Join us in Tuscany next summer! Registration is now open for our 2026 Visual Explorations of Italy trip. Whether you’re a painter or just want to soak up the beauty of Tuscany, you can enjoy the sights, sounds, and flavors with us from June 26 - July 4. This will be our 12th year to lead groups on this exploration and we’re expanding it with an extra night and a big group dinner in Florence, home of the Italian Renaissance.
Read MoreJerrod’s Visual Explorations of Monet’s France trip begins next week. Follow along on his Instagram page, @jerrodpartridge, as he leads a group on an in-depth and up close study of one of the most celebrated painters of all time.
Read MoreThe 12th annual Visual Explorations of Italy trip dates will be June 26 - July 4, 2026. An extra night in Florence, Italy has been added to the itinerary for everyone to have more time to take in the magic of this city. Registration will open mid-September.
Read MoreJerrod has been named the winner of the 2025 Jane Crater Hiatt Fellowship, a $25,000 award given to one artist from the Mississippi Invitational Exhibition at the Mississippi Museum of Art. He will use the award money to develop a series of paintings about communities within the coastal seafood industry. In 2027, the finished body of work will be exhibited at the Walter Anderson Museum of Art in Ocean Springs as well as the Maritime & Seafood Industry Museum in Biloxi. One piece from the new series will go into the permanent collection of the Mississippi Museum of Art.
Read MoreJerrod’s solo exhibition “Outside In” opens at Claire Elizabeth Gallery in New Orleans, LA on Saturday, May 3, with an opening reception from 4-7pm. This exhibition includes a selection of sensitively composed and executed plant still life drawings and paintings.
Read MoreThis weekend is the weekend-long plein air event called Painting Across the Coast. Running Friday evening to Sunday afternoon, this Art Space 86 event offers painting and social gatherings in multiple locations across the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Get the full schedule on the Facebook event page HERE. This event is open to everyone following the desire for our events to always be WELCOMING, ENCOURAGING, AND FREE.
Read MoreJerrod’s Visual Explorations of Monet’s France trip this September is now full. You can contact him at painterjerrod@gmail.com to be placed on a waiting list for possible openings.
Read MoreJerrod has been selected as one of 12 artists from around the state to be included in the 14th biennial 2025 Mississippi Invitational exhibition at the Mississippi Museum of Art, on view June 28 through September 7, 2025. The theme of this year’s Invitational—“Call Home” is organized by guest curator and award-winning writer and historian, TK Smith.
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