FY2024 Grant Recipients

The Mississippi Arts Commission has awarded $1.75 million in funding to artists and arts programs across the state for Fiscal Year 2024. Recipients will benefit in a number of ways, including operating support for museums and community arts centers, arts integration and guest artist presentations in schools, and continuing education and supplies for working artists. Below is a listing of grants awarded for Fiscal Year 2024, which runs from July 1, 2023, to June 30, 2024.

FY2024 Building Fund for the Arts Recipients

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

FY2024 Individual Artist Fellowship Recipients

Name: Vanessa Gregory
Grant Awarded: $4,250
Description: for a Literary Artist Fellowship (nonfiction)

Name: Exodus Brownlow
Grant Awarded: $4,250
Description: for a Literary Artist Fellowship (nonfiction)

Name: Sean Ennis
Grant Awarded: $4,250
Description: for a Literary Artist Fellowship (nonfiction)

Name: Catherine Simone Gray
Grant Awarded: $4,250
Description: for a Literary Artist Fellowship (nonfiction)

Name: Ellen Ann Fentress
Grant Awarded: $4,250
Description: for a Literary Artist Fellowship (nonfiction)

Name: Roderick Red
Grant Awarded: $4,250
Description: for a Media Artist Fellowship (filmmaking)

Name: Rick Negron
Grant Awarded: $4,250
Description: for a Media Artist Fellowship (filmmaking)

Name: Chung Fan Lam
Grant Awarded: $4,250
Description: for a Media Artist Fellowship (filmmaking)

Name: Carys Glynne Snyder
Grant Awarded: $4,250
Description: for a Media Artist Fellowship (filmmaking)

Name: Maximus Wright
Grant Awarded: $4,250
Description: for a Media Artist Fellowship (filmmaking)

Name: Rachel Taratoot Ciraldo
Grant Awarded: $4,250
Description: for a Performing Artist Fellowship (flutist)

Name: Steve Watson
Grant Awarded: $4,250
Description: for a Performing Artist Fellowship (bass-upright and electric)

Name: William McIlwain
Grant Awarded: $4,250
Description: for a Performing Artist Fellowship (trombonist)

Name: Hsiaopei Lee
Grant Awarded: $4,250
Description: for a Performing Artist Fellowship (viola)

Name: Hugh Davis
Grant Awarded: $4,250
Description: for a Performing Artist Fellowship (jazz pianist)

Name: Cherita Brent
Grant Awarded: $4,250
Description: for a Performing Artist Fellowship (multidisciplinary)

Name: Micah Everett
Grant Awarded: $4,250
Description: for a Performing Artist Fellowship (low brass)

Name: Yolande van Heerden
Grant Awarded: $4,250
Description: for a Folk Arts Fellowship (quilting)

Name: Marcella Harville
Grant Awarded: $4,250
Description: for a Folk Arts Fellowship (quilting)

Name: Marshall Hopper
Grant Awarded: $4,250
Description: for a Folk Arts Fellowship (blues music)

Name: Janice Mitchell
Grant Awarded: $4,250
Description: for a Folk Arts Fellowship (quilting)

Name: Yerger Andre
Grant Awarded: $4,250
Description: for a Folk Arts Fellowship (pottery)

Name: Ravin Lovett
Grant Awarded: $4,250
Description: for a Folk Arts Fellowship (quilting)

Name: Juanita Ferguson
Grant Awarded: $4,250
Description: for a Folk Arts Fellowship (gospel vocalist)

Name: Marteena Taylor
Grant Awarded: $4,250
Description: for a Folk Arts Fellowship (textile painting)

Name: Jeff Long
Grant Awarded: $4,250
Description: for a Folk Arts Fellowship (woodworking)

Name: Johnnie L. Smith
Grant Awarded: $4,250
Description: for a Folk Arts Fellowship (painting)

Name: Tiffany Coleman-McGee
Grant Awarded: $4,250
Description: for a Folk Arts Fellowship (hip-hop and gospel)

Name: Gloria Gipson-Suggs
Grant Awarded: $4,250
Description: for a Folk Arts Fellowship (visual arts)

