WEST POINT — West Point-Clay County Arts Council is back in operation after two-plus years of being closed due to COVID.
It will host an opening reception for its first art exhibit since the pandemic started today.
“It’s great to be back in operation again and to help promote the arts in West Point and the Golden Triangle area,” said Donna Ross, president of WPCCAC. “Our first production was ENCORE, featuring scenes from some of our favorite plays we did in the past. It was a great way to bring our crew back together and we had sold out performances every night. We just finished sponsoring the Missoula Children’s Theatre summer drama camp. The kids performed ‘Rumpelstiltskin’ recently.”
Louise Campbell Center for the Arts also has reopened.
“We are indeed pleased to start back the art exhibits at the Louise Campbell Center for the Arts. Our first artist to show this year will be Adam Hunt,” said Louise Campbell, of the art exhibit committee. “He is the son in law of Wanda and Kenny Hudson. He, his wife, Wendy and two children live in Southaven where he is an art instructor.”
The exhibit will open at 2 p.m. today at the Louise Campbell Center for the Arts, 235 Commerce St., West Point, with a reception and open house.
“His work is very bold, dramatic and beautiful,” Campbell said. “I know the public will enjoy it.”
The center is open on Wednesdays for tours, which can be scheduled by calling 662-295-7821.
SAAC opens exhibit
STARKVILLE — Starkville Area Arts Council’s newest group exhibit in the Art in Public Places program is titled “Faces & Figures.” All works submitted to this exhibit were inspired in some way by the human form.
The exhibit is open in the Greater Starkville Development Partnership lobby in downtown Starkville.
“Faces & Figures” features works from 19 artists across Mississippi and the South. Mediums range from photography, quilted fabric, paper cuttings and bronze sculpture to more traditional mediums such as oil and watercolor paintings. Works accepted to this exhibit represent various interpretations of the theme.
Walter Diehl, an artist in the exhibit, wrote about one of his pieces: “During our travels, I usually shy away from taking photographs of people. However, during our recent trip to Egypt and in anticipation of this show, I purposefully photographed as many local people as possible. This gentleman is smiling because we had just spent quite a sum of money in his alabaster shop. His visage recalls many years of hard work going back generations. He never stopped smiling, at all times encouraging us to buy more.”
Desirae Oliver wrote about one of her accepted pieces: “The concept for my piece revolves around the second definition for the word garden, a large public hall, with the example being Madison Square Garden. For people, I decided to make them hooded figures to represent looks that should not matter. The piece relates to the theme because it shows hooded figures in a peaceful way instead of unruly.”
The hybrid exhibit will be on display through Sept. 6 in the partnership lobby and at starkvillearts.net/creativeeconomy online. More information on each artist and their works can be found on the online exhibit page.
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