This program helps Minnesotans develop personal relationships with an art form(s) by supporting learning experiences for individuals of all ages and abilities. Project grant funds may be used for age-appropriate classes, workshops, camps, after-school programs, online education programs, community arts education, school residences or partnerships, etc.
| Grantee, City |
Grant Amount |
826 MSP, Minneapolis | $ 35,000 | | 826 MSP will engage Twin Cities BIPOC youth in its after-school writing lab, developing confidence in their artistic abilities by learning writing techniques and becoming published. |
African Economic Development Solutions, Saint Paul | $ 35,000 | | African Economic Development Solutions will partner with African Minnesotan artists, elders, and other culture bearers to offer year-round multidisciplinary traditional and contemporary African arts education workshops at Saint Paul's new Little Africa Plaza Museum and Cultural Center. |
All City Music, Plymouth | $ 34,999 | | All City Music will bridge the arts access and education gap by providing a culturally informed, equitable approach to its arts education programming, inspired by historically black college and university marching band culture. |
American Choral Directors Association of Minnesota, Minneapolis | $ 30,940 | | The Minnesota chapter of the American Choral Directors Association will host a statewide singing festival for high school tenors, baritones, and basses with the Minnesota chamber ensemble Cantus serving as clinicians. |
Amherst H. Wilder Foundation, Saint Paul | $ 35,000 | | Amherst H. Wilder Foundation will offer music therapy sessions to older adults living with disability, memory loss, or neurodegenerative disease in order to deepen their creativtiy and develop their skills in songwriting, singing, music, and movement. |
Ananya Dance Theatre, Minneapolis | $ 34,660 | | Ananya Dance Theatre will offer a series of in person and virtual dance education classes for new and existing students, based in principles of Yorchha (a transnational feminist contemporary dance form) and Shawngram (a choreography methodology). |
Angelica Cantanti Youth Choirs, Bloomington | $ 35,000 | | The Angelica Cantanti Youth Choirs will provide high quality, diverse choral education and performance opportunities for singers in grades K-12. |
Art Buddies, Minneapolis | $ 25,000 | | Art Buddies will offer free, joyful, creative mentor programming in spoken word and creative writing for Twin Cities children who will gain applied art skills, agency, and pride in themselves, connection to their community, a foundation of creative confidence, and inspiration for their futures. |
Arts Center of Saint Peter, Inc., Saint Peter | $ 35,000 | | The Arts Center of Saint Peter will provide opportunities for residents of the greater Saint Peter area to develop their creativity and artistic skills by learning about and practicing an art form in clay, sewing, and creative writing. |
Ashland Productions, Inc., Maplewood | $ 23,690 | | Ashland Productions will expand its Ashland Collaborative Theater program by offering a Drama Club program for up to three schools new to musical theater or not ready for a full production, and one school already involved in the program, via reduced fees. |
Asian Economic Development Association, Saint Paul | $ 25,000 | | Asian Economic Development Association will offer Southeast Asian youth cultural heritage and identity exploration, writing and art making workshops, and adult mentoring to build their creative storytelling and artistic skills, self-confidence, and community. |
Atlas of Blackness, Saint Paul | $ 24,499 | | Atlas of Blackness will offer a multimedia storytelling and filmmaking program, with ethnographic and photovoice research, for youth affected by the foster care and juvenile justice systems, culminating in a public showing of the completed film. |
Aurora Center for the Arts, Fosston | $ 15,890 | | Aurora Center for the Arts will offer a series of art classes to adults, children, and youth bringing new and expanded arts education experiences to participants, including watercolor, leather work, and paper arts. |
Avivo, Minneapolis | $ 32,000 | | Avivo's ArtWorks program will engage community members monthly with planned access to art centers in the Minneapolis/Saint Paul metro area for specialized arts education activities that are not currently offered on-site, including printmaking, woodcrafting, and glass arts. |
