Programs
Entrepreneurial passion for the arts.
Mid-America Arts Alliance helps communities flourish culturally and economically by providing training programs for artists and arts organizations to develop professional and entrepreneurial skills. Artist INC is a collaborative project supporting individual artists in Kansas City and throughout our region. Engage is a comprehensive training program that provides arts and culture organizations with the tools to govern more capably, become more fiscally responsible, and address community needs with innovation that contributes to the dynamic cultural fabric of their community. And Artists 360 is a new program that combines grantmaking with individual artist training to enrich the arts ecosystem of Northwest Arkansas.
Artist INC
Artist INC delivers cutting edge training seminars that address the business needs and challenges artists of all disciplines face. Limited to 25 participants per seminar, artists gather for one night a week for eight weeks to learn business skills specific to their art practice and apply those skills cooperatively with their peers.
Artists 360
Artists 360, a program of Mid-America Arts Alliance made possible through the support of the Walton Family Foundation, is a three-year pilot program providing grant funding and professional development opportunities to individual artists of all disciplines in the Arkansas counties of Benton, Carroll, Crawford, Sebastian, and Washington.
Engage
M-AAA created the Engage program to provide locally focused leadership development training for arts and culture organizations in a single urban area. Engage advances the governance, fundraising and financial management, and community engagement capacities of small and midsize organizations in order to increase institutional efficiency and ensure long-term sustainability and impact.