Exhibit Features Welty and Medgar Evers
Opening May 15 at the Eudora Welty House Education and Visitors Center, “Life Into Fiction: The Murder of Medgar Evers and ‘Where Is the Voice Coming From?’” examines how the assassination of Medgar Evers compelled Eudora Welty to write — on the day he was murdered — one of her most haunting stories. Written from Read more »
Research Fellowship Awarded to Ebony O. Lumumba
The 2013 Eudora Welty Research Fellowship has been awarded to Ebony O. Lumumba, an advanced doctoral student in English at the University of Mississippi. Established by the Eudora Welty Foundation and the Department of Archives and History, the fellowship seeks to encourage and support research use of the Eudora Welty Collection by graduate students. Lumumba Read more »
Ogden Museum in New Orleans Hosts Welty Photographs Through July 14
A special exhibit featuring 50 Welty photographs and 84 vintage snapshots opened April 18 at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans and will hang through July 14. Entitled “Eudora Welty: Photographs from the 1930s and 40s,” the exhibit is part of a Mississippi artist showcase including “To Paint and Pray: The Art Read more »
Four Receive National Scholastic Writing Awards
Four young Mississippi writers received national honors in the Scholastic Writing Awards competition of the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers on April 7 at the Jackson Convention Complex. National winners included Merrilee Bufkin, Mississippi School for the Arts, Gold Medal, poetry, who was also chosen for an American Voices honor and read from her Read more »
