Mississippi Arts Hour

Larry Morrisey talks with filmmaker John Rash. Rash creates films for the Southern Documentary Projects center at the University of Mississippi. He has also established the Southern Punk Archive at UM. He is collecting oral histories and materials on punk music in the American South for the collection. If you enjoyed listening to this podcast, please consider making a contribution to MPB. https://...

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 Joshua Nguyen joins host and Mississippi Poet Laureate Catherine Pierce to talk about form, embracing weird obsessions, and his least favorite vegetable. A resource for...

Malcolm White talks with Marcy Fischer Nessel, owner of Fischer Galleries in Jackson. They talk about her initial years in the gallery work, working for the late photographer and gallery owner James Patterson, the development of Fischer Galleries and the artists who she currently exhibits. If you enjoyed listening to this podcast, please consider making a contribution to MPB. https://donate.mpbfou...

Sarah Story talks with Elizabeth Abston and Margaret Bucci about organizing the Andrew Bucci centennial series of exhibitions, programs, and events across the state. Abston is a curator and owner of fine arts appraisal and advisory business Elizabeth Abston LLC. Margaret Bucci, who is Andrew Bucci’s niece and executor of his estate, has been an integral part of organizing exhibitions honoring his...

Leslie Barker talks with film and television actor, Allie Grant. You may know her as Isabelle Hodes on Weeds or Lisa Shay on Suburgatory. She also happens to be a Mississippi native. Allie talks about life as a working actor in Los Angeles and New York, but also about her upcoming Mississippi-based projects If you enjoyed listening to this podcast, please consider making a contribution to MPB.&nbs...

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 Angela Ball joins host and Mississippi Poet Laureate Catherine Pierce to talk about childhood games, poems as wish fulfillment, and how everything can be an opportunity...

Larry Morrisey talks with Grammy Award-winning music producer Scott Billington, who has a new book out on University of Mississippi Press on his career producing southern roots musicians. He details his work with many legends, including Irma Thomas, Charlie Rich, Solomon Burke, Ruth Brown, Bobby Rush and many more. Photo courtesy of University Press of Mississippi. If you enjoyed listening to this...

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 Charlie Braxton joins host and Mississippi Poet Laureate Catherine Pierce to talk about boldness in writing, the importance of breath, and why we might think of poems a...

Sarah Story talks with Jenny Mann, the new executive director of the Mississippi Symphony Orchestra. She began her tenure with MSO in January and was previously the executive director of the Tuscaloosa Symphony and its principal bassoonist. Jenny’s passion and career focus in music management, fundraising, performance and education led her to Mississippi Symphony Orchestra. Sarah and Jenny discuss...

Malcolm White guest hosts the show and visits with painters Paul Fayard and Ron Lindsey. Both live in Clinton, Mississippi and often paint together on location. They discuss their individual styles and life of a painter. Listen at 5 p.m. on MPB Think Radio. The show is also available on major podcasting platforms. If you enjoyed listening to this podcast, please consider making a contribution to M...

In today’s episode, we speak with musicians Queen Iretta and Johnnie B. Queen Iretta was born in Tunica and moved to Chicago where she met Johnnie B, whose family was also from Mississippi. In today’s conversation, these musicians share how Mississippi hospitality brought them back to our special state. To celebrate our exhibition "A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration," t...

Leslie Barker talks with Alehandro Wooten (Alē), visual artist and Executive Director of the Hattiesburg Arts Council. Alehandro discusses the power of the arts in communities, what it means to be accessible for everyone, and upcoming Hattiesburg Arts Council events. If you enjoyed listening to this podcast, please consider making a contribution to MPB. https://donate.mpbfoundation.org/mspb/podcas...

To celebrate our exhibition "A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration," this podcast explores conversations with Mississippians on both sides of the Great Migration: those that left and those that stayed. This weekly limited series dives deep into how the U.S. has evolved due to this historical phenomenon that saw more than six million African Americans leave the South. Food,...

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 and Mississippi Review editor Adam Clay joins host and Mississippi Poet Laureate Catherine Pierce to talk about inventing new forms, being a little reckless, and how wr...

Larry Morrisey talks with Nicholas Ciraldo, a classical guitarist from Hattiesburg and director of the University of Southern Mississippi’s Guitar Studio. Ciraldo talks about how he first got interested in classical guitar, how the style of playing is different from folk and other guitar styles and how he used the funds from a recent Arts Commission fellowship to help him work on digital and remot...

To celebrate ther exhibition "A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration," this podcast explores conversations with Mississippians on both sides of the Great Migration: those that left and those that stayed. This weekly limited series dives deep into how the U.S. has evolved due to this historical phenomenon that saw more than six million African Americans leave the South. Food...

Sarah Story speaks with Jessica Bell Brown and Ryan N. Dennis, co-curators of the exhibition A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration, opening at the Mississippi Museum of Art on April 9. Co-organized by the Mississippi Museum of Art and the Baltimore Museum of Art, this major exhibition will unveil newly commissioned works by 12 of the most acclaimed African American artists...

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 and librarian C.T. Salazar joins host and Mississippi Poet Laureate Catherine Pierce to talk about the words that have value to us, reading aloud, and why he’d like to...

Leslie Barker talks with Professor and Chair of the Department of Music at the Mississippi University for Women, Julia Mortyakova. Julia recently received a MAC Performing Arts Fellowship for Piano. She is particularly passionate about giving women composers a platform. She speaks about the Music by Women Festival of which she is the founder and director. If you enjoyed listening to this podcast,...

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, former Mississippi Poet Laureate Beth Ann Fennelly joins host and current Mississippi Poet Laureate Catherine Pierce to talk about poetry as time travel, the magic of memori...

Sarah Story speaks with Myrna Colley-Lee, a 2022 Governor’s Arts Awards recipient for Excellence in Costume Design and Arts Patron. Myrna Colley-Lee is an internationally known costume designer as well as a philanthropist, arts advocate and patron. Credited as one of the foremost costume designers in the Black Theatre Movement, she started her career in the late 1960s and is an active designer tod...

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, essayist, and Prince scholar C. Liegh McInnis joins host and Mississippi Poet Laureate Catherine Pierce to talk about how poetry can be a history lesson, the importanc...

Leslie Barker talks with Governor’s Arts Awards Governor’s Choice Award recipient, Holly Lange. Holly’s commitment to the arts in Mississippi led her to coordinate events such as Jubilee! JAM and the Crossroads Film Festival. She also founded the Mississippi Book Festival. Holly shares stories about her incredible creative endeavors If you enjoyed listening to this podcast, please consider making...

Sarah Story talks to Thad Lee, an Oxford-based artist. Lee is an award-winning filmmaker, photographer, and writer, known for All That You Love Will Be Carried Away (2020) and October (2003). He and Sarah discuss a recent collaboration project Lee exhibited with his wife, artist Carlyle Wolfe Lee. The exhibition at Southside Gallery in Oxford featured a series photographs and paintings inspir...

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 and essayist Aimee Nezhukumatathil joins host and Mississippi Poet Laureate Catherine Pierce for a lively conversation about where poems come from, being a “noticer,” a...