Gulf Coast Art News
& Coming Events
Biloxi Art Association,   visit
www.biloxiartassociation.
org for dates, times and
meeting places.

Gulf Coast Art Association, First Saturday of each
month, 2:00 p.m. at Handsboro Community Center,
1890 Switzer Road, Gulfport.  
Details contact Shirley at 832-9305.

Gulf Coast Chamber Music Society, 7 p.m. Mondays,
Seacoast Ball Room, Howard and Seal Avenues, Biloxi.
Details: 313-0861 Dr. Alma Flick - Director.

Gulf Coast Writers Association, Meetings with guest
speakers are the 4th Saturday of each month at the
Orange Grove Library.  The contact person for these and
other GCWA events is Philip Levin, and the best way to
reach him is by email.
www.GCWriters.org  or e-mail
writerPLLEVIN@gmail.com

Ohr-O'Keefe Museum of Art, Office open,
228.374.5547, contact: Denny Mecham, Executive
Director director@georgeohr.org . General information
visit
www.georgeohr.org

Mobile Arts Council.. to promote, coordinate and
develop activities in connection with the arts.
www.mobilearts.org
Artsy stuff to do on the Coast!
Gulf Coast Art Associations & Groups
Local on-going events
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Mary C. Saturday Art Market
Every first Saturday the Mary C. will
host an outdoor/indoor Art Market. Art
lovers can browse, shop, and meet the
artists! Artists are encouraged to
register for a space to set up tables,
easels or other three dates for $25.
See more details at
www.themaryc.org


Art with Heart-Moss Point, MS
Non-profit organization
Jackson, Harrison, Hancock and Mobile
Counties
Free Art classes:  
Teens/Adults on Monday starting at 4
pm. Children's Class Thursday at 4 pm-
all media,volunteers welcome!
www.art-with-heart.org
Art In The Pass coming
soon...
Now Accepting Applications
from artists for the 2010 Festival on
April 10 & 11, 2010, Pass Christian, MS
If you are interested in being a Food
Vendor at the 2010 festival, please
contact Nila Burmaster at
(228)363-2630
Silent Auction:The Silent Auction
features original artwork from artists
participating in the Festival. The
proceeds from the Silent Auction
funds the Dot Hector Memorial Art
Scholarship. The $1000 art
scholarship is given to a high school
senior who plans to study art in
college.
Entertainment by BOBBY ALLISON!
www.artinthepass.com


Every Saturday!  Art fun &
learning for kids
4-12 Hands on
learning techniques!
10am - 1pm  Pass Christian, MS (right
off Menge Ave.)
AbbeyRoadArtClub.com

Pass Christian Farmers Market
115 Davis Avenue. Come find that
unique item. Saturdays. For more info.
www.passfarmersmarket.org.  
(228) 234-8732
Ocean Springs Art Association,  Meets second
Wednesday of every month except November,
6:30 p.m. social followed by meeting at 7:00 p.m.,
Mary C. O'Keefe Cultural Center, 1600 Government
Street, Ocean Springs.  For further details, contact
Carole-Marie at 872-8748 or visit
www.oceanspringsartassociation.org

USM Gulf Coast Civic Chorale:
The Southern Miss Gulf Coast Civic Chorale
rehearses on Tuesday evenings from 7 to 9 p.m.
at the First United Methodist Church in downtown
Gulfport. New singers are always welcome to join.
For more information on membership or
concerts, please visit
www.usm.edu/gc/civic_choral
or contact John Flanery at john.flanery@usm.edu

Pass Christian Art Association:
Meets third Saturday of Month 2:00 p.m., Rotary
Community Center, (204 Fleitas, Pass Christian),
Art in the Pass, Contact 452-2360 or

info@artinthepass.
com.




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Bywater Art Market – Every
third Saturday – 9am – 4pm  
Markey Park, New Orleans, LA
www.art-restoration.com/bam/
7th ANNUAL DAUPHIN
ISLAND
ARTS & CRAFTS SHOW  
Saturday, April 17, 2010  
9 AM – 4 PM Sponsored by St.
Francis Episcopal Church  
Dauphin Island , Alabama.  This
is a cool little festival that
typically has about 40-45
vendors and is well attended
by the the island and
surrounding communities and
is well promoted. The festival
coincides with other events
occuring the same weekend on
the island.  Don McKee  
dmckee001@centurytel
2nd SATURDAY ART
WALK!
2ND SATURDAY EACH MONTH!
Join the fine shops of Old Town
Bay St. Louis as they host
Second Saturday Art Walk
…shops and art galleries…like
Bay Books, Maggie Mays and
more…feature open houses with
guest artists, refreshments,
music, food & fun!
4pm-8pm  228-463-2688
Old Town Bay St. Louis, Main
Street,
Arts Alive! - A Three Day Festival Mobile
Apr 9th, 2010-Apr 11th, 2010
Arts Alive! takes place in the Cathedral Square Arts
District in downtown Mobile. Mobile’s downtown
arts festival is set to make “art happen” once again
this Spring. Scheduled for April 9, 10 and 11, the
festival offers three days of varied artistic
experiences and interactive and hands-on activities.
The hallmark of Arts Alive! since inception has been
it’s multi-dimensional arts platform. Each day
showcases a wide selection of art genres – theater,
film, visual, music, dance – all featuring local and
regional talent.   (251)694-045
7 www.
artsalivemobile.com
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                                                                 Alabama                                                                 
58th Annual Arts and Crafts Festival
Mar 19th, 2010-Mar 20th, 2010 Fairhope, Alabama.
Festival hours are 10 am - 5 pm daily and there is no
admission charge.  (251) 621-8222 or (251)
928-6387,  www.eschamber.com/artscrafts/


