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Name: Adam Estes       
Description: for a Performing Arts Fellowship #0217
(Saxophone)   
Grant Awarded: $5,000

Name: Eric Buckley  
Description: for a Visual Artist Fellowship (fashion design) – 8162
Grant Awarded: $5,000

Name: Beth Ann Fennelly
Description: for a Literary Artist Fellowship (nonfiction) 5878
Grant Awarded: $5,000

Name: Rick Anderson  
Description: for a Visual Artist Fellowship (painting) – 6110
Grant Awarded: $5,000

Name: Eric Huckabee
Description: for a Visual Artist Fellowship (painting) – 8101   
Grant Awarded: $5,000

Name: Alexander Russakovsky
Description: for a Performing Arts Fellowship #9968 (Classical)
Grant Awarded: $5,000

Name: Lee Harper   
Description: for a Visual Artist Fellowship (miniature models) – 3295
Grant Awarded: $5,000

Name: Brittany Davis
Description: for a Visual Artist Fellowship (photography) – 4913
Grant Awarded: $5,000

Name: Gavin Bird
Description: for a Visual Artist Fellowship (murals) -8867
Grant Awarded: $5,000

Name: Marcus Michels
Description: for a Visual Artist Fellowship (painting) – 4603
Grant Awarded: $5,000

Name: Amelia Key
Description: for a Visual Artist Fellowship (sculpture) – 6746
Grant Awarded: $5,000

Name: Saint Allen Austin
Description: for a Literary Artist Fellowship (screenwriting) 4089  
Grant Awarded: $5,000

Name: Steven Randle
Description: for a Performing Arts Fellowship #0879 (Spoken Word)
Grant Awarded: $5,000

Name: Robin Whitfield
Description: for a Visual Artist Fellowship (painting) – 7783
Grant Awarded: $5,000

Name: Greg Harkins
Description: for a Folk Arts Fellowship in Chairmaking       
Grant Awarded: $5,000

Name: Clinnesha Sibley
Description: for a Literary Artist Fellowship (nonfiction) 0166
Grant Awarded: $5,000

Name: Cass Simmons
Description: for a Performing Arts Fellowship #1035 (Dance)
Grant Awarded: $5,000

Name: Dramond Washington
Description: for a Performing Arts Fellowship #9732 (Guitar & Vocals)
Grant Awarded: $5,000

Name: Jesse Ryan Brown
Description: for a Visual Artist Fellowship (photography) – 7245
Grant Awarded: $5,000

Name: Ellen Langford
Description: for a Visual Artist Fellowship (painting) – 2284
Grant Awarded: $5,000

Name: Larry RaShad McGill
Description: for a Folk Arts Fellowship in Blues Guitar
Grant Awarded: $5,000

Name: Julia Mortyakova
Description: for a Performing Arts Fellowship #8553 (Piano)
Grant Awarded: $5,000

Name: Hector Boldo  
Description: for a Visual Artist Fellowship 9059 (painting)   
Grant Awarded: $5,000

Name: Tyler Tadlock
Description: for a Visual Artist Fellowship (graphic design) – 5603
Grant Awarded: $5,000

Name: Brandall Laughlin
Description: for a Visual Artist Fellowship (photography) – 8957
Grant Awarded: $5,000

Name: Jennifer A Torres
Description: for a Visual Artist Fellowship (sculpture) – 0408
Grant Awarded: $5,000

Name: Samuel Harrell
Description: for a Media Artist Fellowship 1263
(film)         
Grant Awarded: $5,000

Name: James Ray Polk
Description: for a Folk Arts Fellowship in Bluegrass & Old Time
Grant Awarded: $5,000

Name: Jasmine Williams
Description: for a Media Artist Fellowship (1180)
Grant Awarded: $5,000

Name: Tonya Hays
Description: for a Literary Artist Fellowship (playwriting) 7050       
Grant Awarded: $5,000

Name: Monica Hill
Description: for a Visual Artist Fellowship (textiles) – 8475
Grant Awarded: $5,000

Name: Mary Hardy
Description: for a Visual Artist Fellowship (painting) – 9146         
Grant Awarded: $5,000

Name: Philip Jackson
Description: for a Visual Artist Fellowship (painting) – 2722
Grant Awarded: $5,000

