Sipp Talk

Did you vote affidavit in the current midterm election in Mississippi? If so, here is what to do: Check whether your ballot was counted and whether any follow-up is required from you by visiting the Secretary of State website at https://myelectionday.sos.state.ms.us/VoterOutreach/Pages/VoterRegistrationCheck.aspx right away. Contact your county circuit clerk's office Ask these four questions Was my affidavit ballot received? What is the reason it is under review? What do I need to provide,...

Our second 'Sipp Talk Live is in the books. On October 2nd, we activated the Mississippi Museum of Art with live conversation featuring artists and photographers highlighted in the Grand Hall exhibition, Exposure.—a dynamic dialogue in response to Photography and the Black Arts Movement 1955-1985. Read more about the artists featured here. We talked about what it means to build art around narratives that don't make the mainstream cannon of Mississippi and the South as a whole. On the walls...

RSVP HERE The South—and Mississippi in particular—are often seen through a single lens: one that centers the pain and trauma of Black life. But what happens when we expand the archive? What might our perception of Mississippi and the South look like if we made more room for different storytellers, different perspectives, and different ways of seeing? What if the images we preserved were also about celebration, joy, culture, innovation, intimacy, and the interior lives of people we don't...