Mississippi Center for Cultural Production

Mississippi Center for Cultural Production (Sipp Culture)

Funding Received: 2016
Utica, MS
$500,000
Funding Period: 3 years and 5 months
www.sippculture.com
Multidisciplinary, Film & Media | Agriculture & Food, Economic Development | Rural
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Town Center, Utica, MS
photo credit: Carlton Turner
White Cotton Brown Hands
photo credit: Melisa Cardona
The Bailey family on their family farm in Utica.
photo credit: Carlton Turner
Map of churches in and around Utica, MS.
photo credit: Carlton Turner
Community members in Utica, Mississippi participating in a design process for the Main Street Cultural Center at a Pop Up Coffee Shop on Main Street.
photo credit: Griff Griffin

Prominent artist, Carlton Turner, is leading an economic revolution for rural Utica, Mississippi by facilitating a multi-media archival devlepment process that re-connects younger generations with historic economic strategies rooted in land cultivation and agricultural production. These interventions will be coupled with a community-led design process for the development of a permanent economic hub for arts and agricultural production.

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See below for recent updates, press, and events from this project

press
Mississippi Free Press: ‘Food Defines Us’: Utica Arts Organization Mobilizes To Solve Food Insecurity In Community
Dec 11, 2020
Jesse Killingsworth grew up in Hazlehurst, Miss., where his mother grew all their food. She had a garden full of onions, tomatoes, potatoes, bell peppers,... Read More
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Alternate Roots: WHOSE COTTON YOU CHOPPIN?
Apr 25, 2018
I grew up in Utica, Mississippi in a community with generations of historic memory, so I get to hear a lot of stories. Some of... Read More
blog
We Are Enough
Jun 21, 2017
When asked to speak in public, I often turn to my family for inspiration and colorful anecdotes to share. I turn to these stories because...Read more