Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award Nomination
MIAL members are encouraged to make nominations to honor the artistic
achievements of living Mississippians (current residents or former
ones with continuing, significant ties to the state). Judges will
consider only work shown, published, or performed in 2009. Members
may nominate more than one individual in any category. One page of
comments may be included in support of nomination.
Nominations should include place and date of birth. Please make additional
copies of this form if needed.
Only MIAL members may nominate.
DEADLINE: Nominations must be postmarked on or before January 15, 2010. Attach the artist’s representative work (slides, photographs, CD’s, books, etc.). Please mail the nomination to the appropriate address according to the awards category entered.
Use this form to submit nominations.
Award Categories:
VISUAL ARTS |
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Nominations are: Duncan Baird for Sculpture Charles Crossley for Textures, Shapes, and Forms of Spirits Millicent Howell for Exhibition Christopher Miner for Video in the 2009 Mississippi Invitational Sandra Murchison for The Delta Blues Remain Carole Pigott for Welty Series Lee Renninger for The Couture Project Elizabeth Veglia for 2009 Mosaic Mural at Biloxi Bay Bridge
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MIAL Category Chair George Bassi % Lauren Rogers Museum of Art 565 North Fifth Avenue P. O. Box 1108 Laurel, MS 39441-1108 |
PHOTOGRAPHY |
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Nominations are: Deborah Freeland for Take Two: Faulkner's Barn Burning Revisited (1979-2009) at Southside Gallery, Oxford Will Jacks for Contrasts Exhibition Eyd Kazery for One Man Show, Hinds County Community College Gloria Norris for Highway 51 (book) Kim Rushing for Exhibition Michael Lloyd Young for Blues, Booze, and BBQ (book)
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MIAL Category Chair JoAnne Prichard Morris 801 Arlington Street Jackson, MS 39202 |
FICTION |
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Nominations are: Frederick Barthelme for Waveland John Grisham for Ford County: Stories Greg Iles for The Devil's Punchbowl Margaret McMullan for Cashay Kathryn Stockett for The Help Quentin Whitwell for If by Whiskey
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MIAL Category Chair Dorothy Shawhan 217 South Leflore Cleveland, MS 38732 |
NONFICTION |
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Nominations are: Alex Alston and James Dickerson for Devil's Sanctuary David W. Beckwith for A New Day in the Delta: Inventing School Desegregation As You Go David C. Berry for A Week on the Chunky and Chickasawhay Gene Dattel for Cotton and Race in the Making of America Charles W. Eagles for The Price of Defiance: James Meredith and the Integration of Ole Miss W. Ralph Eubanks for The House at the End of the Road Alan Huffman for Sultana Alan Lange and Tom Dawson for King of Torts David Magee for The Education of Mr. Mayfield Stokes McMillan for One Night of Madness Deanne Stephens Nuwer for Plague Among the Magnolias Neil White for In the Sanctuary of Outcasts
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MIAL Category Chair Marion Barnwell 850 Fairview Street Jackson, MS 39202 |
Poetry |
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Nominations are: D. C. Berry for Hamlet Off Stage Jack Crocker for The Last Resort Kendall Dunkelberg for Time Capsules Ann Fisher-Wirth for Slide Shows and Carta Marina Larry Johnson for Veins : Poems 1966-2000 Greg Miller for Watch |
MIAL Category Chair Noel Polk 26 Lakes Blvd. Starkville, MS 39759 |
MUSIC COMPOSITION-Concert |
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Nominations are: Ken Davies for Three Pieces for Bass Trombone and Piano Albert C. Oppenheimer for Blessings, Blitzkrieg, and Bit Part Shandy Phillips for Sonata for Flute and Organ
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MIAL Category Chair Courtney C. Blossman % Sandra Shellnut P. O. Box 421 Pass Christian, MS 39571 |
MUSIC COMPOSITION-Popular |
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Nominations are: Johnny Bertram for songs written for Sing Your Song Caroline Herring for CD Golden Apples of the Sun Nash Street for songs Honeysuckle Kiss and Dirty Laundry Jamie Weems for The Cedars, Ruby's Reel and Broccoli for Breakfast, all from On That Train and Gone by the Scramblers
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MIAL Category Chair Sandra Shellnut P. O. Box 421 Pass Christian, MS 39571
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