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February 29, 2024
National Endowment for the Arts News

Two Regional Artists Are Honored as National Heritage Fellows
Two artists from our region—Rosie Flores (Texas) and Pat Johnson (Arkansas)—join illustrious company as part of the National Endowment for the Arts’ 2024 National Heritage Fellows. The National Heritage Fellowships are the nation’s highest honor in the folk and…
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November 8, 2023
Grants National Endowment for the Arts News

Creative Forces Community Engagement Grant Applications Due January 17
The National Endowment for the Arts, in partnership with Mid-America Arts Alliance, is pleased to announce that applications are now available for the Creative Forces Community Engagement grant program. Grants support community-based arts engagement programming for military and veteran populations—including…
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September 8, 2023
Grants National Endowment for the Arts News Texas

The Uvalde Love Project: Healing a Community through Art
On her tippiest of tiptoes, she reaches over the mosaic waves of the Nueces River, past a field of sun-dappled blanket flowers and butterflies, just downstream from a large live oak, and less than a foot away from a howling…
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June 22, 2017
Arkansas Kansas News

M-AAA Celebrates Vital Funding From the NEA
Mid-America Arts Alliance (M-AAA) is the recipient of a $1,332,175 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) under its Art Works: State & Regional Partnerships funding schedule for July 1, 2017 to June 20, 2018. The grant increased…
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