Grant Recipients
FY2025 Grant Recipients
The Mississippi Arts Commission has awarded $1.7 million in funding to artists and arts programs across the state for Fiscal Year 2025. 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 2025, which runs from July 1, 2024, to June 30, 2025.
FY2025 Building Fund for the Arts Recipients
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
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
FY2025 Individual Artist Fellowship Recipients
Name: Max Hipp
Description: for a Literary Artist Fellowship 2787 (fiction)
Grant Awarded: $4,250.00
Name: Olufunke Ogundimu
Description: for a Literary Artist Fellowship 1980 (fiction)
Grant Awarded: $4,250.00
Name: J.D. Hosemann
Description: for a Literary Artist Fellowship 6841 (fiction)
Grant Awarded: $4,250.00
Name: Gerry Wilson
Description: for a Literary Artist Fellowship 2900 (fiction)
Grant Awarded: $4,250.00
Name: Lee Durkee
Description: for a Literary Artist Fellowship 3508 (fiction)
Grant Awarded: $4,250.00
Name: Margaret Graber
Description: for a Literary Artist Fellowship 9553 (poetry)
Grant Awarded: $4,250.00
Name: Nadia Alexis
Description: for a Literary Artist Fellowship 5789 (poetry)
Grant Awarded: $4,250.00
Name: Saddiq Dzukogi
Description: for a Literary Artist Fellowship 5927 (poetry)
Grant Awarded: $4,250.00
Name: Mark Burr
Description: for a Literary Artist Fellowship 6193 (poetry)
Grant Awarded: $4,250.00
Name: Michael C. Smith
Description: for a Literary Artist Fellowship 2201 (poetry)
Grant Awarded: $4,250.00
Name: John Zheng
Description: for a Literary Artist Fellowship 6555 (poetry)
Grant Awarded: $4,250.00
Name: Snowden Wright
Description: for a Literary Artist Fellowship 8853 (fiction)
Grant Awarded: $4,250.00
Name: Andrea Kostyal
Description: for a Visual Artist Fellowship 3706 (public art)
Grant Awarded: $4,250.00
Name: Nate Theisen
Description: for a Visual Artist Fellowship 4577 (sculpture)
Grant Awarded: $4,250.00
Name: Christina McField
Description: for a Visual Artist Fellowship 0363 (photography)
Grant Awarded: $4,250.00
Name:Joe MacGown
Description: for a Visual Artist Fellowship 9977 (drawing)
Grant Awarded: $4,250.00
Name: Imani Smith
Description: for a Visual Artist Fellowship 6420 (illustration)
Grant Awarded: $4,250.00
Name: John Walrod
Description: for a Visual Artist Fellowship 1663 (4D assemblage/sculpture)
Grant Awarded: $4,250.00
Name: Bill Wilson
Description: for a Visual Artist Fellowship 9033 (painting)
Grant Awarded: $4,250.00
Name: Tony Davenport
Description: for a Visual Artist Fellowship 2399 (painting)
Grant Awarded: $4,250.00
Name: Christian Bailey
Description: for a Visual Artist Fellowship 9228 (sculpture)
Grant Awarded: $4,250.00
Name: Jason Ray
Description: for a Visual Artist Fellowship 2957 (photography)
Grant Awarded: $4,250.00
Name: Hector Boldo
Description: for a Visual Artist Fellowship 9059 (painting)
Grant Awarded: $4,250.00
Name: Ashley Gates
Description: for a Visual Artist Fellowship 7334 (photography)
Grant Awarded: $4,250.00
Name: Nathan Pietrykowski
Description: for a Visual Artist Fellowship 1357 (printmaking)
Grant Awarded: $4,250.00
Name: Gail Morton
Description: for a Visual Artist Fellowship 1910 (sculpture)
Grant Awarded: $4,250.00
Name: Melanie Dang Ho
Description: for a Media Artist Fellowship 1263 (film)
Grant Awarded: $4,250.00
Name: Charles Williams
Description: for a Media Artist Fellowship (filmmaking)
Grant Awarded: $4,250.00
Name: Dr. Valentin Mikai Bogdan
Description: for a Performing Artist Fellowship 5920 (music composition)
Grant Awarded: $4,250.00
Name: Lauren Bone Noble
Description: for a Performing Artist Fellowship 9103 (interdisciplinary performance)
Grant Awarded: $4,250.00
Name: Richard Montalto
Description: for a Performing Artist Fellowship 2275 (music composition)
Grant Awarded: $4,250.00
Name: Kathryn G. Wilson
Description: for a Performing Artist Fellowship 9131(dance choreography)
Grant Awarded: $4,250.00
Name: Jennifer Mizenko
Description: for a Performing Artist Fellowship 9413 (dance/choreography)
Grant Awarded: $4,250.00
Name: William A. Thompson IV
Description: for a Performing Artist Fellowship 7849 (music composition)
Grant Awarded: $4,250.00
Name: Deja Samuel
Description: for a Performing Artist Fellowship 9160 (music composition)
Grant Awarded: $4,250.00
Name: Robert Kimbrough
Description: for a Folk Arts Fellowship 6811 (blues)
Grant Awarded: $4,250.00
Name: Effie Burt
Description: for a Folk Arts Fellowship 0909 (blues vocalist)
Grant Awarded: $4,250.00
Name: Olivia Sharde Thomas
Description: for a Folk Arts Fellowship 8240 (fife and drum)
Grant Awarded: $4,250.00
Name: Diane Williams
Description: for a Folk Arts Fellowship 4987 (mixed media fiber art)
Grant Awarded: $4,250.00
Name: Rebecca Hay
Description: for a Folk Arts Fellowship 3694 (leatherwork)
Grant Awarded: $4,250.00
Name: Brian Hill
Description: for a Folk Arts Fellowship 4816 (woodturning)
Grant Awarded: $4,250.00
Name: Andreius Moore
Description: for a Folk Arts Fellowship 0187 (hip-hop)
Grant Awarded: $4,250.00
FY2025 Individual Artist Roster Approved Applicants
Amie C. Clark
Kinetic Etchings
Lady Gun
Mississippi Shakespeare Festival
Samm Jacquot
Sandra Measels
Keith E. Johnson
Stephany Brown
Ming Donkey
Wilma E. Mosley Clopton
Eden Brent
Freda Clark-Brent
Antoinette Badenhorst
Tony Davenport
Gavin Bird
FY2025 Teaching Artist Roster Approved Applicants
Antoinette Badenhorst
Amanda Koonlaba
Jerry Jenkins
Erin Mulligan
Kathryn G. Wilson
Mary Frances Massey
Patricia Carreras
Tony Davenport
FY2025 Individual Project Grants
Name: Erin Abbott
Description: to host the One Night Stand Motel Art Show
Grant Awarded: $2,000.00
Name: Thabi Moyo
Description: to produce a summer music series
Grant Awarded: $2,000.00
Name: Connor King
Description: to host a series of comedy and improv shows and classes (TIN)
Grant Awarded: $2,000.00
Name: Marie Lamb
Description: to organize a group art installation
Grant Awarded: $2,000.00
Name: Justin Ransburg
Description: to conduct free art classes for students
Grant Awarded: $2,000.00
Name: April Marie Hammons
Description: to facilitate the Water Valley High School Art Exhibition (TIN)
Grant Awarded: $2,000.00
Name: Anna Beatrice Scott
Description: to do a community-based art installation
Grant Awarded: $2,000.00
Name:Scott Barretta
Description: to host community concerts
Grant Awarded: $2,000.00
Name: Antonio Tarrell
Description: to create the documentary “Mississippi: Poetry in Photography”
Grant Awarded: $2,000.00
Name: Julia Mortyakova
Description: to perform a series of concerts featuring the work of women composers
Grant Awarded: $2,000.00
Name: Jesse Ryan Brown
Description: to produce a photography exhibition
Grant Awarded: $2,000.00
Name: Catherine Simone Gray
Description: to host a free writing workshop for young mothers
Grant Awarded: $2,000.00
Name: Bianca Jackson
Description: to record songs by legendary Black American Composers
Grant Awarded: $2,000.00
Name: Tanja Miric
Description: to perform classical guitar concerts at nursing homes and assisted living facilities
Grant Awarded: $2,000.00
Name: Nature Humphries
Description: to publish a community literary journal
Grant Awarded: $2,000.00
Name: Micheal Hall
Description: to create a short album of community themed music, written and recorded by Mississippi-based artists
Grant Awarded: $2,000.00
Name: Tim Lee
Description: to host a series of free, live improvisational music shows (TIN)
Grant Awarded: $2,000.00
Name: Latrice Lawson
Description: to host a community-focused art market
Grant Awarded: $2,000.00
FY2025 Folk Artist Apprenticeship Recipients
Name: Kamberly Ledford
Description: for a Folk Arts Apprenticeship in Tattooing
Grant Awarded: $2,000.00
Name: Brian Newman
Description: for a Folk Arts Apprenticeship in pottery
Grant Awarded: $2,000.00
Name: Rhonda Blasingame
Description: for a Folk Arts Apprenticeship in Quilting
Grant Awarded: $2,000.00
Name: Jimmy Holmes
Description: for a Folk Arts Apprenticeship in Bentonia Blues
Grant Awarded: $2,000.00
Name: Wendy Jean Garrison
Description: for a Folk Arts Apprenticeship in slide guitar
Grant Awarded: $2,000.00
FY2025 Organization Operating Grant Recipients
Name: Eastman Memorial Foundation DBA Lauren Rogers Museum of Art
Grant Awarded: $23,400.00
Name: Ohr-O’Keefe Museum of Art
Grant Awarded: $23,400.00
Name: USA International Ballet Competition
Grant Awarded: $23,400.00
Name: Mississippi Symphony Orchestra
Grant Awarded: $23,400.00
Name: Mississippi Arts + Entertainment Experience
Grant Awarded: $23,400.00
Name: Gulfport Galleria of Fine Art
Grant Awarded: $10,895.00
Name: Gulfport Galleria of Fine Art
Grant Awarded: $14,400.00
Name: Ballet Mississippi, Inc.
Grant Awarded: $21,600.00
Name: Civic Ballet, Inc.
Grant Awarded: $14,400.00
Name: Opera Mississippi
Grant Awarded: $18,000.00
Name: Cleveland Music Foundation d/b/a GRAMMY Museum Mississippi
Grant Awarded: $21,600.00
Name: Meridian Museum of Art
Grant Awarded: $14,400.00
Name: The Mississippi Chorus
Grant Awarded: $5,400.00
Name: Gumtree Museum of Art
Grant Awarded: $14,400.00
Name: The Mississippi Songwriters Festival, Inc.
Grant Awarded: $5,400.00
Name: Metropolitan Chamber Orchestra Society
Grant Awarded: $2,463.00
Name: Tupelo Symphony Orchestra, DBA North Mississippi Symphony Orchestra
Grant Awarded: $19,800.00
Name: MidSouth Music Institute, Inc.
Grant Awarded: $13,200.00
Name: Tupelo Ballet
Grant Awarded: $13,200.00
Name: Hattiesburg Concert Association
Grant Awarded: $18,000
Name: Craftsmen’s Guild of Mississippi, Inc.
Grant Awarded: $21,600.00
Name: Mississippi Metropolitan Ballet
Grant Awarded: $18,982
Name: Mississippi Cultural Crossroads
Grant Awarded: $4,950.00
Name: Jimmie Rodgers Foundation
Grant Awarded: $18,000.00
Name: Center Stage, Inc.
Grant Awarded: $15,600.00
Name: New Stage Theatre
Grant Awarded: $23,400.00
Name: Delta Center Stage
Grant Awarded: $14,400.00
Name: DeSoto Family Theatre
Grant Awarded: $21,600.00
Name: Golden Triangle Theatre
Grant Awarded: $5,400.00
Name: Panola Playhouse
Grant Awarded: $14,400.00
Name: Mississippi Theatre Association
Grant Awarded: $10,800.00
Name: Starkville Community Theatre
Grant Awarded: $13,200.00
Name: Brookhaven Little Theatre
Grant Awarded: $19,800.00
Name: Yoknapatawpha Arts Council, Inc.
Grant Awarded: $23,400.00
Name: Starkville Area Arts Council
Grant Awarded: $15,600.00
Name: Griot Arts Inc.
Grant Awarded: $23,400.00
Name: Hattiesburg Arts Council
Grant Awarded: $15,600.00
Name: Art for All Mississippi
Grant Awarded: $15,600.00
Name: Pike School of Art – Mississippi
Grant Awarded: $23,400.00
Name: Hattiesburg Alliance for Public Art
Grant Awarded: $15,600.00
Name: Desoto Arts Institute
Grant Awarded: $5,850.00
Name: The Friends of Arts, Culture and Education
Grant Awarded: $15,600.00
Name: Charleston Arts and Revitalization Effort
Grant Awarded: $14,400.00
Name: Delta Arts Alliance
Grant Awarded: $14,400.00
Name: Southern Cultural Heritage Foundation
Grant Awarded: $14,400.00
Name: The Arts Hancock County
Grant Awarded: $14,400.00
Name: Columbus Arts Council
Grant Awarded: $21,600.00
Name: I Can Fly Ministries
Grant Awarded: $5,400.00
Name: ArtPlace Mississippi
Grant Awarded: $14,400.00
Name: Greenville Arts Council
Grant Awarded: $13,200.00
FY2025 Year Two Organization Operating Grant Recipients
Name: Gulf Coast Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
Grant Awarded: $11,700.00
Name: Harrisburg Cultural and Social Services Center Inc dba Link Centre
Grant Awarded: $23,400.00
Name: OxFilm
Grant Awarded: $15,600.00
Name: Friends of Thacker Mountain Radio, Inc.
Grant Awarded: $15,600.00
Name: Mississippi Boychoir
Grant Awarded: $15,600.00
Name: Theatre Oxford
Grant Awarded: $5,850.00
Name: Meridian Little Theatre
Grant Awarded: $15,600.00
Name: Meridian Symphony Association, Inc.
Grant Awarded: $23,400.00
Name: Walter Anderson Museum of Art
Grant Awarded: $23,400.00
Name: DeSoto Arts Council
Grant Awarded: $15,600.00
Name: Lynn Meadows Discovery Center
Grant Awarded: $23,400.00
Name: Mississippi Alliance for Arts Education
Grant Awarded: $15,600.00
FY2025 Organization Project Grant Recipients
Name: Magnolia Independent Film Festival
Description: to present the Magnolia Independent Film Festival
Grant Awarded: $4,500.00
Name: Mississippi Museum of Natural Science Foundation
Description: to support the “Moonlight, Music and Meteors” concert
Grant Awarded: $4,500.00
Name: Mississippi University for Women
Description: to present the annual Music by Women Festival
Grant Awarded: $4,250
Name: Mississippi Music Teachers Association
Description: to support the Mississippi Music Teachers Association Conference and Collegiate Competitions
Grant Awarded: $4,500.00
Name: Arts Danu
Description: to support Allumer Natchez annual light-based art exhibition
Grant Awarded: $4,500.00
Name: MSU Summer Scholars (On-Stage)
Description: to support the Summer Scholars program
Grant Awarded: $4,500.00
Name: Kinetic Etchings
Description: to support a series of dance performances
Grant Awarded: $4,500.00
Name: Coahoma Community College
Description: to present the Mississippi Delta Tennessee Williams Festival
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: Mississippi Shakespeare Festival
Description: to support Shakespeare in the Park
Grant Awarded: $4,500.00
Name: Friendly City Books Community Connection / CREATE Foundation
Description: to support the Mississippi Poetry 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: Union County Historical Society & Heritage Museum
Description: to present William Faulkner Literary Festival & Competition
Grant Awarded: $4,500.00
Name: Hancock County Library System (HCLS)
Description: to support the Homegrown Literary Arts Festival
Grant Awarded: $4,500.00
Name: Oxford Civic Chorus
Description: to support a series of choral performances
Grant Awarded: $4,500.00
Name: Mississippi Children’s Museum- Meridian
Description: to support a series of visiting artist workshops
Grant Awarded: $2,380.00
Name: The Montgomery Institute
Description: to support the Mississippi Songwriters Alliance Pines Region Songwriter Festival
Grant Awarded: $3,400.00
Name: William Carey University
Description: to support and arts workshop series
Grant Awarded: $4,207.50
Name: Pearl River Community College
Description: to present the Mississippi Symphony Orchestra
Grant Awarded: $4,250.00
Name: Jackson Choral Society
Description: to support a series of choral performances
Grant Awarded: $4,250.00
Name: University of Southern Mississippi, School of Communication
Description: to support public art installations
Grant Awarded: $4,250.00
Name: Mississippi Writers Guild
Description: to support a series of literary workshops
Grant Awarded: $4,250.00
Name: Mississippi Children’s Museum
Description: to present a series of guest artist demonstrations for children
Grant Awarded: $4,000.00
Name: Jackson State University Department of English, Foreign Languages, and Speech Communication
Description: to commission a mural by Reshonda Perryman
Grant Awarded: $2,000.00
Name: Delta Children’s Museum
Description: to support Performing Arts Series 2024-2025
Grant Awarded: $3,750.00
Name: Tennessee Williams Tribute
Description: to support the Tennessee Williams Tribute Festival
Grant Awarded: $1,933.50
Name: University of Southern Mississippi Dance
Description: to engage Akademi Dance for a 10-day artist residency
Grant Awarded: $3,750.00
Name: Mississippi Action for Community Education, Inc.
