Category: Press Releases
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Announcing the 2025-26 NEA Big Read Grantees
July 29, 2025
Over $1 million in grants will support 65 organizations presenting community literary programming across the country.
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Announcing the 2025-26 Shakespeare in American Communities Grantees
July 17, 2025
Over $1 million in grants will support Shakespeare programming for young people and theater apprenticeship programs across America.
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U.S. Regional Arts Organizations Joint Statement on the National Endowment for the Arts
May 6, 2025
Speak up for the arts. Learn what’s happening at the National Endowment for the Arts and respond.
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20 Small Midwestern Arts Organizations Receive Cultural Sustainability Grants
March 12, 2025
Meet the small Midwestern arts organizations that have received a total of $1.09 million.
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Catch World Fest Artists in Your Community This Spring
February 12, 2025
Farah Siraj, LADAMA, and A Moving Sound will return to the Midwest in Spring 2025 for one last World Fest tour.
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Arts Midwest “Accelerates” Thanks to Two Capacity Building Programs
January 30, 2025
Arts Midwest has been selected to join the Bloomberg Philanthropies Digital Accelerator Program and Report for America Accelerator Program.
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Four New Members Join Arts Midwest Emeritus Board
January 14, 2025
Arts Midwest is thrilled to have Jasmin DeForrest, Dr. Craig Howe, Jane Rasmussen, and Gregory Volan joining our Emeritus Board.
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Arts Midwest Welcomes Four New Board Members
December 11, 2024
Arts Midwest is delighted to welcome Amy Spadafore, Emily Tau, Zechariah Van Harris III, and L. Sam Zhang to our Board of Directors. Representing expertise in community theater, public affairs,...
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Announcing the 2024-25 Midwestern National Leaders of Color Fellows
December 9, 2024
The nine fellows from Arts Midwest’s region will convene virtually with other Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) arts leaders from across the country in this 8-month program.
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Billy Weathers Receives 2024 Peter Capell Award for Midwestern Creativity & Entrepreneurship
October 23, 2024
Billy Weathers, founder and CEO of the B.WELL Foundation, has been awarded the 2024 Peter Capell Award for Midwestern Creativity & Entrepreneurship.