Gulf Coast Antiques, Food & Wine Festival
Mar 25th, 2010-Dec 27th, 2010
A world-class antiques show partnered with a food
and wine festival. Cooking demonstrations, wine
and food tastings, antique sale and more. Admission
charged. For more information call 251-694-0457, or
visit www.gcafwfest.com
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13 Music and Lyrics by JASON ROBERT BROWN
Book by DAN ELISH & ROBERT HORN, Directed byBLAKE COHELEY
March 4 - 21, 2010.  When his parents get divorced and he’s forced
to move from New York to a small town in Indiana, Evan Goldman
just wants to make friends and survive the school year.
Le Petit Théâtre du vieux Carré, 616 Saint Peter St., New Orleans,
LA,
70116 (504) 522-2081 -
Tremé Under the Bridge Marketplace
Saturday, Feb 20 11:00a to 3:00p  New Orleans, LA  
along North Claiborne Avenue under the I-10
expressway between Governor Nicholls and Ursuline.
Covered shopping along the Avenue offering fresh
seafood & meats, art, crafts, jewelry. and  more.
Featuring the Tremé Brass Band. 504.554.7250 or visit
www.nopjf.org.
Houston
artist
in the
spotlight.




Kenneth Baskin’s 20th Century Artifacts find
their inspiration in mechanical objects; these
industrial roots are a starting point for
explorations of form, motion, and humanity in
the Technological Age. In their abstraction and
familiarity, instability and balance, they are
reminders of the conceptual sophistication that
can inhabit the ceramic arts. Goldesberry Gallery
will exhibit Kenneth Baskin’s industrially-
inspired, intellectual, abstract ceramic
sculptures for the month of April, opening March
27 from 6-8 p.m., through April 24, 2010.
In November of 2009, Baskin’s 20th Century
Artifacts were featured on the cover of Ceramics
Monthly magazine. Baskin serves as a professor
of ceramics at McNeese State University in
Louisiana, and holds an M.F.A. in ceramics from
the University of South Carolina. He is a
recipient of the National Council on Education in
the Ceramic Arts Emerging Artist Award, and
has recently returned from a solo exhibition and
artist-in-residency at the Yingge Ceramics
Museum, Taipei, Taiwan. He has worked,
exhibited, and been collected nationally and
internationally.


Louisiana
Makes
World
Art News


HUMBLEBAEK, DENMARK - This spring’s major
exhibition at the Louisiana Museum of Modern
Art centres on colour: colour in art, in the
world and in the eye.
In words, pictures and
through interactive programes the exhibition
will present the ways in which artists
throughout the twentieth century either made
use of colour as a medium of expression or
researched it to find new colours and colour
systems. On exhibition through 13 June, 2010.



Announcements from Mississippi
Art Commission (MAC)

Governor’s Awards for Excellence in
the Arts
The annual Governor’s Awards for Excellence in
the Arts will be held on Thursday, February 25,
2010 at Galloway United Methodist Church .  
The festivities will begin at 1:00pm when we will
honor the five deserving recipients.  They are:
Arts in Community – Lenagene Waldrup,
Cleveland , Mississippi
Excellence in Broadcasting – Grassroots
Radio Show, serving all of Mississippi
Mississippi Heritage – Bessie Johnson,
West Point , Mississippi
Artistic Excellence – Wyatt Waters,
Clinton , Mississippi
Lifetime Achievement – David
“Honeyboy” Edwards, of Shaw , Mississippi



26th International Blues Challenge
Winners Crowned from Mississippi.

