We are pleased to present the following grantees, organized by discipline. Dance Anuradha Naimpally, Austin, TX HOME: Where Do I Belong? $15,000 Artist Anuradha Naimpally is influenced by Bharata Natyam, classical dance of India, as well as the contemporary, ever-changing world…

CARES Act funding from the National Endowment for the Arts totals $591,900 grants in the region With support from the National Endowment for the Arts made possible by the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act passed by Congress,…

A note from Holbrook Lawson, Chair of the Strategic Planning Committee I have found the M-AAA Strategic Planning Committee and process to be fascinating. I would like to thank my Committee members: Rich Vierk, Stacey Dillon, Michael Donovan, John Gaudin,…

M-AAA’s Engage program seeks to serve a community’s small to mid-sized arts and culture organizations through coaching, workshops, and peer-to-peer learning opportunities. After completing Engage, organizations are better equipped to serve their audiences and succeed financially. Read more about the…

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…