Mad Potter Block Party Offers BBQ, Music, Museum Membership

The Mad Potter Block Party member appreciation event co-hosted by O’Keefe Financial Services kicks off on Friday, July 12th, from 4 pm to 8 pm. The party starts at the end of George Ohr’s 162nd Birthday Celebration and is meant to bring members together in support of the museum. Members are asked to invite a friend that would be interested in becoming a member. Members and their guests will be treated to all-you-can-eat BBQ with two 50 lb roasted pigs, a (foam) brick toss game that offers a chance to win membership and other prizes, OOMA Trivia, the funktastic sounds of Blackwater Brass, and many other activities! BBQ plates will be $10 per plate for non-members.

Rumor has it that the event will also be attended by George Ohr himself, recently returned from a long hiatus on the other side of the River Styx. Patrons are asked not to inquire with George about what awaits in the afterlife as it seems he can’t remember very well himself. Please be patient with George while he re-acclimates himself with not just the living world, but the world of technology with which he now finds himself surrounded.

Museum memberships are available via the museum’s newly redesigned website georgeohr.org. Members and non-members can also RSVP at this link.

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Celebrate George Ohr’s 162nd Birthday with Free Admission and Activities

The Ohr-O’Keefe Museum of Art will celebrate the 162nd birthday of its namesake George E. Ohr with free general admission on Friday, July 12, 2019 from 10 am to 5 pm. Nicknamed the “Mad Potter of Biloxi,” Ohr’s legacy lives on 100 years after his passing in the wild and wacky STEAMpunk Pottery Project performance by Bay St. Louis artist Steve Barney. Featuring “The World’s Most Amazing Pottery Machine,” Barney will hoist himself in the air and throw pots upside down. Moreover, Steve will use his head to mold and shape clay vessels, designed to inspire students and integrate art with STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math). Enjoy free museum admission, cake, refreshments, food trucks, and exciting interactive art demonstrations and activities with Steve all day.

Exhibitions on view during the event will be Visionary Bayou Technician by Steve Shepard in the IP Casino Resort Spa Exhibitions Gallery and Southern Witness by John Barnes in the Beau Rivage Casino Gallery of African American Art.

Steve Shepard’s Visionary Bayou Technician, in the words of the artist, “speak(s) a visionary language of deep ecology inspired by the natural history of the northern Gulf of Mexico and its disintegration at the hands of developers investing in sprawling overpopulation and exploitation.” The artist includes among his influences the art of Walter Anderson, the Post-Impressionists, and the Chicago Imagists. Steve Shepard’s education includes a BFA from the University of South Alabama in 1977 and a summer at the Santa Fe Workshops of Contemporary Art in 1976.

The works collected in Southern Witness by John Barnes are painted wooden assemblages inspired by the historic cycle of race-positioning in relation to power and servitude in the contemporary South. The works use a variety of surfaces from lush, colorfully painted surfaces to heavily-grained bare plywood. John Barnes received his MFA in Sculpture from The Memphis College of Art in 1999. He now works out of New Orleans and is currently an artist-in-residence at the Joan Mitchell Center.

 

Become a member on Ohr’s Birthday and stick around for our Mad Potter Block Party member appreciation event presented by O’Keefe Financial Services from 4 pm to 8 pm. Non-member admission is $10 and we’ll have an appearance by George Ohr, a BBQ including two roasted pigs, and fun for all!

 

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Volunteer at the Ohr-O’Keefe!

Enthusiastic volunteers are needed!

Volunteers 18 years of age and up work with museum staff, art educators, and other individuals. Visitor Service Assistants gain customer service experience at the information desk during daily activities and during special events and programs. Children’s Class Assistants gain child-care and teaching experience as they learn hands-on about art museum education as a profession. Docent volunteers complete a comprehensive training program and lead interactive art appreciation tours for school groups and community groups.

Volunteering is a great way to become familiar with contemporary art and artists while working as part of a professional art museum team. Flexible schedules and exciting opportunities are available.

Contact Adriaan Simpson at visitorinfo@georgeohr.org

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Annual Planned Giving

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Gifts of Stock or Appreciated Securities

How It Works

You transfer appreciated stocks, bonds, or mutual fund shares you have owned for more than one year to the Ohr-O’Keefe Museum of Art.
The museum sells your securities and uses the proceeds for our programs.

Benefits

You receive an immediate income tax deduction for the fair market value of the securities on the date of transfer (even if you originally paid much less for them).
You pay no capital gains tax on the transfer when the stock is sold.
Giving appreciated stock can be more beneficial than giving cash. The “cost” of your gift is often less than the deduction you gain by making it.

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OOMA Joins the #GivingTuesday Movement

Black Friday. Cyber Monday. Giving Tuesday.

#GivingTuesday is a global giving movement that has been built by individuals, families, organizations, businesses, and communities in all 50 states and in countries around the world. This year, #GivingTuesday falls on November 27. #GivingTuesday harnesses the collective power of a unique blend of partners to transform how people think about, talk about, and participate in the giving season. It inspires people to take collective action to improve their communities, give back in better, smarter ways to the charities and causes they believe in, and help create a better world. #GivingTuesday demonstrates how every act of generosity counts, and that they mean even more when we give together.

The Ohr-O’Keefe Museum of Art is thrilled to join the #GivingTuesday movement as a means to acknowledge and unite our community and further our mission of providing arts education.

OOMA aspires to become the premier source of diversified and engaging art education for the Mississippi Gulf Coast. We see art as a road that leads to self-reflection, creative problem solving, and social change; it creates dynamic and profound interactions that shape personal identities and strengthens our Gulf Coast community.

Help OOMA Promote Art Education!

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