Name: Stephany Brown
Description: For a Folk Arts Fellowship in Quilting
Grant Awarded: $5,000

Name: Dustin Parsons
Description: for a Literary Artist Fellowship (nonfiction) 8335
Grant Awarded: $5,000

Name: Bobby Wesner
Description: for a Performing Arts Fellowship #1478 (Modern Dance)
Grant Awarded: $5,000

Name: Chatham Kemp
Description: for a Visual Artist Fellowship (painting) – 3671
Grant Awarded: $5,000

Name: Brittny Miller
Description: for a Media Artist Fellowship (7534)
Grant Awarded: $5,000

Name: James Inabinet
Description: to engage artists and communities in a “pilgrimage”
walkabout in Bay St. Louis
Grant Awarded: $2,000.00

Name: Tracy Vainisi
Description: to paint a mural at the New Albany Boys and Girls Club
Grant Awarded: $1,600

Name: Mark Burr
Description: to produce a literary magazine
Grant Awarded: $2,000.00

Name: Feixue Yang
Description: to produce an interactive art installation
Grant Awarded: $2,000.00

Name: Pamela Fuller
Description: to commission a piece of music based on Walter Anderson’s life
Grant Awarded: $2,000.00

Name: Christina McField
Description: to produce community-based cultural preservation initiative
Grant Awarded: $2,000.00

Name: Ellen Harris
Description: to host quilting workshops
Grant Awarded: $2,000.00

Name: Candice Salyers
Description: to develop an immersive dance film installation
Grant Awarded: $2,000.00

Name: Blake Barnes
Description: to create a Mississippi comic book collection
Grant Awarded: $2,000.00

Name: Madison Upendo
Description: to produce an independent film     
Grant Awarded: $2,000.00

Name: Richelle Putnam
Description: to produce an art writing contest
Grant Awarded: $2,000.00

Name: John Reyer Afamasaga
Description: to produce a documentary
Grant Awarded: $2,000.00

Name: Greta Koshenina
Description: to create artwork for an exhibition
Grant Awarded: $2,000.00

Name: Jarrieth Patterson
Description: to uncover and amplify the stories of Hip-Hop artists in
Clarksdale    
Grant Awarded: $2,000.00

Name: Marshall Blevins
Description: to design and print tote bags to support local causes
Grant Awarded: $1,795.95

Name: Suzanne Stafford
Description: to lead fashion upcycling classes
Grant Awarded: $2,000.00

Name: Robin Lane
Description: to produce the Tater Superbad Blues Festival        
Grant Awarded: $2,000.00

Name: Dannel Espinoza
Description: to undertake a chamber music recording and performance project
Grant Awarded: $2,000.00

Name: Robert Kimbrough Malone Sr.
Description: to produce a community Blues music event
Grant Awarded: $2,000.00

Name: Dr. Valentin Mikai Bogdan
Description: to record and produce an album
Grant Awarded: $2,000.00

Name: Karen S. Creswell
Description: to lead photography workshops in memory care facilities
Grant Awarded: $1,885.40

Name: Daniel Johnson
Description: to produce an experimental music event
Grant Awarded: $1,870

Name: Nathaniel Kimble
Description: to produce a community music festival
Grant Awarded: $2,000.00

Name: Samuel Long
Description: for a Folk Arts Apprenticeship (woodturning)
Grant Awarded: $2,000.00

Name: Shane Morrison
Description: for a Folk Arts Apprenticeship (blacksmithing)
Grant Awarded: $2,000.00

Name: Meridian Museum of Art
Grant Awarded: $14,400

Name: Tupelo Ballet
Grant Awarded: $13,200

Name: Mississippi Theatre Association
Grant Awarded: $12,000

Name: Civic Ballet, Inc.
Grant Awarded: $16,000

Name: Art for All Mississippi
Grant Awarded: $14,400

Name: Brookhaven Little Theatre
Grant Awarded: $18,000

Name: Charleston Arts and
Revitalization
Grant Awarded: $12,000

Name: Cleveland Music Foundation /
GRAMMY Museum Mississippi
Grant Awarded: $21,600.00

Name: Gumtree Museum of Art
Grant Awarded: $13,200

Name: Harrisburg Cultural and Social
Services Center Inc / Link Centre
Grant Awarded: $21,600

