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.

COVID-19: Support for Minnesota's Arts Community

Message to the arts community about COVID-19

As our state responds to the COVID-19 pandemic, we want you to know that the Minnesota State Arts Board is concerned about the health and safety of everyone who works in the arts sector, and the health and safety of the participants, audience, and community members who we serve. We also are concerned about the physical, emotional, and economic toll the pandemic is having on the individuals and organizations who make up our extraordinary arts community.

Please visit our  COVID-19 Relief page for information and resources.

 

Upcoming Opportunities

FY 2021 Creative Support for Organizations – new deadline, wider eligibility

The Arts Board is offering an additional Creative Support for Organizations application deadline that will be open to a wider spectrum of applicants.  This opportunity is available to nonprofit organizations and public entities whose mission is broader than the arts but regularly offer arts programming as an integral part of their mission, who have been funded by the Arts Board or a regional arts council in recent years.  Organizations that were eligible to apply earlier in the program, but didn't, are still eligible to apply.  More specific eligibility requirements and application instructions are available on the program page.

We want to hear your thoughts

In response to COVID-19, the Minnesota State Arts Board made broad changes to its grant programs this year. We offered two new, flexible programs that are intended to help creative individuals and organizations adapt and sustain their practices and activities during the pandemic and beyond. We'd like to hear your thoughts on those programs.

Open call for remote grant application reviewers

The Minnesota State Arts Board relies on the generous involvement of Minnesota citizens to review grant applications and help determine which will be recommended to receive funding. This involvement, and the insights reviewers bring, are the vital foundation for the Arts Board’s grant decisions each year.

For this reason, hundreds of people–ranging from individuals who don't work in the arts, but have knowledge or passion for the arts, to individuals who have experience with Minnesota nonprofits in paid or volunteer positions, to professionals working in the arts–are needed to review applications remotely, ongoing during the months September through December 2020.

Find out if this is the right fit for you, visit  Grant Application Reviewer Opportunities.

 

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.

 

WebGrants

The Minnesota State Arts Board's WebGrants system is open for registration.

How to Register in WebGrants: online tutorial, PDF version
How to Use WebGrants: online tutorial, PDF version
Webgrants FAQ document: FAQ (PDF)
Login to WebGrants

 

Arts Research / Policy / Cultural Issues

	Creative Minnesota 2019 Creative Minnesota 2019 is the third biennial report that provides a comprehensive assessment of the state's arts and creative sector. The Creative Minnesota project was developed by a collaborative of arts and culture funders in partnership with the Minnesota Citizens for the Arts. These partners include: the Minnesota State Arts Board, the Forum of Regional Arts Councils of Minnesota, Target, Jerome Foundation, Mardag Foundation, Springboard for the Arts and the Bush Foundation, with in-kind support from the Minnesota Historical Society, City of Minneapolis and others. For a list of committee members, go to http://creativemn.org/study-partners/.
	Promoting Appreciation for the Role of Arts in Health and Wellness in the Twin Cities Promoting Appreciation for the Role of Arts in Health and Wellness in the Twin Cities is a pilot study that qualitatively explores Americans' current thinking about the connection between arts and health, and their responses to communications about this topic. Conversations with a diverse cross-section of individuals in the Twin Cities provide important insights into how a conversation about the arts-health connection may play out at broader scales, and the potential of this focus to attract new engagement with and support for the arts. The pilot study was conducted as a strategic partnership among Topos, Metris Arts Consulting, and Americans for the Arts.
	Rural Prosperity through the Arts & Creative Sector The Rural Prosperity through the Arts & Creative Sector serves as an action guide that offers research insights and lessons learned from states that are harnessing the power of the arts to drive rural prosperity. This guide is part of a collaborative among the National Governors Association, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies.