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2022 MS Coast NHA Heritage Grant Recipients
The Walter Anderson Museum of Art has been awarded $15,250 to fund an exhibit on the historic home ‘Oldfields’ documenting Walter Anderson’s time living and producing art at the home. Grant funded work also includes funding a research trip to Horn Island and an Architect in residence for the exhibit.
The John C. Robinson “Brown Condor” Association has been awarded $17,000.00 for the following projects at the Mississippi Aviation Heritage Museum to create three (3) bronze busts for the Aviation Hall of Fame for Roscoe Turner, who was a barnstormer and acrobatic pilot who was famous for flying with a lion; Cora "Earsly" Taylor Barnette, the first African American female licensed pilot; and Apollo Astronaut Stuart Roosa. Additionally, the project will provide funding for dioramas of the three Gulf Coast bases, Keesler Air Force Base; Gulfport Army Airfield; and the Biloxi Coast Guard Station, and the purchase of five (5) 3-D printers for the S.T.E.M. program, including materials needed to complete the projects.
100 Men Hall has been awarded $25,000 for a series of events that document the history of the hall. These events, along with the creation of a mural, and a video documentary will highlight the construction of the hall in 1922, and the role it has played in the community over the past century.
Maritime & Seafood Industry Museum has been awarded $15,000 to relocate and reconstruct a portion of the Hurricane Camille memorial from the current location to the Museum grounds.
MS State University Television Center has been awarded $47,250 to develop a half-hour documentary that highlights Vietnamese American culture and the community’s struggles to maintain conhesiveness in the face of manmade and natural disasters, and the effects of upward mobility among those who live along the Mississippi Gulf Coast.
To learn more about the application process for MS Coast NHA Heritage Community Grants, visit msgulfcoastheritage.ms.gov/ heritage-community-grants.
MSU UTV TO PRODUCE DOCUMENTARY ON VIETNAMESE CULTURE IN COASTAL MISSISSIPPI
The Mississippi State University Television Center has been awarded a 2021-22 Heritage Grant from the Mississippi Gulf Coast National Heritage Area to produce a 30-minute documentary on the rich cultural heritage of theVietnamese community along the Mississippi Gulf Coast.
The documentary will highlight the community’s displacement from their homeland during the Vietnam War starting in the 1970’s and follow their adaptation to a new environment and the challenges faced during this process, as well as the abundant contributions they have made to the fabric of our culture here on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. The Vietnamese American Cultural Documentary project seeks to understand the impacts on the Vietnamese culture from arrival to present-day through interviews with Vietnamese Americans and subject matter experts, and through illustrated cutaway videos, photos and graphic assets. The documentary proposes to take an inside look at Vietnamese culture along the Mississippi Gulf Coast, highlighting its diversity and beauty. First person accounts will be used to illustrate how the community formed as the first settlers came to the three coastal counties, how the seafood industry provided a way to generate and save wealth within the community, the impact of hurricanes and man-made disasters and the effects of upward mobility on the Vietnamese American community. Experts will provide background on the history of the Mississippi seafood industry and religious, economic and societal culture of Vietnamese Americans. Filmed in the three Mississippi coastal counties, this 30 minute documentary will be produced to air on Mississippi Public Broadcasting, streaming online delivery and video on demand.
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