Acknowledging Arts Board Support
Grant funds come to the Minnesota State Arts Board from different sources. Properly acknowledging funding sources both recognizes and helps to ensure continued support.
Grantees are required to acknowledge Arts Board support by using the appropriate logo(s) and credit line in all printed materials, news releases, newsletters, advertisements, postcards, posters, programs, catalogs, invitations, films, videotapes, electronic transmissions and Internet sites. In some cases this will mean the Arts Board logo, in some instances this will mean the Minnesota Legacy Amendment, or the National Endowment for the Arts, or another sponsor’s logo. In some instances grantees will be required to include more than one logo for accurate acknowledgement.
Grantees must also acknowledge Arts Board support even when written credit is not applicable, by providing oral credit before each event or performance.
By complying with acknowledgement requirements, grantees help themselves by recognizing the source of their grant funding while also helping to ensure continued support of the arts from the Arts Board, partner organizations, the state legislature, and the people of Minnesota.
Which acknowledgement should I use?
There are multiple types of acknowledgements required, and they are specific to individual contracts. Grantee contracts will specify if a grantee is to use the Minnesota Legacy logo, the Arts Board logo, both, or a different logo or combination.
Grantees should display the appropriate logo(s) along with the exact wording noted in your contract, which will be similar to the wording below.
- “[Grantee name] is a fiscal year [applicable year] recipient of a [program name] grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board. This activity is funded, in part, by the arts and cultural heritage fund as appropriated by the Minnesota State Legislature with money from the Legacy Amendment vote of the people of Minnesota on November 4, 2008.”
- “This activity is funded, in part, by the Minnesota State Arts Board through the arts and cultural heritage fund as appropriated by the Minnesota State Legislature with money from the Legacy Amendment vote of the people of Minnesota on November 4, 2008.”
Please refer to your grantee contract for the specific wording of the required acknowledgement and which logo(s) to include.
Using Arts Board logos
In using the Arts Board logo, we ask that you follow a few simple guidelines:
- If you need to change the size of our logo, please make sure that it's resized proportionally to its original dimensions (i.e., do not change the aspect ratio.)
- Please make sure that there's at least .167 inches of space all around the logo, to avoid crowding.
- If you intend to print the logo in two colors, contact the Arts Board Communications Office for information on the correct color breaks.
Legacy Amendment / Minnesota arts and cultural heritage fund grants
Grantee contracts will specify if a grant does or does not include Legacy Amendment funding. All recipients of Legacy Amendment, also known as arts and cultural heritage fund, grants must, by law, incorporate the Legacy Amendment logo, along with the Arts Board logo and the exact wording noted in your grantee contract, into printed and other materials funded with money from this fund. Please refer to your grantee contract for the specific wording of the required acknowledgement and which logo(s) to include.
Legacy Amendment Logo
For more details and formats
visit the Legacy Amendment site.
Non-Legacy Amendment grants
Grantee contracts will specify if a grant does or does not include Legacy Amendment funding. All recipients of Arts Board grants must incorporate the Arts Board logo, along with any other required logos and acknowledgements and the exact wording noted in your grantee contract, into printed and other materials. Please refer to your grantee contract for the specific wording of the required acknowledgement and which logo(s) to include.
Minnesota State Arts Board color logo
Minnesota State Arts Board black & white logo
Minnesota State Arts Board color logo and credit line
Other Logos
National Endowment for the Arts Logo
Many Arts Board grants are partially funded through the money the agency receives from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). We encourage Arts Board grantees to credit the NEA in their printed materials. You may download the NEA logo here.
NEA Logo Page (on NEA.gov)
Wells Fargo Logo
Group II Institutional Support, metro-area arts organizations also receive support from Wells Fargo. Grantees are encouraged to credit the Wells Fargo in their printed materials.
If you have any questions about the use of any these logos or credit lines, please contact:
Brian Strub
(651) 215-1604 | (800) 8MN-ARTS
brian.strub@arts.state.mn.us
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