2004 Grant Awards: State Listings

Arts on Radio and Television/Folk Arts Infrastructure/Heritage & Preservation/Learning in the Arts/Partnerships

Some details of the projects listed below are subject to change, contingent upon prior Endowment approval.

MISSISSIPPI

Delta Blues Education Fund
Clarksdale, MS
$10,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts 
To support the Delta Blues Education Program. Apprentices will learn the Delta blues tradition directly from master blues musician Johnnie "Mr. Johnnie" Billington and graduate students from his training program.

Eagle Music & Media Academy
Mound Bayou, MS
$15,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education 
To support workshops in blues guitar and African and Afro-Latin drumming in the context of African-American heritage in the Mississippi Delta. Youth, ages eight to 13, will gain performance skills as well as an understanding of the historical significance of these genres from the perspective of local artists, ethnomusicologists, and folklorists.

Eastman Memorial Foundation
Laurel, MS
$35,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museums 
To support the conservation and exhibition of the museum's Native-American basket collection. The exhibition will present as many as 230 baskets made by weavers from 68 tribes, spanning the last two centuries.

Mississippi Arts Commission
Jackson, MS
$20,000
CATEGORY: Leadership Initiatives  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts 
To support fieldworker positions and related costs. Four fieldworkers living in different regions of Mississippi, or in bordering states, will document and recruit traditional artists for the agency's folk arts apprenticeship and fellowship programs.

Mississippi Arts Commission
Jackson, MS
$648,800
CATEGORY: Partnership  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional 
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

MISSISSIPPI total grants: 5
MISSISSIPPI total dollars: $728,800

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Washington, DC 20506