This program supports individuals and organizations in providing meaningful arts experiences for Minnesotans within their communities. Funds may be used for a variety of arts programming such as creating and/or presenting concerts, plays, tours, exhibitions, arts festivals, public art, or other kinds of activities that provide Minnesotans opportunities to engage in arts activities that are instilled into community or public life.
| Grantee, City |
Grant Amount |
210 Gallery and Art Center, Sandstone | $ 35,000 | | 210 Gallery and Art Center will offer its Arts Alive programming, which includes music classes and performances, a visual art gallery exhibit, and drawing and painting classes. |
Advocating Change Together, Inc., Saint Paul | $ 35,000 | | Advocating Change Together's Side-by-Side Mixed Chorus, comprised of people with and without disabilities, will engage over 2,500 community participants in public concerts that will reshape perceptions of people with disabilities. |
AMP, Pipestone | $ 35,000 | | Arts & Mentoring Project will present a summer arts camp for area youth, teaching the basics of music theater through short daily workshops, rehearsals, and public performances of Disney's Frozen JR. |
An Opera Theatre, Minneapolis | $ 35,000 | | An Opera Theatre will produce its third installment of Divas and Drag,a community building celebration of queer identity through the art of drag and the spectacle of opera. |
The Anderson Center, Red Wing | $ 35,000 | | The Anderson Center will serve Red Wing area residents through its Red Wing Area Studio Tour, puppetry exhibition and performances, Minnesota Children's Book Festival, and public artist residency programs. |
APIA MN Film Collective, Savage | $ 35,000 | | The Asian Pacific Islander American Minnesota Film Collective will present a film festival and showcase the work of Asian American filmmakers in the Twin Cities. |
Artists Collective for Community Collaborations, Saint Paul | $ 24,750 | | Artists Collective for Community Collaborations will present two performances that will address harms of nickel mining in northern Minnesota. Five workshops in which the youth will create their own Smart Wars outfits will precede each performance. |
Backus Community Center, International Falls | $ 24,100 | | Backus Community Center will present to the people of its region a two-week children's summer theater camp, a summer hip hop and jazz dance workshop for all ages, and an outdoor concert for the entire community. |
Bagley Area Arts Collaborative, Inc., Bagley | $ 35,000 | | Bagley Area Arts Collaborative, Inc. will continue its enrichment program for elderly residential facilities, as well as offer new quality arts experiences to the residents of north central Minnesota. |
Ballet Co.Laboratory, Saint Paul | $ 35,000 | | Ballet Co.Laboratory will provide professional dance experiences for 3,800 Minnesotans in need through twenty-five free dance performances and workshops. These offerings will remove barriers to participation to ensure the performing arts are accessible to all. |
The Barn Theatre, Willmar | $ 35,000 | | The Barn Theatre (Willmar Community Theatre) will present six mainstage live theater productions showcasing local talent in both cast and crew from west central Minnesota, presenting musicals, drama, and comedies. |
Bella Voce Young Women's Choir, Rochester | $ 32,500 | | Sing Out Loud choirs will present three Bella Christmas concerts in Rochester and free choral music outreach performance experiences in community venues in Rochester and southeastern Minnesota. |
Bemidji Symphony Orchestra, Bemidji | $ 34,839 | | The Bemidji Symphony Orchestra will offer an educational concert for 2,000+ north central Minnesota students in grades 4 and 5; musicians will visit their schools to introduce them to musical instruments used by orchestras. |
Mecca R. Bos, Minneapolis | $ 24,000 | | Mecca Bos will execute six BIPOC Foodways Alliance Tables highlighting undertold stories through food. |
Brownbody, Vadnais Heights | $ 35,000 | | Brownbody will present two workshop performances of Everyday Saturday, a program of modern dance, theater, figure skating, and social justice; two facilitated community conversations and one workshop are also presented for community members. |
BSA, Minneapolis | $ 25,000 | | Black Storytellers Alliance will offer its 34th Annual Black Master Storytelling Festival, "Siginfyin' and Testifyin,'" on September 26 -28, 2024. |
Carnegie Art Center, Mankato | $ 35,000 | | The Carnegie Art Center will provide experiences for artist and audience participants to connect around a variety of gallery exhibitions, art classes, and performances. |
Cassia, Hopkins | $ 34,116 | | Cassia, serving a demographic and geographic diverse group of participants across Minnesota, will host artist residencies to inspire creativity, stimulate cognitive ability, enhance emotional well-being, and promote social interaction. |
