Artist Training available from the Mississippi Alliance for Arts Educators (MAAE) Advocacy: Day at the Capitol Oak Grove Wins SETC 2008 MTA Festival Winners: Oak Grove and Tupelo Community Theatre Hattiesburg selected as 2008 MTA Festival host Katrina Project Honored by State Educators SETC Results: Oak Grove and Starkville Community Theatre Take Home SETC Awards! On June 6, MJ Etua, MTA President and Louisville High School Teacher, will receive the 2006 Thad Cochran Distinguished Arts Educator Award  (Theatre). Congratulations MJ! Also being honored is our MTA 2006 Guest Speaker -- Myrna Colley-Lee. Ms. Colley-Lee, who has an exhibit opening on June 10, 2006 at the Mississippi Museum of Art is receiving the Exemplary Arts Service Award. SETC Results: Congratulations to Hattiesburg High School and Delta Center Stage for their award winning productions during SETC 2006. Both theatres were selected as Runner Up - Best Production during the SETC 2006 Convention held in Orlando, Florida. Shannon Robert Received Cowboy Maloney Award (January 2006) Trading Spaces Comes to Mississippi! Date for Community Theatre Workshop Set (June 2005) Mississippi Community Theatre Wins Southeastern Regional Festival (March 2005) Halbach first from state to serve Southeastern Theatre Conference as President-Elect (June 2004) Another Mississippi student takes top awards at KC/ACTF (April 2004) Myra Byrnes receives award (April 2004) Tupelo Community Theatre places at the Southeastern Theatre Conference (March, 2004) Gabe Smith, MSU Student, Wins National Critics Institute (June, 2003) Oak Grove Drama Chosen to Represent Mississippi Internationally (May, 2003) Miller receives Mississippi Theatre Association's Cowboy Maloney Award (January, 2003) Cunetto selected as first executive director for MTA (January, 2003) From the Executive Director of the Mississippi Arts Commission (January, 2003)