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Join us in supporting
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Invest in continued excellence in performing and visual arts throughout the region.
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Explore Our Exhibitions
The Wartime Escape: Margret and H.A. Rey's Journey from France, at the Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre in Vancouver, BC. October 17-November 30, 2011.
Dichos: Words to Live, Love, and Laugh By in Latin America, at Woodbury Art Museum in Orem, UT. October 18-November 30, 2011.
Developed with educational access in mind, our traveling exhibitions are community building opportunities for cultural institutions of all sizes. Each affordable museum-quality exhibition is accompanied by a full range of support services, as well as expert educational resources to encourage and enhance community engagement. For more information, please visit http://www.eusa.org, http://nehontheroad.org, or contact Client Relations at moreart@maaa.org. | |
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| The Doug Talley Quartet performs at the September 2011 LIVE! CeLABORation |
You're Invited: LIVE! in the Crossroads
Mid-America Arts Alliance (M-AAA) is proud to present LIVE! in the Crossroads on First Fridays in the Crossroads Arts District at our headquarters at 2018 Baltimore, Kansas City, Missouri. Our LIVE! activities are free to the public and include a menu of live music, dance, festival arts, visual art experiences, curator talks, and more.
Our next LIVE! in the Crossroads event will be held on Friday, October 7 from 4:00-9:00 p.m. This activity will include performances by the Hip Hop Academy, and will also showcase Mid-America's Classroom CONNECT project, an arts education collaboration with Longfellow Elementary School and Kansas City Young Audiences. Support the arts and arts education in Kansas City through dance, music, spoken word, film, and visual arts, made possible through the generous support of Target.
You're invited to join us for this FREE, family-oriented event! Support for LIVE! in the Crossroads is provided by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Muriel McBrien Kauffman Foundation, the Kansas City Neighborhood Tourist Development Fund, the Missouri Arts Council, and ArtsKC. For more information, please visit http://maaa.pmailus.com/pmailweb/ct?d=SlToewKDAAMAAAjgAAVy7Q. |
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| Joplin Mural Dedication and Celebration, September 25, 2011 |
Community Art: Collaboration and Celebration
Mid-America Arts Alliance recently partnered with prize-winning muralist Dave Loewenstein and apprentice artists to create a new community mural, “The Butterfly Effect: Dreams Take Flight,” in Joplin, Missouri. This project began in Fall 2010, and is a collaboration between the community’s youth and adults, city officials, and the project’s design team to illustrate Joplin's history, culture, and hopes for the future.
The community of Joplin was ravaged by a massive tornado in May 2011 that destroyed a third of the town. While this event is certainly an important event in Joplin's history, it was determined by the community participants that it should not be the sole feature, or even the central feature, of the mural. Rather, the focus of the mural is Joplin’s hope, pride, and history. The mural is on the south-facing wall of the Dixie Printing building, located at 1418 South Main Street - halfway between the area of the tornado and the downtown, and serves as a "gateway" of sorts between the two areas. Loewenstein’s project team is also working on additional collaborative art projects throughout Joplin.
Loewenstein says, “Our project has always been centered on the opportunity for community-driven art to inspire, remember and envision. As Joplin begins its long process of recovery, our project and how it can engage the community may be more relevant and useful, pertinent and powerful than we could have imagined.”
The Joplin mural is the third such project M-AAA has supported. The first was Listening Back, Dreaming Forward: The Rhythms of Tonkawa, located at the corner of Main and Grand in Tonkawa, OK, completed in May 2010. The second was The Imagineers, located on the north-facing wall at 304 North Main in Newton, KS, completed in September 2010.
Click here for more information about the Mural Projects.
Click here to view the Joplin Community Mural Art Project blog.
Click here to support the mural project's Kickstarter campaign, Called to Walls. |
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Thank You for Your Support We are pleased to announce the following new grants and gifts from our generous funders:
- Missouri Arts Council, St. Louis, MO, $15,000 to support Missouri HELP Advance
- Kearney Area Community Foundation, Kearney, NE, $2,826 to support Nebraska HELP Advance
- Kirkpatrick Family Fund, Oklahoma City, OK, $10,000 to support Oklahoma arts and culture activities
- Target, Minneapolis, MN, $2,000 to support Classroom CONNECT
- Neigborhood Tourist Development Fund, Kansas City, MO, $8,000 to support LIVE! in the Crossroads
Mid-America Arts Alliance values its partners in helping to carry out its mission of enriching communities through cultural experiences. Through the financial assistance of contributors such as these, our representative state arts agencies and national partners (the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Institute of Museum and Library Services), Mid-America Arts Alliance is able to supply programs that broaden and deepen the arts experiences of the communities we serve. |
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