The Cedar, Minneapolis | $ 33,810 | | The Cedar will present the new Cedar in the Summer weekly free concert series over ten weeks in summer 2024 on its Cedar-Riverside neighborhood plaza, with a capstone event at Mill Ruins Park, featuring culturally and musically diverse artists. |
Center for Community Services, Saint Paul | $ 17,225 | | The Center for Community Service will present Chinese paintings created by seniors, demonstrating BiaoHua and allowing the public to immerse themselves in the beauty of this ancient art form. |
Chamber Music Live, Houston | $ 35,000 | | Chamber Music Live will present The 2024 Apollo Music Festival, a free classical chamber music festival in southeastern Minnesota, with musicians from around the country. Festival events in August will include eight music concerts and student master classes. |
CHOICE, Unlimited, Duluth | $ 35,000 | | CHOICE, Unlimited will offer its ARTS Program, dedicated to creating artistic outlets and experiences for people with disabilities, providing platforms for self-expression and an opportunity to educate the public to the incredible possibilities all indiduals possess. |
Clean River Partners, Northfield | $ 25,800 | | Clean River Partners will organize, curate, and host the Downstream Environmental Film Festival in four small communities in southern Minnesota. Participants will experience high quality local, national, and international films. |
COLLIDE Theatrical Dance Company, Saint Paul | $ 35,000 | | COLLIDE will create high quality shows that are relevant and thought-provoking, to welcome and benefit diverse audiences. |
Contempo Physical Dance, Saint Paul | $ 34,000 | | Contempo Physical Dance will tour to Wykoff and Albany, performing the work "Lavadeiras" and bringing Brazilian contemporary dance to new audiences. |
CornerStone, Frazee | $ 35,000 | | CornerStone will improve access to quality arts experiences by expanding access to art equipment, programming, and events, empowering youth and community to engage and learn new art disciplines in west central Minnesota. |
Creatives After Curfew, Minneapolis | $ 35,000 | | Creatives After Curfew will create murals for BIPOC-led organizations, businesses, and schools. |
Deep Valley Book Festival, Madison Lake | $ 13,875 | | The Deep Valley Book Festival will provide high-quality literary arts experiences for its established audience and for participants new to the 2024 festival, namely through the presence of a well-known Minnesota author as keynote speaker. |
Department of Public Transformation, Granite Falls | $ 35,000 | | The Department of Public Transformation will present a series of community arts events featuring regional artists alongside local residents at The YES! House from May 1, 2024, to April 30, 2025. |
Jayson Douglas, Minneapolis | $ 25,000 | | Jayson Douglas will host the NIJAD series, a three-day event that brings together local Minnesota artists through performances and free workshops to integrate the artistic community and provide exposure for young people that identify as LGBTQIA+. |
Antonio Duke, Saint Paul | $ 35,000 | | Antonio Duke will rewrite and perform his solo performance play The Ashes,an investigation of brothers reuniting within the Black community. There will be live and virtual performances which will be posted on social media with community talkbacks. |
Duluth Superior Symphony Orchestra, Duluth | $ 30,000 | | The Duluth Superior Symphony Orchestra will create a festival of new and American classical music with performances in a chamber setting, as well as one for the full 72-piece orchestra. |
East Metro Symphony Orchestra, Woodbury | $ 23,000 | | East Metro Symphony Orchestra will provide two full orchestra performances and six small ensemble performances at senior living residences. |
East Side Freedom Library, Saint Paul | $ 35,000 | | The East Side Freedom Library will establish an Arts Lab, a cohort led by artists in residence, fostering solidarity and community engagement and providing hands-on arts experiences for eastsiders. |
Ely Folk School, Ely | $ 35,000 | | The Ely Folk School will continue offering a diverse roster of folk art classes and programming, focusing on diversifying and expanding their instructor roster and bolstering benefits to instructors. |
Ely's Historic State Theater, Ely | $ 34,999 | | Ely's Historic State Theater will present a six concert series featuring Minnesota artists and bands representing a variety of music genres and styles. |
Ethnic Fest Committee, Walker | $ 20,000 | | The Ethnic Fest Committee will present five stages with multicultural music, food, and crafts. Our main stage will highlight our local culture of the Ojibwe tribe through dance, food, and craft. |
The Film Society of Minneapolis Saint Paul, Minneapolis | $ 35,000 | | Film Society of Minneapolis Saint Paul will curate and present Cine Latino, a unique annual program of new Spanish language cinema presenting the work of emerging and established filmmakers from Spanish speaking regions around the globe. |
