{"id":41046,"date":"2017-08-07T14:56:12","date_gmt":"2017-08-07T20:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=41046"},"modified":"2017-08-07T14:56:12","modified_gmt":"2017-08-07T20:56:12","slug":"oxford-treehouse-gallery-hosts-mythosssippi-homecoming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/oxford-treehouse-gallery-hosts-mythosssippi-homecoming\/","title":{"rendered":"Oxford Treehouse Gallery Hosts Mythosssippi: Homecoming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Oxford Treehouse Gallery<\/strong> will host a one night event showcasing sculptural works by <strong>Ross Turner<\/strong>.\u00a0 A <strong>Mississippi<\/strong> native and<strong> Ole Miss<\/strong> alumnus, Turner has just completed his Master of Fine Arts degree at <strong>Texas A&amp;M<\/strong>\u2014<strong>Corpus Christi<\/strong>. The <strong>Mythossippi: Homecoming<\/strong> will have its Mississippi debut on <span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_458671200\"><span class=\"aQJ\">Saturday, August 12<\/span><\/span>\u00a0from <span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_458671201\"><span class=\"aQJ\">5 to 8 PM<\/span><\/span> at the Oxford Treehouse Gallery. <\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Mythossippi: Homecoming, is largely inspired by the rich tradition of folklore in the <strong>American South<\/strong>, where narration still holds strong social significance and is implemented to convey values, bring people together, and imbue life with art. Qualities of Old World folktales, such as the hero\u2019s journey, enchanted objects, and terrifying creatures are still utilized in storytelling throughout. Paying homage to this age-old tradition, Turner invites the viewer to explore Mythossippi\u2014a fictional locale fabricated from a light-hearted critique of the contemporary American South using traditional folklore and personal narratives to weave a humorous tall tale.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Oxford Treehouse Gallery is proud to have the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/172058750005584\/\">opportunity to display Turner\u2019s work<\/a> on his home turf. A goal of the Gallery is to share the space with other artists and to provide the public with a fine art experience in an unconventional gallery setting in beautiful <strong>Lafayette County<\/strong>, Mississippi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Oxford Treehouse Gallery hours are <span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_458671204\"><span class=\"aQJ\">Thursday<\/span><\/span>-Saturday 12-6pm and happily by appointment.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"25\" height=\"16\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14544 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg?resize=25%2C16\" alt=\"The Local Voice Ligature\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oxford Treehouse Gallery will host a one night event showcasing sculptural works by Ross Turner.\u00a0 A Mississippi native<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":253,"featured_media":41047,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[300],"tags":[256,5,642,4,4285,10765,3,753],"class_list":["post-41046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-localart","tag-lafayette-county","tag-mississippi","tag-ms","tag-oxford","tag-oxford-treehouse-gallery","tag-ross-turner","tag-the-local-voice","tag-tlv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/2017-08-07-Ross-Turner.jpg?fit=620%2C349&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/253"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41046\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}