Photographer Debra L. Ferguson has teamed up with Delta State University Archivist Emily Jones to create \u201cThis Delta,\u201d a traveling exhibit of Ferguson\u2019s images of the Mississippi Delta taken over the last 30 years.<\/p>\n
The exhibit launches with a special Sunday opening on August 24 at 2 p.m. at the Capps Archives & Museum on Delta State\u2019s campus. The public is invited to the free event, and Ferguson will be in attendance.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis Delta\u201d features Ferguson\u2019s images with a mixture of words from some of the most notorious and noteworthy writers from the Delta and Mississippi. The exhibit will remain on site for two weeks.<\/p>\n
A 1974 graduate of Delta State University, Ferguson works as a magazine and advertising photographer, specializing in agricultural and rural lifestyle subjects. She is also a partner with her husband, Owen Taylor, in AgFax Media, an online agricultural news organization.<\/p>\n
Her photography has appeared in Farm Journal, Progressive Farmer, Southern Living Travel and other publications and advertising campaigns. A prolific stock photographer, her images are represented by agencies in the U.S., Europe and Asia.<\/p>\n
\u201cEmily and I had a lot of fun creating this exhibit from my images,\u201d said Ferguson. \u201cI left the Delta in the early 1970s, but it was always home. Luckily for me, my family and work assignments kept bringing me back often enough to create a body of work. I\u2019m honored and very excited to share these images, many of which have never been seen.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jones, who has collaborated with Ferguson on previous work, is honored to see the kickoff take place at Delta State.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis has been a labor of love for the both of us,\u201d said Jones. \u201cWe first talked about traveling exhibits when we worked together on another exhibit, \u2018Vanishing Delta.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
Ferguson won the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters photography award for \u201cVanishing Delta\u201d in 2007.<\/p>\n
\u201cEver since then, we have hoped and thought about what an exhibit of her work might look like in a traveling format. Finally, we did it,\u201d added Jones.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis Delta\u201d is a collection of seven panels with individual titles: Delta Folks, Delta Relics, Going to Town, Nature\u2019s Rhythm, Passing Through, Sacred Spaces and Taming the Land, plus the exhibit\u2019s opening panel.<\/p>\n
Laura Walker, Delta State University graphic designer and brand manager, designed the traveling exhibit around Ferguson\u2019s photography. In addition, Mothlite Media, a design agency owned by Laura and Josh Walker, created a website that will be the Delta State Archives\u2019 first online companion to a traveling exhibit. The web aspect of the exhibit will also be launched and shared with the public at the opening reception.<\/p>\n
The exhibit will tour Mississippi sites for the first year \u2014 from September 2014 through September 2015. After the first year, \u201cThis Delta\u201d will be available to tour outside of Mississippi.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are keeping the exhibit home-state-bound this first year to thank the Mississippi Humanities Council for their support of this project,\u201d added Jones. \u201cThere is still time for future hosting sites. Contact us at the archives if you are interested in hosting the exhibit.\u201d<\/p>\n
For those missing the initial exhibit launch, the following Mississippi sites will also be hosting \u201cThis Delta:\u201d<\/p>\n
To learn more about Delta State\u2019s Archives & Museum, visit www.deltastate.edu\/academics\/libraries\/university-archives-museum<\/a>. Follow Archives on Facebook at https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Delta-State-University-Archives-Museum\/149608545092356<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Photographer Debra L. Ferguson has teamed up with Delta State University Archivist Emily Jones to create \u201cThis Delta,\u201d a traveling exhibit of Ferguson\u2019s images of the Mississippi Delta taken over…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":60951,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,418],"tags":[193,747,313,748],"class_list":["post-60948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-archives-and-museum","category-community-3","tag-capps-archives-museum","tag-exhibition","tag-photography","tag-this-delta"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60948"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60995,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60948\/revisions\/60995"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}