Arts and Culture

Special Collections and the University Museum are pleased to announce the opening of the new Faulkner Room exhibition, “’No Two Alike’”: A Special Collections and University Museum Exhibition.” The year-long display features artwork, archival resources and ephemera related to art and artists, both from Mississippi and elsewhere. The Museum contributed a number of original pieces from their collection, including: Theora Hamblett paintings; sculptures from James “Son Ford” Thomas; John McCrady paintings; George Ohr pottery; and much more. Special Collections has showcased a number of archival pieces from its rare book collection, Faulkner and Welty collections, visual collections, blues archive, etc.