Located in the Old, Historic District of Water Valley, Mississippi, Jacki Kellum Studios Houses the Gallery of Jacki Kellum’s Vibrant and Bold Art. It is also where she paints and writes. Jacki Kellum’s picture book The Donkey’s Song was published in 2022 by the Penguin Random House Group of Publishers, and she also has other picture book manuscripts in progress.
Kellum has master’s degrees in both writing and art, and she has taught both art and writing for many years. While teaching art in schools, she was named National Teacher of the Year.
Jacki Kellum Studios is both a place for Kellum to work and also where she teaches others to paint, draw, and write.
She teaches both children and adults and has a special gallery to show and sell her students’ work.
Jacki Kellum Studios and Gallery is Located in Water Valley, Mississippi–in a former Opera House that was Built during the Late 19th Century, In the manner of 19th Century Opera Houses, the studio’s main room is massive with at least 20 ft ceilings.
In that main room, there is a seating area and several work areas for various media–including an area for musicians.
In addition, Kellum teaches her students in that main space:
Jacki Kellum teaches both children and adults:
At the entrance into that big room, there is a counter with a large, primitive McCaskey Cash Register that was created in 1914.
The studio space is steeped in history, and Kellum furnishes the area with antiques that reflect the building’s past.
By the early 1900s, the building housed the elegant Hotel Trusty:
Jacki Kellum Studios is Located on the Bottom Floor of that old Hotel.
Let’s Take A Quick Inside:
Jacki Kellum Studios is also where Kellum herself works creates variety of artistic products.
Jacki Kellum is a painter who works both in oils and watercolors. Her oils are bold and painterly.
Much of Kellum’s Watercolor Painting is Vibrant and Colorful.
But Jacki Kellum is also an author and illustrator of picture books:
She wrote The Donkey’s Song, but the incredible Sydney Hanson illustrated it.
Kellum’s Illustrations are much wackier than Hanson’s sweet art:
Jacki Kellum Studios is also where Kellum teaches both visual art and writing.