Patti Carr Black

Patti Carr Black, former director of the Old Capitol Museum of Mississippi History, is an art historian based in Jackson, Mississippi. She is editor of Eudora Welty’s Early Escapades and author of Art in Mississippi, 1720-1980; The Southern Writers Quiz Book; and (with Marion Barnwell) Touring Literary Mississippi, among other works.

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Touring Literary Mississippi

University Press of Mississippi

A traveler’s guide combined with capsule biographies and photographs of writers with Mississippi ties

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The Southern Writers Quiz Book

By Patti Carr Black; Illustrated by Patti Henson
University Press of Mississippi

In Q & A’s what everybody likes about the South—the writers

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Approaching the Magic Hour

Memories of Walter Anderson

University Press of Mississippi

A widow’s riveting yet poignant memoir of her marriage to a prolific creator, the extremely inspired Gulf Coast artist Walter Anderson, whose splendid art was heightened and enriched by his madness

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Eudora Welty's World

Words on Nature

Edited by Patti Carr Black; Illustrated by Robin Whitfield
University Press of Mississippi, University Press of Mississippi/New Stage Theatre

An artful tribute selecting Welty’s best quotes on nature’s wonders

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I Am a Craftsman: 40 at 40

Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of the Craftsmen's Guild of Mississippi with 40 of Its Exhibiting Members

Foreword by Patti Carr Black; Photographs by Roy Adkins; Text by Robin C. Dietrick; Compiled by Craftsmen's Guild of Mississippi
University Press of Mississippi, University Press of Mississippi/Craftsmen's Guild of Mississippi

A spectacular showcase of Mississippi’s finest creators and their work

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American Masters of the Mississippi Gulf Coast

George Ohr, Dusti Bonge, Walter Anderson, Richmond Barthe

University Press of Mississippi

A celebration of four Mississippi artists and their nationally renowned work

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The Mississippi Story

University Press of Mississippi, University Press of Mississippi/Mississippi Museum of Art

A celebration of the extraordinary nexus of land, culture, and art in Mississippi

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Early Escapades

University Press of Mississippi

Poems, sketches, profiles, and satires which clearly predict that Eudora Welty would become one of the South’s comic geniuses

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Spirit of the Delta

The Art of Carolyn Norris

University Press of Mississippi

A retrospective of an inspirational self-taught artist from the Mississippi Delta

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