Name: Jimmi Mayes
Grant Awarded: $4,250
Description: for a Folk Arts Fellowship (blues drum and vocals)

Name: Joseph Morzuch
Grant Awarded: $4,250
Description: for a Visual Artist Fellowship (painting)

Name: Taylor Loftin
Grant Awarded: $4,250
Description: for a Visual Artist Fellowship (painting)

Name: Jacob A Rowan
Grant Awarded: $4,250
Description: for a Visual Artist Fellowship (drawing)

Name: Mitchell Gaudet
Grant Awarded: $4,250
Description: for a Visual Artist Fellowship (sculpture)

Name: Jacob Crook
Grant Awarded: $4,250
Description: for a Visual Artist Fellowship (printmaking)

Name: Robert Walter Cooper
Grant Awarded: $4,250
Description: for a Visual Artist Fellowship (glass)

Name: Caroline Hatfield
Grant Awarded: $4,250
Description: for a Visual Artist Fellowship (sculpture and installation)

Name: Marita Gootee
Grant Awarded: $4,250
Description: for a Visual Artist Fellowship (photography)

Name: Rory Doyle
Grant Awarded: $4,250
Description: for a Visual Artist Fellowship (photography)

FY2024 Individual Artist Roster Approved Applicants

Marta Szlubowska
Marlena Diane Duncan
Kessey Monae
Cass Simmons
Marta Szlubowska
Brian Blake
Steve Watson
Aa’Keela Hudnall
RL Boyce
Randy Ferguson
Shannon Williford
Holley Rumbarger

FY2024 Teaching Artist Roster Approved Applicants

Shanina Carmichael
Gail Morton
Roxie Thomas Clayton
Angela Cooper
Mark Maharrey
Andrew Dillon
Shannon Williford

FY2024 Individual Project Grants

Name: Jennifer Mizenko
Grant Awarded: $2,000
Description: to perform the complete history of Rowan Oak in movement, dance and song

Name: Richelle Putnam
Grant Awarded: $2,000
Description: to produce the East Mississippi Songwriter event

Name: Dr. Valentin Mikai Bogdan
Grant Awarded: $2,000
Description: to perform a series of piano recitals

Name: John Rash
Grant Awarded: $2,000
Description: to produce the Punk Flea Market Festival

Name: James Inabinet
Grant Awarded: $2,000
Description: to conduct “ecological assays” with communities and artists

Name: Elizabeth Dollarhide
Grant Awarded: $2,000
Description: to produce a book

Name: Robert Kimbrough Malone Sr.
Grant Awarded: $2,000
Description: to produce a community birthday celebration of renowned blues musician Junior Kimbrough

Name: Shirley Hamilton
County:
Grant Awarded: $2,000
Description: to create a collaborative musical video

Name: Michael Rowlett
Grant Awarded: $2,000
Description: to compose a new solo clarinet work

Name: Blake Barnes
Grant Awarded: $2,000
Description: to create a comic book series featuring Mississippi artists and writers

Name: Nicholas Ciraldo
Grant Awarded: $2,000
Description: to commission a new piece of music

Name: Dr. Lucille A Green
Grant Awarded: $2,000
Description: to host a series of quilting classes

Name: J. Janice Coleman
Grant Awarded: $2,000
Description: to portray Fannie Lou Hamer via cotton sack or quilt

Name: Julie White
Grant Awarded: $2,000
Description: to create a K12 dance integration concert

Name: Tonya Hays
Grant Awarded: $2,000
Description: to engage Polish and Ukrainian students with a theatrical production

Name: Dreko Tha Prophet
Grant Awarded: $2,000
Description: to host a series of community-based performing artist showcases

Name: Shameka Reed
Grant Awarded: $2,000
Description: to support the Young, Gifted & Empowered awards

Name: Azha Sanders
Grant Awarded: $2,000
Description: to paint a mural to raise awareness of the importance of spaying/ neutering

Name: Alexis Noble
Grant Awarded: $2,000
Description: to curate a community art exhibition

Name: Marta Szlubowska
Grant Awarded: $2,000
Description: to create an online music education campaign

