Love is a Sensation will chronicle the art and life of self-proclaimed “Unusual Artist” L. V. Hull (1942–2008) who transformed her home in rural Kosciusko, Mississippi into an immersive art environment that welcomed visitors from around the world. The exhibition will tell the story of how a Black woman in the deep South claimed space for – and with – her creative powers. Having purchased the house with earnings from domestic labor, she filled it with an array of objects that she altered through creative assemblage and her signature painted dots.

The Proving Ground will be the first museum survey of work by artist Coulter Fussell, whose “quilt-works” are constructed from textiles and printed matter donated or salvaged around the artist’s home in Mississippi’s rustic Yalobusha County. Fussell combines quotidian materials, from burlap feed sacks to acid-wash denim, to examine the regional and class identities that frame experience and shape belief systems.