Exhibits
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OTIS REDDING: I've Got Dreams to Remember
Exhibit Date: 09/08/2011 - 03/31/2012
On the eve of what would have been Stax legend Otis Redding’s 70th birthday, Thursday, September 8, 2011, the Stax Museum of American Soul Music will open a new exhibit, “OTIS REDDING: I’ve Got Dreams to Remember – An Exhibit from the Private Collection of Zelma Redding.” The exhibit coincides with “An Evening of Respect,” a two-day celebration of Redding’s life in his hometown of Macon, Georgia, hosted by the Redding family to benefit the Big O Youth Educational Dream Foundation. Read more >>
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“STILL LIFE IN SOUL"
Exhibit Date: 10/01/2009 - 09/30/2010
Contemporary Music Photography by Jacob Blickenstaff explores the life, activity, and resurgence in popularity of soul music through portrait, performance, and documentary photography made since 2005 by music photographer Jacob Blickenstaff. Soul music was a nuanced, emotional, and energetic idiom that reached a worldwide audience at its height in the 1960s but then virtually disappeared by the end of the 1970s. After subsequent decades of disco, hip-hop, rap, and modern R&B – much of which covered and sampled original soul music classics from Stax Records and other labels – the roots of authentic soul are sprouting again with revived careers of veteran artists, dynamic new acts, successful concerts and festivals, reissue projects, and soul-driven independent labels. Read more >>
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OTIS REDDING: FROM MACON TO MEMPHIS
Exhibit Date: 09/09/2007 - 06/01/2009
An Exhibit from the Private Collection of Zelma Redding" includes items on loan from Otis Redding’s widow and daughter, Zelma and Karla Redding-Andrews. The exhibit features a collection of never-before-shown family photographs taken on the Reddings’ 300-acre ranch outside Macon, and shows more than Otis Redding the singer and entertainer. Redding is seen petting his cattle, holding his son Otis Redding III, pitching hay from his barn, and engaged in other activities that portray him at home. Read more >>