Mississippi School of the Arts

04/04/2026

Thanks to social media team member Jae Carrol for this fun skit featuring her classmates in downtown Brookhaven

04/04/2026

Join our junior dancers for their choreographic debut! Free performance on April 9! Don't miss it!

04/03/2026

MSA is excited to welcome David Gordon to campus for a residency for our film, literary, and visual art students! You can meet him on Tuesday, April 7 when he talks about his career and life!

Who is David Gordon?
David Gordon has art directed and/or worked on visual development, layout, and character design for numerous production companies from Lucasfilm to Pixar, including such movies as Toy Story, Monsters, Inc., A Bug’s Life, and Cars; BlueSky’s Robots and Nickelodeon’s Spongebob Squarepants; as well as animated commercials for companies like Cheerios and Nike.

He has also written and illustrated many children’s books, among them Hansel and Diesel, The Three Little Rigs, The Ugly Truckling, and Smitten. He is one of the authors of the acclaimed graphic novels Out of Picture I and Out of Picture II, and one of three illustrators of Jon Scieszka’s 52-book, N.Y. Times best-selling series, Trucktown.
His newest book is Extremely Cute Animals Operating Heavy Machinery.
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His shows include MoMA’s Pixar, Twenty Years of Animation, Paris’s Galerie Arludnik, The Art of Out of Picture and various Society of Illustrators’ group shows. He does commercial storyboards for Saatchi, BBDO, Y&R, TBWA Chiat, Weiden+Kennedy, and McCann Worldgroup.

He was trained at Parsons and the New York Academy of Art.

https://www.davegordonbooks.com/

04/03/2026

Join us for the first of our senior literary showcases.

04/03/2026

04/01/2026

Help us spread the word!

Hiring: School Finance Officer
Deadline to apply: April 6

https://msabrookhaven.org/employment/school-finance-officer

03/29/2026

Today at 2 is the last day to see Mamma Mia! We can’t wait to see you there. Tickets online and at the door!