Name: Mississippi Boychoir
Grant Awarded: $16,000

Name: Hattiesburg Concert Association
Grant Awarded: $21,600

Name: I Can Fly Ministries
Grant Awarded: $4,950

Name: DeSoto Family Theatre
Grant Awarded: $21,600

Name: Doniphan Dance Project
Grant Awarded: $13,200

Name: The Arts Hancock County
Grant Awarded: $16,000

Name: Opera Mississippi
Grant Awarded: $12,000

Name: Gulfport Galleria of Fine Art
Grant Awarded: $13,553

Name: Briarwood Arts Foundation
Grant Awarded: $14,400

Name: MidSouth Music Institute, Inc.
Grant Awarded: $13,200

Name: Mississippi Metropolitan Ballet,
Grant Awarded: $24,000

Name: Walter Anderson Museum of Art,
Grant Awarded: $24,000

Name: Theatre Oxford,
Grant Awarded: $5,400

Name: Golden Triangle Theatre
Grant Awarded: $21,600

Name: Museum of the Mississippi Delta
Grant Awarded: $14,400

Name: ArtPlace Mississippi
Grant Awarded: $12,800

Name: Delta Arts Alliance
Grant Awarded: $16,000

Name: Tupelo Symphony Orchestra / North
Mississippi Symphony Orchestra
Grant Awarded: $21,600.00

Name: Greenwood Little Theatre
Grant Awarded: $3,000

Name: Quitman County Arts Council
Grant Awarded: $15,000

Name: Craftsmen’s Guild of
Mississippi, Inc.
Grant Awarded: $24,000

Name: Friends of Thacker Mountain
Radio, Inc.
Grant Awarded: $16,000

Name: Columbus Arts Council
Grant Awarded: $19,800.00

Name: Ohr-O’Keefe Museum of Art
Grant Awarded: $21,600

Name: Ballet Mississippi, Inc. 
Grant Awarded: $19,800.00

Name: Tupelo Community Theatre
Grant Awarded: $24,000

Name: Panola Playhouse
Grant Awarded: $14,400

Name: International Museum of Muslim
Cultures
Grant Awarded: $24,000

Name: Coastal Mississippi Mardi Gras
Museum
Grant Awarded: $12,000

Name: Meridian Little Theatre
Grant Awarded: $16,000

Name: Mississippi Museum of Art
Grant Awarded: $24,000

Name: Starkville Community Theatre
Grant Awarded: $16,000

Name: Metropolitan Chamber Orchestra
Society
Grant Awarded: $2,496

Name: Greenville Arts Council
Grant Awarded: $16,000

Name: Mississippi Presenters’ Network
Grant Awarded: $16,000

Name: Mississippi Cultural Crossroads
Grant Awarded: $5,400

Name: Southern Cultural Heritage
Foundation
Grant Awarded: $14,400

Name: The Del Rendon Foundation
Grant Awarded: $5,400.00

Name: OxFilm
Grant Awarded: $14,400.00

Name: The Mississippi Chorus
Grant Awarded: $5,400.00

Name: Delta Center Stage
Grant Awarded: $13,200

Name: Lynn Meadows Discovery Center
Grant Awarded: $24,000

Name: Meridian Symphony Association,
Inc.
Grant Awarded: $21,600

Name: Starkville Area Arts Council
Grant Awarded: $16,000

Name: Desoto Arts Institute
Grant Awarded: $6,000

Name: Mississippi Symphony Orchestra
Association
Grant Awarded: $24,000

Name: B.B. King Museum and Delta
Interpretive Center
Grant Awarded: $24,000

Name: Eastman Memorial Foundation DBA
Lauren Rogers Museum of Art
Grant Awarded: $24,000

Name: Hattiesburg Arts Council
Grant Awarded: $16,000

Name: Delta Blues Museum
Grant Awarded: $24,000

Name: Mississippi Arts + Entertainment
Experience
Grant Awarded: $24,000

Name: Hattiesburg Alliance for Public
Art
Grant Awarded: $16,000

Name: New Stage Theatre
Grant Awarded: $24,000

Name: Yoknapatawpha Arts Council
Grant Awarded: $24,000

Name: Pike School of Art
Grant Awarded: $24,000

Name: The Friends of Arts, Culture and
Education
Grant Awarded: $16,000

Name: Center Stage, Inc.
Grant Awarded: $16,000

Name: Central Mississippi Blues
Society, Inc.
Description: to support the Blue Monday weekly series
Grant Awarded: $5,000

