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Erika Nelson, Inappropriation along the American Road and Step Right Up! Voting Booth
Find Out More• By Becky Brown • Art is for everyone—and can be by everyone, too. One Kansas artist’s socially engaged practice explores the beauty that can be found not in galleries but in the wild: along roadsides and in communities. Ask…
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Artistic Innovations Applications Close February 23
Find Out MoreInitiative awards up to $15,000 each to regional artists and organizations for experimental regional projects Applications are open for Mid-America Arts Alliance’s annual Artistic Innovations grant, a program that since 2012 has awarded over $2 million to regional artists and…
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Prints and Passion: Reviving Community Art in Quarantine with a Nebraska Mural Project
Find Out More• By Becky Brown • 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…
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Announcing the FY24 Artistic Innovations Awards
Find Out MoreCongratulations to this year’s Artistic Innovations awardees! As part of its annual Artistic Innovations grant program, Mid-America Arts Alliance (M-AAA) recently awarded 14 grants totaling $189,520. These awards grant up to $15,000 for the creation of artworks and creative projects…
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M-AAA Announces FY19 Artistic Innovations Grantees
Find Out MoreSeventeen 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,…
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FY18 Artistic Innovations Grantees
Find Out MoreMid-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…
Artistic Innovations: Northwest Arkansas Prison Story Project
Find Out More“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…