Category: Press Releases

The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), in partnership with Arts Midwest, is pleased to announce grants to 62 nonprofit organizations to hold NEA Big Read programming in 2023-2024.

49 organizations across the country are receiving over $1.16 million in grants to bring the works of Shakespeare to youth in schools and the juvenile justice system.

Fourteen jazz artists and groups, including Sparks Quartet led by Steve Hirsh from Willow River, MN, have received grants to tour their work across the United States.

Supporting accessibility in the arts and celebrating the work of disabled Midwestern visual artists.

Arts Midwest invested more than $3 million in Midwestern creativity in fiscal year 2022. Read all about it in our Return on Investment Reports.

Expand your understanding of creativity by hearing from rural and Indigenous artists in new episodes of Filling the Well, featuring co-hosts Marianne Combs and Leah Lemm.

100 organizations across the Midwest have received a total of $400,000 through Round 2 of the 2022-23 GIG Fund, a grant program from Arts Midwest. These awards will support creative projects and educational events in Spring 2023, helping organizations present artists in their community and offset the costs of programming and touring.

Midwestern organizations Sacred Pipe Resource Center, For the Love of the Arts, and La Luz Centro Cultural are taking part in the second round of Arts Midwest’s community-based artist-in-residency program.

Arts Midwest is thrilled to announce that Jan Webb, Kendra Whitlock Ingram, and Kymm Martinez have joined the Emeritus Board after serving with distinction on Arts Midwest’s Board of Directors.

Arts Midwest is excited to welcome Rishard Allen, Cari Hatcher, and Christine Her to our Board of Directors. Representing the states of Indiana, Minnesota, and Iowa, respectively, these individuals bring...