10! A Decade of Cartoons by Marshall Ramsey

From the Mississippi Museum of Art

Award winning and nationally syndicated political cartoonist Marshall Ramsey’s work is currently on exhibit at the Union County Heritage Museum. The exhibit comes to New Albany through the Mississippi Museum of Art.  

Ramsey will be at the museum on March 23, at noon for a lecture.  A light lunch will be served.

Ramsey will be a guest lecturer at the museum on Tuesday, May 23, at noon for Museum Moments. The event is free and open to the public.

Today Ramsey’s cartoons appear in more than 400 publications, including The New York Times, Newsweek, U.S. News & World Report and USA Today.  He has won numerous awards and is a two-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning.  He has worked for the Clarion Ledger for more than six years and is syndicated nationally by Copley News Service.

Raised in Georgia, educated in Tennessee, trained in Texas and California, Ramsey now makes his home in Mississippi.  While a student at the University of Tennessee, Ramsey served as the editorial cartoonist for The Daily Beacon, the University of Tennessee’s daily student newspaper. His cartoons, drawn while attending Kennesaw State College, won top prize for collegiate cartoonists.

Ramsey has also illustrated seven children’s books for his cousin, financial expert Dave Ramsey and has illustrated Nobody’s Poet for chef and author Robert St. John.  His first book Marshall Ramsey’s greatest Hits was a local best seller.

Ramsey is also a dad, husband, and a melanoma survivor.  He has been honored by the Melanoma Research Foundation and the American Cancer Society for his work promoting skin care screening.

The cartoons will be on exhibit at the museum through March 27.  For more information call the museum at 538-0014 or visit at 114 Cleveland St., New Albany.