2024-2025 Regional Performing Arts Touring Engagement Grantees Announced
Organizations Awarded Over $530,000 to Bring More Than Fifty Artists and Ensembles to Communities Across the Region
Baltimore – July 16, 2024 – Mid Atlantic Arts congratulates our 2024-2025 ArtsCONNECT, Iber Exchange, Jazz Touring Network, Mid Atlantic Tours, and Special Presenter Initiatives grantees! These regional touring program grant recipients will be hosting over 50 artists and ensembles from July 1, 2024 through June 30, 2025. All ten states and jurisdictions served by Mid Atlantic Arts – Delaware, the District of Columbia, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, Virginia, and West Virginia – are represented in the grantee pool which include more than $530,000 in grant support.
More information on the five programs, grantees and engagements, and application information can be found at the links below.
ArtsCONNECT supports performing arts touring projects collaboratively developed by presenters working together in the mid-Atlantic region. The tours include performances as well as complementary engagement activities designed to create greater understanding or connections between artists, audiences, and communities. The 2024-2025 ArtsCONNECT program will support eight tours visiting 25 communities across the region. Artists include: A.I.M. by Kyle Abraham; Boricua y de Mayagüez; Cirque Kalabante; Cyrus Chestnut; Giordano Dance Company; Manual Cinema; Sphinx Virtuosi; and Tambacum. See a full list of grantees, engagement venues, and artist information at this link.
Iber Exchange is a roster artist program that fosters artistic exchange and understanding of other cultures between the Americas and beyond by increasing the availability of international music programming from Ibero-America throughout the mid-Atlantic region. All funded engagements are required to include a public performance and a community engagement activity that creates interaction between audiences and visiting artists. The 2024-2025 Iber Exchange program will provide support for 17 engagements in the region featuring roster artists Heloísa Fernandes Quartet (Brazil), Pascuala Ilabaca y Fauna (Chile), and Rancho Aparte (Colombia). For more information on Iber Exchange grantees, engagements, and artists, click on this link.
The Jazz Touring Network (JTN) is a presenter-based membership program that supports professional development, building partnerships, and working together to curate tours that reflect the richness of the field of jazz. Performance fee subsidies are provided to JTN members for engagements that are part of network block-booked tours. JTN members are required to book a community engagement activity with all JTN supported engagements. In 2024-2025, JTN members will host 33 engagements through eight tours including: Brandee Younger; Bria Skonberg; Julius Rodriguez Quartet; Jumaane Smith; Keyon Harrold; Miguel Zenón and Luis Perdomo; The Soul Rebels; and Xian aTunde Adjuah. To learn more about the JTN and see a full list of engagements, click here.
Mid Atlantic Tours brings the best in performing arts ensembles to communities across the mid-Atlantic region. Presenters select from a curated roster of artists that changes annually but maintains a programmatic commitment to a diversity of performance genres, regional artist representation, and engaging with communities underserved by the arts. The 2024-2025 tours will include 40 engagements throughout the mid-Atlantic and include: Family music with 123 Andrés; Storyteller Adam Booth; Puppet artists Alex & Olmsted; Actress Debra Ann Byrd/ Harlem Shakespeare Festival; Folk music with the Long Point String Band; and Plena/ Bomba/ Son ensemble Plena Libre. To find out where MAT will be in your state, visit this link.
The Special Presenter Initiatives provide additional opportunities for the support of small to mid-sized performing arts presenters in Delaware, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, West Virginia, and Native nations that share this geography. Engagements include performances as well as community activities that offer meaningful exchanges between touring artists and a presenter’s community. Thirty engagements will be supported through the 2024-2025 program. Click here for more information on the grantees and their engagements.
ArtsCONNECT, Jazz Touring Network, Mid Atlantic Tours, and the Special Presenter Initiatives are made possible through the generous support of the National Endowment for the Arts’ Regional Engagement Program. Additional funding for Delaware Mid Atlantic Tours and Special Presenter Initiatives grantees is provided by the Delaware Division of the Arts. Support for Iber Exchange is provided by the National Endowment for the Arts and Ibermúsicas.
Header Image (l-r): ArtsCONNECT touring artist Manual Cinema’s Frankenstein. Credit: Michael Brosilow; Iber Exchange touring artist Pascuala Ilabaca y Fauna. Credit: Courtesy of the artist; Jazz Touring Network touring artist Chief Adjuah. Credit: Eric Ryan Anderson; Mid Atlantic Tours roster artist 123 Andrés. Credit: Marcelo Quiñones; and Special Presenter Initiatives artist Alash. Credit: Wada Fumiko.
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Mid Atlantic Arts supports artists, presenters, and organizations through unique programming, grant support, partnerships, and information sharing. Created in 1979, Mid Atlantic Arts is aligned with the region’s state arts councils and the National Endowment for the Arts. We combine state and federal funding with private support from corporations, foundations, and individuals to nurture diverse artistic expression while connecting people to meaningful arts experiences within our region and beyond. To learn more about Mid Atlantic Arts visit www.midatlanticarts.org.
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