Away Runakuna, Minneapolis | $ 25,000 | | Away Runakuna will offer dance classes and live performances that inspire communities to learn and celebrate Ecuadorian culture. |
Ballet Co.Laboratory, Saint Paul | $ 35,000 | | Ballet Co.Laboratory will program year-long dance education classes for students of all ages, abilities, and backgrounds. By participating in ballet lessons and performance opportunities, learners will develop dance technique, artistry, and community. |
Bancroft Elementary School, Minneapolis | $ 32,200 | | Bancroft Elementary will offer a residency with Pillsbury House + Theatre to provide high quality arts learning experiences in acting, playwriting, and puppetry that build creativity and confidence while developing a caring artistic community. |
Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Greater Twin Cities, Minneapolis | $ 34,995 | | Big Brothers Big Sisters Free Arts Program will help young Minnesotans ages 3-18 learn about and practice artistic skills and art forms including printmaking, clay, and music through artist residencies offered in partnership with, and on-site at, community based organizations. |
Bollywood Dance Scene, Minneapolis | $ 35,000 | | Bollywood Dance Scene will offer weekly South Asian dance classes and monthly workshops highlighting South Asian arts, and bring South Asian representation to the Twin Cities arts scene, for new and returning learners. |
BORIKÉN Cultural Center, White Bear Township | $ 24,950 |
| BORIKÉN Cultural Center will offer six immersive sessions for youth ages five - eighteen teaching traditional Afro-Puerto Rican drumming, dancing (bomba) and art. Participants will engage in rotations of these skills and perform in a showcase at the conclusion. |
Brooklyn Center Community Schools, Brooklyn Center | $ 31,000 | | Brooklyn Center Secondary STEAM will connect students with teaching artists and professionals who represent and reflect its culturally, ethnically, linguistically, and artistically diverse community, to develop arts skills across a variety of disciplines including visual and dance arts. |
Central Square Cultural and Civic Center, Glenwood | $ 25,000 | | Central Square will provide art education opportunities by offering youth classes and workshops in theater and music, and community events that promote art engagement as a vital element of civic life. |
Children's Theatre Company, Minneapolis | $ 32,306 | | Children's Theatre Company will deliver Early Bridges, a critical literacy and social emotional learning program using imaginative storytelling and creative drama. This program will serve students at Mississippi Creative Arts Elementary School in Saint Paul. |
Chops Inc., Saint Paul | $ 35,000 | | Chops, Inc.'s program Pan Outreach will conduct free steel drum residencies at low-income Twin Cities public schools, and a free summer camp, teaching at least 800 K-12 students fundamentals of music on the steel drum and introducing Caribbean culture. |
Clear Waters Life Center, Clearbrook | $ 34,600 | | Clear Waters Life Center will host regular art education programming with open studios, mentors and guest artists sharing their talents in a variety of art mediums, including ceramics and mosaic making, in its very small rural community, weaving ongoing art education and experiences into the fabric of our community. |
CommonBond Communities, Saint Paul | $ 35,000 | | CommonBond Communities will partner with professional teaching artists to deliver high quality art classes to older adults with low-incomes who live in CommonBond's affordable housing communities across the state of Minnesota. |
ComMUSICation, Saint Paul | $ 35,000 | | ComMUSICation will provide high quality afterschool music programs to middle school and high school youth through intensive, on-site choir programs. Programs focus on building community and developing leadership and life skills through music making. |
COMPAS, Saint Paul | $ 35,000 | | COMPAS will engage students and adults with intellectual or mental health disabilities to learn new skills in their chosen art form and increase social connections as they create together. |
Susanne M. Crane, Albert Lea | $ 19,580 | | Crane will offer a series of after-school classes in fabric design, painting, and drawing for school age artists both new and returning to her popular Kids College program. |
Crossing Arts Alliance, Brainerd | $ 35,000 | | Crossing Arts will expand art education offerings to more sites and communities in the central lakes area, guiding residents of greater Minnesota in learning about art mediums and encouraging creative expression in people of all ages and abilities. |
