Bringing an exhibition to life is an exciting opportunity to engage your community with extraordinary arts and culture. Whether you’re a curator or arts administrator, hosting a traveling exhibition can enhance your space, spark meaningful conversations, and create unforgettable experiences…

More art for all people—that’s the vision that drives ExhibitsUSA and its touring exhibitions program. At Mid-America Arts Alliance, our ExhibitsUSA program is dedicated to bringing diverse cultural experiences to communities across the United States, rural and urban. Since 1988,…

Elisa Harkins’s Teach Me A Song will be on view at M-AAA’s Culture Lab beginning January 13 and continuing through April 7, 2025. Teach Me A Song is a single channel video with sound, playing from 8:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. each day. Location: Mid-America…

Children often share their experiences and emotions through indirect methods of communication, such as art and play. As a result, their personal accounts of war frequently go unseen and unheard by the international community. War Toys: Ukraine, a traveling exhibition…

Earlier this year, M-AAA welcomed two talented interns from Bethune-Cookman University to our Kansas City offices for the summer as a way to increase awareness of careers in the arts and arts administration. Annetta Henderson and Breya Tyler joined M-AAA…

It became clear when I passed through the doors at the Anita B. Gorman Conservation Discovery Center in Kansas City, Missouri, that this wasn’t a typical natural science display.  The entry hall is covered in stone and wood, and adorned…

Museums are magical places. Through their doors, visitors discover new ideas and stories that have been forgotten, hidden, or overlooked. Each exhibition is a new opportunity to learn, grow, and better understand ourselves and our communities. This alchemy doesn’t happen…

Mid-America Arts Alliance’s Culture Lab will be open on First Friday, September 6 and October 4, 2024 in Kansas City, Missouri, and will feature an exhibition, this blasted tender beautiful world, just as it is, by Ukrainian-American artist Christina Shmigel.…

Over his successful photography career, Brad has found himself drawn to water because of its essential need to humanity. In his traveling exhibition with ExhibitsUSA, The State of Water: Our Most Valuable Resource, his photography puts visitors face-to-face with the…

A new installation by Arkansas-based artist Danielle Hatch is on view now at the Mid-America Arts Alliance’s Culture Lab. Although, the gallery building is not currently open to the public, visitors may enjoy the full installation on display both inside and…

A vintage barber chair might seem like nothing more than a curiosity. But its luxurious red-velvet seat and headrest belie the experience many children had while seated in its lush confines. Upon arrival at off-reservation boarding schools, Native American children…

Bringing art to a community that’s in quarantine is a real challenge. But in 2020, LUX Center for the Arts in Lincoln, Nebraska, found a creative way to do just that. It developed Nine Nebraska Artists: Woodcut Print Mural Project.…