Exhibition: Roadside

Name: Exhibition: Roadside
Start: 2026-08-07T00:00:00-05:00
End: 2026-08-30T23:59:59-05:00
Location: Exhibition: Roadside

August 7 — August 30, 2026

Overview

Roadside features a series of black and white photography by Grace Ann Elinski. In this exhibition, Elinski captures imagery of familiar but often abandoned road signs and buildings around Mississippi.

Elinski is a writer, photographer, and yogi from Jackson, Mississippi. Her interdisciplinary work explores language, landscape, and everyday life across the American South, often engaging photography, essay, oral history, and documentary practice. Her writing has appeared in Across the Margin, Reckon Review, Cicadian Rhythm, Boudin, and PRODUCT, with work forthcoming in The Writer’s Chronicle. Her photography project, After the Word, was published in the Oxford American's Eyes on the South series. She is a recipient of the James Patterson Creative Writing Award and an AWP 2026 Student Fellowship. Elinski is a master's candidate in Literature and Creative Writing at Jackson State University, where she serves as President of the Jackson State Writers Alliance and Editor of Thee 1877 Literary & Arts Magazine, and she works in marketing at the University Press of Mississippi.

Join us for the free opening reception on Friday, August 7th, from 5-7pm. The exhibition runs August 7-30. Our hours are Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm, and Saturday, 11am-4pm.