The twisting, folded ceramics of the "Mad Potter of Biloxi", George E. Ohr, will be exhibited with Frank Gehry's designs for the Ohr-O'Keefe Museum at the Frank Lloyd Gallery. Nearly twenty pots by the eccentric genius of Biloxi, Mississippi will be shown, marking the first major exhibit of Ohr's "mud babies" in Los Angeles in several years. Over one hundred years old, the strange and wonderful pots were dismissed during Ohr's lifetime, only to be discovered in the late 1960s. When they reached the New York art world, Ohr's eccentric works found their way into the collections of such luminaries as Jasper Johns, Andy Warhol, and Irving Blum. Yet Ohr's pottery is only part of the show, as photographs, drawings and sketches of the new project by Frank Gehry complete the exhibition. The acclaimed architect has been commissioned to design a new museum, which features the work of Ohr.    

Located in Biloxi, Mississippi, in the newly created Tricentennial Park adjacent to the Mississippi Sound and the Gulf of Mexico, the Ohr-O'Keefe Museum of Art is intended to provide facilities for art exhibition, art research and education, and cultural and community events.  

The site is set within a grove of ancient Live Oak trees. The project was developed as a series of five small pavilions woven among the trees and connected by an open brick plaza, creating an inviting and lively arts campus that maintains the existing park setting and encourages pedestrian circulation throughout the site and throughout Tricentennial Park as a whole. The entire project will employ a micro-pile foundation system intended to minimize impact on the root systems of the Live Oak trees.

The five pavilions that comprise the Ohr-O'Keefe Museum are the Cultural Center, the Contemporary Art Gallery, the African-American Art Gallery, the George Ohr Gallery, and the Biloxi Art Pottery and Education Center. In addition, the Pleasant Reed House, which is the first home built in Mississippi by a former slave and which is now a designated historical landmark, will be restored and moved to the campus to serve as a cultural resource depicting African-American life in the nineteenth century. The wood frame, tin-roofed house in the shotgun vernacular will be placed on the campus between the Cultural Center and the Biloxi Art Pottery and Education Center.