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Mr. Pruitt's Possum Town: Photographing Trouble and Resilience in the American South
The Delta Cultural Center will host "Mr. Pruitt's Possum Town: Photographing Trouble and Resilience in the American South", in the center gallery at 141 Cherry Street in Helena-West Helena, Arkansas. The exhibit will open with a reception on Friday, July 26, from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. In addition to food and fellowship, our guest speaker will be educator and author Berkley Hudson, Associate Professor Emeritus at the University of Missouri. The event is free and open to the public.
This photographic exhibit, consisting of nearly 100 photographic prints, reveals life between 1915 to 1960 in Columbus, Mississippi. Built around the collection of photographer Otis Noel Pruitt, the exhibition explores race relations and issues of class, gender, and religion.
The project aims to place in context Pruitt's life-long work of documenting Southern culture. His photographs are representative of small towns in the American South at critical and tumultuous times in our nation's history. Images include family picnics, river baptisms, carnivals, parades, fires, tornadoes, and even two of Mississippi's last public executions by hanging - as well as the 1935 lynching of two African American farmers.
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The Delta Cultural Center will host "Mr. Pruitt's Possum Town: Photographing Trouble and Resilience in the American South", in the center gallery at 141 Cherry Street in Helena-West Helena, Arkansas. The exhibit will open with a reception on Friday, July 26, from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. In addition to food and fellowship, our guest speaker will be educator and author Berkley Hudson, Associate Professor Emeritus at the University of Missouri. The event is free and open to the public.
This photographic exhibit, consisting of nearly 100 photographic prints, reveals life between 1915 to 1960 in Columbus, Mississippi. Built around the collection of photographer Otis Noel Pruitt, the exhibition explores race relations and issues of class, gender, and religion.
The project aims to place in context Pruitt's life-long work of documenting Southern culture. His photographs are representative of small towns in the American South at critical and tumultuous times in our nation's history. Images include family picnics, river baptisms, carnivals, parades, fires, tornadoes, and even two of Mississippi's last public executions by hanging - as well as the 1935 lynching of two African American farmers.
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