Surreal South: One Night Only Exhibition
Mon, Mar 24
|Ocean Springs
Join WAMA and Lighthouse Academy for Dyslexia on Monday, March 24, for One Night Only, a special event celebrating the Surreal South Bookmaking initiative, showcasing student-created books that explore Mississippi’s rich stories through writing, illustration, and printmaking. ✨
Time & Location
Mar 24, 2025, 3:30 PM – 7:00 PM
Ocean Springs, 510 Washington Ave, Ocean Springs, MS 39564, USA
About The Event
Join us Monday, March 24, 3:30 - 7PM for WAMA’s One Night Only event with Lighthouse Academy for Dyslexia to celebrate our Surreal South Bookmaking initiative for 2024-2025! ✨
Surreal South is a multidisciplinary educational program that empowers Mississippi K-12 students to voice their Southern experiences through writing, illustration, and printmaking. This project will result in an exhibition of student work that will be shown at the 2025 Mississippi Book Festival. The notebooks’ illustrated covers combine mixed-media materials, images, text, and narrative to speak to Mississippi’s multifaceted story and to the students’ memories, beliefs, and aspirations.
The Lighthouse Academy for Dyslexia joined WAMA in this initiative by collaborating across the curriculums of art, theater, and english to create books that will be displayed at the event on the 24th of March. WAMA hosted visiting artists Ke Francis and Anne Madden, to lead workshops to show printmaking and collage techniques to…