Denfeld High School, Duluth | $ 8,000 | | Denfeld High School will offer voice and musical instrument instruction with professional community based singers and musicans, in order to grow their confidence, encourage their personal musical growth, and foster thriving musical ensembles. |
Dreams United Suenos Unidos, Long Prairie | $ 17,650 | | Dreams United Suenos Unidos will offer students of immigrant background master drawing classes; each student will create one to two drawings for publication in the community newspaper. |
Duluth Art Institute, Duluth | $ 22,310 | | Duluth Art Institute will offer new community learning opportunities and skill development in filmmaking and clay, so Individuals can immerse themselves in a vibrant community of artists and learners. |
Duluth Playhouse, Duluth | $ 35,000 | | Duluth Playhouse School of Performing Arts will offer diverse theatrical arts instruction for all ages and levels, focusing on sequential skill growth to craft versatile artists. |
Ebenezer Foundation, Edina | $ 35,000 | | Ebenezer Foundation will offer its Lifelong Learning program featuring a variety of arts education partners, like MacPhail Center for Music, to provide art and music sessions for older adults in senior living facilities across Minnesota. |
Ecumen Meadows of Worthington, Worthington | $ 22,400 | | Ecumen Meadows of Worthington will collaborate with Artmobile to develop the artistic skills of 70 senior residents in ceramics, drawing, painting, and more, in their own homes. |
Epic Enterprise, Inc., Dundas | $ 35,000 | | Epic Enterprise will provide accessible, in-depth arts learning opportunities in a variety of mediums for adults living with disabilities. |
Face to Face, Saint Paul | $ 35,000 | | Face to Face provides youth experiencing homelessness opportunities to engage their creativity and develop their artistic skills in a variety of forms including creative writing, visual arts, and creating and recording music. |
FilmNorth, Saint Paul | $ 22,500 | | FilmNorth will offer two interconnected media arts education opportunities for youth. |
Fireweed Community Woodshop, Minneapolis | $ 34,960 | | Fireweed will offer thematic programming on joinery by offering classes, lectures, and demonstrations in woodcraft for women, nonbinary makers, BIPOC, and LGBTQA+ individuals in Minneapolis. |
Luis Fitch, Minneapolis | $ 25,000 | | Fitch will offer four visual arts education workshps steeped in Latinx art identity, fostering artistic exploration and cultural infusion for participants of all ages and abilities. |
FOCI Minnesota Center for Glass Arts, Minneapolis | $ 35,000 | | Foci Minnesota Center for Glass Arts will support a series of local and regional visiting artist workshops for emerging young artists and the general public in the Twin Cities. |
Folwell Elementary School, Minneapolis | $ 24,250 | | Folwell Elementary School, in conjunction with Speaking Out Collective, will host a bilingual 2nd and 3rd grade residency focused on theater and storytelling. Classrooms will develop and perform new stories about underrepresented communities. |
The Full Moon Puppet Show, Minneapolis | $ 35,000 | | Full Moon will support ten artists through the process of creating a ten-minute original puppet show, train six artists and 70+ community members on large-scale puppet building, and offer a workshop series on puppetry styles and techniques to 150 students. |
Good Samaritan Society-Westview Acres, Waconia | $ 34,650 | | The Good Samaritan Society-Westview Acres will offer senior residents arts education activities in music, mosaic making, and creative writing to provide health benefits, improve mood, and encourage community engagement for the purpose of improving residents' quality of life. |
The Grand Center for Arts and Culture, New Ulm | $ 34,995 | | The Grand Center for Arts and Culture will expand its arts education offerings for children and youth through Cellar Press and heART therapy classes, allowing young people in New Ulm and the surrounding areas to develop and demonstrate their arts skills in a wide variety of art forms, including letterpress, printmaking, and book arts. |
Grand Marais Art Colony, Grand Marais | $ 29,000 | | The Grand Marais Art Colony will increase access to its professional printmaking studio to both youth and adults through a broader selection of on-site and in community educational programs. |
