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Engage Professional Development Program comes to Northwest Arkansas. M-AAA partnered with Creative Arkansas Community Hub & Exchange (CACHE) to launch ARt Connect, a professional development program tailored to the needs of Northwest Arkansas arts and culture nonprofits, in order to…

The fight against COVID-19 and its lasting impacts remained at the forefront of FY21. Mid-America Arts Alliance was honored to serve and assist many arts and cultural organizations and artists whose work was affected by the pandemic. In FY21, M-AAA…

Artist INC continues to grow and adapt to the needs of individual artists. Artist INC gets its strong foundations and continuing momentum from its community: more than 1,500 Fellows, staff leadership made up of program veterans, and most importantly, an…

On June 15, 2021, novelist and philanthropist MacKenzie Scott announced that Mid-America Arts Alliance (M-AAA) was one of 286 organizations selected to receive funding as part of her commitment to the Giving Pledge. M-AAA has received this unexpected and transformative…

Houston Engage looks back on a decade of programming. Engage Houston was a professional development program for small to midsize organizations in the Texas counties of Harris, Brazoria, Chambers, Fort Bend, Galveston, Liberty, Montgomery, and Waller. Launched in 2011, Engage…

Workshop brings artists together across the state. Artist INC Express is an intensive workshop created to address the specific professional needs and challenges that artists of all disciplines face. It was developed to serve communities outside major metropolitan areas with…

That on the 1st day of January. A.D. 1863, all person held as slaves within any state…in rebellion against the U.S. shall be then, thenceforward and forever free. – A. Lincoln, The Emancipation Proclamation, September 22, 1863 On June 19,…

June’s exhibition is from the Saint Louis Story Stitchers. Their work WADE (2020), on view through July 1, is a work from the multi-year project titled, The WHY of MY City. The WHY of MY City captures and documents black history through written word and…

COVID-19 Continuing Impact Survey Measures One Year of Pandemic’s Effects on Artists This survey marks the third time that Mid-America Arts Alliance’s Artist INC program has gathered feedback from individual artists to measure how the global COVID-19 pandemic has effected…

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Renews Funding For Mid-America Arts Alliance Interchange Program $500,000 grant allows Interchange to recognize and support the work of social change artists Mid-America Arts Alliance (M-AAA) is pleased to announce the renewal of Interchange, a…

April’s exhibition is from El Paso, Texas artist Xochitl Rodriguez. Grown Without Water is a collective video/oral history project that explores how the US/México border between El Paso and Ciudad Juárez marks and defines perseverance on a twenty-first-century border. Confronting tragedy and…

Supporting Asian Americans in our Communities Mid-America Arts Alliance wants to use its platform to draw attention to the recent surge in hate crimes perpetrated against Asian Americans. In particular, our thoughts are with those suffering in Atlanta. We want…