Fireweed Community Woodshop, Minneapolis | $ 35,000 | | Fireweed will offer thematic programming on chair making and joinery by offering classes and demonstrations for women, nonbinary makers, BIPOC, and LGBTQA+ individuals in Minneapolis. |
Franconia Sculpture Park, Shafer | $ 24,880 | | Franconia will develop four gallery exhibitions and two outdoor billboard installations, featuring BIPOC and Saint Croix County artists. The project promotes radical visibility and positive BIPOC and local artist representation in rural spaces. |
Frozen River Film Festival, Winona | $ 35,000 | | The Frozen River Film Festival will offer hybrid documentary filmmaking programming with in-person and virtual events and workshops that connect Minnesotans with filmmakers who explore local and global issues. |
Full Circle Theater Company, Saint Paul | $ 35,000 | | Full Circle Theater will produce the multimedia Native storytelling performance piece, "The Adventures of a Traveling Meskwaki," by Oogie Push, a member of the Meskwaki Nation, at Mixed Blood Theatre in October and November 2024, engaging more than 1,000 audience members |
Funny Asian Women Kollective, Saint Paul | $ 35,000 | | Funny Asian Women Kollective will present The Super Show,featuring ten Asian American female-identifying comedic artists in Saint Paul. |
Giving Voice Initiative, Edina | $ 24,000 | | Giving Voice Initiative will provide a meaningful arts experience to individuals with dementia and their care partners in Minnesota by offering dementia-friendly choruses with high artistic quality, weekly rehearsals and social time, and seasonal public performances. |
Good Thunder Reading Series, Mankato | $ 35,000 | | The Good Thunder Reading Series at Minnesota State University, Mankato will bring acclaimed authors to the region for public workshops, craft talks, and readings. |
City of Granite Falls, Granite Falls | $ 16,550 | | The City of Granite Falls will host the SquidFest Community Art Festival, a free public event intended to cultivate community connection by offering greater Minnesota residents opportunities to interact and cooperate through art, play, music, and education. |
Great River Shakespeare Festival, Winona | $ 34,600 | | Great River Shakespeare Festival will expand the reach of its engagement and educational activities that deepen the audience's understanding of Shakespeare and the theater arts. |
Ines Guanchez, Minneapolis | $ 14,500 | | Guanchez's The Duo Avila will present a concert series across the state of Minnesota centered around music and photography from Latin America, aimed at connecting with the Latin American diaspora and educating audiences about Latin American heritage and culture. |
Historic Holmes Theatre, Detroit Lakes | $ 35,000 | | The Historic Holmes Theatre will continue to connect its region of greater Minnesota with unique art experiences and engage artists in community outreach activities. |
Gao Hong, Northfield | $ 25,000 | | Hong will share her knowledge of Chinese artistic culture in ten Chinese communities statewide to instill pride in youth and adults and show the relevance of Chinese music and art in the modern world. |
House of Dance Foundation, Edina | $ 35,000 | | The House of Dance Foundation's tenth anniversary will broaden the reach of hip hop culture through a week-long event including visiting artist workshops, street dance pioneer presentations, an intensive street dance camp, and breaking and open style dance. |
I A.M. Arts, Saint Paul | $ 25,000 | | I A.M. Arts will provide a week-long artist residency retreat for mid career women creatives who are on the front lines of movements for social change and who center the arts and healing justice in their practice. |
IMCCM, Saint Cloud | $ 34,889 | | IMCCM's Project 37 will host safe and sober music shows every month for all ages to have opportunities to perform and attend shows. |
In Black Ink, Saint Paul | $ 26,300 | | In Black Ink will support Black writers and publishing arts professionals, and connect them with readers, learners, and listeners through print, public gatherings that welcome all audiences, school residencies, and archiving for future generations. |
Indian Music Society of Minnesota, Minneapolis | $ 35,000 | | The Indian Music Society of Minnesota will produce a series of six in person classical Asian Indian music concerts and two lecture demonstrations that will share and showcase Indian music and cultural heritage to Minnesota audiences. |
Interact, Saint Paul | $ 35,000 | | Interact Center for Visual and Performing Arts will present a season of high-quality and professional visual arts and theater by artists with disabilities, presenting in galleries and performance venues throughout the metro area and state, and on its global virtual gallery. |