The Blues Foundation's 26th International
Blues Challenge was held recently at the
Orpheum Theatre in Memphis, Tennessee
and Mississippians walked away with top
honors!
The solo/duo winner was Matt Andersen,
sponsored by Harvest Jazz and Blues from
Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada and
second place honors went to Alphonso
Sanders and Bill "Howl-n-Madd" Perry from
Mississippi's Crossroads Blues Society.
The top prize in the Band competition was
awarded to Grady Champion of the
Mississippi Delta Blues Society of
Indianola. Second place honors were
earned by Karen Lovely Band, Cascade
Blues Association, and the third spot went
to Cheryl Renee with Them Bones, hailing
from the Cincy Blues Society
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Dreams Come True: Art of the
Classic Fairy Tales from the Walt
Disney Studio On exhibit at New
Orleans
Museum of art for a limited
time.

November 15, 2009 - March 14, 2010
www.noma.org/exhibitions
Jean Bragg Gallery of Southern Art
New Orleans
The gallery invites you to view
their February show Smalls for Walls, 2010, a
group show of still life, landscape and urban
images. Opening is during Artwalk in the Arts
District.  Saturday, February 6  5 pm - 7 pm   600
Julia Street Ph# 504/895-7375
www.jeanbragg.com
THE LOST MURALS-Exhibition showcasing just a
few of the mural panels done by Walter during the
Oldfields years, along with preparatory drawings
and Shearwater ceramic figures inspired by the
readings and designed by Walter Anderson.  
Emphasized in this show is Walter's lifelong love for
literature.  01/21/2010 - 05/15/2010  Monday -
Saturday 9:30am - 4:30pm; Sunday 12:30-4:30pm
Walter Anderson Museum of Art, 510 Washington
Avenue,
Ocean Springs   228-872-3164   
Admission Charged

‘Tenor’ at Center Stage-Center Stage
theater, Eisenhower Drive, Biloxi, will present “Lend
Me A Tenor” from March 18-28. Showtimes are 8 p.
m. Wednesday through Sunday and 2 p.m. Sunday
matinees. Tickets are $15 for Friday and Saturday
shows. Tickets for weekday shows are $11 for
students, seniors and active duty military and $13
for adults.  Details: 388-6258.

Artist reception-Hillyer House, 920 Washington
Ave., Ocean Springs, will hold an artist reception
from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. March 27 during the Ocean
Spring Herb Fest. Dana and Kristi Wittmann will
paint their sea life and coastal-themed pottery from
10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Marcia Manuel will demonstrate
the art of glass blowing from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Details: 875-8065.
Multi-talented artist,
Tony Bennett is the
chosen artist for this
years Jazz Fest
poster.

Grammy-winning jazz
legend, Tony Bennett will
be part of this year's
New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival —
but not in his traditional way.
A portrait Bennett painted of his late friend
and fellow jazz musician Louis Prima is
being produced as this year's official Jazz
Fest poster.
The festival's official poster dates to 1975,
when the first one was produced as a fifth
anniversary fund raiser for the nonprofit
New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation.
Many of the early festival posters were
abstracts. But, for more than a decade
now, most have been portrait-type
renderings of such performers as Fats
Domino, Professor Longhair, Jerry Lee
Lewis, Harry Connick Jr., Pete Fountain and
Wynton Marsalis.
The poster is sold during
Jazz Fest, which
runs
April 23-25 and April 29-May 2.
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Downtown Pensacola Gallery Night! Mark Your Calendars! March 19 kicks off
the 2010 Gallery Night Series in Downtown Pensacola from 5pm-9pm! This March
event will feature performances by a
variety of local musicians, filling the streets
with music.
www.downtownpensacola.com/gallerynight

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Jazz Fest artists have been posted.
Artists scheduled to play at the New Orleans Jazz
and Heritage Festival have been posted. The dates
for this year's event is April 24-26 and April 30-May 3
at the New Orleans Fairgrounds.
Scheduled headliners at the 40th annual event
include Sugarland, the Neville Brothers, Tony
Bennett, Earth, Wind & Fire, Wilco, Bonnie Raitt,
Allen Toussant, the O'Jays, Dave Matthews Band,
James Taylor and Bon Jovi.

The Gulfport Galleria of Fine Art is showing a
satellite exhibit at Gulf Coast Physical Therapy Clinic,
2781 C.T. Switzer Road, Suite 403, Biloxi. The exhibit
includes a variety of paintings and prints for sale.

The Gulf Park campus of the University of
South Mississippi
has announced the following
concerts for the month. Southern Chorale will
perform at 7 p.m. March 9 at St. Peter’s by-the-Sea,
Gulfport. The Jazz Quintet will perform at 7 p.m.
March 24 in the AEC Auditorium. Percussion will be
held at 7 p.m. March 22 in the auditorium. The
events are free and open to the public.

‘Creative Edge’ reception-The opening
reception for the “Creative Edge” photography
exhibit will take place from 5 to 8 p.m. March 13 at
Mockingbird Cafe, 110 South Second St., Old Town
Bay St. Louis. The exhibit will run from March 13 to
April 11 and will feature photography by the
students of Sandra Russell Clark.