Category: Press Releases

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...

Arts Midwest has a new mission, vision, brand, and website that reflect who we are, our dreams for the Midwest, and our commitment to creativity.

Arts Midwest is thrilled to announce that Tyrone Phillips, founding artistic director at Definition Theatre in Chicago, Illinois, has won the inaugural Peter Capell Award for Midwestern Creativity & Entrepreneurship.

Today, the six U.S. Regional Arts Organizations announced the 2022-2023 National Leaders of Color Fellowship cohort. Fifty-three fellows from communities across the U.S. were selected to participate in this fellowship to build...

Hailing from around the world, Okra Playground, Pamyua, and Okaidja Afroso will spend a week in various Midwest communities this fall offering educational workshops, engaging with communities, and performing in concerts.

Today, the United States Regional Arts Organizations (USRAOs) announced that new co-chairs Todd Stein of Mid-America Arts Alliance and Torrie Allen of Arts Midwest will lead the USRAO Collective. This collective...