Intro To Success, Minneapolis | $ 35,000 | | Intro To Success will present Jambridge, a music and sound centered event featuring local DJs, performers, and installation artists. |
Irreducible Grace Foundation, Saint Paul | $ 26,700 | | Irreducible Grace Foundation will host a multiday Black and Funny Youth Festival at the Black Youth Healing Arts Center in Frogtown. BIPOC youth ages 8-24 will engage with various workshops, performances, and panels featuring BIPOC comedians. |
Jazz Access, Minneapolis | $ 35,000 | | Jazz Access will present outdoor concerts at Rondo Plaza, Capri Theater Plaza, and Arlington Hills Community Center Plaza. The concerts will provide a setting for diverse communities to gather and enjoy top local jazz artists. |
Tahiel Jimenez Medina, Edina | $ 25,000 | | Tahiel Jimenez Medina will present the Minnesota BIPOC Film Festival, inviting filmmakers from across the state to gather in community, screen films, and celebrate with each other. |
Rick Kagigebi, Detroit Lakes | $ 17,763 | | Kagigebi will teach blanket making to Ojibwe tribal members using traditional and contemporary designs. Class participants will gain increased knowledge of Ojibwe culture and skills to make blankets for traditional ceremony. |
KAIROS ALIVE!, Minneapolis | $ 35,000 | | KAIROS ALIVE! will produce The Welcome Traveler,expanding their live, interactive, participatory two-way dance, music, and story engagement webcasts to individuals and groups of underserved and intergenerational participants in greater Minnesota and the Twin Cities. |
Karen Organization of Minnesota, Roseville | $ 35,000 | | The Karen Weaving Circle supports the first generation of Karen refugees in Minnesota to preserve their textile weaving traditions through weekly master weaving workshops, hands-on classes for Karen youth, and public events to showcase their art. |
Katha Dance Theatre, Crystal | $ 35,000 | | Katha Dance Theatre will produce the world premiere of PANCHANANTRA, a professional dance concert with accompanying outreach activities for students and adults to enhance cross-cultural understanding by sharing the art, dance, music and stories of India. |
Anne M. Krocak, Cologne | $ 34,640 | | Krocak will facilitate a pilot public art program with Carver County Mental Health, supporting at-risk clients' requests to experience new art forms while finding community and voice through three collaborative public artworks. |
Lake Street Council, Minneapolis | $ 25,000 | | The Lake Street Council will engage residents and visitors alike through a block party event that will feature arts programming and opportunities for community engagement and healing, as well as a monthly art drop series along Lake Street. |
Lakes Area Music Festival, Brainerd | $ 35,000 | | The Lakes Area Music Festival will produce more than twenty-five community outreach engagements uniquely designed for underserved communities of rural central Minnesota who would not otherwise have access to professional live classical music. |
Lakes Bluegrass Festival, Pine River | $ 35,000 | | The Pine River Area Foundation will host the 18th annual Lakes Bluegrass Festival in 2024 that celebrates and preserves uniquely American roots bluegrass music. Included are main stage performances, interactive workshops, and impromptu jam sessions. |
The Legacy Chorale of Greater Minnesota, Brainerd | $ 35,000 | | Legacy Chorale of Greater Minnesota will present two major concert series with its adult and youth choirs, ensuring residents of greater Minnesota communities have equitable access to arts programming and live concert performances. |
Ying Li, Eagan | $ 25,000 | | Li will present an innovative, themed Chinese dance performance for the Spring Festival, a day for Chinese and cultural enthusiasts to celebrate, in January 2025. |
Little Theatre Auditorium, New London | $ 30,735 | | Little Theatre will partner with Steve Ackerman and Heart of the Beast to engage community members, musicians, and artists of all ages in conversations about their hopes, fears, and visions of future New London, to produce a community made parade, play, and artist market. |
Lyricality, Sauk Rapids | $ 35,000 | | Lyricality will host a gathering featuring Minnesota BIPOC poets with marginalized gender who will use poetry and creative processes to cocreate a safe space of inclusive belonging. |
Maia Maiden Productions, Richfield | $ 35,000 | | Maia Maiden Productions will present ROOTED: Hip Hop Choreographers' Evening 2025. |
Mankato and North Mankato ACT on Alzheimer's, Mankato | $ 35,000 | | Mankato and North Mankato ACT on Alzheimer's will provide community based, meaningful engagement activities with an arts focus designed for people living with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias and care partners. |
