New Orleans Neighborhoods Partnership Network

March 10th 2010

Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation Accepting Applications From Presenting Organizations for ArtsCONNECT

The Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation is accepting applications for the 2010-11 cycle of ArtsCONNECT, a program that supports collaborations among presenters working to facilitate tours of artists across the mid-Atlantic region involving any performing arts discipline, including dance, jazz, music, opera, theater, and folk/traditional arts.

The purpose of ArtsCONNECT is to provide access to live performing arts engagements of excellence to audiences across the mid-Atlantic region along with a deeper understanding of artists’ work through support of tours incorporating public performances and activities that enhance the concert experience. The foundation will give the highest priority to projects that reach the broadest geographic distribution within the region, that support new or newly commissioned works, and that target communities underserved by the arts.

Only presenter consortia are eligible to apply. The presenting consortium must include at least three presenting organizations from at least two mid-Atlantic states. Each partner in the consortium must be a nonprofit 501©(3) organization or a unit of government and must be located in Delaware, the District of Columbia, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Virginia, and West Virginia.

ArtsCONNECT projects must utilize professional touring artists from a performing arts disciplines that have been touring at least two years.

“Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation”: http://www.midatlanticarts.org/

Application Deadline: March 22, 2010