Description: to present the Mississippi Delta Blues and Heritage Festival
Grant Awarded: $4,500.00
Name: Central Mississippi Blues Society, Inc.
Description: to support the Blue Monday music series
Grant Awarded: $4,500.00
Name: Prairie Belt Blues Foundation
Description: to create a mural for the Black Prairie Blues Museum
Grant Awarded: $4,500.00
Name: El Pueblo
Description: to present artists at the City of Forest Hispanice Heritage Festival
Grant Awarded: $4,500.00
Name: Quitman County
Description: to support the Mules & Blues Festival
Grant Awarded: $4,500.00
Name: Action Communication and Education Reform, Inc.
Description: to present the Grassroots Blues Festival
Grant Awarded: $4,500.00
Name: Montgomery County Arts Council
Description: to present Hill Fire folklife play
Grant Awarded: $4,500.00
Name: Juneteenth-Columbus, Inc.
Description: to support The Juneteenth Celebration festival
Grant Awarded: $4,500.00
Name: All Y’all Fiber
Description: to support the Oxford Fiber Arts Festival
Grant Awarded: $4,250.00
Name: North Mississippi Hill Country Picnic, Inc
Description: to present the North Mississippi Hill Country Picnic
Grant Awarded: $4,250.00
Name: Carroll County Development Association
Description: to present The Pilgrimage and Pioneer Day Festival
Grant Awarded: $4,000.00
Name: Greater Greenville Development Foundation, Inc.
Description: to support the Delta Hot Tamale Festival
Grant Awarded: $4,500.00
Name: Foundation for Mississippi History
Description: to support Mississippi Makers Fest
Grant Awarded: $4,500.00
Name: Delta Compass (formerly known as the Washington County Work Ready Association)
Description: to support the “FUNnel” project that showcases local artists
Grant Awarded: $4,500.00
Name: Oxford Community Market
Description: to support Music at the Market
Grant Awarded: $4,500.00
Name: Jackson Friends of the Library
Description: to create an art installation in a Jackson Library
Grant Awarded: $4,500.00
Name: Friends of Chakchiuma Swamp
Description: to support the Enchanted Forest
Grant Awarded: $4,500.00
Name: Mid City Community Development Corporation / Community Foundation for Mississippi
Description: to support a series of community-driven design charrettes
Grant Awarded: $3,150.00
Name: Hazlehurst Area Chamber of Commerce
Description: to support the Rockin’ Railroad Festival
Grant Awarded: $4,500.00
Name: Mississippi Roses Links
Description: to support The Classics Through the Ages
Grant Awarded: $2,700.00
Name: City of Jackson, Smith Robertson Museum
Description: to develop a Jazz Enrichment Series/Mentoring Program (Artful Sunday Afternoon)
Grant Awarded: $4,250.00
Name: The Del Rendon Foundation
Description: to support the MacGown Art Residency program
Grant Awarded: $4,250.00
Name: Northwest Mississippi Theatre Guild
Description: to support the STARS program
Grant Awarded: $4,250.00
Name: Mississippi Presenters’ Network
Description: to support The Artist Exchange Program
Grant Awarded: $4,250.00
Name: Mississippi Delta Nature and Learning Center
Description: to fund artwork commissions for the Heart and Soul Children’s Garden
Grant Awarded: $3,640.00
Name: Genesis and Light Center
Description: to support Summer of Drama
Grant Awarded: $4,250.00
Name: CREATE Foundation
Description: to support Dancing and Singing with the King
Grant Awarded: $4,250.00
Name: Midtown Partners
Description: to support Creative Dance Classes
Grant Awarded: $4,250.00
Name: Musical Expressions Experience
Description: to support the Bucket Drumming Experience
Grant Awarded: $3,750.00
Name: Bay St Louis Little Theatre
Description: to support Live at the Little Theatre Series
Grant Awarded: $4,250.00
Name: Greater Belhaven Neighborhood Foundation
Description: to support the Being Belhaven Arts Series
Grant Awarded: $4,250.00
Name: Stella Maris Explorers
Description: to fund an art workshop for the Explorers Club
Grant Awarded: $818.00
Name: New Albany Main Street
Description: to support arts education for local youth and seniors
Grant Awarded: $4,250.00
Name: The Blue House / CREATE Foundation
Description: to support the Digital Magic Workshop
Grant Awarded: $1,676.00
Name: Stewpot Community Services
Description: to support the HeART Works program
Grant Awarded: $4,000.00
Name: Biloxi Little Theatre
Description: to support a season of theatrical productions
Grant Awarded: $4,000.00
Name: Singing River Little Theatre
Description: to fund the production of two plays
Grant Awarded: $4,000.00
Name: St. James Catholic School
Description: to support an annual spring musical
Grant Awarded: $4,500.00
Name: The Redeemer’s School
Description: to present Kinetic Etchings
Grant Awarded: $4,500.00
Name: DSU/Delta Music Institute
Description: to support DMI Summer Camp
Grant Awarded: $4,250.00
Name: Mississippi School of the Arts Foundation, Inc.
