Taylor-made art
Located in the heart of Taylor, Mississippi, an award-winning art community seven miles south of Oxford, the Taylor Arts Gallery and Big Truck Theater are a curiously remarkable find.
Come discover first-rate local art, foot-stomping music, and an experience not to be forgotten.
Mississippi mystique
Follow Old Taylor Road, a winding country lane, seven miles south from the college town of Oxford until you come to the stop sign in the rustic village of Taylor where dogs lay in the road. Taylor has a national reputation for its great catfish restaurant and award-winning community of artists. For a quarter-century some two dozen potters, painters, photographers, sculptors, and furniture makers have kept studios here among the cows and chickens.
A decade ago the husband-wife team of Marc Deloach and Christine Schultz opened Taylor Arts gallery in an old house to showcase the town’s artistic talent, including their own paintings, photography, silver jewelry, and furniture made from salvaged Delta wood. Then, a few years ago, they built a venue to spotlight all the lively music that pulses from porches everywhere around here. They threw open the barn doors on the Big Truck Theater right next door to the gallery and folks came pouring in to listen and to dance. To really get it, you just have to see it.