2026-06-26T07:06:46-07:00 2025-12-31 582361357 GREGG S BOSSEN CPA PC 50 LENOX POINT SUITE C ATLANTA GA 30324 990 2025-01-01 815217491 MISSISSIPPI CENTER FOR CULTURAL PRODUCTION MISS 6018855009 319 WHITE OAK STREET UTICA MS 39175 CARLTON TURNER Executive Director 2026-06-26 true Gregg S Bossen P01444127 4048929513 2025 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z 319 WHITE OAK STREET UTICA MS 39175 6136720 false X www.sippculture.org X 2017 MS To support groups and individuals creating social, economic, and cultural transformation toward long-term sustainability through the research, creation, and presentation of arts, culture, and agriculture. 7 5 20 40 0 2036051 5831462 67491 170260 65653 83574 11592 51424 2180787 6136720 318225 489091 0 538376 707618 0 23134 450330 706394 1306931 1903103 873856 4233617 6350824 10007834 657371 80764 5693453 9927070 To support groups and individuals creating social, economic, and cultural transformation toward long-term sustainability through the research, creation, and presentation of arts, culture, and agriculture. false false 1581472 489091 170260 For the year ended December 31, 2025, the Mississippi Center for Cultural Production d/b/a Sipp Culture operated the following programs:(i) The DigiCulture Lab is a three-week summer program for middle school students, ages 12 14 in Utica, Mississippi. It is designed to support youth development of agricultural skills and the knowledge to use digital media tools of photography, video, and audio production to build personal and collective rural narratives that are connected to the land, family, food, and cultural production. The DigiCulture Lab supports the mission of Sipp Culture to advance comprehensive community development strategies through connecting stories about family, land, and food with digital storytelling and agricultural production. (ii) The Rural Performance / Production Lab (RPPL) is a creative production process that seeks to support the development of new performance movement, story, and sound rooted in rural history, places, and bodies. Through leveraging the combined assets of a rural, place-based initiative dedicated to cultural production, the Mississippi Center for Cultural Production d/b/a Sipp Culture will support rural artists in the creation of new work by providing time, space, and connectivity. The Mississippi Center for Cultural Production d/b/a Sipp Culture sees this initiative as integral to creating space for rural narratives to fill gaps in the Organizations national story and expand the conversation to include unique and important perspectives. (iii) The Intercultural Leadership Institute (ILI) is a year-long intensive leadership experience for artists, culture bearers, and other arts practitioners. ILI is a collaborative program of Alternate ROOTS, the First Peoples Fund, the National Association of Latino Arts & Cultures (NALAC), the PAI Foundation and the International Association of Black in Dance (IABD). The effort grew out of our direct experiences as leaders of the founding cultural organizations. The Mississippi Center for Cultural Production d/b/a Sipp Culture often found that many personal and professional leadership programs emphasized dominant cultural norms, modes of learning and social approaches that didnt match the Mississippi Center for Cultural Productions d/b/a Sipp Culture's commitment to cultural equity and change-making in the Organizations own communities. (iv) Small Farmer Apprentice Program trains both aspiring and experienced farmers in the skills needed to meet the production needs of the Organizations rural community. This program supports participants over three years through an 18-month apprenticeship with financial support and training in small-farm agricultural production. Produce grown through this program has provided support for the ElderShare initiative and the local farmers market.(v) Trading in Cultural Memory This research project will seek to answer the paramount question: What is the role of artists as health workers and trainers using the call-and-response methodology in the context of Utica, Mississippi? This question will guide inquiry around the cultural practices that have sustained and innovatively designed wellness in rural underserved communities. This project is a collaboration with RISE Research and Evaluation and the Center for Africana Studies at Indiana University Indianapolis.(vi) TBD Fund A regional regranting program of the Andy Warhol Foundation supporting Mississippi visual artist in the creation of new public facing projects that aspire to expand Mississippis collective narrative, build new audiences, and deepen community dialogue. It considers visual art activities that are experimental and collaborative for individuals and groups to include new exhibitions, public art, visual art publications, online projects, residencies, photography, graphic design, filmmaking, performances, and screenings and beyond. The name TBD is representative of the artistic process which, at its core, is constantly being determined.(vii) Rural Routes Design Lab is a new program that fosters a model of partnership where artists, creators, and cultural organizations learn from and with Sipp Culture and their peers from across Central Mississippi. Through this program, artists gain insights into traditional and innovative approaches to community-engaged and informed practice and receive support in creating artwork that transforms the ways we think, dream, and work together. The Rural Routes Design Lab emphasizes the importance of working closely with the community throughout the planning and implementation of public art to ensure artists meaningfully center community members in their work.(ix) Advancing Well-being in the Arts Initiative is a multi-year, multi-organization effort to strengthen the well-being of arts organizations and the communities they serve through arts and culture. This initiative is part of a national collaboration of the National Art Partners and funded by the Wallace Foundation. 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Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 11b No review was or will be conducted. Form 990, Part VI, Section C, Line 18 Provided upon request. Form 990, Part VI, Section C, Line 19 No documents available to the public.