The Kansas City Jazz Orchestra is our MCA Member Spotlight of the week! The Kansas City Jazz Orchestra is dedicated to promoting the rich culture of Kansas City through performance and education. 🎼🎷🎸
With a large roster of the region’s top jazz musicians, KCJO is known for both excellence and versatility. Performances range from solo artists and intimate small ensembles, including trios, quintets, and septets, to the full 18-piece big band, allowing the organization to serve concert halls, clubs, educational settings, and community events alike. KCJO’s programming reflects both tradition and innovation.
Check out our MCA Member Spotlight of the week—Lake Arts Council in Osage Beach, MO!
Lake Arts Council is a nonprofit organization dedicated to nurturing the arts in their community. Their mission is to cultivate and promote the arts at Lake of the Ozarks, and to educate, enrich, and entertain the community by supporting local artists and performers.
📣The Arts work for Missouri!📣 Check out these facts on how Missouri Arts Council funds impact the state👏
View more resources on our website at /resources
This week, we are featuring Latinx Arts Network as our member spotlight! 👏
This is a network for artists and art advocates who support and encourage the Hispanic/Latinx arts in the Greater St. Louis area including fine arts, performance arts, visual art, literary arts, music and all other art expressions including art producers. Their goal is to encourage dialogue, exchange ideas and support each other's endeavors with other cultural expressions, artistic forms, languages and communities.
🎭🎨🩰🎼Check out Missouri's dashboard of student fine arts enrollment data for public and charter schools. Data can be viewed by arts discipline, by county, by district, or by school level and examine trends over time.
Learn more at /advocacy/arts-education-data-project-dashboard
Our member spotlight for the week is Gateway Festival Orchestra! A vibrant, community-driven organization dedicated to enriching St. Louis through the magic of music. Since 1964, we’ve brought free, high-quality symphonic and chamber music to everyone—especially children, youth, seniors, and those facing disadvantages.
Learn more about membership at mo4arts.org!
Part of our Adopt-A-Legislator program? Join us next Monday at noon for a budget update and advocacy storytelling training to help take your advocacy to the next level! 👏
Register at the link in our bio!
Raintree Arts Council is our member spotlight this week! The Raintree Arts Council is a non-profit, multi-disciplinary arts agency serving Pike and Lincoln Counties in Northeast Missouri. Raintree offers programming in theatre, music, visual arts, and literature. Raintree also promotes several educational programs throughout the year in local schools.
@raintreeartscouncil
Learn more about membership at mo4arts.org!
📣ACTION ALERT—Please reach out to your State Senator to respectfully request their support for the Missouri Arts Council at $10.1 million and the Missouri Fine Arts and Scholars Academies at $850,000!
Our member spotlight of the week is Opera Theatre of Saint Louis! OTSL is known for its local impact, national presence, and global resonance. Their mission is to shape a vibrant future for opera by connecting, inspiring, and entertaining our communities through the power and beauty of the art form.
@operatheatrestl
Learn more about MCA membership at mo4arts.org!
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