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Accessibility Training
Mid Atlantic Arts’ accessibility convenings and training opportunities support our commitment to greater accessibility in the arts and cultural sector of the mid-Atlantic region.
Alan Cooper Leadership in the Arts Award
Established in 2017, the Alan Cooper Leadership in the Arts Award celebrates leaders who create responsive and innovative opportunities for artists, arts organizations, and audiences.
ArtsCONNECT
ArtsCONNECT supports performing arts touring projects collaboratively developed by presenters working together in the mid-Atlantic region. The tours include performances as well as complementary engagement activities designed to create greater understanding or connections between artists, audiences, and communities.
ArtsHERE
Through grants and peer learning opportunities, ArtsHERE invests in organizations that have demonstrated a commitment to equity within their practices and programming, with the goal of increasing arts participation for underserved groups/communities, and sharing insights that may inform similar funding programs in the future.
CALT Appalachian Foodways Practitioner Fellowships
The Appalachian Foodways Practitioner Fellowships honor, celebrate, and support foodways tradition bearers and practitioners in Central Appalachia who have made significant contributions to sustaining and supporting the foodways heritage of their communities.
CALT Black Appalachian Storytellers Fellowship
The Black Appalachian Storytellers Fellowships honor, celebrate, and support Black storytellers representing Appalachian Regional Commission-designated counties in Kentucky, North Carolina, Ohio, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia.
CALT Community Anchors Initiative
The CALT Folk Arts and Culture Community Anchors Initiative provides targeted support to select communities in the region, with the goal of dramatically impacting the sustainability of traditional practice and cultural knowledge in each community.
CALT Experiences Grants
Central Appalachia Living Traditions (CALT) Experiences grants fund public-facing projects and events in ARC-designated Appalachian counties of Ohio, Virginia, and West Virginia that bring community members together around folk and traditional arts practice and cultural knowledge.
Delaware Division of the Arts Individual Artist Fellowships
Individual Artist Fellowships provide funding to Delaware creative artists to fulfill needs that will allow them to advance in their careers.
Folk and Traditional Arts
Folk and traditional arts reflect the aesthetics, practices, values, and beliefs of community groups, such as families, geographic communities, occupational groups, ethnic heritage groups, faith communities, and more.
Folk and Traditional Arts Community Projects Grants
The Folk and Traditional Arts Community Projects grants fund projects designed to support the vitality of traditional arts and cultural communities in the mid-Atlantic region.
Iber Exchange
Iber Exchange is designed to increase availability of international music programming throughout the Mid-Atlantic region and to promote a greater understanding of other cultures through the performing arts.
Jazz Road
Jazz Road is an artist-centric touring and residency grants program to spread jazz throughout the country, strengthen work opportunities and compensation for jazz artists, and bolster deeper engagement between jazz musicians, presenters and communities.
Jazz Touring Network
The Jazz Touring Network (JTN) is a presenter-based membership program that supports professional development, building partnerships, and working together to curate tours that reflect the richness of the field of jazz.
Living Legacy Jazz Award
Established in 1994, the Living Legacy Jazz Award honors living jazz master artists residing in the mid-Atlantic region who have kept the spirit and tradition of this evolving art form alive, maintaining the vitality of jazz for future generations through advocacy, mentorship, and the transmission of artistic skill and cultural knowledge.