In March 2020, Mid-America Arts Alliance and all of our constituents found ourselves in unforeseen circumstances. We followed public health advice to quarantine, and as of this writing in fall 2020, we are still facing a pandemic with more questions…

From September 13–15, 2019, Artist INC hosted the Artist as Entrepreneur Summit (“Peer Palooza”), gathering fifty-four facilitators and community administrators from ten communities across the six-state region. This ten-year celebration allowed us to recognize where we’ve been and look ahead,…

Mid-America Arts Alliance to Support Historically Under-Resourced Arts and Cultural Organizations Mid-America Arts Alliance (M-AAA) has collaborated with our five sister US Regional Arts Organizations, through a seed grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, to form the United States…

In late March 2020, M-AAA launched the COVID-19 Artist Impact Survey to determine the impacts on the livelihoods of artists in the Mid-America Arts Alliance Region (Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Texas) in the three weeks immediately following the…

Seventeen artists from Kansas City and Lawrence will participate in advanced training Artist INC Advance, a program of Mid-America Arts Alliance (M-AAA), announced the seventeen artists who were chosen to participate in Artist INC Advance Kansas City 2020. Artist INC…

We are so happy to see recognition for Artists 360 artists in recent editions of the Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. Octavio Logo is a member of the 2018 A360 cohort. He was selected for his project Exodus, a traveling exhibition that…

Artists 360 Cohort Convenes in Bentonville to Kick Off Year 2 The Artists 360 program was developed to provide maximum impact for artists: grants for individual artists are incredibly important, but so are opportunities for these artists to come together…

Artists 360 Announces Second Year of Artist Awards Artists 360, a program of Mid-America Arts Alliance (M-AAA) made possible through the support of the Walton Family Foundation, announces the twenty artists receiving project and student grant awards. With these twenty…

Artists 360, a new program partnership between the Walton Family Foundation and Mid-America Arts Alliance, gathered its first cohort in FY19 in Northwest Arkansas. Artists 360 is a three-year pilot program supporting individual artists of all disciplines with grant funding…

Artistic Innovations project The Language of Hope and Courage finds a fellow in science The Language of Hope and Courage is a series of story installations created by artist Ginna Dowling in collaboration with The Children’s Hospital in Oklahoma City…