Museum of Art
Department of Art and Design
The University of Southern Mississippi

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The museum presents a range of regional to international and historical to contemporary artwork, and provides a forum for education and discussion by hosting lectures, workshops, and symposia by leading artists, critics, curators and historians. The museum’s mission
is to enrich the educational and cultural experience of the university community and provide outreach to people beyond the university.
The Museum of Art is composed of three galleries: the C.W.Woods
Art Gallery, the W.J.Lok Exhibition Gallery and the newly named Karnes-Sullivan. Since its establishment the museum has become
one of the best attended museums in the state.

The Museum of Art exhibits works on loan from artists, museums and galleries and shows student and faculty work. The museum manages two traveling exhibitions: the nationally recognized photography exhibition The Faces of Freedom Summer: the Photographs of Herbert Randall; and Drawing on Katrina: Mississippi Children Respond to the Storm, a collection of 40 framed drawings, paintings and collages by South Mississippi children. As a platform for education and discussion of art and culture, the museum presented in Sept. – Oct. 2006 the exhibition The American Village at Lily Valley, a progressive housing project by the Hattiesburg architect James Polk.

The museum has hosted leading figures in the art world, including the Reverend Victoria Jackson Gray-Adams, a pivotal figure in the Civil Rights movement; William Baily, the internationally-known painter and Professor Emeritus of Yale University; Thomas Hoving, Director Emeritus of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Daniel Piersol, former Curator of Prints and Drawings at the New Orleans Museum of Art; Margaret Livingstone, Harvard Professor and author of Vision and Art: the Biology of Seeing; and Faith Ringgold, one of the greatest story-quilt artists, painter, illustrator, writer and Professor at the university of California in San Diego.

The museum has recently broadened its scope of exhibitions to include more contemporary art work and new genres of art such as video and audio installation.

Admission is free!!

The Museum is located on the first floor of the Fine Arts Building between Marsh Auditorium and the Mannoni Performing Arts Center. Metered parking is available on Southern Miss Drive in front of the Fine Arts Building.

Museum Director: Dr. Jan L. Siesling
Assistant Museum Director: Mark Rigsby

Museum Hours :
10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. • Tuesday through Friday
10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. • Saturday

Opening Hours During the Summer :
Tuesday to Friday : 12 pm - 5 pm

Groups On Reservation :
601-266-5200 - Jan Siesling, museum director
601-266-4861 - Mark Rigsby, assistant museum director
601-266-4972 - Department of Art and Design

For inquiries about the museum event, please contact:

Museum of Art
118 College Drive #5033
Hattiesburg, MS 39406
Telephone (601) 266-5200
E-mail: artmuseum@usm.edu

 

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