Name: Eupora Economic Development
Description: to support the Chainsaw and Arts Festival 
Grant Awarded: $5,000

Name: Oxford Civic Chorus
Description: to support a series of concert performances
Grant Awarded: $5,000

Name: North Mississippi Hill Country
Picnic
Description: to present the North Mississippi Hill Country Picnic
Grant Awarded: $4,500

Name: Foundation for Mississippi
History
Description: to support Mississippi Makers Fest
Grant Awarded: $5,000

Name: Mississippi Music Teachers
Association
Description: to support the Mississippi Music Teachers State Conference and
Collegiate Music Competition
Grant Awarded: $5,000

Name: Harrison County Board of
Supervisors
Description: to support documentary film program for Juneteenth
Grant Awarded: $1,372

Name: Montgomery County Arts Council
Description: to support Hillfire folklife Play
Grant Awarded: $4,500.00

Name: Genesis and Light Center
Description: to support the Summer of Drama 2025 project
Grant Awarded: $4,000

Name: Creativity First / CREATE
Foundation
Description: to support THE SNOW GLOBE, child-led production
Grant Awarded: $4,500

Name: Tunica County Tourism Commission
Description: to install a mural at the Gateway to the Blues Museum
Grant Awarded: $3,500

Name: St. James Catholic School
Description: to present a Spring Musical
Grant Awarded: $4,500

Name: Kinetic Etchings
Description: to support a series of dance performances
Grant Awarded: $5,000

Name: Mississippi Community Symphonic
Bands Inc.
Description: to present a series of concert performances
Grant Awarded: $5,000

Name: Mississippi Shakespeare Festival
Description: to support an outdoor performance of Richard III
Grant Awarded: $5,000

Name: University of Mississippi
Description: to support the Oxford Conference for the Book
Grant Awarded: $4,500

Name: Amory Main Street Inc
Description: to purchase a professionally crafted Nativity Scene
Grant Awarded: $4,000

Name: Diamondhead School of Fine Arts
Description: to produce a community-driven holiday musical
Grant Awarded: $1,959

Name: Mississippi Museum of Natural
Science Foundation
Description: to present Mississippi Symphony Orchestra in concert
Grant Awarded: $5,000

Name: The Montgomery Institute
Description: to support the Pines Songwriter Festival
Grant Awarded: $5,000

Name: Mississippi University for Women
Description: to support the Music by Women Festival
Grant Awarded: $4,000

Name: Friendly City Books Community
Connection / CREATE Foundation
Description: to support the Possumtown Book Fest
Grant Awarded: $5,000

Name: Singing River Little Theatre
Description: to support a series of plays
Grant Awarded: $4,500

Name: Musical Expressions Experience
Description: to support The Bucket Drumming Experience
Grant Awarded: $4,298

Name: Carroll County Development
Association
Description: to present the Pilgrimage and Pioneer Day Festival
Grant Awarded: $4,500

Name: Gulf Coast Messiah Chorus
Description: to support a performance series of Handel’s Messiah
Grant Awarded: $5,000

Name: Magnolia Independent Film
Festival
Description: to support the Magnolia Independent Film Festival
Grant Awarded: $5,000

Name: McComb School District,
Description: to expand the school’s art club
Grant Awarded: $250

Name: Prospect Gallery/Greater
Pinebelt Community Foundation
Description: to support two visual art exhibitions
Grant Awarded: $4,500

Name: Stewpot Community Services
Description: to support HeARTWorks art program
Grant Awarded: $5,000

Name: Union County Historical Society
& Heritage Museum
Description: to support the William Faulkner Literary Fest
Grant Awarded: $5,000

Name: Mississippi School of the Arts
Foundation, Inc.
Description: for an outreach Summer Camp program
Grant Awarded: $3,500

Name: Delta Children’s Museum
Description: to support Performing Arts Series 2025-2026
Grant Awarded: $4,000

Name: DSU/Delta Music Institute
Description: to host DMI Summer Camp
Grant Awarded: $5,000

