Picturing America: Reflecting Mississippi and the Delta

The National Endowment for the Humanities in cooperation with the American Library Association developed "Picturing America" as a part of the We The People initiative in order to provide students across America an intellectual gateway to study and explore some of our nation’s greatest artwork. The Mississippi Humanities Council, MS Library Commission, MS Arts Commission and the MS Department of Archives and History took this project a step further by pairing images across our state to those selected for "Picturing America" to create the current exhibit. Through photographs and artwork, visitors to the exhibit will explore our regional, state and national history. As Bruce Cole, former Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities states, "As I pondered great works of art, I had the first glimmerings of what would would become a lifelong pursuit: to study and understand the form, history and meaning of art." This exhibit is a balanced blend of the world of humanities.