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South Arts Awards Nearly 70 Presentation Grants Totaling More Than $300,000

South Arts' Presentation Grants support the public presentation of Southern artists and engaging those artists for educational opportunities. Arts organizations in our nine-state primary region - AL...

Federal Funding Webinar: New Opportunities for Nonprofits and Local Arts Agencies through the National Endowment for the Arts

Watch the recently-recorded webinar with the National Endowment for the Arts team and South Arts to explore these new programs, learn how to register your organization to be eligible for federal funding, gain other resources, and participate in a Q&A session.

South Arts Awards $399,800 to Artists, Arts Organizations, and Communities

New recipient projects supported by Cross-Sector Impact Grants, Individual Artist Career Opportunity Grants, and Jazz Road Tours Grants South Arts is proud to announce the following recipients of our...

South Arts Thanks MacKenzie Scott

South Arts is excited to receive such a transformative unrestricted gift from MacKenzie Scott. This gift will accelerate South Arts’ efforts to increase capacity, and widen and deepen our commitment...

Florida artist Marielle Plaisir named 2021 Southern Prize recipient

At the fifth annual Southern Prize and State Fellowships Award Ceremony last evening, Florida artist Marielle Plaisir was named the 2021 Southern Prize winner receiving an award of $25,000. The...

Overview Of DEIA and Implementing it Into Internal Organizational Systems

This workshop, led by Donna Walker Kuhne, presents the vocabulary of DEIA and its application to arts organizations. This includes unconscious bias, microaggressions, allyship, and becoming an anti...

South Arts Launches Jazz Road Creative Residencies Grants of up to $40,000

South Arts is now accepting applications for the second phase of its national jazz initiative: Jazz Road Creative Residencies. Through Jazz Road Creative Residencies, artists can apply for grants of...

South Arts Announces the 2021 State Fellowship Recipients

South Arts has named the ten visual artists (eight individual artists and one team) receiving the 2021 State Fellowship awards. Each fellowship – one per state in the South Arts region of AL, FL, GA...

South Arts Awards 15 Folk and Traditional Arts Master Artist Fellowships Supporting Lifelong Learning Projects

South Arts is proud to announce the 2021 In These Mountains: Folk and Traditional Arts Master Artist Fellowship recipients. The 15 recipients, from Central Appalachian counties in Kentucky, North...

Federal Funding Opportunities Webinar and Q&A

South Arts partnered with Nina Ozlu Tunceli, executive director of the Arts Action Fund, to discuss how artists, arts organizations, and communities may benefit from the federal American Rescue Plan...