Name: Pearl River Community College
Description: to present the Mississippi Symphony Orchestra in concert
Grant Awarded: $4,500

Name: City of Columbus, MS
Description: to support community arts programming
Grant Awarded: $2,920

Name: Mississippi State
University/Dept of Music
Description: to purchase replacement strings for public school strings classes
Grant Awarded: $4,984

Name: Mississippi Writers Guild
Description: to support a series of writing workshops
Grant Awarded: $3,850

Name: Jackson Choral Society
Description: to support a series of choral performances
Grant Awarded: $4,500

Name: Mississippi Children’s Museum-
Meridian
Description: to support visiting artist workshops
Grant Awarded: $3,825

Name: Lee County Schools
Description: for ballroom dance instruction Description: to support the
“FUNnel” project that showcases local artists
Grant Awarded: $4,000

Name: MAP – Music, Arts, &
Practicality
Description: to support the children’s production, SCROOGE’S CHRISTMAS
Grant Awarded: $2,500

Name: Attala County Library
Description: to present a workshop by artist, Brejenn Allen
Grant Awarded: $400

Name: Bay St Louis Little Theatre
Description: to support “Mississippi Writes Original”
Grant Awarded: $3,690

Name: Assembly Quartet
Description: to commission, record, and premiere three new music compositions
Grant Awarded: $2,435

Name: CREATIVE MINDS ACADEMY
Description: to support the creative quilters class
Grant Awarded: $4,500

Name: Magnolia State Bluegrass
Association
Description: to support a bluegrass festival
Grant Awarded: $5,000

Name: MSU Summer Scholars (On-Stage)
Description: to support the Summer Scholars program
Grant Awarded: $5,000

Name: Boys & Girls Clubs of the
Mississippi Delta
Description: to replace a dilapidated mural with a new one
Grant Awarded: $4,785

Name: All Y’all Fiber
Description: to support the Oxford Fiber Arts Festival
Grant Awarded: $5,000

Name: Greater Greenville Development
Foundation, Inc.
Description: to present the Delta Hot Tamale Festival
Grant Awarded: $5,000

Name: Mississippi Action for Community
Education, Inc.
Description: to present the Mississippi Delta Blues and Heritage Festival
Grant Awarded: $5,000

Name: City of Hernando
Description: to support Hernando Dickens of a Christmas
Grant Awarded: $4,500

Name: University Press of Mississippi
 Description: to support presentation series featuring Choctaw
storytellers and traditions
Grant Awarded: $5,000

Name: Stella Maris Explorers
Description: to support the workshop, A Year with Mississippi Artists
Grant Awarded: $4,230

Name: JSU/MW Alexander National
Research Ctr.
Description: to support the 20th CASE Festival
Grant Awarded: $5,000

Name: Mississippi Heritage Trust
Description: to present the 10 Most Endangered Historic Places program
Grant Awarded: $5,000

Name: Hazlehurst Area Chamber of
Commerce
Description: to support the Rockin’ Railroad Festival
Grant Awarded: $4,500

Name: Jackson Friends of the Library
Description: to create large scale art at Jackson Libraries
Grant Awarded: $5,000

Name: Jackson Medical Mall Foundation
Description: to support the YFP Creative Connections Summer Arts Workshops
Grant Awarded: $1,170

Name: Clinton Community Nature Center
Description: to support an arts and nature community retreat
Grant Awarded: $2,160

Name: Shape Up Mississippi
Description: to support the “Knowledge Tree” mural
Grant Awarded: $5,000

Name: Biloxi Little Theatre
Description: to support a season of theatrical productions
Grant Awarded: $3,500

Name: Arts and Community Events
Society
Description: to support a Plein Air festival
Grant Awarded: $3,500

Name: Coahoma Community College
Description: to support the 33rd Annual MS Delta Tennessee Williams Festival
Grant Awarded: $5,000

Name: Friends of Chakchiuma Swamp
Description: to support The Wild Rumpus Camp
Grant Awarded: $2,160

Name: Action Communication and
Education Reform, Inc.
Description: to support the Grassroots Blues Festival
Grant Awarded: $4,500

Name: King Early Childhood Education
Center
Description: to present teaching artist, Angela Cooper
Grant Awarded: $2,250

