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Sixteen 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…

Some 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…

Mix 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…

Mid-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…

Location: 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…

Location: 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…