FY2024 Folk Artist Apprenticeship Recipients

Name: Samuel Long
Grant Awarded: $2,000
Description: for a Folk Arts Apprenticeship in Woodturning

FY2024 Organization Operating Grant Recipients

Name: Gulf Coast Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
Grant Awarded: $12,000.00

Name: Meridian Symphony Association, Inc.
Grant Awarded: $24,000.00

Name: OxFilm
Grant Awarded: $16,000.00

Name: Mississippi Boychoir
Grant Awarded: $16,000.00

Name: Mississippi Alliance for Arts Education
Grant Awarded: $16,000.00

Name: Walter Anderson Museum of Art
Grant Awarded: $24,000.00

Name: Eastman Memorial Foundation DBA Lauren Rogers Museum of Art
Grant Awarded: $22,500.00

Name: Civic Ballet, Inc.
Grant Awarded: $15,000.00

Name: Gulfport Galleria of Fine Art
Grant Awarded: $12,000.00

Name: Mississippi Arts + Entertainment Experience
Grant Awarded: $22,500.00

Name: The Mississippi Chorus
Grant Awarded: $5,625.00

Name: Natchez Opera Festival, Inc.
Grant Awarded: $15,000.00

Name: Tupelo Symphony Orchestra, DBA North Mississippi Symphony Orchestra
Grant Awarded: $22,500.00

Name: Gumtree Museum of Art
Grant Awarded: $15,000.00

Name: Meridian Museum of Art
Grant Awarded: $15,000.00

Name: Metropolitan Chamber Orchestra Society
Grant Awarded: $2,295.00

Name: Ballet Mississippi, Inc.
Grant Awarded: $21,000.00

Name: Ohr-O’Keefe Museum of Art
Grant Awarded: $21,000.00

Name: The Mississippi Songwriters Festival Inc.
Grant Awarded: $5,250.00

Name: MidSouth Music Institute, Inc.
Grant Awarded: $14,000.00

Name: Tupelo Ballet
Grant Awarded: $14,000.00

Mississippi Theatre Association
Grant Awarded: $12,000.00

Name: Theatre Oxford
Grant Awarded: $6,000.00

Name: Meridian Little Theatre
Grant Awarded: $16,000.00

Name: DeSoto Family Theatre
Grant Awarded: $22,500.00

Name: Corinth Theatre-Arts
Grant Awarded: $11,887.50

Name: Starkville Community Theatre
Grant Awarded: $15,000.00

Name: Center Stage, Inc.
Grant Awarded: $15,000.00

Name: Delta Center Stage
Grant Awarded: $14,000.00

Name: Panola Playhouse
Grant Awarded: $14,000.00

Name: Brookhaven Little Theatre
Grant Awarded: $21,000.00

Name: Lynn Meadows Discovery Center
Grant Awarded: $24,000.00

Name: Southern Cultural Heritage Foundation
Grant Awarded: $16,000.00

Name: Harrisburg Cultural and Social Services Center Inc dba Link Centre
Grant Awarded: $24,000.00

Name: DeSoto Arts Council
Grant Awarded: $16,000.00

Name: Delta Arts Alliance
Grant Awarded: $16,000.00

Name: Desoto Arts Institute
Grant Awarded: $5,625.00

Name: Charleston Arts and Revitalization Effort
Grant Awarded: $15,000.00

Name: Greenville Arts Council
Grant Awarded: $14,000.00

Name: Corinth Area Arts Council, INC
Grant Awarded: $14,000.00

Name: Columbus Arts Council
Grant Awarded: $14,000.00

Name: Meridian Council for the Arts
Grant Awarded: $5,250.00

Name: Friends of Thacker Mountain Radio, Inc.
Grant Awarded: $16,000.00

Name: Mississippi Cultural Crossroads
Grant Awarded: $5,625.00

Name: The Mt. Zion Memorial Fund for Blues, Music, and Justice
Grant Awarded: $3,750.00

Name: Museum of the Mississippi Delta
Grant Awarded: $15,000.00

FY2024 Organization Operating Grant Recipients: Year-Two Application

Name: Mississippi Symphony Orchestra Association
Grant Awarded: $24,000.00

Name: Starkville Area Arts Council
Grant Awarded: $16,000.00

Name: Mississippi Museum of Art
Grant Awarded: $24,000.00

Name: Griot Arts Inc.
Grant Awarded: $24,000.00

Name: B.B. King Museum and Delta Interpretive Center
Grant Awarded: $24,000.00

Name: Hattiesburg Alliance for Public Art
Grant Awarded: $16,000.00

Name: Hattiesburg Concert Association
Grant Awarded: $20,640.00

Name: Cleveland Music Foundation d/b/a GRAMMY Museum Mississippi
Grant Awarded: $24,000.00

Name: Craftsmen’s Guild of Mississippi, Inc.
Grant Awarded: $24,000.00

Name: Delta Blues Museum
Grant Awarded: $24,000.00

Name: USA International Ballet Competition
Grant Awarded: $24,000.00

Name: Mississippi Metropolitan Ballet
Grant Awarded: $16,000.00

Name: Art for All Mississippi
Grant Awarded: $16,000.00

Name: Opera Mississippi
Grant Awarded: $16,000.00

Name: New Stage Theatre
Grant Awarded: $24,000.00

Name: ArtPlace Mississippi
Grant Awarded: $16,000.00

Name: Yoknapatawpha Arts Council, Inc.
Grant Awarded: $24,000.00

Name: Hattiesburg Arts Council
Grant Awarded: $13,760.00

Name: International Museum of Muslim Cultures
Grant Awarded: $24,000.00

Name: The Friends of Arts, Culture and Education
Grant Awarded: $16,000.00

FY2024 Organization Project Grant Recipients

Name: Coahoma Community College
Description: to present the Mississippi Delta Tennessee Williams Festival
Grant Awarded: $4,500.00

Name: JSU/MW Alexander National Research Ctr.
Description: to present the CASE Festival
Grant Awarded: $4,500.00

Name: Jackson State University Department of English, Foreign Languages, and Speech Communication
Description: to commission student produced murals
Grant Awarded: $2,214.00

Name: Mississippi Writers Guild
Description: to support a series of literary workshops
Grant Awarded: $4,500.00

Name: Gulf Coast Messiah Chorus
Description: to support a performance series of Handel’s Messiah
Grant Awarded: $4,500.00

Name: Kinetic Etchings
Description: to support a series of dance performances
Grant Awarded: $4,500.00

Name: Mississippi Children’s Museum- Meridian
Description: to present a series of visiting artist workshops
Grant Awarded: $4,500.00

Name: Mississippi June Bugs, Inc.
Description: to support an interdisciplinary arts gathering
Grant Awarded: $4,500.00

Name: Mississippi Music Teachers Association
Description: to support the Mississippi Music Teachers Association Conference and Collegiate Competitions
Grant Awarded: $4,500.00

Name: Union County Historical Society & Heritage Museum
Description: to present William Faulkner Literary Festival & Competition
Grant Awarded: $4,500.00

Name: Arts Danu
Description: to support Allumer Natchez annual light-based art exhibition
Grant Awarded: $4,500.00

Name: Mississippi University for Women
Description: to present the annual Music by Women Festival
Grant Awarded: $4,500.00

Name: Downstage Productions Theatre
Description: to support a season of theatrical productions
Grant Awarded: $4,250.00

Name: Mississippi Children’s Museum
Description: to present a series of guest artist demonstrations for children
Grant Awarded: $4,250.00

Name: Delta Children’s Museum
Description: to support Performing Arts Series 2023-2024
Grant Awarded: $4,250.00

Name: Jackson Choral Society
Description: to support a season of choral performances
Grant Awarded: $3,655.00

Name: Mississippi Community Symphonic Bands Inc.
Description: to support a series of symphonic performances
Grant Awarded: $4,250.00

Name: Magnolia Independent Film Festival
Description: to present the Magnolia Independent Film Festival
Grant Awarded: $4,250.00

Name: Mississippi Puppetry Guild
Description: to support a series of performances by Puppet Arts Theatre
Grant Awarded: $4,250.00

Name: Mississippi State University
Description: to install a Global Art Village at the annual International Fiesta
Grant Awarded: $4,250.00