Name: The Gloster Arts Project
Description: to support a multidisciplinary summer arts camp
Grant Awarded: $5,000

Name: Quitman County
Description: to present the Quitman County Mules & Blues Festival
Grant Awarded: $5,000

Name: CREATE Foundation
Description: to support Dancing and Singing with the King
Grant Awarded: $4,500

Name: Mississippi Film Society /
Community Foundation for Mississippi
Description: to support the Stranger Than Fiction Film Festival
Grant Awarded: $2,160

Name: Oxford Community Market
Description: to present Music at the Market
Grant Awarded: $5,000

Name: Mississippi Children’s Museum
Description: to support the visiting artists program
Grant Awarded: $5,000

Name: Hancock County Library
System  (HCLS)
Description: to support Homegrown: A Writers’ Exchange
Grant Awarded: $4,500

Name: LOFT (Lafayette Oxford
Foundation for Tomorrow)
Description: to support the Music by Candlelight series
Grant Awarded: $2,500

Name: Hush Puppy Music Coop
Description: to support a community concert series
Grant Awarded: $3,500

Mannsdale Elementary School

Laurel Magnet School of the Arts

King Early Childhood Education Center

Saltillo Elementary School

Parkway Elementary School

Jackson Public
School District for Casey Elementary

Joyner Elementary/TPSD

Thomas Street
Elementary

Dynamic Dyslexia Design, The 3-D
School

Luther Branson Elementary School

East Marion Elementary School

Northwest Rankin Elementary

Jackson Public School District for
Green Elementary School

Lighthouse Academy for Dyslexia

New Albany Elementary School

MS Delta Academies Leflore Legacy
Academy

Crestwood Elementary School

Stone Elementary School

Tupelo Public School
District/Structured Day Program

Tupelo Public School District/Carver
Elementary

St. Anthony Catholic School

Oak Park Elementary School – Laurel
School District

St. Alphonsus Catholic School

Okolona Municipal Separate School
District

Poplar Springs Elementary

Ballet Mississippi
Grant Awarded: $480,000
Description: to renovate performance and practice studios.

Brookhaven Little Theatre
Grant Awarded: $25,200
Description: to repair the roof and install air conditioning.

City of Meridian
Grant Awarded: $332,670
Description: to make ADA improvements to the Meridian Museum of Art.

City of Ocean Springs
Grant Awarded: $291,000
Description: to stabilize the exterior and repair the interior of the Mary C.
O’Keefe Cultural Center.

Coast Episcopal School
Grant Awarded: $37,200
Description: to repair the Gail Keenan Art Center.

Delta Arts Alliance
Grant Awarded: $104,290 
Description: to repair the roof after storm damage.

E. E. Bass Education and Development Foundation
Grant Awarded: $180,000
Description: to make ADA improvements.

Friends of Pickens Public Library
Grant Awarded: $75,000 
Description: to renovate the Pickens Public Library.

Foundation for Mississippi History
Grant Awarded: 225,000
Description: to construct the Margaret Ann Crigler Park.

Goldring/Woldenberg Institute for Southern Jewish Life
Grant Awarded: $168,400 
Description: for plaster repair, repainting, and rewiring in the historic
Temple B’nai Israel.

Hattiesburg Community Arts Center
Grant Awarded: $300,000
Description: to expand studio and classroom space and to install air
conditioning.

International Museum of Muslim Cultures
Grant Awarded: $420,000
Description: to complete the architectural and engineering design of a new
facility.

Mississippi Arts + Entertainment Experience
Grant Awarded: $66,000
Description: to add power-assisted automatic doors.

Mississippi Children’s Museum
Grant Awarded: $93,600
Description: to redesign and existing gallery and create a new interactive
exhibit.

Mississippi Museum of Art
Grant Awarded: $98,020
Description: to update the security system and make accessibility improvements.

New Albany Main Street
Grant Awarded: $26,430
Description: to update the Magnolia Theatre with new sound system and make
aesthetic improvements.

Panola Playhouse
Grant Awarded: $240,000
Description: to replace the roof and other needed repairs.

Pearl River Glass Conservatory
Grant Awarded: $31,160
Description: to expand and improve ADA accommodations.

