The Pruitt Project

If you're within driving distance of Helena, Arkansas, you should make plans to see the newest Pruitt Project exhibition on display through September 13, 2024. You can read all about it in this story from Arkansas Democrat-Gazette/ArkansasOnline.com. Mentioned is also a panel discussion scheduled for this Thursday (August 29} featuring Berkley Hudson; Rachel Boillot, large-format photographer and art department professor at Arkansas State University; W. Ralph Eubanks, faculty fellow at the University of Mississippi Center for the Study of Southern Culture and former publishing director of the Library of Congress; and Tom Rankin, professor of the practice of art, art history and visual studies at Duke University.

Pruitt’s lens on life in ’20s-’60s Mississippi now in focus | Arkansas Democrat Gazette From 1920 to 1960, Otis Noel Pruitt used his camera to document the lives of the people who lived in and around Columbus, Miss. From baptisms in the nearby Tombigbee River to parades, revivals, studio portraits, the aftermath of tornadoes, downtown crowds and more, Pruitt was there with his camera,....