NATCHEZ — Natchez will welcome home this month five artists who have gone out into the world and shown how their roots have shaped them through their work.

“Coming Home: A Tribute to Renowned Natchez Artists,” a month-long, Natchez Tricentennial-sanctioned exhibition at the Historic Natchez Foundation, will open 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Jan. 28.

After that, it will be open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on weekdays, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday and 1 to 3 p.m. Sundays until it closes Feb. 28.

“They are all people who formerly lived in Natchez who show nationally in galleries,” Tricentennial Art Exhibit Chair Marty Seibert said. “We are fortunate to collaborate with the Historic Natchez Foundation, and their building accommodates this well because of its high ceilings and wide halls — some of the pieces are quite large.”

The opening will coincide with the Historic Natchez Foundation’s annual membership meeting.

“This will give the members all a chance to get in there and meet the artists while they are at the meeting that evening,” Seibert said.

Chosen for the unique way they see and portray the world around them, the selected artists use different mediums to share their perceptions of the world and the influence Natchez has had on them.

The selected artists include:

• Vidal Blankenstein, whose paintings are meant to be “psychological narratives” that look at how people relate their emotional and physical environments.

Blankenstein’s work — which has toured internationally as part of a curated exhibit — is permanently featured in the Mississippi Museum of Art, the Meridian Museum of Art, the Ohr-O’Keefe Museum of Art and in private collections. She lives in Jackson, and is the creative director and owner of the advertising and design firm Imaginary Company.

Her work can be viewed online at facebook.com/VidalBlankensteinArt.

• Dale Fairbanks, a resident of the Florida Gulf Coast whose formative years were spent at Edgewood in Natchez, whose work has been called “narrative abstract” large-scale oil paintings.

Fairbanks work has been shown in venues in Alaska, Florida, Georgia, New Jersey, New York and Washington, D.C., and her work “Rescue Me” was hung in the Hale Boggs Federal Building in New Orleans by the Eighth District U.S. Coast Guard in commemoration of the 10th Anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.

Her studio, The Studio at K Street, is located in Pensacola, Fla., and her work can be viewed online at dalefairbanks.com.

• Susan Hollingsworth, who now lives in The Woodlands, Texas, and designs wearable art jackets inspired by Kazakh freestyle embroidery, a form she was first inspired to explore to when she lived in Kazakhstan after several years living in Africa, Europe and Central Asia, where she learned about the textile and fiber art.

Hollingsworth’s jackets have both contemporary and traditional elements, and she works with other artists to create “one-of-a-kind apparel narratives.”

Her work can be viewed online at SuKazJackets.com.

• Noah Saterstrom, whose work includes paintings, drawings and animations on multiple forms of media. His work has been described as figurative and “often narrative,” and some of his images explore the theme of Southern ancestry and what that can mean to the viewer.

His work has been shown most recently in New York, New Orleans, Nashville, Seattle, Tucson, Ariz., and Glasgow, Scotland, and has been in private and public collections in the United States as well as Canada, Scotland, England, South Africa, Australia and Japan, including at the Ritz-Carlton New Orleans.

He lives in Nashville, and his work can be viewed online at noahsaterstrom.com.

• Will Smith Jr., who uses photorealistic technique to render paintings in a range of ways.

He currently lives in New Orleans, where he works as an artist and designer for private and commercial commissions, including designing floats and sets for Mardi Gras krewes.

His previous work includes theater set art, architecture and design, as well as sculpting, casting and finish work at studios across the country.

His work can be viewed online at wmsjr.com.