Advocacy

Mississippi Arts Commission Receives Warhol Foundation Grant

The Mississippi Arts Commission (MAC) recently received a grant totaling $75,000 from the Andy Warhol Foundation to support Mississippi-based visual artists recovering from Hurricane Katrina. Funded by the Mississippi legislature, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Wallace Foundation, and other private sources, MAC is the official grant-making and service agency for the arts in Mississippi and serves as an active supporter and promoter of arts in community life and in arts education. The New York-based Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts was established in 1987 on the premise that the arts are essential to an open, enlightened democracy.

To read more, please visit www.arts.state.ms.us/news.

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