On October 16, the Learning Resource Center at Northwest Mississippi Community College in Senatobia will host Northwest English instructor Leelee Haraway to present her program “Cultural Appropriation at the Crossroads: A Discussion Informed by the Art of Eudora Welty, Alice Walker, Jessie Mae Hemphill, and Son House.” The free program will take place in conjunction with the Smithsonian traveling exhibit Crossroads: Change in Rural America, on display in Senatobia through October 22. The event will take place in person in Tate Hall Room 106, but seating is limited.
Haraway’s presentation will draw on a variety of texts, including short fiction by Eudora Welty and Alice Walker, as well as selected songs from Jessie Mae Hemphill and Son House, to explore the relationship between rural and urban art and the potential for revitalization that exists in the artistic traditions of the rural South.
Crossroads: Change in Rural America offers small towns a chance to look at their own paths to highlight the changes that affected their fortunes over the past century. The exhibition will prompt discussions about what happened when America’s rural population became a minority of the country’s population and the ripple effects that occurred.
The exhibit is open to the public Mondays-Thursdays from 8am to 9pm, Fridays from 8am-3:30pm, and Sundays 2-7pm.
Future Crossroads Events in Senatobia:
October 20, 7pm: Bluegrass concert featuring local musician Andy Ratliff