If it has been a minute since you dusted off your financial policies and procedures, now's a great time to check in. 💸
Join a free workshop for artists with Dr. Elaine Grogran Luttrull on April 9!
Register: https://www.maaa.org/event/future-pathways-nonprofit-check-up-seven-financial-things-2026/
Stop and smell the grants 🌹 residencies 🪻workshops 🌸 and more! www.maaa.org/news/artist-...
Take your music to places it's never been! Jazz Road: Tours offers $15K grants to develop tours into communities across the country. 🎷🎼
Submit a Letter of Interest by March 10 at https://www.southarts.org/grants-opportunities/jazz-road-tours
Justice for #Punch. May he find his cohort.
#Artists, arts organizations, #makers, and #creatives in MO — Creative Missouri 2026 is March 28!
Swing by Columbia, MO for mind-blowing presentations, electrifying performances, cool vendors, and more! 🎭
Tickets can be found at https://missouriartscouncil.org/creative-missouri-convening/
Get un-stuck in your practice! ✂️
Our facilitators are here to share their expertise freely, not hide the difficulties of creative entrepreneurship. They'll keep it 💯 and help you reach the next level of your #arts business.
Register at https://www.maaa.org/series/artist-inc-express/
Get ready for the Artists Thrive Summit! Kansas City's theme: Artist-Led Spaces 🧑🎨
When artists are in charge, organizations empower underrepresented voices, foster new ideas, and collabs — and KC does it well! 😎
Grab your ticket at https://www.artiststhrive.org/summit/kansascity
🚨 RESOURCE ALERT🚨
WAGENCY offers free membership to a collective of artists and tools. And for $5/month you can access their contract generator, skills calculator, and more! https://wageforwork.com/wagency/join-wagency
"The Long Ride Home" challenges assumptions about the cowboy identity.
Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Ron Tarver provides insightful photographs of Black people embodying Western culture. https://eusa.org/exhibition/the-long-ride-home/
📸 Ron Tarver "Small Boy, Big Horse."
Are you a #nonprofit #craft guild or collective? We want to hear from you!
Help shape our upcoming #grant program, Heartland Craft Guilds: Capacity Support Grants, via a roundtable session.
Register at https://www.maaa.org/series/heartland-craft-guilds-roundtable-sessions/
Exhibits USA's traveling exhibition "Finding Alice" explores the influence of this classic story on artists across generations with work by Abelardo Morell and others. https://eusa.org/exhibition/finding-alice/
📸 Abelardo Morell "Down the Rabbit Hole" Courtesy of Edwynn Houk Gallery.
🩷 Roses are red, violets are blue, creativity thrives when it’s nurtured by you. www.maaa.org/news/artist-...
New from Exhibits USA!
"A Yellow Rose Project" features the work of more than 100 contemporary artists responding to the centennial of the 19th Amendment, securing women's right to vote.
📸 Megan Jacobs, "Equality Then & Now;" archival inkjet print on paper; Courtesy of the artist.
Needing support in your practice?
Artist INC is a wellspring of expertise from professional artists. And afterward, you have a new network of artists in your community!
See our upcoming sessions in Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, and more! https://www.maaa.org/series/artist-inc-express/
For a century, one garment has remained an icon of style, sophistication, and cultural expression—the LBD. 🖤
Exhibits USA's "The Little Black Dress at 100" explores the enduring legacy of this style icon.
Take a look. Get inspired. https://eusa.org/exhibition/the-little-black-dress
Congrats to Anthony Sonnenberg (Arkansas), Nathan Young (Oklahoma), and Willi Carlisle (Missouri) on being named 2026 USArtist Fellows!
@unitedstatesartists.org honors artists with $50K in unrestricted funding and tailored services. https://www.unitedstatesartists.org/programs/usa-fellowship/2026
@smudataarts.bsky.social dropped a spicy 🌶️ list of the Top 100 Most Arts-Vibrant Communities of 2025.
Did your town make the cut? Do you agree with the order? 🤔
https://culturaldata.org/arts-vibrancy-2025/top-100-communities
#missouri #texas #arkansas #nebraska #kansas #oklahoma
Without action, these cuts would significantly reduce MAC grants, limiting access to the arts for Missourians of all ages.
🎨 Stand up for the arts. Join advocates from across the state on February 4 for Arts Advocacy Day at the Capitol in Jefferson City.
👉 Get involved at MO4Arts.org
🚨 Missouri Citizens for the Arts needs your voice 🚨
The Governor’s proposed budget would cut funding for the Missouri Arts Council by more than 36% even though MO’s Arts and Culture sector generates $11.5 billion for the economy.
Yesterday, Oklahoma Lieutenant Governor Matt Pinnell and the Oklahoma Arts Council recognized 21 individuals and organizations from Tishomingo to Tulsa for their outstanding efforts in the arts!
Congrats awardees! arts.ok.gov/our_programs/Governors_Arts_Awards.html
The US Regional Arts Organizations announced the grant recipients of Walking Together: Investing in Folklife in Communities of Color!
12 artists and organizations from the M-AAA region were awarded $390K. https://www.maaa.org/news/walking-together-awards-supporting-folklife-communities-of-color/
When Kendell Harbin Steinback found 30 years of family footage on VHS, she gained a passion for preserving queer history.
That’s why she founded the Roaming Center for Magnetic Alternatives, a mobile media and research center. maaa.org/news/overlooked-stories-artist-kendell-harbin-steinback/
We're proud to announce the FY26 Artistic Innovations grantees!
Funded projects include a Native-led exhibition in Salina, Kansas, and new music by Oklahoma-based oboist Susan Miranda—among many other innovative works.
🪩 Get to know their projects at https://bit.ly/49A8K8O
Applications for round two of the Health and Wellbeing in Museums Fund are now open 🧘♀️
If your museum is looking for support to develop or continue a groundbreaking health and wellbeing programme, we want to hear from you.
Complete our eligibility quiz to find out more about next steps 👇
Check out this story from @pbs.org on Creative Forces grantee Path with Art and their programs' ability to help veterans process their emotions and build community.
Do you have any art-based resolutions for 2026?
We're back with new #competitions, #grants, #residencies, and more! 2026 is going to be chock-full of opportunities.
www.maaa.org/news/artist-...
We're proud to highlight the work of Houston-based artist Alex Arzú, whose deep commitment to creativity, community, and artistry has made a lasting impact on students and neighborhoods across the region.
Read more about Alex at https://www.maaa.org/news/in-the-studio-with-muralist-alex-arzu/
The Musical Theater Songwriting Challenge is opportunity for high school students to develop and showcase musical compositions that could be a part of a musical theater production.
Draft one submissions close February 2! https://namt.org/challenge
Southwest Contemporary is launching their Artist Marketing Grant, a program created to jumpstart the visibility of working artists in the Southwest.
2 artists will receive a professional development package valued at $3.5K designed.
https://southwestcontemporary.com/artist-marketing-grant/
