FY 2012 Grant Awards: State Listings

Art Works I | Challenge America Fast-Track Grants | Literature Fellowships (Prose)

Some details of the projects listed in this grant announcement are subject to change, contingent upon prior Endowment approval.

MISSISSIPPI

Mississippi Festival Foundation, Inc.
Sardis, MS
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support student and public performances by the Ailey II Dance Company, as well as related outreach. Prior to the performances, a former Ailey dancer will lead workshops for area Title I schools.

North Mississippi Hill Country Picnic, Inc.
Potts Camp, MS
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the North Mississippi Hill Country Picnic, a blues festival featuring artists such as Kenny Brown, Jimbo Mathus, Little Jo Ayers, and the Reverend John Wilkins. On the morning of the festival, the professional artists will conduct a blues clinic for local musicians.

Ohr-O'Keefe Museum of Art
Biloxi, MS
$34,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the exhibition, George Edgar Ohr: Apostle of Individuality. Designed to be installed in the Knight Gallery, the final of five Frank Gehry-designed buildings on the four-acre campus, the exhibition will include works by Mississippi ceramic artist George Ohr (1857-1918) on loan and from the museum's collection.

Number of Grants: 3          Total Amount: $54,000

 
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