People thirsty for some art this New Year’s weekend can find a sprawling variety of artistic creations at the Meridian Museum of Art.

It’s the museum’s annual Membership Exhibit, designed “to give our members an exhibit to showcase their talent,” as Kate Cherry, the museum’s executive director, explained. It runs until the end of January.

“We have pastel, mixed medium, colored medium, oil paintings and acrylic paintings,” Cherry said, noting clay sculptures and quilts, as well, in an exhibit that harbors about 80 works.

Cherry said the presence of several large quilts crafted by Judy Rayner injected an unusual flavor into the exhibit.

“We haven’t had any quilts in quite a while,” Cherry said. “It’s different for us.”

She also noted the presence of other pieces, such as mixed media work by Keith Everett playing upon genuine old album covers.

“A lot of these are the groups I listened to my 20s and 30s,” Cherry said, noting that the music represented reaches back into the 1970s or so. Cherry mentioned, too, that Everett creates a surprising effect by painting the Threefoot Building on the album covers.

A few pieces in the exhibit come from Patsy Temple, who mentioned an oil painting she did in Pontotoc while she was positioned on the outskirts of a hayfield. It was part of the work she did at Dot Courson’s studio for a workshop conducted by Stapleton Kearns.

“Stapleton did a demo in the morning, and in the afternoon we would sit up and paint,” said Temple, who serves as president of the museum’s Artists Group that meets monthly.

When she was a child, Temple lived in Boonville, where her father was a farmer. That means the images of hay bales became etched into her imagination — even though they were square when she was growing up, unlike the circular ones she painted.

Another of Temple’s paintings came from the process of acrylic “pouring,” she said, and a third came from a painting based on photographs she snapped of the brilliantly carved faces at Bayon Temple in Siem Reap, Cambodia.

The far-reaching range of Temple’s works echoes the variety of pieces in the overall exhibit, as Cherry described it.

Cherry said some works from Rick Anderson’s retrospective exhibition this past fall are also on display in the museum’s Weidmann Gallery on the top floor.

The museum is open from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday.