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ABOUT PERFORMING ARTS
Mid-America Arts Allliance strives to strengthen the infrastructure for the performing arts in our six-state region of Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Texas. Since our inception in 1972, Mid-America Arts Alliance has been engaged in performing arts touring, and support to presenters and performers remains at the core of the work of the Performing Arts division. In order to further assist performing arts presenters with a broader choice of programming, the Performing Arts Travel Stipend program offers scholarships for professional conferences. This past year, 20 presenters received scholarships for the Midwest Arts Conference or the Association of Performing Arts Presenters conference.
Tao: The Martial Art of Drumming
The worldwide sensation "Tao: The Martial Art of Drumming" comes to The Grand 1894 Opera House with one impressive performance on Saturday, February 27, at 8 pm. Powerful athletic bodies and contemporary costumes meet explosive Taiko drumming and innovative choreography in this show that has critics waxing lyrical about Tao’s extraordinary precision, energy, and stamina. Sponsored in part by TCA and Mid America Arts Alliance, Tao has proven that modern entertainment based on the traditional art of Japanese drumming, has massive international appeal. Read More.
FY2011 GRANTMAKING PROGRAM
The FY2011 Grantmaking Program supports the presentation of touring artists in performing arts venues across our six-state region. Working in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts, Mid-America’s Performing Arts division makes grants to presenters in two categories: (1) Regional Touring Program, which helps presenters bring in Mid-America Artists’ Registry artists from our six-state region; and (2) Community Engagement with Touring Artists.
MID-AMERICA ARTISTS' REGISTRY
Mid-America is home to many talented performing artists, and our regional Artists' Registry provides an online directory of some of the best. Artists in good standing with their state arts agency automatically qualify for inclusion on the Mid-America Artists’ Registry and are encouraged to join. Presenters in our region qualify for Regional Touring Program grants when they book from our Registry, and, if not seeking a grant, they qualify for a booking subsidy simply by booking directly from our Registry. Searchable by performance genre, home-state, fee-range and keywords in their program descriptions, each artist's listing contains complete contact information for booking and links to their own Web sites.
Mid-America Arts Alliance supports professional development and networking by offering travel stipends for performing artists and presenters from our region. The 2009 Association of Performing Arts Presenters meeting in New York and the 2009 Midwest Arts Conference in Saint Paul are two prime examples of gathering points for booking, professional development workshops and meetings of the Plains Presenters and Southwest Performing Arts Presenters consortia, where block-booking is coordinated. Other meetings and conferences offering similar opportunities for presenters and performing artists are also eligible.
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