Funder: Mid-America Arts Alliance
Due Dates (Anticipated): September 2027 (Application deadline)
Funding Amounts: Up to $15,000 per project; individuals require no match, organizations require a 1:1 match
Summary: Supports new, original, and experimental artwork by regional artists and arts organizations through public presentations and outreach.
Key Information: Projects must exclusively engage in-region artists/personnel and include a public presentation plus an educational or outreach activity.
Description
Artistic Innovations is Mid-America Arts Alliance’s (M-AAA) annual program supporting the creation and presentation of new, original artwork across Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Texas, and Native Nations within this geography. It encourages experimentation and exploration across all artistic disciplines, including crafts, dance, design, traditional arts, humanities, literature, media arts, music, opera, photography, theater, visual arts, and interdisciplinary work.
Funding supports direct art-making expenses and public-facing engagements that connect artists with audiences. Projects introduce original ideas or artwork at any stage of development through feature presentations and educational or outreach activities. M-AAA encourages rural and urban applicants, first-time applicants, and projects serving people whose arts access is limited by geography, economics, race or ethnicity, or disability. Individual artist grants are privately supported through Yield Giving; organizational grants receive National Endowment for the Arts support.
