Minnesota State Arts Board
The Minnesota State Arts Board is a state agency that stimulates and
encourages the creation, performance, and appreciation of the arts in the state.
Upcoming Deadlines
New arts and cultural heritage fund grant programs
The Minnesota State Arts Board invites applications in a number of new grant programs that will support arts and arts access, arts learning, and arts and cultural heritage across the state, and will give Minnesotans more opportunities to experience the arts.
The new programs are intentionally broad and flexible so that a diverse array of activities can be funded. Nonprofit organizations, communities, units of government, educational institutional, arts organizations, artists, and others will be able to apply.
Act today! Application deadlines begin in early February!
FY 2011 Institutional Support and Institutional Presenter Support
Interim year application forms and instructions are now available for the Institutional Support and Institutional Presenter Support grant programs. These are two-year operating grants; only those organizations that were awarded a grant for FY 2010 will be eligible to apply for a grant in FY 2011.
FY 2011 interim year applications must be submitted no later than 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday, February 16, 2010.
Seventh Annual Art of Recovery call for entries
The Minnesota Department of Public Safety Office of Justice Programs and the Minnesota State Arts Board invite entries for an art exhibition to heighten public awareness about crime victims and their rights and to commemorate Crime Victims' Rights Week, April 18-24, 2010. Entries must be submitted by January 8, 2010.
K-12 Arts Challenge Minnesota grant
Greater Minnesota schools that would like to host an artist
residency are encouraged to apply for a Minnesota State Arts Board K-12
Arts Challenge Minnesota grant. This is a noncompetitive grant program;
funds are awarded on a first come, first served basis. Please
download the application materials which contain additional eligibility
information and application instructions.
Applications will be accepted any time until April 30, 2010; or until all available funds are expended, whichever comes first.
Poetry Out Loud
Recitation and performance are major new trends in poetry.
There has been a recent resurgence of poetry as an oral art form, as
seen in the slam poetry movement and the immense popularity of hip-hop
music. Poetry
Out Loud builds on that momentum by inviting the dynamic aspects of slam
poetry, spoken word, and theater into the English class.
Registration deadline for this school year is October 30.
Fiscal Year 2010 deadlines and review dates
Application deadlines and review dates for fiscal year 2010 (July 1, 2009, through June 30, 2010) are available on the Arts Board calendar page.
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American Recovery and Reinvestment Act / Minnesota Arts Jobs grant program
The Minnesota State Arts Board and Arts Midwest have awarded $361,200 to twenty-one Minnesota arts organizations to help preserve jobs in the nonprofit arts sector that are threatened by the current economic downturn.
Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund
In November 2008, Minnesotans overwhelmingly voted for a constitutional amendment that will create a new dedicated sales tax to fund activities related to clean water, land and habitat, parks and trails, and arts and cultural heritage.
The Minnesota State Arts Board, Minnesota Historical Society, and Minnesota Humanities Center are facilitating a process to develop a 10-year plan and 25-framework for the arts and cultural heritage fund. Members of the public are encouraged to offer input into the plan by participating in a listening session or completing an online survey.
Leveraging Investments in Creativity
Leveraging Investments in Creativity (LINC), a national organization that serves and supports artists, has developed a survey to help understand the conditions that artists are facing in the current economic climate. If you haven't taken the survey yet, please do so today.
Arts Research / Policy / Cultural Issues
The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) has released the first nationwide look at artists' demographic and employment patterns in the 21st century. Artists in the Workforce analyzes working artist trends, gathering new statistics from the U.S. Census Bureau to provide a comprehensive overview of this workforce segment, its maturation over the past 30 years, along with detailed information on specific artist occupations.
Minnesota is home to nearly 20,000 individual artists; their artistic spending totaled $295 million during 2007.
To learn more, download this new report on the economic impact of the spending by Minnesota’s individual artists.
A study of the economic impact of Minnesota’s nonprofit arts and culture industry demonstrates that the arts are a powerful economic development tool. Nearly 15 million Minnesotans are
enthusiastic consumers of arts and culture in the state.
