NW KANSAS ARTS EVENTS GRANTS

Through Strategic Doing initiatives across NW Kansas, communities identified a desire for more cultural arts opportunities. The Hansen Foundation has responded. NW Kansas Arts grants are designed to bring more arts events, such as concerts, visual art shows or theater performances, to Northwest Kansas by assisting with the artist fee/contract. Applicants are required to secure funding for expenses beyond the artist contract, such as facility rental, food, marketing, etc.

The NW Kansas Arts Events Grant application includes events in partnership with the Mid-America Arts Alliance or events featuring Kansas-based artists.

Although applications are accepted at any time and follow the Foundation’s regular monthly grant schedule, they should be submitted 6 or more weeks prior to the event. This ensures the application is reviewed before the event occurs.

Mid-America Arts Alliance Regional Touring Program

The Foundation partners with with the Mid-America Arts Alliance (M-AAA) Regional Touring Program (RTP).  This partnership provides our NW Kansas communities a unique opportunity to bring in out of state artists that otherwise might not have been affordable.

• Presenters that book an artist listed on a state touring roster may be awarded up to 50 percent of the artist’s fee*.
• Presenters that book an artist that lives in the M-AAA 6-state region, but is not listed on a touring roster, may be awarded up to 25 percent of the artist’s fee.
• Presenters located in rural communities may receive an additional 10 percent of the artist’s fee.
• Touring artists must come from outside the presenter’s state (Kansas) but within M-AAA’s service region (Arkansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Texas).
• Organizations must be not-for-profit or a governmental or tribal entity.

*Artist contract may include fee, travel and lodging expenses and per diem.

Presenters may book artists in any discipline (music, theatre, literature, visual arts, etc.) and grants require an outreach arts activity, such as a class or workshop.

Applications are accepted on a rolling deadline at any point during M-AAA’s fiscal year, which is July 1–June 30. Grants are distributed on a first-come, first-served basis, until the allocation for each state is gone. New allocations begin each year on July 1.

Full grant criteria and guidelines are available at maaa.org.

Grants for Kansas-Based Artists

The Dane G. Hansen Foundation will accept applications for programs or events featuring Kansas-based artists in any discipline (music, theatre, literature, visual arts, etc.). Applications can request up to 50% of the artist fee. Grants require a performance or show, and an outreach arts activity, such as a class or workshop in NW Kansas.

Following the event, grant recipients will be required to complete a grant report to the Hansen Foundation.