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 2013 grant opportunities are now listed on the calendar.
FY 2013 Information Sessions
The Minnesota State Arts Board is offering free one-hour information sessions for FY 2013 grant programs. The sessions are offered as conference calls with an option to view a Power Point presentation online.
Further details can be found on the information sessions page.
FY 2013 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
FY 2013 Minnesota Festival Support
Minnesota Festival Support is a pilot program designed to engage Minnesotans in festivals that celebrate the arts, build community, and expose communities to diverse art forms including folk and traditional arts.
The program provides funding for sponsoring or presenting organizations to feature Minnesota individual artists and Minnesota arts groups in arts festivals, or in the arts components of broader, community-based festivals.
Apply today
FY 2013 Arts Learning
The Arts Learning grant program offers funding for projects that help lifelong learners acquire knowledge and understanding of and skills in the arts. Projects must provide participatory learning and engage learners with skilled teaching artists and high quality artistic experiences.
Apply today
News
Art of Recovery
The eighth annual Art of Recovery features visual and literary artwork Minnesota crime victims who have used art as a means to explore, express or heal.
The exhibition commemorates Minnesota Crime Victims’ Rights Week, April 22–28, and is cosponsored by the Minnesota Department of Public Safety Office of Justice Programs and the Minnesota State Arts Board.
Grantee Spotlight
Grantee Spotlights feature the outcomes of grants made with funding appropriated by the Minnesota State Legislature from the Legacy Amendment’s arts and cultural heritage fund.
Poetry Out Loud 2011-2012
For information on participating in the 2011–2012 Poetry Out Loud competition, please compete and return the school registration form. For additional information on the Minnesota and national Poetry Out Loud poetry recitation competition, contact Eleanor Leonard via e-mail or by phone at (651) 215-1612 or (800) 866-2787.
The 2011–2012 schedule for Poetry Out Loud has been posted on this Web site.
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. Minnesotans are enthusiastic consumers of arts and culture in the state.
