Pass Christian harbor
— the harbor the storm took, and the town built back.
Not only on a wall.
Pass Christian harbor, on ceramic.
Each tile is finished by hand in our Knoxville studio. Artwork is slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, and rests beneath a thin glossy finish. The colour lives in the surface, not on top of it.
Pick any four 4-inch tiles — National Parks you've been to, a Smokies set, the four seasons of one place. $ for a set of , cork-backed, ready to live on the table.
Each tile ships in a kraft box, tied with cream ribbon, with a handwritten note from the studio if you'd like to add one.
Three or five different vistas, hung together — a chapter of places you've been, or want to go.
“The small-craft harbor at Pass Christian sits along the western Mississippi Sound, a quiet line of slips and shrimp boats between the seawall and the open water. Katrina took it in 2005. The town rebuilt it slip by slip, reopened it in 2009, and the masts came back to the skyline. The Pass Christian Yacht Club, founded in 1849, still keeps its mooring here. from the studio
The place, in three passes.
Pass Christian sits in Harrison County on the Mississippi Sound, roughly 60 miles east of New Orleans and about 12 miles west of Gulfport. The harbor is a working small-craft port for shrimp and oyster boats, with a public pier and the rebuilt yacht club basin along Davis Avenue. Hurricane Katrina destroyed the harbor and most of the waterfront on August 29, 2005. Reconstruction finished in 2009 with about 400 wet slips. The Pass Christian Yacht Club, chartered in 1849, is among the oldest yacht clubs on the Gulf of Mexico.
The Mississippi Sound here is shallow and brackish, sheltered from the open Gulf of Mexico by the long line of barrier islands. Cat Island lies about seven miles offshore, and Ship Island sits further east. Oyster reefs run along this stretch and the local fleet works them through the cooler months. Visibility is low because the Pearl and Pascagoula rivers feed silt and tannin into the Sound. The water reads soft brown-green most days, deepening toward Cat Island and the Ship Island passage beyond.
The harbor sits along US-90, the Gulf Coast highway that runs from Bay St. Louis east through Biloxi. Public access follows Scenic Drive and the seawall; parking along the waterfront is free. Pass Christian is about an hour east of New Orleans and roughly twenty minutes west of Gulfport. The Pass Christian Yacht Club hosts regattas through the spring and fall sailing seasons. The Saturday morning farmers market on Davis Avenue, two blocks inland from the harbor, draws regulars from across the coast.
