Event Details
- Date(s): Thu, Jan 23
- Time: 5:15 pm
- Website: https://www.msmuseumart.org/event/the-rooted-book-club-x-mma/
- Location: Mississippi Museum of Art, 380 S Lamar Street, Jackson
Other Information
Join friends at the Mississippi Museum of Art for a special convening of the Rooted Book Club hosted within the Of Salt and Spirit galleries. The program will kick off with a guided tour, followed by a facilitated conversation about Alice Walker’s In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens by Lauren Rhoades, founder of Rooted magazine.
Schedule of Events:
5:15 | Cash bar
5:45 | Guided tour in the galleries
6:15 | Facilitated Rooted Book Club discussion about Alice Walker’s In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens
About Our Partners
Lauren Rhoades is a writer and editor living in Jackson, Mississippi. Originally from Denver, Colorado, Lauren has served with AmeriCorps, started 
Mississippi’s first fermentation company, and helmed the Eudora Welty House & Garden. She is now director of grants at the Mississippi Arts Commission and a host of MPB’s The Mississippi Arts Hour. In 2022, Lauren founded Rooted Magazine, an online publication dedicated to telling unfiltered stories about what it means to call Mississippi home. She hosts a monthly book club with Rooted subscribers, where authors including Harrison Scott Key, Tyriek White, Katy Simpson Smith, and Aimee Nezhukumatathil have joined to talk about their books. She holds an MFA in creative writing from the Mississippi University for Women. Her coming-of-age memoir, Split the Baby: A Memoir in Pieces, will be published by Belle Point Press in May 2025.
The Rooted Book Club is a celebration of Southern writers and readers, featuring books that explore issues of place, home, and belonging. Each month the book club reads a book by an author with a deep connection to the South, culminating in a live conversation with the author, Rooted founder Lauren Rhoades, and book club participants.”