Museum of Art + Light

Goal: $25,000.00

Specific Need

The Museum of Art + Light (MoA+L) is Manhattan’s newest contemporary art museum, featuring three floors of digital and fine art galleries, including a 21,500-square-foot, state-of-the-art immersive gallery. MoA+L’s exhibitions and programming provide illuminating, multi-sensory experiences that connect and stimulate visitors—families, youth, artists, community partners, and educators alike—to have conversations and make personal meaning. In its first year open to the public, MoA+L welcomed more than 31,000 visitors and built partnerships with dozens of local community organizations, schools, and university departments to deliver programming that expands access to the arts.

This Grow Green Match Day, MoA+L is raising funds to support arts education for local youth. Your generous contribution will help us grow our educational programming and engage more students and their families in the arts. While any size gift is welcome, please consider supporting one of the following experiences:

$50 - Sends two educators to a two-day professional development workshop.
$125 - Brings 10 youth (Scouts, Boys & Girls Club, and other groups) to MoA+L for an afterschool visit.
$200 - Provides bus transportation for 50 K-12 students to visit the museum.
$350 - Sponsors one middle school student to attend our week-long summer arts camp, Teen Camp: Art, Poetry, Picasso, & Prairie Plants!
$425 - Covers admission for one K-12 classroom (up to 30 youth with three adults).
$500 - Supplies art materials for a Family Day, offering free, drop-in art activities for the community.
$1,500 - Makes Family Day admission free for visitors, expanding access to art-making and exhibitions.

Top 5 Reasons to Support MoA+L in 2026

Research compiled by Americans for the Arts shows:

MoA+L drives revenue to local business. Arts attendees spend an average of $38.46 per person per event; 20% of attendees come from outside the county; and non-local attendees spend an average of $60.57 beyond admission.
Arts + culture are tourism drivers. Arts travelers are ideal tourists, staying longer and spending more to seek out authentic cultural experiences. More than half (53%) agree, “When planning a vacation, I consider the destination’s arts and culture experiences when deciding where to visit.”
The arts support education. Museum visits and participation in the arts are both linked to higher academic achievement.
Access to the arts removes barriers. Low-income students with arts education are twice as likely to graduate college.
Arts education strengthens community. Creativity, social-emotional development, and a sense of belonging within families and communities have everything to do with arts education.

We are grateful for your support in helping deliver these transformative experiences to our youth and community.

Mission

MoA+L's mission is to bridge 21st-century technology with the visual and performing arts to incite positive emotion, cultivate meaningful connections, encourage artistic exploration, and spark innovation.

Profile

Founded in 2021 and opened in November 2024, the Museum of Art + Light (MoA+L) is a contemporary art museum in Manhattan, Kansas and the first museum in the world that was purpose-built to fuse immersive digital storytelling with dedicated digital and fine art galleries. MoA+L’s vision and values explore the limitless convergence of visual art, the creative process, and digital technology, while focusing on the promotion, understanding, and appreciation of the arts through educational experiences, collaboration, innovation, equity, creativity, and community.

MoA+L's exhibitions and programs are built on a firm belief in greater access to the arts for all. By presenting cutting-edge, globally renowned exhibitions paired with diverse, thoughtful programming, the museum is working to broaden its audience; build intentional partnerships with local schools and community organizations; and deepen connections with audiences, regardless of their background or familiarity with the arts.