4 Freedoms

In the spirit of her great teacher Boardman Robinson, Mildred Wolfe gives a strong, new voice to President Roosevelt's "Four Freedoms" in the midst of a new Red Scare. The paintings are installed in the B. M. Stevens Store in Richton.

Mildred Wolfe becomes more conscious of the social injustices within Mississippi, and experiences a harsh professional setback. Her "Freedoms" make their way to the Mississippi Museum of Art.

With a new chapter of her life beginning in Jackson, Mildred Wolfe is faced with the peculiarities of Mississippi's polite society, and the challenge of creating her own identity as an artist along side her husband Karl, a successful portraitist. When one of Karl's clients visits the studio, Mildred is offered a unique commission.

Mildred Wolfe was an artist; she always had been. In this episode of "4 Freedoms," follow Mildred Wolfe as she overcomes the challenges of the Great Depression, and utilizes the home-front war effort to gain notoriety.

In 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave an address to a country on the precipice of war. This speech served as the inspiration for a number of artistic works, including the Four Freedoms paintings, housed today in the Mississippi Museum of Art.

A new podcast miniseries by PK Media following the story of Mildred Wolfe and her 4 Freedoms paintings from rural Mississippi to the largest art museum in the state.