Mankato Playhouse, North Mankato | $ 35,000 | | Mankato Playhouse will produce multiple high-quality musical theater performances for the community and engage young actors in the Broadway Teens educational program. |
Mask and Rose Women's Theater Collective, Puposky | $ 24,900 | | The Mask and Rose Theater will offer a distinctly rural celebration of arts in the culture shed of northern Minnesota called Taste for the Arts–a fall tour to take in the arts in all genres at fifteen designated stops. |
Zeapoe M. Matalda, Moorhead | $ 24,950 | | Matalda will lead a team of local artists in the production of a Hollywood style musical film production. The film will incorporate the talents of greater Minnesota actors, dancers, choreographers, and production crew members. |
Meander Art Crawl, Appleton | $ 25,000 | | The Meander Art Crawl will coordinate the Meander Upper Minnesota River Art Crawl event for repeat and new audiences. |
Memorialize the Movement, Minneapolis | $ 35,000 | | Memorialize the Movement will present the fourth annual Justice for George event, featuring the protest plywood murals from the 2020 uprising, six musical and visual performances, two live muralists, one interactive muralist, and a community vendor fair. |
Mendota Mdewakanton Dakota Tribal Community, Mendota | $ 23,100 | | The Mendota Mdewakanton Dakota Tribal Community will engage and celebrate Dakota culture via a powwow (wacipi) with Dakota music, dance, crafts, food, and traditions; preserving, protecting, and promoting the Dakota culture for future generations. |
Midwest Special Services, Saint Paul | $ 22,050 | | Midwest Special Services will engage artists with and without disabilities to build community connections through exhibitions, mentorship, and artist talks at Fresh Eye Arts and Gallery. |
Minhua Chorus, Lakeville | $ 10,200 | | Minhua Chorus will organize a children's choir and provide free Chinese vocal lessons to students, who will present six Chinese songs in a final recital. |
Minnesota Philharmonic Orchestra, Minneapolis | $ 35,000 | | The Minnesota Philharmonic Orchestra, the nation's first LGBTQIA+ orchestra, will continue to showcase the talents of underrepresented artists, namely LGBTQIA+, women, and people of color with three in person and virtual concerts and one children's program. |
MIXTAPE Dance MN, Saint Paul | $ 35,000 | | MIXTAPE Dance Minnesota will offer word and dance battles across two performance stages that center hip hop dance choreography and music. |
Mnprov, Eden Prairie | $ 21,845 | | MNprov will present four three-month sessions of MNprov Recess, theatrical improvisation classes for adults with neurodivergence. Sixty-four participants will learn performance techniques, work with scene partners, and trust their instincts. |
Monkeybear's Harmolodic Workshop, Minneapolis | $ 35,000 | | Monkeybear will mentor artists in creating short puppet films, culminating in a screening of the new films. |
Bwaananaabekwe Mary Moose, Hinckley | $ 25,000 | | Moose will connect indigenous Minnesotans to Anishinaabe culture via textile workshops using traditional and modern processes to create clothing. At the end of the workshop series, an indigenous fashion show will be held to display the creations. |
More Than a Single Story, Saint Paul | $ 35,000 | | More Than a Single Story presents readings, public conversations, and writing workshops, engaging BIPOC writers with communities as a way to balance public discourse and provide a forum for cross-cultural empathy and understanding. |
Naadharasa, Plymouth | $ 24,150 | | Naadharasa will present three focused sessions on RTP (Ragam Tanam Pallavi) over the year. Each session will have a week of training workshops for students and an educational concert for general audiences led by three experts of Indian music. |
Noatun Community Wooden Boat Works, Duluth | $ 35,000 | | Noatun Community Wooden Boat Works will engage community participants to develop and hone new creative skills through collaborative wooden boat building, metal work, and fiber arts. |
Northeast Contemporary Services, Inc., Roseville | $ 35,000 | | Northeast Contemporary Services and Upstream Arts will partner to provide adults and seniors who have intellectual and developmental disabilities with The Art of Me, a multidisciplinary arts program designed to explore self-identity and develop creativity. |
Northern Lakes Arts Association, Ely | $ 34,900 | | Northern Lakes Arts Association will create a season of theater, concerts, and arts camps during the summer to engage, excite, and empower all ages to participate in the arts. Through free concerts, low-cost events, and pay what you can performances, it'll be accessible to all. |
Northern Light Opera Company, Park Rapids | $ 35,000 | | The Northern Light Opera Company will present its twenty-second summer musical and offer its ninth Northern Light Opera Kids Theater Camp to children ages 8 - 13, from the Park Rapids area and the Indigenous community of Pine Point. |
