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Lolly Barnes comes to the Mary C. from a background in historic preservation. After receiving a BA in history from LSU and a MA in history from USM, she began her career with the City of Biloxi in 1993 in collections management for municipal museums, later moving to the position of Historical Administrator. In this capacity, Lolly was responsible for design review in historic districts, educational outreach on preservation issues and the restoration of several historic properties, including the Saenger Theatre and the Biloxi Lighthouse. After leaving the City of Biloxi in 2004, she worked on a redevelopment plan for the historic White House Hotel in Biloxi. Following Hurricane Katrina, Lolly worked for the National Trust for Historic Preservation as Program Officer for the Mississippi Gulf Coast Field Office to promote the restoration of historic buildings damaged in the storm. A former fellow with the Knight Program in Community Building, Lolly is a past president of the Mississippi Heritage Trust. After attending an intensive 8 week |
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Anita Nobles Arguelles comes to the Mary C. with a background built working with Fortune 500 companies; Triton ATMS and Thomas & Betts. She has significant experience and success in project management. Her previous roles included management of communication channels, events and marketing activities for utility and emergency lighting products and later for ATMS. She had P & L responsibility for $180 Million dollars in sales of product lines. She has over 30 years’ experience in marketing activities and 20 years in strategic business development. She has worked to develop new technical products and markets in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, France, Australia, Germany, the Netherlands, China and Australia. In 1987, Anita owned her own publishing company which sold over 100,000 copies of books targeted to the gift market. She has authored 2 cookbooks and has made numerous TV appearances.
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Amanda is a stained glass artist who discovered her passion for the medium in 2007 while pursuing her Masters of Fine Arts degree in Historic Preservation at Savannah College of Art and Design. While initially she learned glass skills for the restoration of historic glass windows, she quickly began creating windows of her own design. Amanda specializes in both the copper foil and lead came methods of window fabrication and enjoys sharing her creative outlet with glass enthusiasts. |
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I graduated from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, and served for 20 years as an officer in the United States Air Force; I retired with the rank of Major. My family and I have lived in Ocean Springs since 2002. After Hurricane Katrina, my family was in turmoil facing a difficult period in our lives, due to multiple life-threatening medical conditions. Living in Ocean Springs and admiring the works of many talented artists, I was inspired to start beading and designing jewelry as a distraction to keep my hands and concentration focused on my art, instead of worrying. |
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Arlene Gomes was born Washington, D.C. She attended Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia where she received a Bachelor Degree in Secondary Education with a Double Major of Concentration in Instrumental Music/ Clarinet Performance and Vocal Music. During her senior year she was 1st Chair/Solo Clarinetist of O.D.U.’s Wind Ensemble and Orchestra. She was one of 3 musicians selected to perform with the State of Virginia’s Intercollegiate Band. Arlene is certified to instruct all instruments including Orchestral Strings K-12. She is currently the Director of the Biloxi High School Orchestra, Biloxi Jr. High Orchestra as well as the Mary C. O’Keefe Youth Symphony at the Mary C. O’Keefe Cultural Center in Ocean Springs. |
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My Christian faith helped me to find peace and comfort during trying times, being able to create beautiful pieces, always praying as I beaded. “Beading and praying” through the suffering was my way of overcoming difficult circumstances. Ocean Springs is my home and I love the artistic community and the enjoyment it brings to locals as well as tourists. It started as a hobby, and then I was encouraged to show my jewelry at local art markets and festivals. My influences are the beautiful natural products of the sea and the earth, as well as the colors and textures found on the local beaches. I use a variety of sea shells, pearls, natural stones, Swarovski and Czech crystals, glass, ceramic, and wood beads. I like to create a piece with a specific lady in mind. I keep her in my prayers as I bead, not knowing who will wear my piece close to her heart. Just as my family and I survived a difficult period in our lives, my hopes are that the ladies who wear my pieces will find the peace, serenity, strength, and courage to face any hardship which may come their way. |
