Missouri Featured Artists Program:  Dawn Weber,  trumpeter, vocalist, songwriter, composer, educator | Aaron Dougherty, Incidental #60  (top) and Incidental #259, photographs
marino g cano, Yucca Dream (foreground), paper pulp clay, found vessel, recycled scrap threads, at her HONOR THY MAKER solo exhibition, 2024, University of Missouri-Columbia  | Kelly Eddington, Becoming Eve, watercolor

The Missouri Arts Council supports the arts that strengthen

the cultural, educational, and economic vitality of our state.


Express Grants | We accept applications for these project-based grants on a rolling basis throughout the year | photo, Fly North Theatricals, St. Louis

Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program 2026  | Highlights of the teams in our Missouri Folk Arts Program’s 2026 TAAP, as master artists and their apprentices sustain our state’s artistic traditions and cultural heritage | photo, master Smitra Dorairajan (standing), apprentice Laya Anand, Bharatanatyam classical Indian dance

Missouri Arts Awards 2026 |  Get to know the arts heroes of our 44th annual Missouri Arts Awards | photo, City of West Plains, Creative Community honoree, performance in the downtown square at the Ozark Heritage Festival

Missouri Poet Laureate Justin Hamm | Meet him on his website and experience his poetry and photography