Northfield Youth Choirs, Northfield | $ 35,000 | | Northfield Youth Choirs will provide extracurricular developmental choral music education for singers, age five through adult. Ensembles are led by highly regarded conductors and programming is enriched by guest artists, partnerships, tours, retreats, and concerts. |
Off-Leash Area, Minneapolis | $ 35,000 | | Off-Leash Area will increase connection, participation, and visibility with the disability community, an important and growing constituency of the organization, through its core community programs: Off-Kilter and the Neighborhood Garage Tour. |
Open Arts Minnesota, Mankato | $ 25,000 | | Open Arts Minnesota will deliver in person and virtual theatrical and literary programming for people with intellectual/developmental disabilities in communities throughout southwest Minnesota. |
Our Streets Minneapolis, Minneapolis | $ 34,848 | | Our Streets Minneapolis will engage Near North community members to create a collaborative work of quilt art inspired by their vision for a restored 6th Avenue North. The quilt will spark conversation with their neighbors at a free celebratory event. |
Atlas O. Phoenix, Minneapolis | $ 35,000 | | Phoenix will present Trans-LATE!, a unique fusion of virtual and in person cabarets and dance parties. Showcasing mainly BIPOC drag performers and artists, Trans-LATE! aims to uplift the well-being of trans, intersex, and nonbinary voices. |
Pillsbury House Theatre, Minneapolis | $ 35,000 | | Pillsbury House Theatre will engage five resident teaching artists to offer intergenerational, participatory arts experiences that support community members in their surrounding neighborhoods in exercising their creativity and connecting with each other. |
Dani Prados, Granite Falls | $ 24,772 | | Collaborating artists Talon Cavender-Wilson and Dani Prados will tour an evolving immersive exhibit to eight locations around greater Minnesota, developing a new piece for each community hosting the work. |
Kat Purcell, Minneapolis | $ 24,462 | | Kat Purcell will present Castles, a festival-style weekend of theatrical performances featuring dozens of artists and community groups at Red Eye Theater in August 2024. |
Thomas Putzier, North Oaks | $ 25,000 | | Thomas Putzier will host a series of video screenings of a feature-length, contemporary, experimental digital opera at five venues across the state of Minnesota. |
Queer and Funny Improv Festival, LLC, Minneapolis | $ 19,347 | | The Queer and Funny Improv Festival will showcase the talents of queer improvisers from the Twin Cities and beyond through a weekend full of performances, workshops, and opportunities to try out the art form of improvisational comedy. |
Really Spicy Opera, Minneapolis | $ 25,000 | | Really Spicy Opera will premiere the new opera Green Thumbed in Albert Lea, following radical accessibility principles: free admission; supertitles in English, Hmong, and Spanish; and pre- and post-performance discussion. |
Red Eye Theater, Minneapolis | $ 35,000 | | Red Eye Theater will expand its artistic and production capabilities across its New Works 4 Weeks, Omnivers, and Curated Rentals programs, in order to better support Minnesota based performance makers in realizing their artistic visions. |
Reif Center, Grand Rapids | $ 35,000 | | The Reif Center will partner with the Itasca Orchestra for a screening of The Wizard of Oz set to live orchestral music. This public engagement, taking place in the birthplace of Judy Garland, celebrates the 85th anniversary of the film. |
Rochester Repertory, Rochester | $ 16,225 | | Rochester Repertory Theatre will produce Clybourne Park in its next season, exploring themes of race and community boundaries, as well as promote participation by Black, Indigenous and people of color, both as theater artists and audience members. |
Rochester Symphony, Rochester | $ 35,000 | | Rochester Symphony will present an orchestral and choral performance featuring 150 musicians for an audience of 900 greater Minnesota residents. |
Rocky Wall Productions, Silver Bay | $ 25,500 | | Rocky Wall Productions will produce the 2024 Silver Bay Music in the Park Concert Series featuring regional and national artists performing a series of eight late summer free outdoor concerts. |
Saint Cloud Symphony Orchestra, Saint Cloud | $ 35,000 | | The Saint Cloud Symphony Orchestra will perform seven concerts of diverse orchestral repertoire for Saint Cloud area audiences. Outreach activities will include chamber music programs for youth in schools and for seniors in community centers and senior residences. |
The Saint John's Boys' Choir, Collegeville | $ 20,000 | | Saint John's Boys' Choir will enrich the lives of central Minnesota residents through its Kidsong Festival, Sing in the Summer Camp, and A Ceremony of Carols concerts featuring over 60 young choristers and local guest musicians. |
