Mississippi Arts Commission: Special Projects

2012

• Althea Jerome
• Howard Bahr
• WellsFest
• Carl Jackson
• McCarty Pottery
• Mose Allison

2011

• Charles A. Rhoads
• Natchez Literary & Cinema Celebration
• Gwendolyn Magee
• Mac McAnally
• Joe Willie "Pinetop" Perkins

2010

• Lenagene Waldrup
• Bessie Johnson
• Grassroots Radio Show
• Wyatt Waters
• David "Honeyboy" Edwards

2009

• University of Southern Mississippi Symphony Orchestra
• WINGS Performing Arts Program of the Lynn Meadows Discovery Center
• Wolfe Studio
• Cassandra Wilson
• John Grisham
• Andrew Bucci

2008

• Mississippi Museum of Art
• Emma McCain
• Lallah Miles Perry
• Natasha Trethewey
• Charley Pride

2007

• Nora Davis Magnet School
• Viking Range Corporation
• Sam Gilliam
• Sam Carr
• Bo Diddley

2006

• Sam Myers
• Bruce Levingston
• Fletcher Cox
• Casey Elementary School
• Trustmark National Bank
• Elizabeth Spencer

2005

• Mississippi School for Mathematics and Science
• Pearl Public School District
• Thacker Mountain Radio
• Gladys Kemp Lisanby
• Sela Ward
• Will D. Campbell

2004

• Greenville Arts Council
• James "Super Chikan" Johnson
• Rankin County School District
• Malcolm White
• Mary Katherine Loyacono McCravey

2003

• B.B. King
• Dr. David Stuart Blackburn
• Thallis Lewis
• Charles Burnett
• Mississippi Alliance for Arts Education
• USA International Ballet Competition
• William Eggleston
• Rust College A'Cappella Choir
• Little Milton (Campbell)

2002

• John Paul
• Bologna Performing Arts Center
• Sally W. Carmichael
• The Village of Taylor
• Andrew Cary Young
• William Carey College Theatre
• Dr. Russell Thomas, Jr.
• Stephen E. Ambrose

2001

• Abie "Boogaloo" Ames
• George Berry
• Roger D. Malkin
• Samuel Mockbee
• Pierce Street Elementary School
• Ronald Otto Schnell
• Lester Senter
• Martha Layton Richardson Tatum

2000

• Larry Brown
• Senator Thad Cochran
• Crossroads Quilters
• Sarah Gillespie
• Hattiesburg Arts Council
• Andrew Lark, Jr.
• Charlie Musselwhite
• John Palmer
• Stewart Family Pottery

1999

• Johnnie Billington
• Ellen Douglas (Josephine Haxton)
• P. Sanders McNeal
• Mississippi State Hospital—Community Services Homeless Program
• Museum of Southern Jewish Experience
• Colman Pearce
• Kenneth Quinn
• Roebuck “Pops” Staples
• Marty Stuart

1998

• Beechwood Elementary School
• Vicksburg Warren School District—For Project ABC (Arts in the Basic Curriculum)
• The Cotton Blossom Singers of the Piney Woods School
• Dr. David Daigeneault
• Eastman Memorial Foundation for support of the Lauren Rogers Museum of Art
• Milt Hinton
• Natchez Opera Festival, Inc.

1997

• Dr. Paul E. Ballard
• Marshall Bouldin
• Dr. Samuel Marshall Gore
• International Paper
• The Knight Foundation through The Sun Herald
• The City of Biloxi
• The George E. Ohr Arts and Cultural Center
• The Library of Hattiesburg, Petal and Forrest County
• Malaco Records
• Dr. Jean Simmons

1996

• Entergy/MP&L Company
• Morgan Freeman
• Sid Graves
• Lisa N. Howorth
• Dorothy Moore
• Dan Overly
• University Press of Mississippi
• Theo Inman Vaughey

1995

• Thomas Jones Biggs
• Shelby Foote
• Gum Tree Festival
• Bill Mitchell
• William D. Mounger
• New Stage Theatre Education Program
• Lida Rogers
• Billie Jean Young

1994

• Robert Parker Adams
• B & P Interiors, Hinds County Public Schools, and Hinds County Department of Human Services
• Nelle DeLoach Elam
• Keith Dockery McLean
• Mississippi Action for Community Education/Delta Arts Project
• Willie Morris
• Jim Timms

1993

• Patti Carr Black
• Vicki Bodenhamer
• Eleanor Ferris
• Richard Ford
• Thomas Somerville Howorth
• Mississippi Educational Television Network, Mtel, USA International Ballet Competition
• Othar Turner

1992

• Dr. Margaret Walker Alexander
• Walter Anderson Museum of Art, City of Ocean Springs, and Jackson County Board of Supervisors
• Crosby Arboretum
• Jane Reid-Petty
• South Central Bell
• West Tallahatchie High School
• Mary Jayne Whittington

1991

• Center for the Study of Southern Culture
• Chevron USA
• Corinth Area Arts Council
• William Dunlap
• Jackson Public Schools and Mississippi Symphony Orchestra
• Ethel Wright Mohamed
• Malcolm C. Norwood

1990

• Stuart C. Irby, Jr.
• Thalia Mara
• Mississippi Cultural Crossroads and Claiborne County Board of Supervisors
• Mississippi Mass Choir
• Noxubee County Library
• Starkville High School
• Eudora Welty

1988

• The Arts Alliance of Jackson & Hinds County
• Deposit Guaranty National Bank
• Barry Hannah
• City of Jackson
• Jackson Public Schools/Academic and Performing Arts Complex Performing Arts Division
• Jean Chisolm Lindsey
• Leontyne Price

 

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