The Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College Perkinston Campus will host “The Indiscriminate Beauty of Riff Raff” art show with artwork by Mozart Dedeaux on April 4 at the Visual Arts Center on campus. The event will begin at 6 p.m. with a gallery talk, followed by a woodwind ensemble recital at 6:30 p.m.

 

This series reflects the artist’s process of finding beauty and creating composition using unaltered marine debris found in the shoreline environment. Each piece is based on discovered objects, but it is also a commentary on flotsam and jetsam and its negative impact on marine organisms and avian species. In the midst of this detrimental effect on our marine ecosystem, beauty can be found in a sea of plastic, ignorantly discarded man-made objects, and natural material that washes ashore. Dedeaux uses photography as a tool and works with the imagery using digital manipulation and digital painting techniques.

Dedeaux graduated from Loyola University New Orleans in 1992 completing a bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts, with a concentration in Painting and Sculpture. He holds a minor in electronic music and the recording arts. After graduation, he worked in the music industry in New York City, where he was a session player for national radio and television commercials, composing and scoring for industrial and commercial video, and he was a recording artist for Capitol Records.

Upon moving back to the Mississippi coast in 2000, Mozart completed his masters of Education at William Carey University. From 2002-2005, he taught Biology and General Science using visual arts as a teaching medium for the Moss Point Alternative School. In 2006, he was the coordinator of Arts Integration for the district, and developed hands-on lesson plans for the core curriculums district wide. He also developed and trained staff in technology-based applications for the classroom, and was a coordinator for service learning programs within the Moss Point School District.

Dedeaux served as education coordinator for the Pascagoula River Audubon Center from 2007-2013, and from 2013 to 2016 he was director of Conservation Education and Digital Content for Audubon Mississippi. During this time, he designed and implemented interactive displays and interpretation for the new Audubon Center in Moss Point. Currently he is owner of Design DeDeaux and Organic Audio in Gulfport.

The art show is sponsored by the Perkinston Campus Visual Arts Department, is free and open to the public. For more information about the show, contact Sandra Cassibry at sandra.cassibry@mgccc.edu or (601) 928-6298.

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