{"id":150561,"date":"2025-07-16T11:55:44","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T16:55:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=150561"},"modified":"2025-07-16T11:55:45","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T16:55:45","slug":"big-bad-business-series-returns-tuesday-july-22-the-powerhouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/big-bad-business-series-returns-tuesday-july-22-the-powerhouse\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Bad Business Series Returns Tuesday, July 22, The Powerhouse"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Please join the Yoknapatawpha Arts Council<\/strong> and the Oxford-Lafayette County Economic Development Foundation<\/strong> for a Big Bad Business<\/strong> workshop: “Side Hustle to Small Business: Growing Your Small Business into a Full-time Gig.”<\/strong>\u00a0The workshop will take place Tuesday, July 22 at The Powerhouse from 6\u20138 pm<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Come hear full-time entrepreneurs, Earl Dismuke<\/strong> and Eliot Parker<\/strong>, explain how they grew their hustles into full-fledged small businesses in the creative economy. Light refreshments and networking to follow. Free and open to the public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Earl Dismuke<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Earl Dismuke is a Mississippi artist. He graduated in 2007 from the University of Mississippi <\/strong>with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree with an emphasis in sculpture.  He works out of his studio located in Oxford<\/strong>, where he lives with his wife and four children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Examples of his work have been included in several international and national exhibitions, including but not limited to, the Poydras Corridor Sculpture Exhibition, New Orleans; The Walter Anderson Museum, Ocean Springs, Miss.; Scope Basel in Basel, Switzerland; Lima, Peru, several gallery and museum shows; and private collections.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Earl is a co-founder of the Yokna Sculpture Trail<\/strong>, a bi-annual rotating outdoor sculpture exhibition in Oxford, Mississippi.  He is a recipient of the Mississippi Arts Commission 2019 Visual Arts Fellowship Grant, and a member of the International Sculpture Center<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Eliot Parker<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Eliot Parker is the author of several books, most recently A Final Call<\/em><\/strong>, which was named a “Best Book to Discover” by Kirkus <\/em>Magazine and a finalist for the Hawthorne Prize in Fiction. His short story collection Snapshots<\/em><\/strong> won the Feathered Quill and PenCraft Book Awards for Short Story Anthology. A recipient of the West Virginia Literary Merit Award, Eliot hosts the podcast program “Now, Appalachia,”<\/strong> on the Authors on the Air Global Radio Network<\/strong>. His two latest books, Table for Two<\/em><\/strong> and Double-Crossed<\/em><\/strong> will be released in 2024 and 2025.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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For questions related to the workshop or to different abilities, please email\u00a0outreachyac@gmail.com<\/a>. The Big Bad Business Series is funded in part through a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Mississippi Arts Commission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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