Clayton Bass, a Partner with Alexander Haas since January 2011, has been selected the visual arts judge for the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Awards (MIAL) for 2011. First presented in 1980, the prestigious MIAL awards recognize Mississippi’s finest achievements in seven categories: fiction, non-fiction, visual art, musical composition (concert), musical composition (popular), photography and poetry.
Mr. Bass is the former director of the Walter Anderson Museum of Art in Ocen Springs, Mississippi and recently led the Huntsville Museum of Art through its successful fundraising campaign and 21,000 square-foot facility expansion. The MIAL Awards Gala will be held in June 2011 at the Walter Anderson Museum of Art.