At the Mississippi Museum of Art, we believe strong partnerships create stronger communities. With the support of local and statewide partners, we bring art to life in ways that benefit Jackson and beyond, fueling economic growth, inspiring learning, and promoting well-being by attracting visitors, supporting local businesses, and revitalizing neighborhoods.
Our partners make this work possible and, in return, gain meaningful recognition and exclusive opportunities that align with their business goals. Together, we can enrich lives, strengthen our economy, and ensure the arts remain a vital part of Mississippi’s future.
For more information about MMA’s Corporate Partner Program, please call 601-960-1515 or email partnerships@msmuseumart.org.
See how your giving makes a difference.
By becoming a corporate sponsor, you provide vital support for MMA’s initiatives, which include free student admission, arts education in schools, public programs like Afterschool Art, Creative Healing Studio, and Access for All: Free First Saturday. Sponsorships also create positive economic and cultural impact on Jackson. In 2024 alone, the Museum’s programming produced $4.7 million in overall economic impact including more than $2 million in hotel rooms and 60,000 visitors to downtown Jackson supporting local businesses and restaurants. Furthermore, MMA’s free education programs for 92 schools, provided 6,000 K-12 students with guided tours, supported the work of 64 individual local artists, and partnered with 12 colleges and universities. For their support of any of the initiatives above, community and business partners receive valued recognition along with special benefits and opportunities, many of which can be tailored to align with specific marketing and branding goals.
In 2024, the Mississippi Museum of Art generated $4.7 million in overall economic impact including $2 million in hotel rooms, 60,000 visitors to downtown Jackson, 6,372 program attendees, 6,000 students from school visits, and 54,700 combined followers across social media platforms.
92 schools (public and private) visit MMA and utilize our app, receive CEUs from workshops, and refer to our materials to build curriculum. 64 artists have participated in the Mississippi Invitational since 2021, 30 affiliate organizations receive artwork on laon from MMA for educational and cultural purposes, 21 community partners for public programs, events, and exhibitions, and 12 partner colleges and universities.
Exhibition Sponsorship
Support one of MMA’s world-class exhibitions by becoming a named sponsor. Each year, the Museum presents a range of dynamic exhibitions, and sponsorship offers a variety of exclusive benefits, which may include but are not limited to:
L.V. Hull: Love is a Sensation (March 21 – June 14, 2026)
L.V. Hull: Love is a Sensation is the first solo museum exhibition to chronicle the art and life of visionary artist L. V. Hull (1942–
2008). The self-proclaimed ‘Unusual Artist’ merged artmaking and the Southern art of “visiting” to transform her home in the rural town of Kosciusko, Mississippi into an immersive art environment that attracted visitors from around the world. Hull curated her house—which she purchased at age thirty-two with wages from domestic labor—with a dense collection of found, purchased, and gifted objects that she altered through vibrant assemblage and her signature painted dots. Like other female artists who created art environments like Nellie Mae Rowe, Mary Nohl, and Tressa Prisbrey, Hull’s creative practice flourished due to the autonomy that home ownership provided. Her work tells a unique and often overlooked story of the radical possibilities available to an African American woman in the Deep South who claimed space to pursue her full creative powers.
Coulter Fussell: The Proving Ground (March 21 – June 14, 2026)
Coulter Fussell: The Proving Ground is the first museum survey of work by emerging Mississippi-based artist Coulter Fussell. Fussell’s “quilt-works” are multidimensional landscapes of the US South, often referencing specific terrains like the salt marshes of the South Carolina Lowcountry and the banks of the Chattahoochee River. Like L.V. Hull’s, Fussell’s practice draws on informal networks of exchange and economies of reuse common to rural communities: Her work is constructed almost entirely from textiles and printed matter donated or salvaged in her hometown of Columbus, Georgia or Mississippi’s rural Yalobusha County, where she now lives.
The Proving Ground will be Fussell’s largest solo exhibition to date and will include a selection of the artist’s work made over the past five years as well as new commissions that expand latent sculptural and intermedia dimensions of her practice. A generous stipend will serve as seed money for the artist’s research and development phase as she integrates video projection and shadow puppetry into her works for the first time.
Frank Lloyd Wright, Fountainhead
Opening late 2027
In November 2025, MMA acquired Fountainhead, the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed property in Jackson’s Fondren neighborhood. MMA leadership is expanding its mission by purchasing this significant architectural landmark and making it available to the public for tours with advanced reservations. The purchase is part of the Museum’s strategic goals to embed the Museum in neighborhoods across the city in ways that help accomplish its community-building priorities.
Photography and the Black Arts Movement, 1955-1985
July 25 – November 8, 2026
Presented by the National Gallery of Art, Photography and the Black Arts Movement, 1955–1985, documents and presents the role of African American and Afro-Atlantic diaspora photographers in developing, fostering, and advancing a distinct and vibrant Black art and culture. Representing an artistic endeavor closely linked to civil rights and international freedom movements, the Black Arts Movement was comparable in its creative impact to the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s.
Grand Hall Highlights (Quarterly): To increase equity across our galleries, MMA produces quarterly Grand Hall Highlights featuring pieces from the Museum’s permanent collection of more than 6,000 pieces. These shows aim to educate the public on MMA’s collection and southern female, BIPOC, and LGBTQ+ artists’ work.
Annual Activities
Family Day (Quarterly): During this semi-annual program, Museum staff and Teaching Fellows welcome families with young children for a morning of art and fun. These activities are hosted in the galleries, classrooms, and gardens, incorporating the Museum’s art collection into studio activities and learning.
Creative Healing Studio (Weekly):A weekly art therapy gathering for adults being treated for cancer, or those with a cancer diagnosis in their past, led by licensed art therapist Susan Anand. Using the practices of art therapy in an open studio setting, this program helps participants manage stress, cope with change, and gain personal insight or self-awareness.
Art in Mind (Bi-Monthly): An interactive program which invites individuals experiencing memory loss or mild cognitive impairment and their caretakers to explore the galleries and make their own works of art. By stimulating observation, recall, and response, this program helps participants manage their stress or anxiety, cope with change, and gain personal insight.
Museum After Hours: Monthly, MMA opens its doors after hours to partner with and embrace Mississippi’s creative community. MMA partners with a local artists who curate the evening to include a pop-up exhibition, outdoor film, live music, and family activities.
Music in the City: In partnership between St. Andrew’s Episcopal Cathedral that highlights Mississippi musicians, especially early to mid-career musicians. Inspired by pieces found in the Museum’s permanent collection or changing exhibitions, featured musicians are offered the unique experience of performing for an in-person or digital audience within the galleries.
MMA Summer Camp: Summer classes led by experienced teaching artists which provide hands-on art experiences inspired by works of art in the collection. Eight sessions are held from June – July 2024 for children ages 6-10. Sessions include Whimsical Portrait Adventures, Pop Art Sculpture, Seeing the World through Cubism, Art in Motion, Dry Clay and Acrylic Creations, Wearable Art, Art Explorers, and the Elements of Art. Teaching Artists include, Heather Lea, Ann jones, Majeska Coleman, Ashley Harper, H.I. Green, Monica Hill, Christina McField, and Brejenn Allen.
