Grants

A Regional Touring Program grant supports one organization in a goal to reach underserved youth with arts experiences. In 2017, Amanda Horton, director of University of Central Arkansas Public Appearances, set out to extend the reach of Reynolds Performance Hall’s…

Seventeen projects are awarded $180,626 in grants Artistic Innovations grants support the creation of innovative new work by artists working in M-AAA’s region of Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Texas. With generous support from the National Endowment for the Arts,…

Artists 360 Will Nurture Artists in Northwest Arkansas Artists 360, a new program of Mid-America Arts Alliance (M-AAA) made possible with the support of the Walton Family Foundation, kicks off today in Northwest Arkansas. Artists 360 is a three-year pilot…

What can you do with an Artistic Innovations grant? Here’s what one organization in St. Louis did in FY17. St. Louis Artworks is committed to using the medium of art to find creative solutions to the social/economic challenges that are…

Mid-America Arts Alliance is pleased to announce the FY2018 grantees for our Artistic Innovations program Artistic Innovations supports individual artists and arts organizations for the creation of new artworks that result in public engagement. With generous support from the National Endowment…

Artist Calder Kamin debuted Plastic Planet at Austin’s Women & Their Work gallery with the support of an Artistic Innovations grant Plastic Planet features colorful animals created entirely from single-use plastic shopping bags. Artist Calder Kamin collected bags from friends, colleagues,…

Mid-America Arts Alliance (M-AAA) is pleased to announce the six recipients of grant awards for Creativity Connects: National Demonstration Projects, a special initiative undertaken by the US Regional Arts Organizations (RAOs) through generous support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.…

“Your coming was a breath of clean air for a lot of drowning men” In March 2015, the Northwest Arkansas Prison Story Project held a two-day creative writing intensive that concluded with a staged reading, with support from a M-AAA…