April 11-May 31: The Second Dimension: Painters (& Friends) Look at Pottery
An all-female show, featuring longtime friends and popular Gulf Coast artists—most of them members of the former ArtWave--make a nod toward the art of ceramics and its roots in the earth around us. April 11 reception is from 6 to 8 pm with refreshments.

June 6-Aug. 22: “Domo Arigato: Thank You”~Mississippi Potters Pay Tribute to their Friends from around the U.S. Guest curator Brian Nettles.

July 12: 151st birthday of George Edgar Ohr.

Aug. 29-Sept. 11: “Our Heroes: Firemen in a Ravaged World” Photographs from the first days after Hurricane Katrina by Lauren Byrd, a young, native Biloxian with fresh eyes on heroism and the human spirit.

Sept. 19-Nov. 7: “George Ohr’s National Challenge: The Juried Exhibition” The best in ceramics, sculpture, paintings and prints from across the nation.

Oct. 4-5: 15th Annual George Ohr Fall Festival of Arts. Biloxi Town Green.

October 16, 2008: George Ohr Gala at the Beau Rivage

Nov. 24-Dec. 31: “Tea Time: An Invitational” Area potters pay homage to George Ohr’s great admiration for the teapot.

Jan. 9-Feb. 28, 2009: “Prelude to Poetry” The first of two exhibits dedicated to Gulfport native and Pulitzer Prize winner Natasha Trethaway and her book about the African American Native Guard at Ship Island. This first exhibit will include photographs of the Native Guard shown with Trethaway’s poems. The latter exhibit, planned for the new museum, will also focus on local efforts to commemorate the Native Guard.