Mississippi Arts Hour

Mississippi Arts Hour

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Mississippi Arts Hour episodes

  • The Mississippi Arts Hour| Dr J. Janice Coleman
    Maria Zeringue talks with Dr. J. Janice Coleman, an accomplished quilter and English professor at Alcorn State University. She creates quilts that are in dialogue with Mississippi’s culture, heritage, and landscape, and she is often inspired by the Delta, where she grew up.

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    48 min
  • The Mississippi Arts Hour| Gloria Gipson Suggs

    Lauren Rhoades talks with Gloria Gipson Suggs, a visual artist whose work seeks to preserve heritage and cultural pride. A native and resident of Marshall County, Gloria was named the 2022 South Arts State Fellow of Mississippi. After several accidents brought her twenty-plus-year career in education to a halt, she turned to art in her recovery. Her work depicts people, places, and things from the Civil War, Depression, and Desegregation Eras as passed down through folklore, written and oral history, photographs, and her own experience. Gloria is also a musician and the author of several books of fiction and poetry.


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    45 min
  • The Mississippi Arts Hour| Tyler Keith
    Larry Morrisey talks to Oxford musician and writer Tyler Keith. Keith is known for his work as a bandleader and songwriter over the past twenty years, but he has just released “The Mark of Cain,” his first book. It’s a self-described “southern noir,” set in the Florida panhandle, where Keith grew up. Larry and Tyler will talk about his music and his development as a writer.

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    44 min
  • The Mississippi Arts Hour| Sammy Long

    Maria Zeringue talks with master woodturner Sammy Long. Long is a two-time master artist in the Mississippi Arts Commission's Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program and a MAC Folk Arts Fellowship grant recipient. He is a member of the Mississippi Craftsmen's Guild and active in the Magnolia Woodturners Club.


    Sammy Long’s artist website: http://www.sammylong.com/

    Website for the Magnolia Woodturners Club: https://mwt.clubexpress.com/


    Photo Credit: Roy Adkins (Light & Glass Studio)


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    47 min
  • The Mississippi Arts Hour| T. K. Lee

    Leslie barker talks with actor, director, playwright, and poet T.K. Lee. T.K. is a recipient of MAC’s Literary Fellowship for playwriting and teaches in the Mississippi University for Women’s MFA Program in Creative Writing.


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    47 min
  • The Mississippi Arts Hour| Tema Stauffer

    Lauren Rhoades talks with Tema Stauffer, a photographer whose work examines the social, economic, and cultural landscapes of American spaces. Tema's new series of photographs, SOUTHERN FICTION, explores the settings that shaped the literary imaginations of 20th-century Southern writers, including Eudora Welty, William Faulkner, and Richard Wright. A monograph of SOUTHERN FICTION will be released by Daylight Books this month.


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    48 min
  • An Arts Hour Extra!

    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 high school teacher James Dickson joins host and Mississippi Poet Laureate Catherine Pierce to talk about the importance of reading widely, why failing spectacularly is a good thing, and the surprising variety of the Waffle House menu.


    A resource for educators and community groups can be found here: https://arts.ms.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Podcast-Supplement_Dickson-.pdf

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    17 min
  • The Mississippi Arts Hour| Nasheet Waits and JD Allen

    Larry Morrisey talks with Nasheet Waits and JD Allen, two New York City-based jazz musicians with family roots in Mississippi. Waits and Allen talk about their years as students of music and their hopes for building community with music. They recently played a series of performances and master classes in Jackson as part of a grant program bringing jazz professionals to the south.


    In the photo, JD Allen is on the left and Nasheet Waits is on the right.


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    44 min
  • The Mississippi Arts Hour| Lauren Rhoades and Ellie Banks

    Leslie Barker talks with two new MAC staff members, Director of Grants, Lauren Rhoades, and Communications Director, Ellie Banks. Lauren and Ellie will tell us about their work at the Arts Commission and how they express their creativity.


    In the photo, Lauren Rhoades is on the left and Ellie Banks is on the right.


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    45 min
  • The Mississippi Arts Hour| Iheoma Nwachukwu

    Lauren Rhoades talks with fiction writer Dr. Iheoma Nwachukwu, a recipient of one of MAC's highly competitive artist fellowships. They talk about Nwachukwu 's writing style and influences, and his journey from growing up in Lagos, Nigeria, to playing professional chess, to now teaching as an assistant professor at the Mississippi University for Women.


    Photo by Chinenye Nwachukwu.


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    48 min

About Mississippi Arts Hour

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Each week, members of MAC's staff host The Mississippi Arts Hour, a radio program broadcast on Mississippi Public Broadcasting's FM and digital radio networks. The show features interviews with…