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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…

Seventeen projects are awarded $180,626 in grants Artistic Innovations grants support the creation of innovative new work by artists working in M-AAA’s region of Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Texas. With generous support from the National Endowment for the Arts,…

We are pleased to announce the inaugural grantees of the Interchange program, supporting artist-led projects focused on social impact in M-AAA’s six-state region of Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Texas. This pilot program is funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.…

Mid-America Arts Alliance (M-AAA) is pleased to announce the inaugural grantees of the Interchange program, supporting artist-led projects focused on social impact in M-AAA’s six state region of Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Texas. This pilot program is funded…

Thirteen grants total $165,400 M-AAA is pleased to announce the FY20 Artistic Innovations grantees, supporting the creation and presentation of new artistic endeavors taking place between July 1, 2019 and June 30, 2020 in Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and…

Interchange is our new program supporting artists working for social change. Interchange is a new pilot program created to strengthen communities and individual artists within the M-AAA region by supporting artist-led projects focused on social impact. Applications are now open…

Executive Director Suzanne Wise, of the Nebraska Arts Council, wins the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies Gary Young Award This award recognizes an executive director who makes an extraordinary contribution to public support for the arts at the state,…