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SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1997
THE SUN HERALD
Coast Arts
Arts and Letters nominees include six from Coast
THE SUN HERALD
Six Coast residents are among 39 Mississippi artists and writers nominated for the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters 1997 awards in six categories.
Winners will be announced at the 19-year-old Institute?s annual awards banquet April 18 at the Walter Anderson Museum of Art in Ocean Springs. Each winner receives $1,000 and an original work of art from a Mississippi artist.
Among the judges are presidential inaugural poet Miller Williams of Arkansas, who will judge the new poetry category, and George Kennedy of the Uniyersity of Missouri School of Journalism, featured last year on Michael
burg, ?Possession?; Brooks Haxton, Syracuse, N.Y., ?The Sun at Night ; Paul Ruffin, Huntsville, Texas, ?Circling?; Aleda Shirley, Jackson, ?Long Distance?; Buck Jordon Downs, Washington, D.C., ?Fflowers.?
Nonfiction: Stephen Ambrose, Bay St. Louis, ?Undaunted Courage?? Thomas Hines, Los Angeles, ?William Faulkner and the Tangible Past?; Mary Carol Miller, Tupelo, ?Lost Mansions of Mississippi?; Noel Polk, Hattiesburg, "Children of the Dart House?; Charles Wilson, Oxford, ?Judgment and Grace in Dixie?; James Morgan, Little Rock, If These Walls Had Ears.?
Visual arts: Elizabeth VegHa, Bay St. Louis, ?Renaissance ? The Revival of a Community?; Sang Rober-
Feldman?s public radio program ?What Do You Know.? Kennedy is judging nonfiction.
Jane Alexander, director of the National Endowment of the Arts, has been invited to be presenter and speaker.
Laurence Oden of Biloxi won the music category last year.
Nominees, who have to be Mississippi natives or currently living in the state, are as follows:
Music: Jim Ballard, Bay St. Louis, ?Ave Maria?; Kay M. Arcuragi, Atlanta, ?Kay?s Songs for Kids?; Carey M. Smith, Meridian, ?Suite for Jazz Band?; Mark Howell, New York, ?Miracles and Magnetism?; and Dar-denelle Hadley, Winona, selection of jazz and blues pieces.
Photography: Marion Brown,
Yazoo City, exhibit: Robert Deenjr., Meridian, exhibit; Everette McCourt, New York, Italian Villa series; Langdon Clay, Sumner, ?Callaway Garden, Legacy of a Dream.?
Fiction: Carolyn Haines, Jackson County and Semmes, Ala., ?Touched?; Larry Brown, Oxford, ?Father and Son?; John Miller, Concord, N.C., ?The Last Family?; Brad Watson, Tuscaloosa, Ala., ?Last Days of the Dog-Men?; Barry Hannah, Oxford, ?High Lonesome?; Cyn-j thia Shearer, Oxford, ?The Wonder Book of the Air.?	;
Poetry: Col. Kenneth Wainner, Biloxi, ?Songs of Love?; Herbert Corben, Pascagoula, ?A Scientist?s Spring"; Richard Lyons, Starkville, selected poems; Angela Ball, Hatties-(
tional Containers?; Valerie Jau-don, New York,
?Run Silent, Run Deep?; William Baggett, Hattiesburg, ?The Spirit That Builds?;
Ginger Chamblin,
Jackson, ?Mississippi Melon?; Dick Kelson, Jackson, slides; Greg Cart-mell, Jackson, Meridian, exhibits; Paula Temple, University, ?Disaacco Di Retina?; Ron Dale, Oxford, ?Egrets, Empire?; William Beckwith, Taylor, ?Fountain of Life.?
Nonmembers interested in attending the awards banquet should call Pic Firmin at 868-1254.
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