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If you’ve ever visited the Mississippi Gulf Coast, you’ve heard the name Walter Anderson—a legendary artist and naturalist whose life…

In the depths of a social-distance-quarantine, things can get pretty bleak. Very real fear and anxiety, not to mention the more mundane challenge of existential boredom.

The Walter Anderson Museum of Art (WAMA) announces Walter Anderson Weekend, Friday, Sept. 20 to Sunday, Sept. 22, a celebration of creativity and community inspired by the life and works of Walter Inglis Anderson.

Nationally-celebrated artist Lonnie Holley arrives in Jackson County to lead a Summer residency project with the Walter Anderson Museum of Art.

The Walter Anderson Museum of Art (WAMA) presents a four-day Summer residency with renowned contemporary artist Lonnie Holley from Monday, June 24 – Thursday, June 27.

WAMA and the Memphis College of Art present The Sound and the Gulf, a retrospective exhibition celebrating 34 years of artwork inspired by the wilderness landscape of Horn Island. For more than three decades, Memphis College of Art students have followed in the footsteps of artist Walter Inglis Anderson (1903-1965) as they’ve made a series of 12-day excursions by boat to Horn Island, an uninhabited barrier island off the coast of Mississippi. The exhibition, on view through September 30, coincides with the 35th annual MCA Horn Island trip, and looks back at this impressive and inspiring journey through the eyes of these intrepid creators.

The Walter Anderson Museum of Art (WAMA) presents the 2019 Children’s Art Show.

“This is truly an exciting time for this Museum,” said Jaklyn Wrigley, President of the Board of Trustees at WAMA. “We conducted a diligent search – interviewing candidates from Michigan to Miami, and we could not have hoped for a better conclusion to the process. Julian fits so perfectly into the culture of WAMA. I have no doubt that he will use his multifaceted skill set and unrivaled enthusiasm to propel us to new heights.”

The Walter Anderson Museum of Art is excited to bring Walter Anderson Week to the Ocean Springs area with a variety of events themed to the local legend and his interests. Events kick off Sept. 22.

Walter Anderson Museum of Art will again be participating in the Smithsonian Magazine’s thirteenth annual Museum Day, opening its doors free of charge for guests on Saturday, Sept. 22.

Inspired by the Seven Climates murals by Walter Inglis Anderson, Dickinson invites collaborators to Ocean Springs each year to improvise together in the Ocean Springs Community Center with the murals as their muse.