About Mid-America Arts Alliance

Mid-America Arts Alliance (M-AAA) was created to support and stimulate cultural activity in communities throughout Arkansas, Kansas, 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.

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.

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 850 performances and exhibitions and some 6,000 related educational programs to over one million people annually.

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 any given year, performing artists supported by M-AAA earn an average of $5 million in fees and our programs generate over $6.5 million in direct economic activity.