The Rural Routes Design Lab is a new program of the Mississippi Center for Cultural Production (Sipp Culture) that fosters a model of partnership where artists, creators, and cultural organizers learn from and with Sipp Culture and their peers from across Central Mississippi.
From the Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League’s (BREDL) Podcast where they discuss environmental issues that are right in our backyards. Topics include coal plants, fracking,
In May of 2024, the Jupiter Performance Studio was in residence iterating and sharing a new work: The Sipp Culture Sojourn
Sipp Culture, Jackson-Hinds Comprehensive Health Center, and Community Advisory Group officially launched HOMEGROWN UTICA to celebrate the rich legacy of rural self-determination and artistic voice in the Utica community.
The team at Sipp Culture, would like to publicly say thank you to Noah White, our outgoing Farm Manager at the Sipp Culture Community Farm. Noah will be heading back to Georgia this spring to manage his own land and farming operations. We are really proud and excited for his next journey and also sad that he is leaving so soon.
Joining Wallace’s multiyear arts initiative launched in 2021, Sipp Culture will to explore how artists can serve as, and also support, community health workers to enhance the health and wellness of the rural Black community of Utica.
On February 17th, Sipp Culture Community Farms was privileged to host the 99th gathering of the Alliance of Sustainable Farms for the Alliance Field Day.
Members from the Artist at Work support staff, Kecli Baker and Scout Eisenburg, traveled for ten days through the Delta making connections and learning about the work of the organizations participating in AAW in the Delta Region.
Sipp Culture Co-Directors Carlton and Brandi Turner are utilizing approaches that allow safe interactions.
Artists At Work (AAW) is a workforce resilience program designed to support the rebuilding of healthy communities through artistic civic engagement. Conceived as a public/private
“One of the most rewarding projects of 2021 was also one that pushed us to stretch our creativity and skills the most.” Guest Writer Ennis Carter, Director of Social Impact Studios shares the story of the new Sipp Culture website.
Sipp Culture is partnering with THE OFFICE performing arts + film in NYC to implement Artists At Work (AAW) in the Delta region in early 2022.
The latest updates on how Sipp Culture supports artists in Mississippi and across the South. Updates on RPPL Artists, Alumni Artists in Residence, and innovative new Artists At Work program.
Congratulations to one of the first Sipp Culture Artists in Residence Ambrose Murray for being featured in the online art magazine Galerie!
In October, the first of 11 RPPL artists arrived in Utica for their on-site experience. Learn more about Artists-in-Residence Annette Hollowell & free feral and Community Impact Artist Christina McField.
Sipp Culture is collaborating in “A People’s WPA” – a blueprint for reimagining our society in the wake of COVID-19. Learn more about how and see the beautiful poster designed by artist Alex Jimenez.
C. Leigh McInnis honors the memory of Robert “Bob” Moses in this moving tribute to his gentle power.
Recently, we launched our Small Farm Apprenticeship program in the early spring. This 18-month program provides a nurturing and creative working environment.
Yet the average white person also has a responsibility. He has to resist the impulse to seize upon the rioter as the exclusive villain. He has to rise up with indignation against his own municipal, state and national governments to demand that the necessary reforms be instituted which alone will protect him. – Martin Luther King, Jr.
If you take a look at my resume or my ‘standard’ bio you get a snapshot of who I am professionally. I spent my last 29 years as a librarian. That’s not all of who I am. I am a keeper and teller of stories. The sum of who I am is an amalgamation of stories, anecdotes, sayings, songs and poems that provide a sense of the persons and events that made me…continue to make me…me.
I grew up in Utica, Mississippi in a community with generations of historic memory, so I get to hear a lot of stories.
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