Name: University of Mississippi, Oxford Conference for the Book
Description: to support the Oxford Conference for the Book
Grant Awarded: $4,250.00

Name: Mississippi Shakespeare Festival
Description: to support Shakespeare in the Park
Grant Awarded: $4,250.00

Name: Mississippi Presenters’ Network
Description: to support arts related professional development workshops
Grant Awarded: $4,250.00

Name: Pearl River Community College
Description: to present the Mississippi Symphony Orchestra
Grant Awarded: $4,000.00

Name: Mississippi Academy of Ancient Music
Description: to support the fall & spring concert performances
Grant Awarded: $4,000.00

Name: Biloxi Little Theatre
Description: to present a season of theatrical productions
Grant Awarded: $4,000.00

Name: Mississippi Gulf Coast Ballet Theatre
Description: to engage Joseph Gatti for a dance performance
Grant Awarded: $3,750.00

Name: Emmett Till Interpretive Center
Description: to support a Film Academy for High School Students
Grant Awarded: $4,500.00

Name: The Gloster Arts Project
Description: to support a multi-disciplinary arts camp
Grant Awarded: $4,500.00

Name: I Can Fly Ministries
Description: to support “You Can Fly” dance and mime program
Grant Awarded: $4,500.00

Name: Mississippi Museum of Natural Science Foundation
Description: to support the “Moonlight, Music and Meteors” event
Grant Awarded: $4,500.00

Name: MAP – Music, Arts, & Practicality
Description: to produce Footloose: Youth Edition
Grant Awarded: $4,500.00

Name: Oxford Community Market
Description: to support Music at the Market
Grant Award: $4,500.00

Name: Greater Greenville Development Foundation, Inc.
Description: to support the Delta Hot Tamale Festival
Grant Awarded: $4,500.00

Name: Musical Expressions Experience
Description: to support the “Bucket Drumming Experience” program
Grant Awarded: $4,500.00

Name: Boys & Girls Clubs of North Mississippi
Description: to support a Youth Ballroom Dance program
Grant Awarded: $4,500.00

Name: Pike School of Art – Mississippi
Description: to produce Southwest Mississippi Group Portrait
Grant Awarded: $4,500.00

Name: Genesis and Light Center
Description: to support the “Summer of Drama” program
Grant Awarded: $4,500.00

Name: New Albany Main Street
Description: to support Community Art Lessons for Youth
Grant Awarded: $4,500.00

Name: CREATE Foundation
Description: to support Dancing and Singing with the King
Grant Awarded: $4,500.00

Name: Hazlehurst Area Chamber of Commerce
Description: to support the Rockin’ Railroad Festival
Grant Awarded: $4,500.00

Name: Stewpot Community Services
Description: to support HeARTWorks Art Program
Grant Awarded: $4,500.00

Name: Delta Wind Birds
Description: to commission a Community Mural
Grant Awarded: $4,500.00

Name: Amiable Arts Foundation
Description: to support “Street Symphony” masterclass and performance program
Grant Awarded: $4,250.00

Name: Jackson Friends of the Library
Description: to bring Art Installations into Library Branches
Grant Awarded: $4,250.00

Name: Montgomery County Arts Council
Description: to support Hillfire Community Play
Grant Awarded: $4,250.00

Name: The Del Rendon Foundation
Description: to support the MacGown Art Residency program
Grant Awarded: $4,250.00

Name: City of Hernando
Description: to support “Dickens of a Christmas”
Grant Awarded: $4,000.00

Name: Petal Arts Council
Description: to support a Summer Camp
Grant Awarded: $1,600.00

Name: Singing River Little Theatre
Description: to support a Season of Theatrical Performances
Grant Awarded: $2,800.00

Name: Greater Belhaven Neighborhood Foundation
Description: to support the Greater Belhaven Neighborhood Foundation Art Series
Grant Awarded: $3,750.00

Name: Picayune Main Street, Inc.
Description: to preserve the murals of Pearl River County
Grant Awarded: $1,875.00

Name: Dynamic Enrichment Network
Description: to support Multi-Disciplinary Arts Enrichment Classes and Workshops
Grant Awarded: $3,750.00

