Performing Arts Global Exchange
Introduction
Each year, a country or region is featured with a selection of artists across multiple disciplines. The program provides fee support directly to nonprofit presenters programming artists from the roster, and presenters host both public performances and community engagements in achieving the program’s goals of cultural exchange and understanding. PAGE will support tours of performing artists from Portugal and Spain in the 2026-27 performance season.
Presenting international artists offers an opportunity to engage in the rich diversity of cultural expression throughout the world, but it also requires resources that aren’t always available. Travel expenses, visas, and routing are often barriers to presenting international artists, especially in the U.S.’s more remote communities. PAGE seeks to ease some of those burdens for U.S. presenters by working with international curators to identify a region’s most exciting, tour-ready artists and provide grant support to bring them to the U.S.
Eligibility and Schedule
Eligibility
In order to be eligible for this program a presenting organization must:
- Be based anywhere in the United States and its territories (American Samoa, Guam, Northern Marianas Islands, Puerto Rico, and U.S. Virgin Islands).
- Be a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization or a unit of state or local government or Federally recognized Indian tribal government. Units of state or local government must provide a document on official letterhead to confirm status as a government entity. Fiscal sponsorship is not permitted for this program.
- Be in good standing with Mid Atlantic Arts, with no overdue or outstanding required reports and/or grant documents.
- For this program, a presenter is defined as an organization that regularly schedules and engages professional artists to perform before general audiences in its community and manages the related performance logistics as an ongoing and significant component of their organization’s activity.
Schedule
- Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 2:30pm Eastern: Roster Artist Pitch Session | View a recording here
- CLOSED Monday, April 6, 2026: Signed Offer Letters due to Agents
- April, 2026: Fill out grant form to confirm grant eligibility
- June, 2026: Grant Award notifications sent to grantees
- July 1, 2026-December 31, 2027: Project period for Performing Arts Global Exchange (PAGE) subsidy awards to presenters (presentations of PAGE Roster Artists must take place during this period)
Guidelines and Application
The Guidelines below are for information purposes only. The deadline for the PAGE program was Monday, April 6, 2026.
Guidelines
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Image: Antonio Lizana. Credit: Ana Solinis.
Current Grantees
Artist Selection
How artists are selected for the PAGE roster:
- Nominators living and working in the region of focus, or with knowledge of the region are selected each cycle by Mid Atlantic Arts to provide artist roster suggestions. The nominators have expertise in the performing arts specifically in the selected region.
- In addition, agents that represent artists from Spain or Portugal within the U.S. and that meet program requirements were able to nominate their artists directly for consideration in Fall of 2025.
- Next, feedback on a selection of these potential roster artists was gathered via an online survey of U.S. presenters in November 2025.
- Mid Atlantic Arts staff select the final roster, weighing presenter feedback and program goals.
2027-2028 Artist Roster
The 2027-2028 Artist Roster will be available in fall 2027.
Program Curators
- Ever Chavez | FUNDarte, Inc.
- Cristina Planas Leitão & Natalia Simó | SUPERNOVAE
- Adriana Pedret | Cultural Manager
Manage Your Grant
Learn more about managing your Performing Arts Global Exchange grant.