She has 30+ years of professional performance on clarinet , flute and alto saxophone. She has judged and been a guest conductor for county and district competitions. She has taught and conducted High School, Jr. High School, and Elementary Bands, Orchestras, Concert Choirs and Show Choirs as well as Private Studio Instruction. Her students have been continuously selected for the top seat positions on the District, State and National levels. She uses motivational techniques along with carefully selected method studies that provide students with the confidence and skills that enable them to perform at higher levels. | |||
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Alec Fritz is the writer and artist of the Comic Strip "Broke Comics." He is a graduate of the Art Instructions Schools, and attended the Joe Kubert School of Cartoon and Graphic Art. Alec lives in Ocean Springs, teaches Cartooning and Illustration, and can be found drawing when he isn't sketching. You can contact Alec, purchase artwork, and read the full archive of Broke Comics at www.brokecomics.com |
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Mark A. King
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Jeanette Lindsey has been teaching water color at Mary C for over a year and has been painting for over 40 years. Although her major in college was Business, she minored in art. Jeanette began painting folk art where she learned the basics of color and blending. Jeanette studied under Evelyn Huxley and then learned to china paint in Mobile, Alabama. A friend had bought his daughter a set of water colors and lent them to Jeanette – it was love at first “brush stroke.” In 2008 Jeanette spent a week with Catherine Anderson in Maine. Even though Jeanette had worked with water color for years, Catherine introduced her to a whole new meaning of washes. Although water color is sometimes seen as unforgiving, it is so much fun. Come and learn to paint. |
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Patrick Murphy is an Ocean Springs native who discovered his talent for pottery while working as a special education teacher at St. Martin High School. It took only one time on the pottery wheel for him to realize pottery was something he wanted to do for the rest of his life. He soon built his own studio and established his business, Smoking Glove Pottery. In the years following, Patrick advanced his throwing skills and knowledge of the craft under master potters Pat Bodine and Randy Brodnax. Patrick sells his work locally through Theresa’s Gallery in Ocean Springs and local festivals.
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Original from Alabama, C.J. moved to Mississippi after graduating from High School . She Studied under Emily Frique and Taught beginners slot day at “The Pottery Place” In Gautier. She is presently working with Senior Citizens in Gautier. |
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Cynthia grew up in Gadsden, Alabama where I studied piano from age 5 and voice from age 12. Received a bachelor of music degree in vocal performance from Baylor University. Taught high school choir for one year. Studied at Juilliard School of Music in NY: voice with Judith Raskin and Marlena Malas. Sang professionally with Columbia Composers Forum and Brooklyn Philharmonia. New Orleans Opera Chorus. Taught piano and voice lessons in Sewanee Tennessee for 5 years and metro Atlanta for 5 years. Currently, Cynthia works in the field of conservation & sustainable community development. She is co-owner of two local businesses: Natural Capital Development,Inc. and South Coast Paddling Company. She sings in choir at St. John's Episcopal Church and directs the St. John’s Young Musicians. Cynthia is married to George Ramseur,Jr. They have two children: Gilbert is a master’s student at Bard College, NY and Carolyn is a sophomore at University of the South, TN. . |