GREAT Theatre, Waite Park | $ 34,500 | | GREAT Theatre will sustain and expand theater education programming including drama workshops, summer camps, in school residencies, youth artist projects, student matinees, and performing to build arts skills and foster personal growth for youth and adults. |
Greater Twin Cities Youth Symphonies, Saint Paul | $ 35,000 | | Greater Twin Cities Youth Symphonies will provide year-round violin and cello instruction for second to fifth graders in Harmony and provide orchestra tuition, lessons, and instruments for Harmony graduates through twelfth grade. |
Headwaters Music & Arts, Bemidji | $ 31,350 | | Headwaters School of Music and the Arts will offer youth and adults in north central Minnesota increased access to art and music education through high quality group classes. |
Highland Friendship Club, Falcon Heights | $ 22,800 | | Highland Friendship Club will provide opportunities for teens and adults with disabilities to explore their creativity, connect with their peers, and engage with their community through theater training and performance and photography classes. |
Honors Choirs of Southeast Minnesota, Rochester | $ 32,150 | | Honors Choirs of Southeast Minnesota will host SINGSATION! Children's Choral Festival, a one-day choral experience for young singers in grades two to six, with skills building in vocal technique and performance. |
Hopewell Music Cooperative North, Minneapolis | $ 35,000 | | Hopewell Music Cooperative North will offer music lessons and ensembles to individuals of all ages in north Minneapolis. The program will feature various instruments and draw on a broad range of cultural traditions and styles. |
Iglesia Piedra Viva UMC, Minneapolis | $ 25,000 | | Iglesia Piedra Viva United Methodist Chruch's Guitarra en el Barrio program unites Latino families with art through bilingual guitar instruction, engaging families in an enriching activity that builds social and emotional skills, enhances academics, and promotes self-expression and group expression in the arts. |
Illusion Theater, Minneapolis | $ 35,000 | | Illusion Theater will engage a culturally diverse group of youth in 13 schools in urban, suburban, and rural communities throughout Minnesota, providing high quality arts education and youth mentorship through its Keepin' It Real theater arts program. |
In Progress, Saint Paul | $ 35,000 | | In Progress will provide quality arts education activities for developing artists in the field of digital media. Its Collective program includes skill training, mentorship, presentation, and networking opportunities. |
In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre, Minneapolis | $ 35,000 | | Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre will offer new, in person educational opportunities in puppet making and performance to introduce more people to the magic and joy of puppetry arts. |
Independent School District 882 Monticello, Monticello | $ 35,000 | | Independent School District 882 Monticello will host teaching artists to provide master classes in music to middle school students. |
International Cello Institute, Northfield | $ 35,000 | | The International Cello Institute will offer accessible summer concerts in Northfield and surrounding communities, provide cello instruction for students, and present the Cello Recital Series in the Twin Cities to enhance arts programming in Minnesota. |
Itasca Life Options, Grand Rapids | $ 10,080 | | Itasca Life Options will partner with the Reif Performing Arts Center to provide adaptive and accessible dance, music, and theater arts education to individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities. |
Itasca Orchestra and Strings Program, Grand Rapids | $ 24,945 | | The Itasca Orchestra and Strings Program will deliver participatory music programming to northern Minnesota youth through Carnegie Hall's Link Up program and through Musikgarten curriculum for students, ages infant through fifth grade. |
William Jeter Jr., Minneapolis | $ 21,000 | | Jeter will create a fine art printmaking series of directed studio work with African American artists in Minnesota, resulting in a collective month-long exhibition and series of community events, workshops, and talks for youth and adults. |
Late Night Copies Press Johnson, Minneapolis | $ 14,620 | | Late Night Copies Press will coordinate a series of eight zine workshops and a daylong symposium in conjunction with the Midwest Queer and Trans Zine Fest, which serves an audience of low-income, LGBTQ artists, makers, and community members. |
