Upcoming events.
EVENT: 2025 Artists Thrive Summit in KC
Artists Thrive in Kansas City (May 6–8)
Artists, arts leaders, educators, and funders from across the United States are invited to expand their creative circle at the annual 2025 Artists Thrive Summit in Kansas City, Missouri, May 6–8, 2025.
This event offers a powerful networking hub to help connect attendees with colleagues from across the region and country.
GRANT: Kansas Tourism Attraction Development Grant Program
Your community might benefit from this funding opportunity!
Kansas Tourism is offering grants to boost tourism in Kansas with the Attraction Development Grant Program (ADGP). The ADGP funds public, private, and not-for-profit organizations for new or existing tourism attractions.
While this is not restricted only to the arts, please consider whether you have a project that might help bring new visitors to Kansas.
Key details:
• A maximum of $1,000,000 total will be awarded this fiscal year (in two rounds).
• Applicants must provide a minimum of 60% of the project's cost.
• Spring grant application deadline: April 1, 2025
MORE DETAILS and application at this link:
Tourism Attraction Development Grant Program Spring FY25
Contact Kody Hardman at 785-250-1900 or kody.hardman@ks.gov with questions.
GRANT: Walking Together: Investing in Folklife in Communities of Color
Walking Together: Investing in Folklife in Communities of Color (Self Nomination Deadline Mar. 19)
Walking Together, a national funding program managed by the six US Regional Arts Organizations, provides funding of $15,000 each to traditional artists, practitioners, and keepers of traditional knowledge, as well as $50,000 each to community organizations and collectives that support folklife in communities of color.
GRANT: M-AAA Artistic Innovations
M-AAA’s Artistic Innovations grant program provides cost-sharing grants of up to $15,000 to help artists and organizations in our six-state region (Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Texas) to create new, original works of art.
Since its inception in 2012, Artistic Innovations has awarded over $2 million to support new art projects, enriching audiences across the region. Whether your expertise lies in dance, film, literature, music, theater, or visual arts, this grant is a chance to turn bold ideas into impactful creations.
Grant applications close March 13, 2025, at 5:00 p.m. CDT.
WEBINAR: National Endowment for the Arts Updates
Consider attending this upcoming information session to learn more about guidelines for National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) grants.
It is Feb. 18, 2025, at 1 p.m. central. This is the Microsoft Teams meeting link to use at that time.
The NEA has updated its fiscal year 2026 grant guidelines, with deadlines in March and July 2025. These changes impact organizations applying in the Grants for Arts Projects or Challenge America categories.
These changes are affecting NEA's grants that go directly to arts organizations, and they DO NOT affect the partnerships between NEA and State Arts Agencies such as Kansas Arts Commission.
NEA Grants Update Press Release
Updates on NEA FY26 Grant Opportunities
Tuesday, February 18, 2025
1 p.m. central
The meeting is planned to be recorded.