Each year, the Mid-South Scholastic Art Awards honors exemplary art by students in Grades 7 through 12 in a competitive annual exhibition that provides cash prizes and scholarship opportunities. The Mid-South Scholastic Art Awards is an annual juried student art contest representing students from over 100 schools in East Arkansas, West Tennessee, and North Mississippi. Submissions to the program are judged on their technical skill, originality, and emergence of a personal voice. Gold key winners are exhibited in these galleries, and Silver Key and Honorable Mention Winners can be seen on the two monitors in the galleries.
2024 Mid-South Scholastic Art Awards Jurors
Ariel Cobbert
Mary K. VanGieson
Yancy Villa
Richard Echols
Brandon Dill
Cat Patton
Kaylyn Webster
Durant Thompson
Kelsey Harrison
Rahn Marion
Danielle Sierra
Lester Jones
Sponsored by Brooks Museum League and Pinnacle Financial Partners with support from Derek Fordjour and the family of Marcia Bicks.
All exhibitions at the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art are underwritten by the MBMA Exhibition Fund. Major annual support is provided by Mary Lee Copp Formanek and Maggie and Milton Lovell, with generous annual funding from Anonymous, Gloria and Kenneth Boyland, Deborah and Bob Craddock, Michael and Maria Douglass, Harry Goldsmith, Eleanor and William Halliday, Debi and Galen Havner, Buzzy Hussey and Hal Brunt, Jay and Kristen Keegan, Dr. James Patterson, Dr. Rushton Patterson, Carl and Valerie Person, and Bill Townsend.
