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AUGUST 2019

FROM THE DIRECTOR

Museum director, Robert Saarnio and "Celebrating 80 Years"

Greetings from your University Museum, where we are celebrating the 80th year of the Museum’s founding in 1939 as the City of Oxford-owned Mary Buie Museum. We’d like to invite all of you to join us Tuesday, August 27th from 6–8 p.m. during the monthly Art Crawl as we cut an anniversary cake and raise a toast to eight decades of exhibition and programming excellence— the last 45 MORE…

ON VIEW

Visual Abunance | Realism in Watercolor | Laurin McCracken | January 22–August 3, 2019


LAST LOOK!
CLOSING AUGUST 3, 2019

Laurin McCracken’s realistic watercolor paintings are largely influenced by the Dutch and Flemish still life painters of the 16th and 17th centuries. MORE...

Image above: Cherries, Tulips, Silver, Crystal and Dutch Vase, 2017


Walton-Young installation

LAST LOOK!
CLOSING AUGUST 30, 2019

Local artists Rebekah Flake, Valerie Guinn Polgar, and Sarah Barch were selected to create custom art installations on the historic Walton-Young House, located next door to the University of Mississippi Museum. The purpose of this installation is to animate the house and display the art of local MORE…

The Art of Identification is an exhibit by largely self-taught bird illustrator, ornithologist, and author David Allen Sibley. He was inspired to pursue creating his own illustrated field guide ... MORE...

Image above: Blackpoll Warbler and Bay-breasted Warbler from The Sibley Guide to Birds, 2014.

FAMILIES AND CHILDREN

FALL ARTZONE REGISTRATION TUESDAY, AUGUST 10
9:00 a.m. 

This 12 week program for grades K-4 meets
on a Tuesday or a Wednesday.


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



FOR EVERYONE

SATURDAY, AUGUST 17
8:00 a.m.
COST: $5 for adults
Kids are free but must be accompanied by an adult


    

TUESDAY, AUGUST 27
6–8:00 p.m.
COST: FREE!
Join us during the Arts Crawl to celebrate the museum's 80th year!



AUGUST 2 and AUGUST 9 part of Fringe Fest
10:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. (drop-in)
COST: FREE!
Free Sketch 


BECOME A HARVEST SUPPER SPONSOR
The Friends of the Museum at the University of Mississippi Museum are preparing for our seventh annual Harvest Supper at Rowan Oak. This year’s event is scheduled for 6:30–10:00 p.m., October 17th. Help us make this year’s Harvest Supper the best yet by considering a meaningful sponsorship gift.





ART-ER LIMITS FRINGE FESTIVAL
1:00–2:30 p.m.
University Museum
COST: FREE!
Part of Family Art Day
Storytelling workshop with Daniel Johnson of Significant Developments


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

LIVE ON THE LAWN
Enjoy live music from 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. on Fridays before home football games on the Walton-Young house lawn.

JOIN OUR TEAM!
The Museum currently has two positions open for employment:

  1. Museum Preparator. Duties include: Museum building and Historic Houses maintenance, exhibition installation assistance, Carpentry Shop and Loading Dock area maintenance, tool and equipment maintenance, and light construction projects. Find out more HERE.
  2. Student Marketing Assistant. The student hired for this position will help create and implement the museum's social media presence, research and write press releases, and assist with membership. Find out more HERE.

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?



FOOTBALL PARKING AVAILABLE!
Email the museum at museum@olemiss.edu to reserve your spot today!

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!

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