Category: Press Releases

Arts Midwest is thrilled to announce that Dionne Custer Edwards, Jasmin DeForrest, Craig Howe, Mia Khimm, and Megan Laudenschlager have joined our Board of Directors. These five individuals bring myriad...

Dear Friends and Colleagues, We are writing to you today to announce that we are pausing future planning around the Arts Midwest Conference. For more than 30 years, the Arts...

Arts Midwest is thrilled to announce our new partnership with Welcoming America. We’re excited to learn alongside the 200+ organizations in their Welcoming Network and we are grateful to have our We the Many program highlighted as part of their annual Welcoming Week.

Earlier this month, Arts Midwest received an $8 million unrestricted gift from MacKenzie Scott. This gift was part of her recent $2.73 billion contribution to 286 organizations working on the...

A Year of Resilience In 2020, Arts Midwest celebrated its 35th anniversary. For 35 years, we have served artists, audiences, and arts organizations across our region and beyond. We have...

Arts Midwest is thrilled to welcome Andre Perry, a writer, leader, and arts worker based in Iowa City, to our Board of Directors.

Midwest arts leaders Kendra Whitlock Ingram and Alithir McGill join the Arts Midwest Board of Directors.

Sylvia Kaufman served the Arts Midwest Board of Directors from 1996 until her retirement in November 2020. She is director of Corporate Affairs and a director of Amstore Corporation, a...

Arts and culture organizations across the Midwest region receive COVID-19 relief grants through the United States Regional Arts Resilience Fund.

As part of our ongoing commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and access, in August 2020, the Arts Midwest Board of Directors adopted the National Arts Strategies Racial Equity Principles as core guiding principles for our programs, strategies, and operations.