Description: to support an outreach program
Grant Awarded: $4,250.00
Name: Mississippi Council on Economic Education
Description: to teach music career choice as economic impact
Grant Awarded: $4,250.00
Name: DSU/Bologna Performing Arts Center
Description: to support Read It, See It, Be It program
Grant Awarded: $4,250.00
Name: Enlightened to Heighten
Description: to support art lessons teaching Adinkra symbols
Grant Awarded: $1,700.00
FY2025 Individual Mini-Grant Recipients
Exodus Brownlow
MaryEvelyn Brown
Bill Sugg III
Cynthia Howle
Eliot Parker
Mark Burr
Catherine Simone Gray
Holley Rumbarger
Duwane Pendarvis
Rosangela Yazbec Sebba
Julia Mortyakova
Kathryn G. Wilson
Amile Wilson
Ray Rome
John Mohead
Marta Szlubowska
Edward Burkes
Dr. Valentin Mikai Bogdan
Adam Estes
Nicholas Ciraldo
Kessey Monae
Savanna Jones
Lawrence Luton
Peter Sherman
Andi Bedsworth
Marshall Nabors
Christinelle LaPerriere
Summerlyn Nation
Kay Meadows
Holly Bentz Coia
Melody Moody Thortis
Greta Koshenina
Karen Bennett
Melissa Brauen
Lester Laird
Silas Julian Mixon
Susan Patton
Angela Cooper
Brittany Whittington
Jerry W Jones
Tonza DeBerry
Sherron Belk
Carolyn Busenlener
Dot Courson
Amber Hunt, Arae Pottery
Amanda Koonlaba
Pamela Locke
Kelly Devine
Ava Jeanne Davis
Michelle Delgado
Andrea Kostyal
Betty Press
Amy Webb
NuRenaissance
Courtney Lipscomb
Nicole Scanell
Gage Weeks
Eryn McCarthy
Marshall Blevins
FY2025 Organization Mini-Grant Recipients
Harrisburg Cultural and Social Services Center Inc dba Link Centre
I Can Fly Ministries
Copiah-Lincoln Community College
Mississippi School of the Arts
New Albany Middle School
Gulf Coast Messiah Chorus
Hattiesburg Concert Association
Mississippi Arts + Entertainment Experience
Panola Playhouse
Kinetic Etchings
Mississippi Museum of Art
Mississippi Shakespeare Festival
Civic Ballet, Inc.
Mississippi Puppetry Guild
Doniphan Dance Project
Ballet Mississippi, Inc.
Mississippi Children’s Museum- Meridian
Oxford Juneteenth Festival
The Mt. Zion Memorial Fund for Blues, Music, and Justice
Action Communication and Education Reform, Inc.
Mississippi Cultural Crossroads
Approved Whole Schools Applicants
Saint Richard Catholic School
East Marion Elementary School
Tupelo Public School District/Structured Day Program
Crestwood Elementary School
Approved Model Whole Schools Applicants
Thomas Street Elementary
Laurel Magnet School of the Arts
JPS for Casey Elementary School
Mannsdale Elementary School
Joyner Elementary/TPSD
Saltillo Elementary School
Approved Whole Schools Affiliates
Pierce Street Elementary – TPSD
Lawndale Elementary School
Parkway Elementary School
King Early Childhood Education Center
Tupelo Public School District/Tupelo Middle School
Milam Elementary School
Lawhon Elementary School
Rankin Elementary
Tupelo Public School District / Carver Elementary
Approved Arts in the Classroom
Luther Branson Elementary School
Northwest Rankin Elementary
New Albany Elementary School
Lighthouse Academy for Dyslexia
Newton High School
Ocean Springs School District
Green Elementary School
Dynamic Dyslexia Design, The 3-D School
Pecan Park Elementary
Stone Elementary School
MS Delta Academies Leflore Legacy Academy