Working on a Different Canvas
Two pairs of Converse Chuck Taylor shoes sit on Mississippi Museum of Art Director of Marketing and Communications Julian Rankin's desk.
One pair of sneakers, which New York City-based artist Jessica Maffia designed, has yellow, light blue, green and red dots with navy blue borders. The outer walls are outlined in neon orange, the tongue is blue-green, and the laces are neon yellow.
On the second pair, Vicksburg artist Martha Ferris, who is Maffia's grandmother, painted a tropical cityscape with different-colored Spanish villas on her sneaker canvas. On the outer wall of the right sneaker, palm trees line the sidewalk in front of the villas, and dark and light brown-checkered steps lead to the front door of a yellow house.
