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
FY 2010 Institutional Support and
Institutional Presenter Support Statistical Update
The online form is now available from the corresponding grant page:
Institutional Support
Institutional Presenter Support
The statistical update is due by or before July 31, 2010. Submitting this report will fulfill your FY 2010
grant contract obligations.
FY 2011 Artist Initiative
This program supports and assists artists at various stages in their careers. It encourages artistic development, nurtures artistic creativity, and recognizes the contributions individual artists make to the creative environment of the state of Minnesota.
Grants will be awarded for career building and for the creative development of artists. Some artists may choose to request funds to create new work, but that isn't a requirement of the program. Artists working in all artistic disciplines—dance, media arts, music, photography, poetry, prose, theater, and two- and three-dimensional visual arts—may apply.
Apply today! Application deadline is Friday, August 27, 2010
News
Attend a grant information session
The Minnesota State Arts Board will offer a series of grant information sessions throughout Minnesota, July 29–August 12.
These sessions will focus on grants for artists, but during the first hour of each, there will be some general information about the Arts Board’s new project grant programs (for individuals and organizations).
Arts and cultural heritage fund grants
The Minnesota State Arts Board has approved nearly $7 million in arts and cultural heritage fund project grants. The grants fall under three broad headings: Arts and Arts Access, Arts Learning, and Arts and Cultural Heritage. Grantees were selected from a pool of nearly 500 applicants, seeking a combined total of more than $18 million.
Visit the FY 2010 Grantees page to see the lists of grants awarded.
Stay in Touch
If you'd like to receive information and updates from the Arts Board via e-mail, please sign-up for the board's electronic mailing list.
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.
