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The Artistic Innovations Grant Program supports the development of new, original works in the Mid-America Arts Alliance (M-AAA) six-state region: Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Texas. This grant encourages experimentation across artistic disciplines. Through this program, M-AAA offers cost-sharing…

Artists and nonprofit arts organizations in Mid-America Arts Alliance’s six-state region have an exciting opportunity to bring bold, new projects to life through the annual Artistic Innovations grant program. This initiative supports groundbreaking work across all artistic disciplines, encouraging experimentation…

​​The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) has announced $36,790,500 in funding through 1,474 awards to support the arts across all 50 states, Puerto Rico, and Washington, DC. These awards span categories like Grants for Arts Projects, Challenge America, Research…

Walking Together: Investing in Folklife in Communities of Color supports folklife and traditional arts rooted in communities of color by investing in artists/practitioners and the grassroots organizations that care for them. It is a national funding program managed by the…

Cultural Sustainability: Operational Impact Grants for Small Arts Organizations is a new grant program offered by the six U.S. Regional Arts Organizations (USRAOs) in partnership with The Wallace Foundation. It provides general operating support to small, culturally driven arts organizations…

Catalyze Grant Opens for 25 Artists, Funded by the Windgate Foundation   Artists in Central Arkansas and the Arkansas Delta now have the chance to receive $10,000 fellowships to support their creative work through Catalyze, a program of Mid-America Arts…

Catalyze is an investment in artists of Central Arkansas and the Arkansas Delta. Combining money, mentoring, and management, the Catalyze program ignites change in the careers of individual artists in central Arkansas and the Arkansas Delta. Catalyze fellowships of $10,000…

The National Endowment for the Arts, in partnership with Mid-America Arts Alliance, has released guidelines and application materials for the Creative Forces Community Engagement grant program, part of the Creative Forces®: NEA Military Healing Arts Network. Grants support non-clinical, community-based…

Mid-America Arts Alliance (M-AAA) is now accepting applications for Cultural Sustainability: Operational Grants for Small Arts Organizations, a pilot program that will offer grants of $50,000 to culturally driven arts organizations and arts-centric businesses with annual operating expenses under $500,000.…

Each year, M-AAA distributes millions of grant dollars across our six-state region to support artists and arts organizations. Through our Regional Touring Program, M-AAA supports touring artists and presenting venues, helping bring new voices and performances to our communities, urban…

M-AAA’s seventh cohort of Artists 360 provides practice-based funding and support Thirty-one Northwest Arkansas artists were selected for Artists 360’s seventh cohort and awarded $300,000 in grants. This includes the selection of John Rankine, multimedia artist, curator, and community arts…

In a groundbreaking artistic and historic moment, Oklahoma City’s Canterbury Voices will present the world premiere of Loksi’ Shaali’ (Shell Shaker), the first opera ever composed entirely in an American Indian language.  Created by Chickasaw composer Jerod Impichchaachaaha’ Tate, this…