Prairie Belt Blues Foundation
Grant Awarded: $73,690 
Description: to design and develop the Black Prairie Blues Museum.

Union County Historical Society & Heritage Museum
Grant Awarded: $225,100
Description: to renovate arts exhibition space

Name: Mississippi Center for Cultural
Production
Grant Awarded: $500,000
Description: to convert the unused building into the Main Street Cultural
Center

New Stage Theatre
Grant Awarded: $494,356
Description: to update electrical/lighting systems and replace roof

Arts Foundation of Kosciusko
Grant Awarded: $315,672
Description: to renovate existing structures in the L.V. Hull Legacy Center

Hattiesburg Convention Commission
Grant Awarded: $296,400
Description: to renovate the Saenger Theater

Town of Byhalia
Grant Awarded: $273,000
to renovate the Byhalia Library

Lynn Meadows Discovery Center
Grant Awarded: $267,248
Description: to expand the parking lot, renovate the Treehouse Village exhibit,
and add outdoor classroom space

Ohr-O’Keefe Museum of Art
Grant Awarded: $246,000
Description: to construct a berm to protect the facility from storm surge

Jackson State University Development
Foundation, Inc.
Grant Awarded: $240,000
Description: to replace the roof of the Rose E. McCoy Auditorium

The Piney Woods School
Grant Awarded: $240,000
Description: to renovate the Zilpha Chandler Community Auditorium

Yoknapatawpha Arts Council, Inc.
Grant Awarded: $191,400 
Description: to support the development of a Humanities Hub

City of Houston
Grant Awarded: $180,000 
Description: to complete Phase II of the renovation of The Point

E.E. Bass Education and Development
Foundation
Grant Awarded: $165,000
Description: to repair the roof of the North Building of the E.E. Bass Cultural
Arts Center

City of Senatobia
Grant Awarded: $155,000
Description: to outfit the new Sycamore Arts Gallery

Delta Blues Museum
Grant Awarded: $120,057 
Description: to make repairs to the freight depot

City of Louisville
Grant Awarded: $120,035.40 
Description: to purchase and install seating in the Strand Theater

Museum of the Mississippi Delta
Grant Awarded: $120,000
Description: to repair the roof, ceilings, and build an art storage facility

Desoto Arts Institute
Grant Awarded: $110,000
Description: to expand studio space in Southpoint Church

Quitman County Arts Council
Grant Awarded: $105,000
Description: to renovate the historic arts council building

Meridian Little Theatre
Grant Awarded: $102,600
Description: to repair the theatre’s roof and lighting system

Brookhaven Little Theatre
Grant Awarded: $99,000 
Description: to replace theatre seating and make repairs to the auditorium

Craftsmen’s Guild of Mississippi, Inc.
Grant Awarded: $75,000 
Description: to make building repairs to lighting and security system

Griot Arts Inc.
Grant Awarded: $75,000
Description: to renovate the Paramount Theater

Gulfport Galleria of Fine Art
Grant Awarded: $75,000
Description: to effectively weather seal the building

Friends of Lexington Preservation,
Inc.
Grant Awarded: $72,756 
Description: to repurpose the historic Lundy House

Freedom Project Network
Grant Awarded: $60,000
Description: to make repairs to the Rosedale Freedom Project

The Arts Hancock County
Grant Awarded: $60,000
Description: to create a parking and sculpture garden

Tupelo Community Theatre
Grant Awarded: $60,000
Description: to repair the Lyric building

New Albany Middle School
Grant Awarded: $42,000 
Description: to create an ADA/fire code-compliant pottery studio

Delta State University Foundation
Grant Awarded: $40,500 
Description: to replace the walls of the Fielding Wright Gallery

Hundred Members Debating Benevolent
Association
Grant Awarded: $39,402
Description: to refurbish a 1956 Silver Streak Clipper into a recording studio

Hancock Performing Arts Center
Grant Awarded: $38,400
Description: to replace the existing sound speakers in the theater

Biloxi Little Theatre
Grant Awarded: $34,500
Description: to replace HVAC, resurface stage floor, and indoor repairs

Jackson Public Schools
Grant Awarded: $30,000
Description: to repair and renovate Jim Hill High School’s PAC

Link Centre
Grant Awarded: $168,000
Description: to repair and renovate the Black Box theatre space