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First Friday at M-AAA Culture Lab: Through Darkness to Light
Find Out MoreMid-America Arts Alliance’s Culture Lab will be open on First Friday, May 2, 2025, in Kansas City, Missouri, and will feature Through Darkness to Light: Photographs Along the Underground Railroad, photographs by Jeanine Michna-Bales.
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First Friday at M-AAA Culture Lab: Through Darkness to Light
Find Out MoreMid-America Arts Alliance’s Culture Lab will be open on First Friday, May 2, 2025, in Kansas City, Missouri, and will feature Through Darkness to Light: Photographs Along the Underground Railroad, photographs by Jeanine Michna-Bales.
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Protecting and Inspiring the Cultural Heritage of the Arkansas-Mississippi Delta
Find Out MoreThe Arkansas-Mississippi Delta has long been a cradle of artistic and cultural expression, shaped by its history, people, and landscapes. The Delta region encompasses multiple states around the Mississippi River, including portions of Mid-America Arts Alliance’s region of Arkansas and…
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M-AAA’s Artistic Innovations Offers $15,000 Grants for Experimental Arts Projects
Find Out MoreArtists and nonprofit arts organizations in Mid-America Arts Alliance’s six-state region have an exciting opportunity to bring bold, new projects to life through the annual Artistic Innovations grant program. This initiative supports groundbreaking work across all artistic disciplines, encouraging experimentation…
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National Endowment for the Arts Announces Nationwide Awards with More Than $3M in M-AAA’s Region
Find Out MoreThe National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) has announced $36,790,500 in funding through 1,474 awards to support the arts across all 50 states, Puerto Rico, and Washington, DC. These awards span categories like Grants for Arts Projects, Challenge America, Research…
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Speak Up for the Arts: Your Guide to Arts Advocacy Events in 2025
Find Out MoreIt’s Advocacy Season! The coming weeks allow arts advocates to join forces to champion the arts and creativity at the state level. Below, we’ve included a guide to explain what you can do to get involved, links to your state…
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Register Now for the 2025 Artists Thrive Summit
Find Out MoreArtists, arts leaders, educators, and funders from across the United States are invited to expand their creative circle at the annual 2025 Artists Thrive Summit in Kansas City, Missouri, May 6–8, 2025. This event offers a powerful networking hub to…
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Public Art Shines: New Artists Announced for Crossroads Artboards in Kansas City
Find Out MoreJuly–September 2025 Crossroads Artboards, Kati Toivanen, Chimera (image proposal) Have you heard? The artists for the 2025-2026 Crossroads Artboards have been announced! Mid-America Arts Alliance is honored to partner with Crossroads Community Association and Charlotte Street to support this public art program.…
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ExhibitsUSA’s War Toys: Ukraine at the National World War I Museum and Memorial
Find Out MoreChildren often share their experiences and emotions through indirect methods of communication, such as art and play. As a result, their personal accounts of war frequently go unseen and unheard by the international community. War Toys: Ukraine, a traveling exhibition…
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Artist INC Express – Cape Girardeau, MO (in-person)
Find Out MoreArtist INC Express (AIX) helps artists, of any discipline, develop the building blocks for a thriving and enduring arts practice. Led by a team of experienced, working artists, this ten-hour, hands-on workshop helps artists like you address specific needs and challenges that you’ll face throughout your career. Through discussions, activities, and hands-on exercises, your artist-facilitators, and your new network of peer artists, will help you set goals for your practice, write about your work, and build a personal brand.