OUR MISSION:STRENGTHENING COMMUNITIES AND IMPROVING LIVES THROUGH EXTRAORDINARY CULTURAL EXPERIENCES

Mid-America Arts Alliance was  created to support and stimulate cultural activity in communities throughout Arkansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Texas. Based in the heartland, M-AAA now creates and manages regional, multi-regional, national, and international programs including traveling exhibitions, performing arts touring, and professional and community development. Countless stories can be told about arts experiences in the communities that Mid-America Arts Alliance serves with performances, exhibitions, seminars, workshops, master classes, school tours, radio broadcasts, artist residencies, community projects, and lectures. For these communities the arts truly are a source of lifelong learning and renewal.

WE REACH 

Mid-America Arts Alliance's programs and services reach into communities of all sizes and types - from major metropolitan areas to the smallest towns in rural America - by distributing high-quality performing and visual arts programming to over 300 communities each year.

WE PROMOTE ACCESS

With a focus on affordability and an emphasis on education, Mid-America Arts Alliance is able to ensure access to the arts by providing a broad range of cultural programming to a wide variety of communities in the region and beyond. M-AAA supplies more than 450 performances, exhibitions, and professional development activities and some 1,000 related educational programs to over one million people annually.

WE IMPACT

By supporting both artists and communities, Mid-America Arts Alliance's programs and services directly impact the overall cultural and economic health of the region. In Fiscal Year 2011, performing artists supported by M-AAA earned more than $300,000 in fees and our programs generated more than $2,000,000 in direct economic activity in our region.

OUR PROGRAMS

Mid-America Arts Alliance provides traveling humanities and fine arts exhibitions through ExhibitsUSA and NEH on the Road; professional development in museum services; and access to and for regional performing artists through a granting program and artist's registry. Follow the links to learn more.