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Mid-America Arts Alliance’s Culture Lab will be open on First Friday, October 4, 2024, in Kansas City, Missouri, and will feature an exhibition, this blasted tender beautiful world, just as it is, by Christina Shmigel. Christina Shmigel (b. 1958) is…

Mid-America Arts Alliance’s Culture Lab will be open on First Friday, September 6, 2024, in Kansas City, Missouri, and will feature an exhibition, this blasted tender beautiful world, just as it is, by Christina Shmigel. Christina Shmigel (b. 1958) is…

Sixteen Artists Awarded M-AAA Fellowships to Ignite Social Change With support from the Mellon Foundation, the third cohort of Interchange fellows will receive mentorship and practice-based grants of $25K each   Artists and creatives dedicated to fostering social change in…

Jazz Road Tours (Deadline Dec. 1) This artist-centric grant program from South Arts is designed to help jazz artists nationwide earn a living wage while on the road. Artists can request up to $15,000 to cover eligible tour expenses, including artist…

Jazz Road Tours (Deadline Sept. 2) This artist-centric grant program from South Arts is designed to help jazz artists nationwide earn a living wage while on the road. Artists can request up to $15,000 to cover eligible tour expenses, including artist…

Catalyze, a program of Mid-America Arts Alliance, has announced the second cohort of central Arkansas artists to receive practice-based grants of $10,000 each as well as professional development training to support their needs as working artists. The goal of the…

The Artists 360 Creative Impact Award provides one exceptional artist based in Northwest Arkansas with unrestricted funds of $25,000 and professional development opportunities. Finalists will be notified and invited to apply. Click here to nominate a NW Arkansas artist for the…

From 1907 to 1928, S. P. Dinsmoor, a retired Civil War Veteran and sculptor built the Cabin Home and Garden of Eden just on the outskirts of Lucas, Kansas. He was in his 60s when he started creating his fascinating,…

Photography: M-AAA Catalyze grantee Jennifer Perren. The landscape of funding for artists is changing. And this is good news. A paradigm shift is underway, possibly in credit to the COVID-19 pandemic. Across the philanthropic sector, practice-based grants, also called trust-based…

Meet Amy June Breesman, a 2024 National Leaders of Color Fellow. Amy June is the artist, activist, and seedkeeper behind Bluejacket Handcraft and Good Way Farm in Lawrence, Kansas. Her multidisciplinary work addresses themes of racial and social justice, Indigenous…

Some stories stay hidden, locked away. Texan artist Mark Menjívar is working to bring these narratives into the light. His project Open Letters introduces audiences to the stories of individuals incarcerated on Texas’s death row. But these aren’t tales of…

Support for Socially-Engaged Artists The Interchange program is designed to strengthen individual artists in the M-AAA region (Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Texas) who have a history of impactful work with a socially-engaged creative practice by providing practice-based grant…