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Peter Anderson Arts & Crafts Festival
Ocean Springs, MS · Arts & Culture
- When
- November 7–8, 2026
- Where
- Downtown historic district · Ocean Springs · MS
- Cost
- Not confirmed
- Status
- Confirmed from the organizer's published schedule
Mississippi's largest fine arts festival fills downtown Ocean Springs with more than four hundred juried artists and craftspeople each November. Named for the potter who helped found the town's art colony, it is in its 48th year in 2026.
The history within reach
Mississippi's largest fine arts festival fills downtown Ocean Springs with more than four hundred juried artists and craftspeople each November.
Anderson rowed a skiff twelve miles to a barrier island to be there when Hurricane Betsy arrived, tied himself to a tree and drew it.
Iberville built a stockade on this bay and made it the seat of French Louisiana, a colony that on paper ran from the Gulf to Canada, governed from a sandy point in Mississippi.
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The Anderson brothers set up a pottery on the family compound, one throwing, one decorating, one running it, and it has been worked by the same family for nearly a century.
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