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Friday, April 17, 2026
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The residents of Biloxi, Miss., and 10 other cities along the Gulf Coast are striving to rebuild what Hurricane Katrina destroyed. And according to Sandy Sorlien -- a lecturer in Fine Arts at Penn -- they are not going to do it alone. Sorlien was one of more than 200 architects, urban planners, specialists and local representatives gathered two weeks ago at the Mississippi Renewal Forum, part of the Mississippi governor's Commission on Recovery, Rebuilding and Renewal.











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Sandy Sorlien is a lecturer in the Department of Fine Arts in the School of Design. She teaches one course entitled the Photography of the Urban Place. Recently, she flew to the hurricane-affected Mississippi coast to take part in a design charrette. DP: Can you talk about the time you recently spent in Mississippi? SS: I'm still shell-shocked from the experience a little bit, I have to say.