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Nadia Alexis of McComb, Mississippi has been awarded a $4,250 literary artist fellowship from the Mississippi Arts Commission. This fellowship is a portion of the more than $1.7 million in grants MAC awardedRead More…

Mississippi School of the Arts congratulates 4 junior students (Ava Buckley, Eydi Kitchens, Julia Landry, and Kendra Quarterman) by securing a designation for 2024 NCTE Achievement Awards in Writing, given by theRead More…

It has been six years since the first Media Arts class graduated from Mississippi School of the Arts. Hundreds of hours of planning, casting, directing, filming, sound recording, shot editing, and specialRead More…

Two students of the Visual Arts Department were chosen as winners in Mississippi’s Third Congressional District Art Contest, sponsored by the office of Congressman Michael Guest. Kandace Tate, a senior from Jackson,Read More…

Mississippi School of the Arts recently recognized Literary Art students for receiving writing competition awards in the state. Additionally, two students will have their poems published in the American High School PoetsRead More…

Mississippi School of the Arts has announced the winners of the 2023-2024 “Show Us Your Best, Mississippi!” art contest. Students statewide were invited to participate in this competitive event. Mississippi’s schools shouldRead More…

The Mississippi School of the Arts (MSA) and Brookhaven High School (BHS) combined choir recently competed at the Central State Performance Assessment hosted at Ridgeland High School, sponsored by the Mississippi HighRead More…

Aarah Nicole Mayor, a senior visual arts student from Greenwood, Mississippi, has been named STAR Student at Mississippi School of the Arts for the 2023-2024 school year by the Mississippi Economic Council (MEC)Read More…

Mississippi School of the Arts celebrates the Media Arts department for receiving Scholastic Art awards. Film students submitted work to the Scholastic Art Mississippi Regional Competition. According to John Kelly Shelburne, theRead More…

Mississippi School of the Arts celebrates the visual arts department for capturing numerous Scholastic Visual Aarts awards in the 2024 Regional Scholastic Art Competition. The department received ninety-nine awards in this year’sRead More…

Mississippi School of the Arts celebrates the student award recipients of the Scholastic Writing Regional Competition–Mississippi, for 2024. The department received ninety-nine awards in this year’s competition. MSA’s Literary program instructor is Dr.Read More…

Vocal Music students from the Mississippi School of the Arts recently returned from Mississippi NATS competition held at the University of Mississippi in Oxford, adding some winning titles to their portfolios. EightRead More…

Students of all arts disciplines at Mississippi School of the Arts collaborated for this year’s 2024 Black History Month Production. King Alvarado, an MSA alumna and executive director/ artistic director of SouthernRead More…

Chrystian Butler of Brandon, Mississippi, better known as Kwasi, was recently featured with artwork in the official art collection of the Medgar and Myrlie Evers Home National Monument in Jackson, Mississippi. KwasiRead More…

Senior Literary student, Erin Erter, recently participated in the Regional Poetry Out Loud event at the Lauren Rogers Museum of Art in Laurel, Mississippi, capturing top-three. Poetry Out Loud is a freeRead More…

Dr. Nadia Alexis has been selected to represent the Mississippi School of the Arts as a Vance Fellow at the 35th annual Natchez Literary and Cinema Celebration (NLCC) to be held FebruaryRead More…

Dr. A. H. Jerriod Avant, a published author, was invited as a guest artist in the Literary Arts department of Mississippi School of the Arts. During his time on campus, students learnedRead More…

For the first time, Brookhaven High School’s ‘Ole Brook Singers’ are collaborating with the Mississippi School of the Arts’ Vocal Music Department to receive professional voice coaching and instruction. During the fallRead More…

Members of the Vocal Music department recently participated in the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) Southern Region Conference & Student Auditions in Arkadelphia, Arkansas. Seniors Avery Smith, Aaliyah McCullum, andRead More…

JACKSON, MISS. – Nadia Alexis of McComb, Mississippi has been awarded a $500 mini-grant from the Mississippi Arts Commission. This grant is a portion of the more than $1.75 million in grantsRead More…

The Literary Arts Department recently received recognition for entries submitted to the Mississippi Scholastic Press Association’s Best of Mississippi — Literary Magazine Awards, as well as the Eudora Welty Ephemera Prize forRead More…