Grant Opportunity: Creation of New Work

Artistic Innovations Grant Applications Open Now Applications are due Friday, February 23, 2024. The Artistic Innovations Grant Program encourages the spirit of experimentation and exploration, exclusively engaging in-region artists and organizations in the creation of new, original works for audiences in the M-AAA six-state region of Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Texas. This grant program offers up to $15,000 in support of expenses incurred in the art-making process and premiere of these endeavors. Through generous support from the National Endowment for the Arts, M-AAA supports individual artists and arts-based nonprofit 501c3 organizations in our region for projects that meet the eligibility requirements listed below. Artistic Innovations is for individual artists or nonprofit arts organizations in M-AAA’s six-state region that: =have new, original, or experimental ideas, projects, or products to share with audiences. =share experiences of art, art making, or artists at the heart of the initiative. =engage the public through feature presentation and outreach, which could include (but is not limited to) performance, publication, lecture/demonstration, exhibition, master class and/or workshop. =are from rural or urban communities. In addition: =Applicants should have an anticipated project budget that reflects a dollar-for-dollar match for the grant amount requested. =We encourage applications from artists and organizations that embody and/or serve populations that are underserved, such as those whose opportunities to experience the arts are limited by external forces such as geography, race/ethnicity, economics, and/or disability. =Artists and organizations who are applying to M-AAA for a grant for the first time are encouraged to apply. For more details: