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West Michigan Center for Arts + Technology (WMCAT)’s ArtsHERE grant will support their Teen Arts + Tech Program expansion, enhancing curriculum development, stakeholder engagement, and strategic planning to reach neighboring school districts with underserved youth. WMCAT provides a culture of opportunity for individuals to achieve social and economic progress through visual arts and tech engagement, workforce development, and social enterprise programs.

ArtForce Iowa’s ArtsHERE grant will support strengthening internal structures, integrating technology into programming, and fostering new partnerships with schools, youth service agencies, cultural institutions, and more. ArtForce Iowa creates opportunities for youth to transform through art, promoting personal and social development. They serve young people living in detention centers and offer free arts programming for refugee and immigrant youth.

Healing Broken Circles' ArtsHERE grant will support the creation of new collaborative partnerships, upgrading communications materials, and increasing staff technical skills in event production and promotion. Healing Broken Circles provides opportunities to heal, learn, and thrive for those of us impacted by the justice system, through programs and events that offer creative outlets, social-emotional support and opportunities to deepen societal awareness of the destructive impacts of mass incarceration

Third Coast International Audio Festival (TCIAF) is seeking $4,000.00 to produce and screen an audio reel and an artist and curator panel in Chicago at the conclusion of our 2024-25 Third Coast Competition.

Three Artists of SPACE, a playwright, movement artist and director intend to work with the 50 year old Noble County Community Theater to conduct workshops and create a devised performance that addresses a local conflict/concern. The workshops will culminate in a final performance and talk back session. Workshop participants will gain the tools to create new community-centered work in the future.

A visual art exhibition and performances featuring Indigenous artists of the Woodland Tribes, curated by Ho-Chunk Nation Tribal Member Robert Blackdeer at Pump House Regional Arts Center, La Crosse, WI.

Chicago Danztheatre Ensemble’s Body Passages residency program will unite 10 dance, visual, theatre, and poetry activist artists and give space for creating new individual and collaborative works. Artists will have professional development opportunities to learn from each other, lead master classes, and present their works in a final performance and visual art gallery.

OhioDance (OD) will hold its annual statewide festival, Friday, April 25-Sunday, April 27, 2025 at, and cosponsored by, The Ohio State University Department of Dance in Columbus. The festival hires over 130 artists, highlights 16 professional performances, films, as well as over 35 dance sessions and demonstrations; and 50% of the performing artists hired are from marginalized communities.

CMA seeks to provide access to a music education series featuring our world renowned artists. Activities include; high-impact student enrichment concerts, professional performance collaborations, as well as workshops and clinics. Priority for these events is given to traditionally underserved communities and school districts throughout greater Des Moines and central Iowa.

FAME Multicultural Arts Programs encourage students to learn about diverse cultures and create original culturally inspired art. FAME's Visiting Artist Program contracts professional artists to visit area schools to share their talents and culture with students in the classroom and perform for the public at our annual FAME Festival. For 2024-2025, FAME will explore the culture of the Caribbean.