Performing Arts Global Exchange
Introduction
Each year, a country or region is featured with a selection of artists across multiple disciplines. The program provides fee support directly to nonprofit presenters programming artists from the roster, and presenters host both public performances and community engagements in achieving the program’s goals of cultural exchange and understanding. PAGE will support tours of performing artists from Morocco and South Africa in the 2025-26 performance season.
Presenting international artists offers an opportunity to engage in the rich diversity of cultural expression throughout the world, but it also requires resources that aren’t always available. Travel expenses, visas, and routing are often barriers to presenting international artists, especially in the U.S.’s more remote communities. PAGE seeks to ease some of those burdens for U.S. presenters by working with international curators to identify a region’s most exciting, tour-ready artists and provide grant support to bring them to the U.S.
Eligibility and Schedule
Eligibility
In order to be eligible for this program a presenting organization must:
- Be based anywhere in the United States and its territories (American Samoa, Guam, Northern Marianas Islands, Puerto Rico, and U.S. Virgin Islands).
- Be a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization or a unit of state or local government or Federally recognized Indian tribal government. Units of state or local government must provide a document on official letterhead to confirm status as a government entity. Fiscal sponsorship is not permitted for this program.
- Be in good standing with Mid Atlantic Arts, with no overdue or outstanding required reports and/or grant documents.
- For this program, a presenter is defined as an organization that regularly schedules and engages professional artists to perform before general audiences in its community and manages the related performance logistics as an ongoing and significant component of their organization’s activity.
Schedule
This is an annual opportunity. Roster announced each winter.
Guidelines and Application
Booking Guidelines
The program guidelines below are for information purposes only. The 2025 Performing Arts Global Exchange deadline was April 15, 2024.
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Current Grantees
Artist Selection
How artists are selected for the PAGE roster:
The 2025 – 2026 curation of the Performing Arts Global Exchange roster is currently under way:
- Curators living and working in the region of focus are selected each cycle by Mid Atlantic Arts to provide artist roster suggestions. The curators have expertise in the performing arts specifically in the selected region.
- Next, feedback on these potential roster artists is gathered via an online survey of U.S. presenters.
- Mid Atlantic Arts staff select the final roster, weighing presenter feedback and program goals.
Presenters who would like to provide feedback on the roster artists under consideration via survey should contact Program Director, International Andrew Alness Olson at andrew@midatlanticarts.org.
2025-2026 Artist Roster
The 2025-2026 Performing Arts Global Exchange Artist Roster is currently in development and will feature outstanding artists from Morocco and South Africa and will be available in early winter 2024.
Manage Your Grant
Learn more about managing your Performing Arts Global Exchange grant.
