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Announcing Cultural Sustainability: Operational Grants for Small Arts Organizations
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More Art for More People

The arts have the power to transform, inspire, connect, and heal. At Mid-America Arts Alliance, our mission is to strengthen and support artists, cultural organizations, and communities throughout our six-state region of Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Texas, and beyond.
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A woman wears a gold shirt, cape, and crown, while a man holds a paintbrush in a theatrical production.

Photo courtesy of Salvage Vanguard Theater.

Group of people in posed photo

Artist INC participants.

Dancers Felip Barrueto and Marit Brook-Kothlow are in a room with one window, a chair, a table, and a mug. Marit sits on the chair with her head down as Felipe hits a crouched pose on the table with their elbow up over their face. The table has an image of an army tank projected on it.

Photo by RJ Muna.

People of all ages walk next to a pool in an art performance holding up floats.

Photo courtesy of Forklift Dance.

Museum visitors view ExhibitsUSA exhibition Nature’s Blueprints: Biomimicry in Art and Design.

Photo courtesy of Turtle Bay Exploration Park.

Programs & Grants Serving Artists and Organizations

Click the images below to learn more about our programs. 

  • Grants and fellowships for artists
  • Grants for arts organizations and presenters
  • Traveling exhibitions at nonprofit prices
  • Professional development training for artists and organizations
  • Peer connections in the arts
  • Opportunities across the lower Midwest and the USA
Cultural Sustainability
ExhibitsUSA
Interchange
Artist INC
ArtsHERE
Creative Forces
Catalyze
Engage
Artistic Innovations
Artists 360
Artist Leadership Fellows
Regional Touring Program
Jazz Road

Mid-America Arts Alliance works with artists and organizations across our region to support, elevate, and celebrate the arts.

The impact of M-AAA cannot be overstated! ... M-AAA gave us a framework and plan that didn’t exist before. M-AAA helped us learn what board structure was supposed to be, gave us the courage to think bigger and to be bold in how we wanted AYAM [Altheretta Yeargin Art Museum] to be viewed.

Leanne Newton Engage Participant

The support of M-AAA’s US Regional Arts Resilience Grant enabled us to create new, innovative, in-person, and virtual programming and exhibits for the 100th-year commemoration of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, which reached an estimated 300,000 people!

Michelle Brown-Burdex Program Coordinator, Greenwood Cultural Center

The Kansas Suffrage Mural Project would not have come to pass without funding and facilitation through M-AAA. The project expanded my own personal artistic practice, enabling me to plan and implement a community-based approach to placing public art, as well as a chance to work with a rural community in creating an artwork that is not placed upon a community, but grows from within that community’s stories.

Erika Nelson Artist

Artist INC also gives everyone concrete information and ideas on how an artist can set up their life and business, for the optimal chance at a successful career in the arts. Everyone I encountered through Artist INC came away with a more mature, refined sense of how they fit into the art world.

Kevin Kresse Artist and past Artist INC facilitator

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The Union for Contemporary Art in Omaha, Nebraska, hosts an exhibition which is visited by members of their Art Club. The Union for Contemporary Art has been recommended receive a 2024 ArtsHERE grant. Photography courtesy of The Union for Contemporary Art

Save these five hints for applying for @neacreativeforces Community Engagement Grants!‼️

For more information and to start your application, visit maaa.org/CreativeForces

#ArtAndHealth #MoreArt #SupportingVeterans #MilitaryFamily

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Save these five hints for applying for @neacreativeforces Community Engagement Grants!‼️ For more information and to start your application, visit maaa.org/CreativeForces #ArtAndHealth #MoreArt #SupportingVeterans #MilitaryFamily

When you apply for grants, have you ever wondered what the panelists are thinking when they look at applications?

Sign up to be a panelist and find out first-hand! Express your interest via the link in bio! Panelists are compensated $150–$450 contingent upon the number of applications.

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When you apply for grants, have you ever wondered what the panelists are thinking when they look at applications? Sign up to be a panelist and find out first-hand! Express your interest via the link in bio! Panelists are compensated $150–$450 contingent upon the number of applications.

🚨The Artists Thrive Summit is coming to Kansas City, May 6-8, 2025!🚨

Want to contribute to the knowledge and conversation at the @artiststhrive1 2025 Summit? Submit a session proposal for consideration by Friday, January 17.

Submit via in our 🔗 in bio!

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🚨The Artists Thrive Summit is coming to Kansas City, May 6-8, 2025!🚨 Want to contribute to the knowledge and conversation at the @artiststhrive1 2025 Summit? Submit a session proposal for consideration by Friday, January 17. Submit via in our 🔗 in bio!

Looking for new ways to manage and retain volunteers?

On December 5 at 11a.m. join our peer-to-peer learning workshop designed to equip nonprofit leaders with essential tools and strategies to enhance volunteer programs. Participants will gain new approaches and insights to help their organizations attract, engage, and retain volunteers more effectively, while also fostering their leadership potential.

Together participants will explore four critical intersections of volunteer engagement: recruitment, management, retention, and leadership.

RSVP in the link in bio!

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Looking for new ways to manage and retain volunteers? On December 5 at 11a.m. join our peer-to-peer learning workshop designed to equip nonprofit leaders with essential tools and strategies to enhance volunteer programs. Participants will gain new approaches and insights to help their organizations attract, engage, and retain volunteers more effectively, while also fostering their leadership potential. Together participants will explore four critical intersections of volunteer engagement: recruitment, management, retention, and leadership. RSVP in the link in bio!

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