On today’s episode our guest is Durant Thompson.  Durant is a Professor of Art and the Area Head of Sculpture in the Department of Art and Art History at The University of Mississippi.  He is also co-founder of the Yokna Sculpture Trail in Oxford Mississippi but we will get into all this and more during the interview.

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