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Interchange Announces 2024 Grantees
Find Out MoreSixteen Artists Awarded M-AAA Fellowships to Ignite Social Change With support from the Mellon Foundation, the third cohort of Interchange fellows will receive mentorship and practice-based grants of $25K each Artists and creatives dedicated to fostering social change in…
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Trust Artists: The Shift to Practice-Based Grants
Find Out MorePhotography: M-AAA Catalyze grantee Jennifer Perren. The landscape of funding for artists is changing. And this is good news. A paradigm shift is underway, possibly in credit to the COVID-19 pandemic. Across the philanthropic sector, practice-based grants, also called trust-based…
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Texan Artist Mark Menjívar Introduces Audiences to the Aftermath of Incarceration
Find Out MoreSome stories stay hidden, locked away. Texan artist Mark Menjívar is working to bring these narratives into the light. His project Open Letters introduces audiences to the stories of individuals incarcerated on Texas’s death row. But these aren’t tales of…
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Oklahoma Artist Elisa Harkins Shares Her Indigenous Song Exchange Project
Find Out MoreMix tapes weren’t anything new. Sharing music goes back thousands of years. This simple concept inspired Oklahoma artist Elisa Harkins. Her ongoing project, Teach Me a Song, asks Indigenous artists to perform a tune on camera. “It’s a song exchange…
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Erika Nelson, Inappropriation along the American Road and Step Right Up! Voting Booth
Find Out MoreArt is for everyone—and can be by everyone, too. One Kansas artist’s socially engaged practice explores the beauty that can be found not in galleries but in the wild: along roadsides and in communities. Ask a kid what they want…
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Empowering Artists for Social Change: Interchange Applications Close April 15
Find Out MoreProgram includes mentorship and individual practice-based grants of $25K Applications are open now for Mid-America Arts Alliance (M-AAA)’s Interchange, a program empowering individual artists dedicated to fostering social change in their communities. Made possible by the generous support of…
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Interchange Application Deadline
Find Out MoreSupport for Socially-Engaged Artists The Interchange program is designed to strengthen individual artists in the M-AAA region (Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Texas) who have a history of impactful work with a socially-engaged creative practice by providing practice-based grant…
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Interchange Applications Open
Find Out MoreSupport for Socially-Engaged Artists The Interchange program is designed to strengthen individual artists in the M-AAA region (Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Texas) who have a history of impactful work with a socially-engaged creative practice by providing practice-based grant…
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Mellon Foundation Invests $400K for Interchange Program
Find Out MoreMid-America Arts Alliance (M-AAA) is pleased to announce the renewal of Interchange, a program empowering artists dedicated to fostering social change in their communities, generously supported by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. This initiative will grant $25,000 practice-based fellowships to…
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How To Apply Yourself – Interchange (Virtual)
Find Out MoreLocation: Virtual Cost: Free Eligibility: Artists working in social practice in the Mid-America Arts Alliance region of Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Texas. Age Requirement: 21+ DESCRIPTION Want to demystify the grant process? This hour-long, virtual workshop explains how the…
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How To Apply Yourself – Interchange (Virtual)
Find Out MoreLocation: Virtual Cost: Free Eligibility: Artists working in social practice in the Mid-America Arts Alliance region of Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Texas. Age Requirement: 21+ DESCRIPTION ant to demystify the grant process? This hour-long, virtual workshop explains how the…