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M-AAA awarded a total of $184,000 to artists and arts organizations in its six-state region.   Artists and arts organizations across six states received a total of $184,000 through the annual Mid-America Arts Alliance (M-AAA) Artistic Innovations grant program. Through…

Program Supports Cultural Exchange and Artistic Excellence   Applications are accepted on a rolling deadline at any point during M-AAA’s fiscal year, which is July 1, 2024–June 30, 2025. Grants are distributed on a first-come, first-served basis, until the allocation…

Meet Michelle Antonina Burdex, a 2024 National Leaders of Color Fellow. Michelle is a Tulsa, Oklahoma native, and has served a dynamic 28-year tenure as the program coordinator at the Greenwood Cultural Center (GCC). Renowned for her stewardship, she pioneered…

Mid-America Arts Alliance (M-AAA) is delighted to announce the appointment of Deborah McNulty as its new senior vice president.    In this role, Deborah will work with M-AAA’s leadership team to create, expand, and amplify programs that strengthen and support…

Mid-America Arts Alliance is delighted to announce the promotion of Carris Adams to the position of director of organizational services. Carris, who has been an invaluable member of the M-AAA team since joining as a professional development specialist in 2021,…

Catalyze, a program of Mid-America Arts Alliance, has announced the second cohort of central Arkansas artists to receive practice-based grants of $10,000 each as well as professional development training to support their needs as working artists. The goal of the…

Shooting on large format film, similar to Dorothea Lange and Ansel Adams, Derek Slagle can often be found trudging through forests and countrysides on feral hog hunts, with beekeepers, conservationists, farmers, and scientists. His work gives the public an entry…

We are delighted to welcome two talented and ambitious interns from Bethune-Cookman University to Mid-America Arts Alliance for the summer.  Annetta Henderson and Breya Tyler will join us for this summer internship, marking the beginning of an exciting new relationship…

When you hear “fan art,” what comes to mind? Maybe frivolity, fantasy, or amateur art? One class at the University of North Texas challenged these assumptions. In spring 2024, I had the opportunity to collaborate with Professor Melissa Nelson on…

The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), in partnership with Mid-America Arts Alliance, is pleased to announce the 2024 Creative Forces® Community Engagement grant recipients. Forty-one organizations are recommended for awards totaling $769,136. These community-based arts projects will address the…

For its second major grant announcement of fiscal year 2024, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) has announced more than $110 million in recommended grants in all 50 states and U.S. jurisdictions. These grants fall under three NEA funding…

Where should a Kansas third grader attend school? That question went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, and it changed the nation.  Now, citizen artist vanessa german and the Topeka, Kansas, community commemorate the 70th anniversary of Brown…