Juxtaposition Arts, Minneapolis | $ 35,000 | | Juxtaposition Arts will offer comprehensive arts training for youth in north Minneapolis, providing free, paid, hands-on visual arts education that creates pathways to self-sufficiency while actualizing creative power. |
Anne M. Krocak, Cologne | $ 35,000 | | Krocak and team will lead the Intersections Mosaics project, a series of individual and collaborative mosaic learning and creation classes with doubly silenced and marginalized intersectional community members. |
Kulture Klub Collaborative, Minneapolis | $ 16,088 | | Kulture Klub Kollaborative will offer a four-month, weekly poetry program that encourages introspection and self-reflection. Poetry prompts taught by Twin Cities legend Desdamona will inspire students to ponder, articulate, and write how they feel, culminating in a final performance. |
Lake Superior Youth Chorus, Duluth | $ 35,000 | | Lake Superior Youth Chorus will develop future ready youth through choral artistry. Singers will explore values of self-confidence, empathy, and efficacy through year-long resident choir programming, after-school programming, summer camps, and more. |
Lakeshore Players Theatre, White Bear Lake | $ 35,000 | | Lakeshore Players Theatre will offer free and low-cost theater residencies centered around the methodology of devised theater in which participants will be more deeply engaged in the creation of a theatrical show. |
Ren Lamott, Duluth | $ 25,000 | | Lamott will offer community education workshops and summer day camps in clay arts for youth in greater Minnesota. |
Kate Langlais, Faribault | $ 25,000 | | Langlais will teach painting and drawing classes for all ages at a variety of locations in Faribault. |
The Loft Literary Center, Minneapolis | $ 31,000 | | The Loft will implement strategies to build community partnerships and provide access to classes and other activities focused on engaging new participants in its programs, especially among marginalized BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, and low-income populations. |
Shannon J. Lucas Westrum, Bemidji | $ 24,990 | | Lucas Westrum will bring the art of basketmaking to communities across northern Minnesota while teaching techniques and introducing locally sourced materials. |
MacPhail Center for Music, Minneapolis | $ 35,000 | | MacPhail Center for Music will pilot a program to provide comprehensive, ongoing, and barrier-free music education to a cohort of middle and high school students from historically under recognized and marginalized backgrounds. |
Mary Beth Magyar, Rochester | $ 20,092 | | Magyar will collaborate with Franklin Elementary School students and parents to make and glaze tiles to build a permanent mosaic for the school that represents the students and their neighborhood. |
Brian J. Malloy, Grand Marais | $ 14,217 | | Malloy will offer a series of creative writing sessions for residents of Cook County and Lake County. |
Mamá Papaya, Edina | $ 35,000 |
| Mamá Papaya will offer a fellowship for emerging filmmakers to learn skills in writing, directing, producing, and distributing a short, fictional miniseries rooted in their culture and personal histories. |
Mankato Area Youth Choirs, Mankato | $ 22,000 | | Mankato Area Youth Choirs will provide an opportunity for any interested youth to experience the joy of singing, while developing healthy vocal techniques and an appreciation of international cultures through music. |
Mankato Area Youth Symphony Orchestra, Mankato | $ 27,800 | | The Mankato Area Youth Symphony Orchestra offers year-round music learning and performance opportunities for school age children using a professional orchestra model, programming works from the repertoire of the great symphonic tradition. |
Marine Mills Folk School, Marine on Saint Croix | $ 24,500 | | Marine Mills Folk School will engage curious learners to gain new folk arts skills or advance existing skills in community with others, leading to increased creativity, improved mental health, and a decrease in loneliness, through woodcarving classes, knitting circles, and bluegrass jam sessions |
Merrick, Inc., Vadnais Heights | $ 31,200 | | Merrick, Inc. will provide high quality music education activities for adults with intellectual or developmental disabilities. |