Although born in San Francisco following World War II, Gigi Reeks has been an Ocean Springs-Biloxi "native" since she was five years old. With both parents (the artist-sculpto Harry Reeks and the painter Chloe Reeks) also being the most constant and greatest appreciators of the Classical and Jazz genres, she grew as a child surrounded with a plethora of artistic sights and sounds. The Mississippi Gulf Coast has always been an area rich in its "sense of place" and in its arts. Her musical background as a child was as the accompanist for Ocean Springs Junior High School Choir under Mus. Angela Hubbard, and the same for the Ocean Springs High School Choir under Mrs. Hubbard and Ms. Teresa Spreigel. Her formal college degrees are the Bachelor of Music, double major in voice and piano performance and Music Education from the University of Southern Mississippi; and the Master of Music degree with double emphasis in vocal pedagogy (the study of the teaching of a particular discipline) and chorale direction. Additionally, she is currently studying Composition at the doctoral level with Dr. James Walsh of Loyola University of New Orleans and Schoenberg Twelve-Tone theory at the doctoral level with Dr. Janna Saslaw, also at Loyola university of New Orleans. Her greatest childhood influence in music was Mrs. Jane Wade, her public school elementary music teacher. She saw in her and learned from her the joy that music can be to all of us. She strives to give her students what it is that Mrs. Wade gave to her. Professionally, Gigi has always, (without ever a stopped time in between congregations) been a church pianist/organist/choirmaster-beginning at age eleven. Three years ago, she retired from Christus Victor Lutheran Church in Ocean Springs after twenty years service. She now worships and sings in the choir at St. John's Episcopal Church and fins great joy in the simplicity of that role and the camaraderie of her fellow musicians. Additionally, she teachers Music Appreciation for Mississippi Gulf Coast Coast Community College. Her greatest love in teaching is individual instruction in piano and voice. Sacred Choral Music is her compositional calling-even though at Loyola, her writing assignments range from Symphonic works and jazz to experimental music.
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After receiving a BFA in Theatre Arts from Sam Houston State University, Rosyln has been involved in all aspects of professional and community theatre for over 30 years in both Texas and Mississippi. Locally, she has been associated with Biloxi Little Theatre and an active member of The Walter Anderson Players as a Board of Directors member and stage director since 1988. |
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Suzanne is a 1975 graduate of Ocean Springs High, attended Mississippi Gulf Coast Junior College and The University of South Alabama in Mobile. She has a degree in K-12 Art Education. A self-taught photographer, she worked at the Ocean Springs Record from 1974-1990, focusing on sports and feature photos, page layout and advertising. Suzanne taught art in Ocean Springs School |
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Kelly began bellydancing in early 2009 when she lived in South Carolina. She studied under Babs “Noora” Flowers for 9 months until she moved back to Mississippi. She started dancing and studying under Alyssa of Gulf Coast Bellydance in 2010. Kelly became the studio manager in January 2011 which gave her more opportunity to immerse herself in the art of bellydance. Kelly taught several classes at Gulf Coast Bellydance under Alyssa, and upon the closing of Gulf Coast Bellydance, and with the positive feedback students gave Alyssa, she knew Kelly would be the best instructor to keep the bellydance community together. Alyssa helped Kelly pursue new avenues in which to teach bellydance. Kelly attributes all of her dancing success to both of her instructors, Babs and Alyssa, and all of her teaching success to Alyssa, who started the bellydance community in South Mississippi. |
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System in the early 80’s, then own and operated a wearable arts business, Gumbo Dress Shop, from 1985-90 in downtown Ocean Springs. In 1990 she moved to Washington, D.C. and taught Art at Capitol Hill Day School from 1990 – 2007. It was at CHDS, where she learned the importance of art integration, was part of the Shakespeare production team and helped create the school’s yearbook. Weidie spent a year in Vermont (2007-08) working at Flashbags, a small accessory manufacturing company, as product designer and production director. Since moving back to the Mississippi Gulf Coast, she created a line of her own named “Art, Paper, Stitches”. She prints digital images of artist’s work and sews them, along with recycled materials into artistic accessories. Her client base is mostly Mississippi artist, including images of Walter Anderson, which are sold at Realizations. Personal art has included batiks, watercolor, mix media, fabric design, pottery and photography. She has also crafted hand-blocked hats, children’s clothes and other hand crafted accessories and home furnishing. Suzanne currently owns and operates Sew What Studio and teaches a variety of art classes at the Mary C. O’Keefe Cultural Center in Ocean Springs. She is also an active member of the Board of Directors and participates in the volunteer program. |
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