered to be the father of color photography, Eggleston helped establish the artistic medium and has inspired photographers and artists around the world.

Edited by Ann J. Abadie, the catalog contains fifty-five Eggleston photographs, thirty-six of which were featured in The Beautiful Mysterious exhibition at the University of Mississippi Museum.

REMINDERS & LOOKING AHEAD

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2019
9:00 a.m.–noon (Drop-in)
COST: FREE!


COMING SOON!
The Museum Keepsake Holiday Ornament will be on sale soon in the Museum store.


Get the Memphis Flyer at the Museum!
The Museum is the only place in Oxford to distribute this great resource for what’s going on in Memphis. Come by and pick up a FREE weekly issue today!

MEMBERSHIP BENEFITS NEWS
Not only has NARM grown to offer 924 member institutions, your $100.+ membership to the University of Mississippi Museum entitles you to 62 more institutions’ admission benefits through the CUAM—College and University Art Museum reciprocal program. That’s 986 places to visit in the continental US. How many have you been to?



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