Saint Paul Almanac, Saint Paul | $ 35,000 | | Saint Paul Almanac will publish work by underrepresented, primarily BIPOC, literary artists in print and in virtual space, and engage artists with cross-cultural audiences in listening, learning, and conversation. |
Patrick E. Scully, Minneapolis | $ 12,270 | | Scully will tour a show, 50!, to nine different Minnesota Pride festivals in 2024. The show is part of a long career of performances with queer content; it is a retrospective, looking over fifty years of gay life, activism, and art. |
Selby Avenue JazzFest, Saint Paul | $ 23,800 | | The Selby Avenue JazzFest will take place on Saturday, September 14, in Saint Paul. The free event features a day of live jazz, kids' activities, and artist demonstrations, all surrounded by an inclusive community vibe. |
The Semilla Center for Healing and the Arts, Minneapolis | $ 21,500 | | The Semilla Center for Healing and the Arts will produce Seeding Phillips With Art, leading 100 Minnesotans to create public art that expresses their hopes. Teaching artists will lead workshops in the studio and the community. A spring Seeding Festival will celebrate the art created and seed new art. |
The Sheldon Theatre, Red Wing | $ 35,000 | | The Sheldon Theatre will present four mainstage performances and community outreach activities from artists selected in collaboration with community partners. |
Sonora Winds, Andover | $ 24,946 | | Sonora Winds will provide engaging and meaningful musical programming to underserved greater Minnesota communities. |
Soomaal House of Art, Minneapolis | $ 35,000 | | Soomaal House of Art will execute an artist residency for emerging artists to develop artistically and create new works to be presented to the community via art exhibitions and public artist talks. |
Springboard for the Arts, Saint Paul | $ 30,000 | | Springboard for the Arts will commission west central Minnesota artists to create four new mobile artist tools, travel them to community events, and join the permanent roster of mobile artist projects available through Springboard's Ready Go program. |
Square Lake Film and Music Festival, Stillwater | $ 24,845 | | The Square Lake Film and Music Festival will occur on August 10th, 2024, featuring Minnesota-made short films presented amidst a program of live music, camping, and community, as well as a traveling film festival featuring Minnesota-made shorts and animation. |
Jai Stephenson, Minneapolis | $ 23,000 | | Stephenson will screen their short narrative film within the Twin Cities. The screenings will engage up to 500 community members and filmmakers. |
STMA Music Boosters Club, Saint Michael | $ 35,000 | | The Saint Michael-Albertville Music Boosters will host the Grammy-winning, Texas-based, professional vocal ensemble, Conspirare, as they present their Christmas concert at both Central Lutheran Church in Minneapolis and at Saint Michael-Albertville High School. |
Tangible Collective, Minneapolis | $ 25,000 | | Tangible Collective, in collaboration with High Point Print Center, will facilitate two all Black print workshop series taught by a Black Minneapolis based printmaker, concluding with a work in progress exhibition. |
Teatro del Pueblo, Saint Paul | $ 32,000 | | Teatro del Pueblo, in collaboration with Pangea World Theatre, will present the trilogy Homodramaticus by Argentinian playwright Alberto Adallach, as part of the Latino/Asian Fusion Series. Each story examines and interprets the dehumanization of oppressed people. |
Theater Mu, Saint Paul | $ 35,000 | | Theater Mu will bring Minnesota audiences two meaningful arts experiences with the world premiere of Blended Harmony: The Kim Loo Sisters, coproduced with the History Theatre, and a presentation of Amm(i)goneby Adil Mansoor. |
Theatre 55, Saint Paul | $ 35,000 | | Theatre 55 will produce and present Into the Woods with actors, singers, and dancers aged 55+ at Caponi Art Park Amphitheater. |
Theatre du Mississippi, Winona | $ 25,000 | | Theatre du Mississippi will present four productions and a variety of free community events in its 26th season, focusing on original shows from writers in the area. |
Theatre Novi Most, Minneapolis | $ 35,000 | | Theatre Novi Most will present Sickle, a play by Abbey Fenbert about five women defending their village from annihilation during the Holodomor, the man-made famine inflicted on Ukraine by the Soviet Union from 1931-1933. The play will include live Ukrainian music. |
Threads, Minneapolis | $ 30,000 | | Threads Dance Project will develop and premiere a new dance work, "Abolition in Evolution (Part 2)," in fall 2024. |
Tofte Lake Center, Ely | $ 35,000 | | Tofte Lake Center will host six Minnesota BIPOC artists, five Minnesota parent artists, and six Minnesota BIPOC arts educators for a week long residency each, providing them with a supportive, creative retreat to focus on their work and careers. |
