The Attic Gallery will celebrate its 38th anniversary in a new way.

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The Attic Gallery will celebrate its 38th anniversary from 7 to 9 p.m. Friday on the third floor of the gallery, 1101 Washington St. Artist Jamie Tate will speak at 8. Admission is free. Call 601-638-9221 or visit www.atticgallery.net.

The celebration, set for Friday, will kick off a lecture series called Artists in the Living Room. The featured speaker will be Mississippi Delta artist Jamie Tate.

“Here we are 38 years later,” said Lesley Silver, gallery owner. “Before I started my gallery, I had art in my living room. Now, I’ve come full circle — and have art in my living room.”

Silver and her husband, Daniel Boone, are renovating the top floor of the building, at Washington and Grove streets, into their living space, where the reception will be held. The first and second floors house the Highway 61 Coffeehouse and the Attic Gallery.

“We’re going to make it more personal and more educational,” Silver said. “We’re going to make it more of an adventure for the people who come.”

Tate’s works have been exhibited at Silver’s downtown gallery for more than five years.

“I just love her paintings,” Silver said. “I felt like people can gain so much by hearing her talk because her work is so nonobjective.”

Tate, who is the workshop director of the Mississippi Art Colony in Utica, describes her work as “sophisticated abstract.” She will talk about a series she began a few years ago, “Mississippi Delta, the Promised Land,” which focuses on the land, culture and people of the Delta.

Tate’s awards include the Hosford Fontaine Best of Workshop Award in 2005 and the Mississippi Art Colony’s Lallah Perry Most Innovative Award in 2004. She completed art education courses at Delta State University.

More about Tate can be found at www.jamietate.com.

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