The Black Rep and others receive Mid-America Arts Alliance’s Artistic Innovation grant
The St. Louis Black Repertory Company receives the Mid-America Arts Alliance’s Artistic Innovation grant for #realchange: A main stage co-production between the Nebraska Rep and St. Louis Black Repertory Company
Mid-America Arts Alliance Awards $226,500 for Art Projects Across Region
Mid-America Arts Alliance (M-AAA) is pleased to announce the recipients of its Artistic Innovations grants for FY22 (July 1, 2021–June 2022). Sixteen individual artists and art organizations in M-AAA’s region have been awarded up to $15,000 for the creation or production of new artwork. This year’s projects range from a new play by a Nebraska playwright about the first Juneteenth to a performance that combines lucha wrestling with Aztec mythology. These grants are made possible with support from the National Endowment for the Arts.
M-AAA’s President and CEO Todd Stein said, “We are inspired by the creativity that comes from the arts organizations and artists within our region and the Artistic Innovations grant program provides us the opportunity to recognize their projects. Mid-America Arts Alliance is grateful for the funding from the National Endowment for the Arts that allows us to support the FY22 Artistic Innovations awardees.”
About the Artistic Innovations grant, Prism Movement Theater’s Jeffrey Coloangelo said, "Prism Movement Theater is completely overjoyed to have received the M-AAA award. Lucha Teotl is a huge, ambitious project we've spent nearly three years planning. We knew the minute we decided to do this project about the art of lucha libre that we needed to do it justice. M-AAA’s grant comes to us at a perfect opportunity, allowing us to fulfill our artistic vision for this incredible project. We are so genuinely grateful and proud to be awarded this grant." Lucha Teotl, a bilingual performance that combines elements of lucha wrestling with Aztec mythology, will premiere as part of AT&T Performing Arts Center's Elevator Project series in the Dallas Arts District in Potter Rose Performance Hall in the Wylie Theatre (July 15–24, 2021).