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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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A group of young dancers from Bi-Okoto's Okoto Kekere (Pre-professional group) performing outdoors at Washington Park, during the World Drum Festival in Cincinnati, Ohio, on July 21, 2024. The children are dressed in colorful outfits with floral-patterned skirts, black tops, and matching headwraps. Each holds a blue and white fly whisk, used as a traditional African dance prop. They are mid-movement, showcasing synchronized, rhythmic dance steps. The performance takes place on a stage with a black backdrop and trees in the background, while drummers seated behind them play traditional African drums.

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.

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