Name: North Mississippi Hill Country Picnic, Inc
Description: to present the North Mississippi Hill Country Picnic
Grant Awarded: $4,500.00

Name: Mississippi Heritage Trust
Description: to present the 10 Most Endangered Historic Places program
Grant Awarded: $4,500.00

Name: Pine Belt Quilters Guild
Description: to support a quilting workshop and presentation
Grant Awarded: $799

Name: Mississippi Action for Community Education, Inc.
Description: to support the Delta Blues and Heritage Festival
Grant Awarded: $4,500.00

Name: All Y’all Fiber
Description: to present the Oxford Fiber Arts Festival
Grant Awarded: $4,500.00

Name: Old Courthouse Museum/ Tishomingo Genealogy Society
Description: to restore a community mural
Grant Awarded: $1,575.00

Name: Carroll County Development Association
Description: to present the Pilgrimage and Pioneer Day Festival
Grant Awarded: $4,250.00

Name: Mississippi’s Lower Delta Partnership
Description: to support the Great Delta Bear Affair Festival
Grant Awarded: $4,250.00

Name: El Pueblo
Description: to support the City of Forest Hispanic Heritage festival
Grant Awarded: $4,080.00

Name: Action Communication and Education Reform, Inc.
Description: to support the Grassroots Blues Festival
Grant Awarded: $4,000.00

Name: Mississippi Gulf Coast Blues Commission
Description: to support the Mississippi Gulf Coast Blues and Heritage Festival
Grant Awarded: $4,000.00

Name: Central Mississippi Blues Society, Inc.
Description: to support the Blue Monday blues series
Grant Awarded: $4,000.00

Name: Eupora Economic Development
Description: Eupora Chainsaws & Arts Festival
Grant Awarded: $4,000.00

Name: Quitman County
Description: to support the Mules & Blues Fest
Grant Awarded: $3,750.00

Name: Mississippi Delta Blues Camp
Description: to support the Pick Me Up Blues Festival
Grant Awarded: $3,750.00

Name: DSU/Bologna Performing Arts Center
Description: to support the Read It, See It, Hear It, Be It program
Grant Awarded: $4,500.00

Name: Mississippi School of the Arts Foundation, Inc.
Description: to support an outreach program
Grant Awarded: $4,500.00

Name: St. James Catholic School
Description: to support the annual spring musical
Grant Awarded: $4,500.00

Name: Mississippi Council on Economic Education
Description: to develop curriculum for music and economic development
Grant Awarded: $3,750.00

Name: Oak Grove Primary School
Description: to provide arts integrated instruction
Grant Awarded: $4,250.00

Name: DSU/Delta Music Institute
Description: to support DMI Summer Camp
Grant Awarded: $4,000.00

Name: Mississippi State University Extension Center for 4-H Youth Development
Description: to support an immersive arts weekend
Grant Awarded: $4,000.00

