Walter Anderson Events

Experience a guided tour by watercolorist Brent Funderburk. Space is limited, register here. “I drew it in ecstasy. It was a concentrated image that nothing could take from me.” Walter Anderson, The Horn Island Logs   “Each time- I think that all I need to realize the thing is authority; if I can dominate the […] ...

Settle in for a special concert by JEMS and Cyrena Wages. Fresh off tour with their new album, JEMS is a singer/songwriter trio made up of Jessica Rotter, Emily Colombier, and Meridian native Sarah Margaret Huff. Their transcendent alternative folk music is a perfect pairing with the Walter Anderson exhibit, on display at The MAX […] ...

“Everything strives for color.”         Goethe Mississippi artist and teacher Brent Funderburk is a seeker of what Lawren Harris called “…the moment eternal and the locally infinite”. His newest works in watermedia record his search for this “Path of Light” through the timely and timeless by way of natural observation, dynamic composition as storytelling, and childlike […] ...

The South’s Most Elusive Artist contains a dozen examples of Walter Anderson’s pottery. Experience this art form practiced by iconic Mississippi artists including the Andersons, George Ohr, and McCartys with an in-depth series by Stephen Phillips that guides participants through making their own bowls and cups from clay on the wheel. No experience required; ages […] ...

Bring your family and friends to The MAX and unless your inner creativity. This First Saturday, you can paint your own Anderson. Choose your favorite block print to watercolor for free. 10 am-12 pm: Paint Your Own Walter Anderson (while supplies last) 9 am-5 pm: Free admission     ...

Angi Cooper returns to The MAX to offer a free watercolor workshop. Like Anderson, Cooper draws inspiration from the sheer pleasures of the natural world in Mississippi “…the joy of watching a pair of young esteemed bluebirds fledge…the dramatic change in color of approaching rain clouds, the thrill of watching dolphins race a ferry boat, […] ...

Join us as we celebrate our Walter Anderson exhibit with a reading of Walter Anderson’s book The Pleasant History of an Unusual Cat , and Anderson’s Alice: Walter Anderson Illustrates Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, in collaboration with the Meridian – Lauderdale County Public Library, followed by an instrument petting zoo hosted by the Meridian Symphony […] ...

Join The MAX for an Earth Color workshop with Horn Island resident artist, Robin Whitfield. This 3-hour workshop offers a creative practice for connecting to nature through finding, foraging, and processing plant and mineral pigments. Participants will focus on the delights of working with found raw materials directly on paper, and have access to Whitfield’s […] ...

Come back to The MAX one more time to experience Walter Anderson, with Hattiesburg artist Allen Chen, whose utilitarian forms and glazes reflect much of Anderson’s work and arts and crafts inspirations. Chen is a professor at the University of Southern Mississippi, where he connects research activities in traditional wheel throwing, woodfire and experimental paper clay, […] ...