Artistic Innovations Grant / Due: March 13

M-AAA’s Artistic Innovations Offers $15,000 Grants for Experimental Arts Projects

Artists and nonprofit arts organizations in Mid-America Arts Alliance’s six-state region have an 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 and exploration. M-AAA’s Artistic Innovations grant program provides cost-sharing grants of up to $15,000 to help artists and organizations in the region to create new, original works of art. 

Artists and nonprofit arts organizations in M-AAA’s six-state region: Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Texas, and the Native Nations that share this geography. Grant funds may be used for expenses incurred starting on or after July 1, 2025, and must be totally expended on or by June 30, 2026. All artistic disciplines are eligible to apply.

Current Artistic Innovations grant recipients for FY25 are not eligible to apply for the current FY26 Artistic Innovations grant opportunity. 

Applications are open now and close at 5:00 p.m. CST on March 13, 2025. Grants will be announced in July 2025.

Click here for more information and to apply.

Header photography credit: Image features artwork by Artistic Innovations grantee Francisca María Velasco, using testimony by Joe Martinez: ‘Nothing Left But Memories’, used to reconstruct a house of the destroyed Bottoms neighborhood. Photo credit: Madison Tubbs

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