Rising Tide
Rising Tide
Jennifer Drinkwater. Rising Tide, acrylic on wood panel, 36” H x 36” W x 1.75” D, 2024.
Rising Tide arrives wired and ready to hang. My genius husband Aaron Swanson carefully crafts each panel with high-quality wood, mounting a smooth plywood surface onto a sturdy, mitred wooden frame that provides depth and support to the painting. The sides of the panel are sanded and finished for smoothness.
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Twenty percent of profits support the Washington County Work Ready Association in Greenville, Mississippi. The mission of the Washington County Work Ready Association is to promote, support, and provide innovative programs that provide workforce development skill training for high demand and high growth industry sectors to residents of Washington County, Mississippi.
The community stories that inspired Rising Tide:
Located between Memphis and New Orleans on the Mississippi River, Greenville is home to about 30,000 people, and since its inception has been a cosmopolitan and diverse community that allegedly has published more writers per capita than any other town in the nation, according to locals.
The proximity to the Mississippi River attracted Chinese, Lebanese, Italian, and Jewish immigrants, which has in turn shaped the local cuisine and the regional economy.
The town’s first elected mayor in 1875 was Leopold Wilczinski, a Polish Jew.
Greenville at one time boasted more than sixty Chinese grocery stores in the early twentieth century, and Greenville’s How Joy, Mississippi’s first Chinese restaurant, opened in 1968.
According to the Mississippi Encyclopedia, Doe’s Eat Place, the James Beard Award winning restaurant, evolved from an itty-bitty grocery store owned by Carmel Signa, a Sicilian immigrant, in 1903.
Notable writers that called Greenville home were Charles G. Bell, David C. Berry, Larrison Campbell, Betty Werlein Carter, Hodding Carter, Hodding Carter III, Philip D. Carter, David L. Cohn, Ellen Douglas, Shelby Foote, Brooks Haxton, Angela Jackson, Bern Keating, Kate Keating, Beverly Lowry, Walker Percy, William Alexander Percy. Julia Reed, Jessie Rosenburg Schell, Caroline Stern, and Ben Wasson.