Each year, the Hattiesburg Arts Council recognizes up-and-coming local professional artists with an emerging artist exhibit. Visual, music, dance and literary artists will be featured at the Hattiesburg Cultural Center, 723 North Main Street, on Saturday, November 14th from 3-5pm.
Featured emerging artists are: J'Marcus Alfred, George Brown, Betty Duggan, Mary-Margaret Duggan (music performance), Dallas Gorbett, Jacob Havard, Calvin Herring, Shelby Kizer, Eva Lewis, Tristan Lewis, Sharon S. Long, Dorothy Lucas, Sydney Myers, Magen Pierce, Kim Pluskota, Whitson Ramsey, Rebecca Roberts, Sarah Roberts, Kendyl Salley, Jonathan Daniel Sims, Martina Sciolino, Sean Smith, Christine B. Suroski, Abreeza Thomas, Brittany Tolbert (dance), Hannah Wegner, Seth Welsh, Jacqueline Gonzalez Wooton and Yijuan Yin. Also Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist, Ted Jackson, will be on sight to autograph his newly released book, “You Ought to Do a Story About Me: Addiction, an Unlikely Friendship, and the Endless Quest for Redemption,” a story about NFL Super Bowl player, Jackie Wallace.
All the artwork is available for purchase, just in time for the holiday gift giving season.
HAC also encourages the public support of art education in schools, and this annual exhibit provides high school art teachers the opportunity to feature the work of their most talented students. Visual artists from: Hattiesburg High School, Ann Marie Bailey and Jerry Baker (art instructors), Oak Grove High School, Tonya Rivers (art instructor), Petal High School, Kimberly Evans (art instructor), Wayne County High School, Whitson Ramsey (art instructor) will be exhibited on the 3rd floor loft.
This event is free and open to the public and made possible through the support of local sponsors, Oddfellows Gallery and William Carey University. Due to COVID-19, social distancing and the wearing of masks will be enforced at this event.