1. MISSISSIPPI VISUAL ARTS

2. The Gulf Coast was the first area to produce or to nurture artists.

3. MISSISSIPPI ARTISTS

4. GEORGE E. OHR Potter from Biloxi
His pottery was original and outrageous.
He declared himself “The World’s Greatest Art Potter”
No one understood him or his pottery
Gave up pottery in 1910 and died in 1918
His stored pottery was found in 1967 by an art dealer.

5. GEORGE OHR THE “MAD POTTER OF BILOXI”

6. OHR’S ART WORK

7. WALTER ANDERSON Artist from Ocean Springs
His family established Shearwater Pottery
He spent his time on Horn Island
He created hundreds of paintings depicting plants and animals of the Gulf.
Walter Anderson Museum in Ocean Springs houses dozens of his work

8. WALTER ANDERSON

9. ANDERSON’S ART

11. VISIONARY ARTISTS Artists who depict their dreams and visions
Images usually from folk culture

12. MARY T. SMITH From Hazlehurst (1904 – 1995)
Painted pictures on her roof and displays her work on fences and buildings in her yard.
It is common in the African folk culture to display work on fences and buildings.

13. SMITH’S ART

14. THEORA HAMBLETT Born in the town of Paris in Lafayette County in 1895
Known for paintings of nature
Paintings done from child’s point
of view
Died in 1977

15. HAMBLETT’S ART

16. State’s Museums/Galleries
MS Museum of Art in Jackson with galleries in Biloxi and Tupelo
Lauren Rogers Museum of Art in Laurel houses Native American art