Mardi Gras Parade downtown a huge hit!!

Fun was had by all!!! Today at noon was the big 2007 Mardi Gras parade downtown Jackson. And once again the Downtown Merchants Association participated...more specifically the following,
The Dickson Gallery of Fine Art
Lafayette Thrift Market
Blades Barber Salon
Horton & Associates
Main Street Publishing
Special thanks to all of those businesses who continue to support the efforts of downtown!! The parade route was lined with people...1,000s upon 1,000s of beads were thrown among other trinkets and such and fun was had by all!!
Thank you to Luz, Jamie, Polly, Joan and Kelly for being bead throwers...and to Gary Matthews Ford for donating the use of a vehicle to carry the Downtown Merchants King (Richard Lawrence) and Queen (Kim Collins)...and to Karen Lenard (of Gary Matthews) for driving.
If you attended the parade...we hope you had a ball!!
HAPPY MARDI GRAS from the Dickson Gallery!!!

The buzz continues...

Special thanks to Dickson Gallery photographer Steve Parrott for the photo to the left. He attended the 2006 Emerging Business Award luncheon with me along with Dana Brooks, Jai Johnson, Julia Humphreys and Holly Couch. We're still receiving congrats from all around town for the Dickson Gallery being one of five businesses to receive the Emerging Business Award from the Jackson area Chamber of Commerce. Come by the gallery and see it for yourself...we've got it proudly displayed on the front counter!
Thank you to those of you who've given us warm congrats for being a recipient of this year's award. yessiree...we're very proud!
But without the extraordinary talent of our artists we are nothing.
...and a very special thanks to the Jackson community for embracing your local original art!!
Happiness, Rachel Dickson

by gorge...we done it!

Yesterday (Feb. 5th) at noon the Dickson Gallery of Fine Art was one of 5 small businesses to receive the Jackson Area Chamber of Commerce's 2006 Emerging Business award.
I'll be posting more about this very special award soon...but until then click below to see the article in today's (Feb. 6th) newspaper:
http://www.jacksonsun.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070206/BUSINESS/702060314