Mississippi Arts Hour MPB Think Radio

Lauren Rhoades talks with Jamal Cyrus and Maude Schuyler Clay, two artists who have special exhibitions now at the Mississippi Museum of Art. Jamal Cyrus is a Houston-based multidisciplinary artist whose works explore the evolution of African American identity. Maude Schuyler Clay is a Mississippi photographer with generational roots in the Delta. Tune in to learn about their artistic practices and current exhibitions: Cyrus’s “The End of My Beginning” and Clay’s “Portraits of a Place.”   
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Leslie Barker talks with musician Rob Detjen. Rob plays the French horn for the Mississippi Symphony Orchestra and the Meridian Symphony Orchestra. In this interview, Rob Detjen will discuss his life as a professional musician as well as his work as an educator, specifically his work with Mississippi Whole Schools. 
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Larry Morrisey visits with David Evans, a retired University of Memphis professor and music researcher, on his new book “Goin’ Up the Country: Adventured in Blues Fieldwork in the 1960s.” It recounts his trips to Mississippi and Louisiana during the mid-1960s to interview and record the last of the first generation of blues musicians. The book is a collaboration with the late folklorist Marina Bokelman, who collaborated with him on the project.
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Poetry is alive and thriving in the Magnolia State! On the Mississippi Poetry Podcast you’ll hear poets sharing their work, telling their stories, and offering tips to help listeners flex their poetic muscles. In this episode, poet, fiction writer, and professor RaShell Smith-Spears joins host and Mississippi Poet Laureate Catherine Pierce to talk about verbs, influences, notebooks versus phones, and vampires. 
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Maria Zeringue talks with Dr. J. Janice Coleman, an accomplished quilter and English professor at Alcorn State University. She creates quilts that are in dialogue with Mississippi’s culture, heritage, and landscape, and she is often inspired by the Delta, where she grew up.
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Lauren Rhoades talks with Gloria Gipson Suggs, a visual artist whose work seeks to preserve heritage and cultural pride. A native and resident of Marshall County, Gloria was named the 2022 South Arts State Fellow of Mississippi. After several accidents brought her twenty-plus-year career in education to a halt, she turned to art in her recovery. Her work depicts people, places, and things from the Civil War, Depression, and Desegregation Eras as passed down through folklore, written and oral history, photographs, and her own experience. Gloria is also a musician and the author of several books of fiction and poetry.
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