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis | $ 35,000 | | Minneapolis Institute of Arts' Creativity Academy helps fourth graders develop critical thinking, empathy, and creativity skills through visual art lessons that introduce progressively complex creative challenges. |
Minnesota Ballet, Duluth | $ 35,000 | | Minnesota Ballet will provide high quality recreational and preprofessional dance instruction; adaptive ballet lessons for individuals with disabilities; and interactive workshops, classes and performances in Duluth and surrounding communities. |
Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis | $ 35,000 | | Minnesota Center for Book Arts will engage Minnesotans in meaningful in person and virtual book arts education programs, including affordable workshops in bookbinding, letterpress printing, papermaking, and paper marbling, taught by a diverse team of teaching artists. |
Minnesota Chinese Music Ensemble, Richfield | $ 35,000 | | Minnesota Chinese Music Ensemble will offer free, private erhu (Chinese violin) lessons to Minnesotans age fifteen and younger, for new and existing students. |
Minnesota Chorale, Minneapolis | $ 35,000 | | Minnesota Chorale will offer the Minneapolis Youth Chorus and Prelude Children's Choir programming to Minneapolis public, charter and home school students in third through ninth grades. |
The Minnesota Conservatory for the Arts, Winona | $ 24,500 | | The Minnesota Conservatory for the Arts will provide Winona and surrounding communities with high quality, multidisciplinary arts education programming in the summer of 2025 by offering camps for students ages 6-24 in textile arts, songwriting, theater, and bookmaking. |
Minnesota Hard Bop Collective, Saint Paul | $ 35,000 | | The Minnesota Hard Bop Collective's professional jazz musicians will provide music instruction, coaching, and performance opportunities to students across Minnesota with Minnesota Jazz Student Sit-In/Mentorship Series programming. |
Minnesota Northwoods Writers Conference, Bemidji | $ 35,000 | | The Minnesota Northwoods Writers Conference will provide Minnesotans a high quality and affordable literary arts experience with a talented and diverse group of award winning writers in a safe and inclusive setting. |
The Minnesota Original Music Festival, Saint Peter | $ 35,000 | | Minnesota Original Music Festival will offer music based activities and performance opportunities to Minnesota songwriters of all ages and backgrounds, to facilitate skills building in composition, performance, creativity, and to foster community among Minnesota artists. |
Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop, Minneapolis | $ 35,000 | | Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop will deliver eight in person creative writing classes to Minnesotans incarcerated across eight state prisons. Courses are designed in collaboration with writers collectives of experienced students at each facility. |
Minnesota Transitions Charter School, Minneapolis | $ 21,635 | | Minnesota Transitions Charter School will provide learning experiences in various arts disciplines including puppet making, clay arts, and creative writing through visiting artist residencies. |
Mnprov, Eden Prairie | $ 17,668 | | MNprov presents four, ten-week sessions of MNprov FrieNDs, its theatrical improvisation classes for youth with neurodivergence. Forty-eight participants will learn performance techniques, work with scene partners, and develop their artistic voice. |
Moreland Arts and Health Sciences Magnet School, West Saint Paul | $ 35,000 | | Moreland Arts and Health Sciences Magnet School will partner with Z Puppets Rosenschnoz for residencies, after-school programs, and performances exploring the art of puppetry and creative tools for finding calm. |
Karen Morris, Dellwood | $ 20,000 | | Morris will conduct multicultural millinery classes, restoring the craft of hat making in Minnesota. The program will engage diverse communities, culminating in a public exhibition showcasing hats that reflect participants' heritage. |
MSS, Saint Paul | $ 35,000 | | Midwest Special Services will offer metal and glass workshops in collaboration with Chicago Avenue Fire Arts Center, ceramics workshops with Northern Clay Center, textile workshops led by The Snips, and music workshops with artists from COMPAS, to community members. |
New Native Theatre, Saint Paul | $ 34,900 | | New Native Theater will partner with the Division of Indian Work for a youth summer camp, open to the public and designed for Native Americans living in the Twin Cities. Students will practice conventional theater skills led by Native instructors and professional artists. |
