2004 Grant Awards: State Listings
Creativity/Leadership Initiatives/Literature Fellowships
Services to Arts Organizations & Artists
Some details of the projects listed below are subject to change,
contingent upon prior Endowment approval.
MISSISSIPPI
Eastman Memorial Foundation (Lauren Rogers Museum of Art) (consortium)
Laurel, MS
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
$22,000
To support an exhibition of work by African American artist Sam
Gilliam (b. 1933), with accompanying catalogue and education
programs. The exhibition is being organized in collaboration with
the Baton Rouge Arts and Science Center.
University of Mississippi Main Campus
(on behalf of Center for the Study of Southern Culture)
University, MS
$10,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the Oxford Conference for the Book. Scheduled
participants include Barry Hannah, Silas House, Lee Smith, Beth Ann
Fennelly, Margaret McMullan, Jewel Parker Rhodes, and William Jay
Smith.
Watson, Wilton Brad
Meridian, MS
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
$20,000
To support a creative writing fellowship.
Mississippi Total Dollars Awarded: $52,000
Mississippi Total Grants Awarded: 3
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