LAUREL, MS.- The Lauren Rogers Museum of Art presents the exhibit Saved From the Storm: The Sarah Gillespie Collection of William Carey University through November 12. William Carey University's Sarah Gillespie Collection consists of hundreds of works by Mississippi artists, including Walter Anderson, Kate Freeman Clark, William Hollingsworth, Theora Hamblett, and Ethel Wright Mohamed, among many others. Last August, most of the works in this collection were in the art building on the Gulf Coast campus of William Carey College, a building which took the full brunt of Hurricane Katrina's storm surge. For eleven days, no one knew if the building even stood; it was assumed that the building, and this collection, had been washed out to sea. Luckily, however, the building stood, but much of the collection suffered water and mold damage. Today the surviving artworks are scattered among framers, conservators, and various storage areas, and a new gallery on the Hattiesburg campus is in the planning stages. This exhibition will feature works that survived the storm intact as well as a number of works that have been conserved.