Exhibitions, Symposia, and Community Gatherings
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Upcoming Possum Town
events and happenings
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Select photos from “Mr. Pruitt's Possum Town: Trouble and Resilience in the American South” on view at Higgins & Myers Fine Art Gallery in Chapel Hill, NC
Exhibition is open to the public Tuesday - Saturday, 10am-6pm
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March 21 at the Plaza Theatre — Atlanta, GA, 3 pm
Presented by the Atlanta Film Society
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Previous Events
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At the University of Mississippi Barnard Observatory Tupelo Room in Oxford, Mississippi, Berkley Hudson presented “Listening to the Mississippi Pictures of O.N. Pruitt.”
Originating in the Jim Crow era from Columbus, Mississippi, the photographs of O.N. Pruitt (1891–1967) offer a vehicle to consider the vexing interrelations of photography, community, culture, race, and historical memory. During this SouthTalk, Columbus, Mississippi-native and author of “O.N. Pruitt’s Possum Town: Photographing Trouble and Resilience in the American South,” Hudson shared some of Pruitt’s photography and reflect on some of the images and themes captured.
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Berkley Hudson was at Square Books in Oxford, Mississippi on Feb. 16, 2022 signing copies of “O.N. Pruitt’s Possum Town: Photographing Trouble and Resilience in the American South” starting at 2pm CST
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Pruitt exhibit. State Historical Society of Missouri, Elm Street, July 5-Dec. 5, 2022
Reynolds Journalism Institute, Missouri School of Journalism, S. Ninth St., Through Dec. 5, 2022
Reception, Thursday, Aug. 25, 2022. 4-630 pm. State Historical Society
Pruitt Panel, Reynolds Journalism Institute, Missouri School of Journalism, S. Ninth St., Oct. 13. Sponsored by the Missouri Humanities Council and the National Endowment for Humanities.
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Homewood Alabama Public Library
Tuesday, August 22, 2023
1-3pm CSTSpring Hill College Pruitt Pop-Up
Mobile, Alabama
Burke Memorial Library will host this pop-up from Friday, September 8, 2023, through Friday, November 3, 2023. It will be displayed on the second floor of the library near the atrium. The exhibit is open during regular library hours. For more information call 251-380-3870 or email Katy Osborne. -
Delta Cultural Center Pruitt Exhibition (National Endowment for Humanities Sponsored Exhibition)
Helena, ArkansasJuly 19, 2024 — September 13, 2024
Itinerary
July 19, 2024 — Soft Opening
July 26, 2024 — Formal Opening
August 29, 2024 — Pruitt Panel
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Item description
View the teaser trailer for POSSUM TOWN, a Southern-set documentary feature by filmmaker Daniel Christian.
O. N. Pruitt — the "picture man" for the small town of Columbus, Mississippi, during the Jim Crow era — was one of the most prolific photographers of his time. Nearly a century later, a Columbus native who grew up surrounded by the ghosts of Pruitt's work delves into his vast archive of photographic negatives, opening a portal where images of past and present converge in the everyday stories of the town's citizens today.
Keep an eye out for an upcoming screening near you.
On January 19, 2022, Berkley Hudson presented “Pruitt’s Historic Columbus Photographs” as part of the History Is Lunch series.
History Is Lunch is sponsored by the John and Lucy Shackelford Charitable Fund of the Community Foundation for Mississippi. The weekly lecture series of the Mississippi Department of Archives and History explores different aspects of the state's past. The hour-long programs are held in the Craig H. Neilsen Auditorium of the Museum of Mississippi History and Mississippi Civil Rights Museum building at 222 North Street in Jackson.