Tracy and Kimberly Ward’s firm Benchmark Design PC worked tirelessly for over three years on the architectural reproduction aspects of the Welty Biennial – namely the sonar scanning of the “new” Capitol pediment (tympanum) in Jackson and the columns of Windsor Ruins near Port Gibson.  This first edition of the Welty Biennial was entitled “Classical Mississippi” and therefore appropriately reached out for the aid of the Southeast Chapter of the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art.  Tracy Ward was chairman of the Mississippi Committee at that time.  Three full-scale replicas of Windsor’s 45’-tall columns stand outside the museum, and a 6’-tall Corinthian capital sits on the exhibit floor inside the museum.  The 2015 first Welty Biennial included 12 weeks of exhibits on display at the Mississippi Museum of Art in Jackson, including ninety double-exposure photographs by American surrealist Clarence John Laughlin, nine modernist constellation sculptures by James Seawright, and an up-to-date interpretation of the sculptural figures on the 1903 Capitol pediment.