Multiplicity:
Wild Worlds
by Kelsey Wishik
“Multiplicity: Wild Worlds explores the interplay between inner and outer landscapes through a body of work spanning metal and painting. Rooted in the idea that many small parts come together to form a greater whole, this exhibition reflects a way of seeing the world as layered, interconnected, and alive.”
The Duckett Gallery
Named for artist Albert Duckett (1907-1978), the Albert Duckett Art Gallery was one of the first rooms to be restored at the Mary C. and had the most massive restoration effort. The Duckett family including Albert’s son Bruce, his wife Alice and her brother John Pulliam worked endlessly to make the rooms into a finished art gallery. They donated not only substantial funds, but also worked themselves at everything from demolition, framing, painting, and hanging sheetrock, down to the smallest of details. Julie Hebert donated the wood floors and Talmadge Dewitt Tyrone helped with the labor. The result is a large, beautiful gallery where both local and national artists can exhibit.
The goal of the Gallery is to educate the viewer through bringing in new and innovative work to widen the scope of the viewer’s perception and to show works of historical significance, works by noted professionals with a high degree of creativity and craftsmanship, and to encourage emerging artists of great promise.
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If you are an artist interested in exhibiting at the Duckett Gallery, please send a one page exhibition proposal, a portfolio of images of your current work, your CV, and a list of current work with titles, media, dimensions, and prices to Dr. Pat Pinson at patpinson01@gmail.com.
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No, you do not have to be a partner with the Mary C. to exhibit in the Duckett Gallery. Many of our exhibitors are visiting artists from as far away as Europe!
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Albert Duckett, the fifth of seven children, was born on October 28, 1907 in Springfield, Illinois. Albert met Helen Uhalt, his wife of 46 years, at a church dinner in Chicago while they were both in art school. In 1931 they were married in Oak Park, Illinois where they made their home while he worked as an editorial cartoonist at the Chicago Herald Examiner. Helen was a commerical artist who worked for several years drawing layouts for ads for Marshall Field's, Macy's, and other retail stores in Chicago. By 1936, Albert was Art Editor for the Detroit Times, continuing his editorial cartoon commentary. When the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor he volunteered to serve in the army. Too old to go overseas, he used his skills at Fort Hood in Texas where he created hundreds of visual aids for basic training, including weapons, proper firing positions and troop positions. After the war the family moved to Biloxi, the childhood home of Helen. He fell in love with the Gulf Coast, frequently commenting, "No one ever retires to the north." He worked for the Daily Herald in Gulfport in the advertising department and in their spare time, the couple opened the Biloxi Pottery and Gift Shop where they sold among others, Shearwater Pottery. After surviving several hurricanes, the shop and most of the beachfront was wiped out by Hurricane Camille in 1969. His life's work included editorial cartoons, galleys of his comic strips and oil paintings. He frequently have his paintings away to people he loved and painted several portraits of notable local people. He never sold his work. Al Duckett passed away in April of 1978.
Things Left Behind by Paulette Dove
MADE IN MISSISSIPPI ART OF THE PAST 15 YEARS BY MICHAEL RICHARDSON
RHYTHMS OF LIFE THE ART OF TED ROSE
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THE LAST GLOW
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GEORGE'S PURPLE PALM
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CELEBRATE
Expressions by Ellen Ellis Lee
Previous Exhibitions
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Oct. 2025 - Jan. 2026
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April 25th - September 13th, 2025
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Date: January 30th - March 25th, 2025
Exhibition Opening: January 30th, 5:30 - 7:00 PM
Tea Talk: January 30th, 6:00 PM
Discover Ellen’s captivating one-of-a-kind sculptures, wall art, and functional pieces inspired by the beauty of nature, fashion, music, and repurposed treasures. After an incredible 35-year career designing costumes for Broadway, television, and film, Ellen’s work now reflects her joyful exploration of new artistic dimensions in Mississippi.
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October 18th - December 31st, 2024
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Greetings!
The Duckett Gallery and I extend a warm welcome to you. We invite you to join us on a voyage to yesteryear when floating palaces sailed the world's seas, taking passengers to exotic destinations, fascinating ports of call, and new lives full of hope and promise.
Warm Regards,
Anthony Wayne Kalberg
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March 28th - June 27th, 2024
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March 4th - March 28th, 2024
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July 21st - October 14, 2024
60 Images for 60 Years of Desegregation
James Meredith is an American civil rights activist, writer, political adviser, and United States Air Force veteran who became the first African-American student admitted to the racially segregated University of Mississippi. He later went on to law school at Columbia University in New York City and has distinguished himself throughout his life as an advocate for equal rights. Suzi Altman began her career more than 30 years ago with an internship with Rolling Stone Magazine and the Associated Press in New York City. She has worked for The New York Times and other US news organizations, European presses in France, the UK and Kenya covering world events but chooses to focus her camera on the underrepresented in society in the Mississippi Delta exploring race, civil rights, the South and everyday life.
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February - June, 2023
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July - January, 2023
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March - May, 2022
The work of two artists told from a biographical point of view. The couple live in Ocean Springs with their three children and are professional artists with their own businesses. Jerrod paints in oils and watercolor, on canvas, panel, and handmade paper. Jessie works with natural flora in Maidenhair Floral and Event Design and has provided two works made of dried botanicals.
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September, 2021 - February, 2022
A theater show in an art gallery celebrating the making of costumes and how that is integral to any performance. The team of people who worked on the show for about a month included Becky Rutz, the costumer and the work of Gloria Gaines, Rafe O’Neal, the idea and lighting, etc., Anthony Kalberg, who put it all together, Susan Agnelly, ideas and assistance, Sarah Qarqish, vinyls on the walls and Pat Pinson, Curator.
This show emphasized the process of costume making and then presented vignettes of 10 musical shows with costumes, short plot, music and background to enhance the setup. Because this is a PROCESS show, there is one entrance and one exit – from the Concept or the Idea to the finished Costume and the shows they were in. Bios of the costumers and an outline of the process were available for the public.
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April 23rd - June 19th, 2020
A collection of new work by women artists of Mississippi sponsored by the State Committee associated with the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D. C.
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January 16th - April 28th, 2020
Rebecca Alston has explored the concept and meaning of color as a major thrust of her artistic career. She allows the color to speak with all of its implications -- psychologically, environmentally, and musically. She has developed projects of innovative designs such as the Nike building interior in New York City, and an urban plaza design in Japan where she won the only award given to an American at the prestigious International Competition out of over 200 entries from 40 countries. She has had over twenty solo exhibitions in New York, in Japan, in Kansas and Mississippi, some of which have encompassed environmental and public art. Her numerous group exhibitions have covered the United States as well as London.
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October 10th - December 23rd, 2019
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Featuring the poetry of significant Mississippi poets and the artworks they inspire.
April 25th - September 27th, 2019
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January 10th - April 13th, 2019
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September – December, 2018
Watercolors, water-phones, and digital paintings
(OS native from Gulf Hills, in cooperation with the Smithsonian exhibit Water Ways at OS Library)
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June 14th - September 9th, 2018
Faith Williston: Hooked Rugs
Jean Sparkes: Weaver
Pauline Crouse: Needle Felting.
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April 12th – June 9th, 2018
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January 11th – April 7th, 2018
Diane DeCesare Ross: Photography Tirzah Legg: Ceramic Sculptures
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August 31st - December 14th, 2017
Paintings, Miniature Rooms, and Story
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May 25th - August 26th, 2017
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March 4th - May 13th, 2017
Mixed Media (paintings and pottery) by Sandra Cassibry, Daniel Calcote, and Shannon Luke.
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December 13th, 2016 – March 1st, 2017
Peter Zepletal (Jim Henson collaborator) Mississippi Puppet Arts Theatre - Mr. Zepletal made puppets for MPB for 30 years and has many national awards These puppets on loan by MPB
Michael Richardson – Puppets from Indonesia – hand cut leather puppets praised highly in Indonesia as one of the best they produced, many awards in the US, and marionettes.
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October 6th – December 10th, 2016
Oil paintings from music
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June 28th – September 24th, 2016
Rising Young Artists Series
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May 3 – June 18, 2016
Gallery II
Biloxi High School, Gautier High School, Moss Point, St. Martin High School
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April 27th – June 18th, 2016
Gallery I
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March 1st – April 23rd, 2016
Current works by members of the National Museum of Women in the Art
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January 18th – February 20th, 2016
Oil Paintings
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December 16th, 2015 – January 15th, 2016
With the Gulf Coast Model Train organization and Mary C Teaching Partners
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November 10th – December 14th, 2015
Mr. Wharton is Director of Documentary Studies at the University of Mississippi’s Southern Culture Center
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October – November 2015
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June 10th – August 30th, 2015
Glass transfer paintings
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March – May 30th, 2015
Paintings, prints, photographs, poetry, pottery, turned wood vessels, art glass. Collaborated with Clayton Bass (WAMA) and the Huntsville Art Museum.
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January – February, 2015
Included much on the history of Mardi Gras
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2006
Black and White images from 1930s depression-era New York and New Orleans
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2005
Images from the Islands - Gulf Coast artists who lost homes, studios and work exhibited pre-Katrina work from the now-damaged barrier islands
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2005
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2005
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2004
Editorial cartoons, drawings and paintings