FY21

Interchange awards grants to artists who focus on social change in communities of Mid-America. Mid-America Arts Alliance (M-AAA) is pleased to announce the Interchange 2021 Fellows, supporting artist-led projects focused on social impact in M-AAA’s six-state region of Arkansas, Kansas,…

A Special Projects grant from Mid-America Arts Alliance with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Women’s Suffrage Centennial Commission allowed Kansas artist Erika Nelson to create a new mural to mark the 100th anniversary of women…

During the past year, museums, libraries, and other venues continued to operate cautiously due to the pandemic. While some hosted virtual displays of exhibitions, a gradual reopening allowed visitors to return to the galleries. Exploring various topics from Johnny Cash’s…

More than 2.4 million visited NEH on the Road exhibitions across the United States. Since 2004, NEH on the Road exhibitions have traveled to 252 distinct communities, both large and small, reaching more than 2.4 million visitors at 275 venues…

Engage Professional Development Program comes to Northwest Arkansas. M-AAA partnered with Creative Arkansas Community Hub & Exchange (CACHE) to launch ARt Connect, a professional development program tailored to the needs of Northwest Arkansas arts and culture nonprofits, in order to…

The fight against COVID-19 and its lasting impacts remained at the forefront of FY21. Mid-America Arts Alliance was honored to serve and assist many arts and cultural organizations and artists whose work was affected by the pandemic. In FY21, M-AAA…

Artist INC continues to grow and adapt to the needs of individual artists. Artist INC gets its strong foundations and continuing momentum from its community: more than 1,500 Fellows, staff leadership made up of program veterans, and most importantly, an…

On June 15, 2021, novelist and philanthropist MacKenzie Scott announced that Mid-America Arts Alliance (M-AAA) was one of 286 organizations selected to receive funding as part of her commitment to the Giving Pledge. M-AAA has received this unexpected and transformative…

Houston Engage looks back on a decade of programming. Engage Houston was a professional development program for small to midsize organizations in the Texas counties of Harris, Brazoria, Chambers, Fort Bend, Galveston, Liberty, Montgomery, and Waller. Launched in 2011, Engage…

Workshop brings artists together across the state. Artist INC Express is an intensive workshop created to address the specific professional needs and challenges that artists of all disciplines face. It was developed to serve communities outside major metropolitan areas with…

We are pleased to present the following grantees, organized by discipline. Dance Anuradha Naimpally, Austin, TX HOME: Where Do I Belong? $15,000 Artist Anuradha Naimpally is influenced by Bharata Natyam, classical dance of India, as well as the contemporary, ever-changing world…

A note from Holbrook Lawson, Chair of the Strategic Planning Committee I have found the M-AAA Strategic Planning Committee and process to be fascinating. I would like to thank my Committee members: Rich Vierk, Stacey Dillon, Michael Donovan, John Gaudin,…