Workshops
October 15-17, 2006
Laurel, Mississippi

Laurel/Pine Hills, MS

Over three consecutive weekends in October 2006, a special series of post-Hurricane Katrina Your Town workshops were held across Mississippi: in Picayune, Biloxi, and Laurel. The Laurel workshop, held for communities in Mississippi’s Pine Hills, was built around downtown revitalization issues.

The workshop explored how to use Main Street buildings for artists’ living and work space, as well as how to improve entrance corridors into town. Among the featured speakers were David Preziosi, Executive Director of the Mississippi Heritage Trust, and Malcolm White, Executive Director of the Mississippi Arts Commission. The workshop resulted in detailed drawings for façade renovation in downtown Laurel and design concepts for highway entranceways into town.

Learn more in the Laurel Workshop Notebook.