Trilingua Cinema, Saint Paul | $ 25,000 | | Trilingua Cinema will present twelve entertaining and culturally relevant free film screenings in various locations around the east side of Saint Paul, including free movie theater popcorn. |
Twin Cities Carifest, Minneapolis | $ 35,000 | | Twin Cities Carifest will present its annual festival to celebrate and share the many cultures of the Caribbean. Presented along the banks of the Mississippi, the day long event connects artists with diverse communities via island music, dance, arts, and food. |
Twin Cities Chinese Dance Center, Roseville | $ 35,000 | | Twin Cities Chinese Dance Center will offer its annual two-day performance show titled Highlands Festival,featuring Tibetan dance, martial arts, Irish dance, ballet dance, and Chinese folk song on August 24 and 25, 2024, at the Minnesota Heritage Masonic Center. |
Twin Cities Gay Men's Chorus, Minneapolis | $ 34,500 | | Twin Cities Gay Men's Chorus will present This Is Me in June and July 2024, a program exploring societal bias about physical appearance. This project centers around a large-scale collaborative commission called Every BODY. |
Twin Cities Steppers Association, Saint Paul | $ 35,000 | | Twin Cities Steppers Association will offer stepping dance classes in the Twin Cities urban core and engage audiences and artists by presenting a free music and movement festival at Western Sculpture Park in Saint Paul. |
Urban Roots, Saint Paul | $ 31,000 | | Urban Roots will offer River Stories, a youth arts program, to develop deeper community connections and engage in artmaking while highlighting diverse voices from the east side of Saint Paul. |
Vail Place, Hopkins | $ 25,410 | | Vail Place and the History Theatre will collaborate to engage adults with serious mental illness in interactive theater programming, supporting their health recovery goals through increased connections and understanding via a meaningful arts experience. |
Velvet Tones, Apple Valley | $ 10,000 | | Velvet Tones senior choir will perform ten free concerts at churches, retirement and care facilities, veteran facilities, and for those with limited access. |
Verse Like Water, Brainerd | $ 35,000 | | Verse Like Water will host U. S. Poet Laureate Ada Limon at Central Lakes College for the Brainerd lakes region, and at Long Prairie-Grey Eagle High School. Verse Like Water will also host Sherwin Bitsui and Layli Long Soldier at the college and at the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe. |
Violence Free Minnesota, Saint Paul | $ 35,000 | | Violence Free Minnesota will offer storytelling, arts, and puppetry sessions that center joy and imagination for residents at their member program shelters. |
Warroad Elementary School, Warroad | $ 23,400 | | Warroad Elementary School will offer a two-week artist residency with Sowah Mensah, a master drummer from Ghana (now living in Minnesota), with children in grades K-5. There will be a final student performance under Mensah's direction. |
Watermark Art Center, Bemidji | $ 35,000 | | Watermark Art Center's Miikanan Gallery will host "'Art as Resiliency," focusing on traditional Ojibwe cultural art with regional artists. A community art exhibit by Rory Wakemup will highlight Ojibwe cultural voice and art practices. |
City of Winona, Winona | $ 35,000 | | The City of Winona's Park and Recreation Department will present ART CAMP!, offering monthly opportunities for community members to make art in the parks over the summer and art for the new trails throughout the winter. |
Wonderlust Productions, Saint Paul | $ 35,000 | | Wonderlust Productions will create live public performances of a new play about the complex issue of caregiving, as told by a diverse group of caregivers from our community alongside professional artists. |
Worthington International Festival, Worthington | $ 25,000 | | The Cultural Awareness Organization will present a multicultural dance, storytelling, and music festival that is free to the public and includes Minnesota folk and traditional performers, ethnic foods, artist booths, and children's activities. |
Youth Chorale of Central Minnesota, Saint Cloud | $ 24,450 | | The Youth Chorale of Central Minnesota will increase access for rural Minnesota youth to high-quality arts programming by engaging Lorelei, a professional vocal ensemble, in a music festival for high school singers and a concert open to the public. |
Z Puppets Rosenschnoz, Minneapolis | $ 35,000 | | Z Puppets Rosenschnoz, led by Cherokee Nation citizen Chris Griffith, will develop Tales of Dagsi Turtle and Jisdu Wabbit. By spring 2025, Tales will debut at five Twin Cities community sites to get the show ready for wider touring. |
zAmya Theater Project, Minneapolis | $ 35,000 | | zAmya Theater Project will partner with Avivo and the North Loop Neighborhood Association to unify community members across the housing spectrum through the creation and production of an original musical to be coproduced with New Native Theatre. |
