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Interchange: Social Practice in Conversation announces the upcoming schedule. This webinar series highlights the Interchange Artist Grant fellows and provides an opportunity for artist reflection and connection across geographies and identities. Using their own practice as a starting point, Interchange artists engage in a broader conversation about social practice across...Read More

Kyle Mullins Kyle Mullins has been announced as the new Artist Services Program Officer at Mid-America Arts Alliance. Mullins will oversee the Artists 360 and Interchange grant programs. Mullins joined M-AAA as Artist Services Assistant in July 2021. “When I see something amazing my first instinct is to run and tell everyone about it....Read More

The Mellon Foundation has announced a $5M Monuments Project Initiative grant to the In ‘zhúje ‘waxóbe/Sacred Red Rock Project for the return of a Siouxan quartzite boulder from Robinson Park in Lawrence, Kansas to the Kaw Nation. Led by members of the Kaw Nation in collaboration with the City of Lawrence,...Read More

Sav Rodgers, No Reason for Celebration, 2020; Archival footage documentary, Time: 10:30; Courtesy of the artist. Sav Rodgers premieres his new film, No Reason for Celebration, as part of the reflect / project exhibition at Mid-America Arts Alliance. No Reason for Celebration is both call to action and historical documentation of the...Read More

Interchange Artist Grant announces Info Session! Join us for this information session to learn more about the grant, eligibility, and application process on June 23, 2021 at 5:30 p.m. Click here to register! Application deadline for the 2021-2022 grant cycle is July 5, 2021. Interchange will support sixteen artists with...Read More

The reflect / project exhibition for June is from the Saint Louis Story Stitchers. Their work WADE (2020), is on view through July 1. A work from the multi-year project titled, The WHY of MY City. The WHY of MY City captures and documents black history through written word and art and gives audiences insight...Read More

As part of the reflect / project exhibition, Artist Brian Ellison of Houston, Texas, presents UnMASKunlinity, which explores the complexity of African American masculinity by documenting the daily lives of the Black experience and same-gender loving comradery, simultaneously creating safe spaces for Black men to engage in this dialogue. Brian Ellison...Read More

 Mid-America Arts Alliance (M-AAA) is pleased to announce the renewal ofInterchange, a program created to strengthen communities and individual artists within the M-AAA region by supporting artist-led projects focused on social impact. The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation granted $500,000 to M-AAA to fund this second iteration of Interchange, after an...Read More