The art of closing: MCA takes high road to the end
Seniors (left to right) Alex McBride, Venkay Polk and Anastasia Hollimon discuss course work in animation during the first week of classes in August. Memphis College of Art will close after a final graduation in May of 2020. (Mark Weber/Daily Memphian)
Memphis College of Art endures the challenges of an extraordinarily long "teach-out" to give its last students a chance to graduate.
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Tom Bailey retired in January as a business reporter at The Daily Memphian, and after 40 years in journalism. A Tupelo, Mississippi, native, he graduated from Mississippi State University. He has lived in Midtown for 36 years.
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