7/24–8/2/2026

Crossroads Receives Artistic Innovations Grant

A collage image of two hip hop artists with microphones and Indigenous-themed artwork in the background.

Nebraska Crossroads Music Festival has received an Artistic Innovations Grant from the Mid-America Arts Alliance to support the Dream Warriors Experience, a multimedia Indigenous arts project.

The NEA Just Terminated Our Funding: A Personal Reflection on Censorship, Art, and Resilience

When our NEA grant was abruptly terminated, we were stunned—not just by the loss of funding, but by the language used to justify it. In this personal reflection, Executive Director Olga Smola draws on her Soviet upbringing to examine the chilling echoes of censorship, the importance of artistic freedom, and what’s at stake when politics invades the arts. Read how Nebraska Crossroads is responding—with resilience, music, and an unshakable belief in the power of creative expression.

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