FY2024 Individual Mini-Grant Recipients

MaryEvelyn Brown
Sonya L. Lee
Janne Swearegen
Margret Hutton
Sandra K. Walker
Josh McGlawn
Kathryn G. Wilson
5th Child Music
Mark Maharrey
Rachel Taratoot Ciraldo
Brian Blake
Scott Albert Johnson
Aa’Keela Hudnall
RL Boyce
Tanja Miric
Dustin Nickell-Templin
Brittny Miller
Juanita Ferguson
Alexander Smith
Robin Veerkamp
Melody Moody Thortis
Sherron Belk
Kell Kellum
Lucinda Alexandra L’Enfant
Michael Richardson
Silas Julian Mixon
Marissa Hakes
Timothy Randle Collins
Holly Bentz Coia
Kim Whitt
Angela Cooper
Amanda Koonlaba
Andrea Kostyal
Susan Mah
Karen Bennett
Carol Roark
Tonza DeBerry
Amber Henry
Angee Montgomery
Kay Meadows
Antoinette Badenhorst
Susan Patton
Ann Seale
Jean Benoit
Casey Jennings
Marta Charria
Tammy Gragg
Linda Chandler
Kariann Fuqua
Carolyn Weir
Ashley Brewer
Alyshia Rodgers
James Inabinet
Suzanne Anderson
Suzanne Stafford
Lana Lancaster Pugh
Gene Everitt
Marita Gootee
Beth Wright
Sheri Lewis
Glenn Payne
Trina Holifield
Will Coppage
Christian Bailey
Nathan Breland
Nicole Scanell
Brejenn Allen
Melissa Thomas
Victoria JohnsonWesley Hollyfield
Alan Kolodny
Allison Bullock
Ann Fisher-Wirth
Anne Scott Barrett
Ashleigh Coleman
Beth Ann Fennelly
Bill Wilson
Carol C Hutcherson
Carolyn Busenlener
Casey Marsh
Cass Simmons
Charles O’Mara
Charquisia Franks
Chatham Kemp
Cherish Triplett
Chuck Galey
Debbie Myers
Dot Courson
Elizabeth Schafer
Francis Lee
Freda Clark-Brent
Gloria D. Jones
Hector Boldo
Jacqueline Gonzalez Wooton
Jamese Wiley
Joe MacGown
Jonathan P. Smith
Katrina Byrd
Kessey Monae
Kira Cummings
Leo Green Studio Co.
Linda Peters
Lionel Clark
Lorrie Drennan
Martina Sciolino
Melonie McCarley Counce
Mississippi Improvisation Alliance
Molly Jo Shea
Nadia Alexis
Nathan Pietrykowski
Nita L.Chase
Oleksandra Petrovska
Olivia Boatman
Phillip Brown
Ravin Lovett
Ray Rome
Robin Martea
Ryan Stransky
Samantha K. Breeding
Serena Scibellli
Sharon Clemmer
Shawn McCrary Richards
Steve Barney
Tara Janique

 

 

FY2024 Organization Mini-Grant Recipients

Delta Arts Alliance
Woolmarket Public Library
Panola Playhouse
Harrisburg Cultural and Social Services Center Inc dba Link Centre
Mannsdale Elementary School
Mississippi School of the Arts
Oxford Civic Chorus
Kinetic Etchings
Hattiesburg Concert Association
Mississippi Shakespeare Festival
Walter Anderson Museum of Art
Meridian Children’s Museum
Millsaps College/Department of English
Celtic Heritage Society
Delta Blues MuseumArtPlace Mississippi
Coastal Mississippi Mardi Gras Museum
Copiah-Lincoln Junior College Foundation DBA Natchez Literary & Cinema Celebration
Crestwood Elementary School
Friends of Thacker Mountain Radio, Inc.
Friends of Wister Gardens
Golden Triangle Theatre
Green Elementary School
Hopeprint Inc
Jimmie Rodgers Foundation
Meridian Community College
Meridian Museum of Art
MidSouth Music Institute, Inc.
Mississippi Arts + Entertainment Experience
Mississippi Boychoir
Mississippi Children’s Museum
Mississippi Presenters’ Network
Opera Mississippi
Pearl Community Theatre
Progressive Foundation of Clay County, Incorporated
Quitman County Arts Council
The Canopy School
The Mississippi Chorus
Water Valley Main Street Association
Wells APAC Elementary School
Winona Secondary School
Yoknapatawpha Arts Council, Inc.

Approved Whole Schools Applicants

Tupelo Public School District/Tupelo Middle School

Ann Smith Elementary

Crestwood Elementary School

Oakland Heights Elementary

Approved Model Whole Schools Applicants

Saltillo Elementary School

Mannsdale Elementary School

Joyner Elementary/TPSD

Thomas Street Elementary

JPS for Casey Elementary School

Laurel Magnet School of the Arts

Approved Whole Schools Affiliates

Pierce Street Elementary – TPSD

Madison Avenue Elementary

Lawndale Elementary School

Milam Elementary School

King Early Childhood Education Center

Parkway Elementary School

Rankin Elementary

Lawhon Elementary School

Tupelo Public School District/Carver Elementary

Approved Arts in the Classroom

Saint Richard Catholic School

East Marion Elementary School

Tupelo Public School District/Structured Day Program

Philadelphia Elementary School

Philadelphia High School