On Display Now: John Jennings – Build Your World

Step inside the imagination of award-winning graphic novelist John Jennings, and see where Mississippi mythology, ancestral spirits, and visionary science fiction come to life. John Jennings: Build Your World, an immersive new experience at The MAX in downtown Meridian, showcases the extraordinary work of this groundbreaking Afrofuturist from Flora, Mississippi—a New York Times bestselling graphic novelist and Harvard Fellow, garnering Hugo, Glyph, NAACP and Eisner Awards with work at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Through original sketches, storyboards, finished artwork, soundscapes and interactive technology, visitors explore how Jennings uses comics and visual storytelling to reclaim history, challenge assumptions, and imagine new possibilities for liberation.

More than an art exhibition, Build Your World pulls back the curtain on how Jennings creates immersive worlds that place Black history, culture, and imagination at the center of the story.