Catalyze is an investment in artists of Central Arkansas.

Combining money, mentoring, and management, the Catalyze program ignites change in the careers of individual artists in central Arkansas. Catalyze fellowships of $10,000 are awarded annually to 25 artists, who may choose how best to use the funding in support of their creative practices.

Catalyze is a program of Mid-America Arts Alliance made possible through the support of the Windgate Foundation that provides practice-based grant funding, professional development, and coaching to artists of all disciplines in the central Arkansas.

Catalyze applications open Monday, December 9, 2024, and close Tuesday, February 18, 2025, at 5:00 p.m. CST. 

Catalyze provides practice-based grant funding, professional development, and coaching to creatives working in any artistic discipline who:

• Reside in the Arkansas counties of Arkansas, Chicot, Clay, Cleburne, Conway, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Desha, Drew, Faulkner, Garland, Grant, Greene, Hot Spring, Jefferson, Lee, Lonoke, Mississippi, Monroe, Perry, Phillips, Poinsett, Pope, Prairie, Pulaski, Saline, St. Francis, Van Buren, White, and Yell.

Read the full guidelines and apply.