Performing Arts Global Exchange
Introduction
AN IMPORTANT UPDATE
In September 2025, Mid Atlantic Arts received confirmation from the National Endowment for the Arts that a new federal grant would support the 2026-2027 year of the Performing Arts Global Exchange (PAGE) grant program. With this support, a roster of international artists will be selected from Portugal and Spain to tour the U.S. between July 1, 2026 and December 31, 2027.
About Performing Arts Global Exchange (PAGE)
Open to presenters nationwide, the Performing Arts Global Exchange is an annually curated roster of international performing artists selected to tour to communities across the United States.
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 Portugal and Spain in the 2026-27 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
- Fall/Winter 2025: Roster available
- July 1, 2026-June 30, 2027: Project period for Performing Arts Global Exchange (PAGE) subsidy awards to presenters (presentations of PAGE Roster Artists must take place during this period)
Guidelines and Application
Updated Guidelines will be made available in fall/winter of 2025 when the artist roster is announced.
The Performing Arts Global Exchange application will be available to presenters recommended by Tour Managers for funding in Spring 2026.
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Current Grantees
Artist Selection
How artists are selected for the PAGE roster:
- Nominators living and working in the region of focus are selected each cycle by Mid Atlantic Arts to provide artist roster suggestions. The nominators have expertise in the performing arts specifically in the selected region.
- In addition, agents that represent artists from Spain or Portugal within the U.S. and that meet program requirements can nominate their artists for consideration by filling out this nomination form by Thursday, October 30, 2025:
- Next, feedback on a selection of 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.
2026-2027 Artist Roster
The artist roster is currently being curated. The full artist roster will be announced this winter.
Program Curators
Program curator bios will be shared after the roster has been announced.
Manage Your Grant
Learn more about managing your Performing Arts Global Exchange grant.
