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• ICC art students among winners in 2023 MCCAIA State Student Art Competition

              Itawamba Community College art students are among award winners in the 2023 MCCAIA State Student Art Competition hosted by Northwest Mississippi Community College in Senatobia.             They include Jordan Springer of Mooreville, second place in 3-D/Sculpture for “Jean Banjo;” Emily Sauerwein of Pontotoc, third place in 3-D/Sculpture for “London’s Worst;” Audre George of Pontotoc, first place in Drawing for “Self Portrait;” Piper Cutshall of Iuka, honorable mention in Drawing for “Old Hollywood;” Makenzie Davis of Smithville, first place in 2-D Design for “Jung Ho Yeon” and third place in the same category for “Street Art;” Maria Tinajero of Ecru, honorable mention in 2-D Design for “Ode to Kahlo;” and Mia Coggin of Plantersville, first place in Painting/Mixed Media for “Fruit Juice.”             ICC received eight of the 25 awards for categories they could enter, or 32 percent. Together, ICC and Hinds community College received 17 of the total 33 awards, according to ICC art instructor Dr. Dana Arnold.
• ICC students, faculty among Mississippi Community College Creative Writers Association competition winners

  Itawamba Community College students and faculty were among the winners in the 2023 Mississippi Community College Creative Writers Association competition.             They include Kent Humphries of Vina, Ala., first place in dramatic writing for “Nun with a Gun;” Emma Logan of Fulton, second place in literary essay for “Literature and Disney Classics;” editor-in-chief Shawn Whittington of Saltillo, poetry editor Keith Morris of Tupelo, and student poetry editors Connor Monaghan of Aberdeen and Jessica George of Tupelo, first place in literary magazine.             This is the sixth year in a row that ICC has won the dramatic writing category and the second year in a row, the literary magazine category.             The competition included poetry, short story, essay (creative nonfiction), literary essay, dramatic writing and college literary magazine.             First and second place winners received monetary prizes of $100 and $60, respectively.
• ICC students advance to state creative writing competition

  Itawamba Community College has selected winners of its creative writing competition, and they will be honored during Sigma Kappa Delta’s spring induction ceremony on the Fulton Campus.             They include             Mooreville – Carmen Birmingham, second place, essay, for “Anne Bradstreet’s Poems Upon a Closer Look;” Alexandria Christian, second place, poetry, for “Counting Stars;”             Okolona – Tytianna Brooks, first place, short story, for “Don’t Go;”             Pontotoc – Anna Thomas, first place, poetry, for “Coin Purse;”             Saltillo – Lauren Paul, second place, short story, for “To Everything I Had Once Loved;”             Smithville – Blake Ligon, second place, drama, for “Happy Anniversary;”             Tupelo – Luke Nichols, first place, drama, for “AD&D 5e Story – Chapter 1;” and James Ross, first place, essay, for “Analysis of the Portrayal of Death in the Poem ‘Because I Could Not Stop for Death’” by Emily Dickinson.             Their work will be entered into the Mississippi Community College Creative Writing Association competition, and winners will be notified on Mar. 22. State-level winners will receive certificates and a copy of Writer, which publishes the student winners, at the in-person MCCCWA ...
• ICC students place in state writing competition

             Three students at Itawamba Community College were among the winners in the 2020 Mississippi Community College Creative Writers Association competition.             They include Charlie Wright of Pontotoc, first place in dramatic writing for “An Accumulation of Anguish;” Mary-Elizabeth Moore of Red Bay, Ala., third place in poetry for “The Question;” and Briana Polk of Tupelo, honorable mention in poetry for “Drowning.”             The competition included poetry, short story, essay (creative nonfiction), literary essay, dramatic writing and college literary magazine.             First, second and third place winners received monetary prizes of $100, $60 and $40, respectively.
• ICC students place in state creative writing competition

  Four students at Itawamba Community College were among the winners in the 2022 Mississippi Community College Creative Writers Association competition.             They include Ally Melendez of Plantersville, first, short fiction for “Always Watching;” Shelby Tutor of Ecru, third, creative nonfiction for “No One’s Gonna Love Us;” Brody Johnson of Guntown, first in theatre for “Apex;” and Aliyah Birmingham of Tupelo, third in literary essays for “The Yellow Wallpaper.”             The competition included poetry, short story, essay (creative nonfiction), literary essay, dramatic writing and college literary magazine.             First, second and third place winners received monetary prizes of $100, $60 and $40, respectively.
• ICC students among winners in juried art exhibit

              Several Itawamba Community College students are among award winners in the juried exhibit that was recently on display in the W.O. Benjamin Fine Arts Center gallery at the Fulton Campus.             They include             Belden – Karol Adriana Aris-Little, third place in 2D design for “Little Earrings;” Fulton – Emily Tibbs, Best in Show for “Gorgeous Golden Lady;” Keyelle Holder, second place in drawing for “It’s Not A Pipe;” Alexis Grant, honorable mention in drawing for “Nightmare Baby From Hell;” Greenwood Springs – Vega Taylor, honorable mention in drawing for “Amongst The Folds;” Guntown – Alli Porter, first place in drawing for “Bass and Glass;” Mooreville – Monserrat Garcia, first place in 2D design for “1863 Jungle” and honorable mention in the same category for “03’ Louisiana;” Pontotoc – Isaiah Pannell, third place in drawing for “Self Portrait” and honorable mention in the same category for “The Baby Bottle;” Mak Masters, third place in 3D design for “Enchanted Ukelele;” Tupelo – Meliah Senter, second place in 2D design for “Stylization Tryptic;” Noah Sartin, first place in 3D design for “Fairie Trifecta;” ...