FY 2013 Grant Awards: State Listings

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

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

MISSISSIPPI

Columbus Arts Council, Inc.
Columbus, MS
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support Opera...from a Sistah's Point of View featuring soprano Angela Brown in performance and conducting workshops. Project activity will include a master class for Mississippi University for Women and Mississippi State music students, school performances for junior high and high school students, and a culminating performance for the community to be held at Rent Auditorium on the Mississippi University for Women campus.

Mississippi Festival Foundation, Inc.
Sardis, MS
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support The Delta Arts Reach Project, featuring Ailey II performances and workshops. The project will include free student and public performances at the Clarksdale Civic Auditorium and modern dance workshops that will occur in as many as 10 Mississippi school districts.

Mississippi Museum of Art, Inc.
Jackson, MS
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the C3 Project: Creativity. Conversation. Community, featuring sculptors Gwylene Gallimard and Jean-Marie Mauclet. The project will consist of community-based, hands-on art workshops that will lead to the creation of a temporary, mixed-media public art installation in the museum's "Art Garden," an outdoor public space used to display artwork.

Number of Grants: 3          Total Amount: $30,000

 
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