New Ulm Suzuki School of Music, New Ulm | $ 34,855 | | The New Ulm Suzuki School of Music will provide enrichment programming including weekly note reading and group music classes, an annual Suzuki music workshop, a summer pops camp, and a midwinter orchestra wrkshop to supplement weekly lessons. |
Norman County Developmental Activities Center, Ada | $ 34,725 | | The Norman County Developmental Activities Center will offer a variety of hands-on arts education activities in ceramics, fiber art, painting, and music to persons with disabilities in rural Minnesota. |
Northern Clay Center, Minneapolis | $ 35,000 | | Northern Clay Center will offer educational clay programs tailored to engage youth of all ages, interests, development, and abilities to build future audiences of ceramics makers, learners, and supporters. |
Northern Starz Children's Theatre, Ramsey | $ 35,000 | | Northern Starz Theatre Company will offer individuals with disabilities the opportunity and skill set to be a star, both on stage and off, learning theater skills in singing, dance, and movement. |
Northwoods Young Writers, International Falls | $ 35,000 | | Northwoods Young Writers' camp will connect award-winning Minnesota authors to girls who have a passion for writing. The camp supports teen girls to develop their passion for writing and to become self-reflective, collaborative community members. |
Opera Reading Project, Saint Paul | $ 35,000 | | Opera Reading Project will provide accessible training in the craft of opera to Minnesota singers of all levels, from emerging to professional. |
Pangea World Theater, Minneapolis | $ 35,000 | | Pangea World Theater will partner with Higher Ground Academy, Turtle Theater Collective, and Ubah Medical Academy to conduct free, public theater residencies that foster skills in working as an ensemble, performance, and devising new work. |
Paramount Center for the Arts, Saint Cloud | $ 34,000 | | Paramount Center for the Arts will continue to expand its studio arts classes to ensure accessibility for all who wish to experience the arts and explore their personal creativity and artistic aspirations. |
Park Square Theatre, Saint Paul | $ 35,000 | | Park Square Theatre will offer SteppingStone creative learning activities, multiple summer camps and Saturday classes for grades K-12, and a summer musical starring young artists. |
Partnership Resources, Inc., Minneapolis | $ 35,000 | | Partnership Resources will hire an art instructor to engage clients with disabilities in arts learning in a variety of visual arts disciplines including painting, photography, drawing, and pottery, culminating in an exhibition of their work. |
Niphone Phommaras, Saint Paul Park | $ 25,000 | | Phommaras will teach new and returning students classical traditional Lao dance, and present a modern and traditional cultural heritage fashion show. |
Project GEM, Pemberton | $ 20,300 | | Project GEM will provide weekly multidisciplinary art classes and after-school art classes to greater rural Mankato area low-income and special needs youth in grades K-12. |
Project SUCCESS, Minneapolis | $ 35,000 | | Project Success's arts education programming for Minneapolis students demonstrates the power of theater to inspire, build community, and spark discussion through artist residencies and theater performances. |
Purple Playground, Minneapolis | $ 35,000 | | Purple Playground will offer a series of Academy of Prince music education programs for new and returning Twin Cities teens. Students will learn from teachers and musicans who worked with Prince, collaboratively writing and recording original songs with them. |
Red Wing Arts, Red Wing | $ 35,000 | | Red Wing Arts will offer "Community Saturdays," a series of in person, mini lessons in which community members learn, experiment with, and experience different techniques in clay and mixed media. |
River City Rhythm, Inc., Monticello | $ 24,000 | | River City Rhythm will offer free clinics for youth interested in the marching arts. Seven clinics will be hosted around the state that will focus on introducing new students to drum line and color guard by teaching technical and performance skills. |
Saint Francis Music Center, Little Falls | $ 14,100 | | Saint Francis Music Center will offer a series of arts workshops and weekly music classes to rural seniors that encourage lifelong participation and socialization through the arts. |
Saint Paul Ballet, Saint Paul | $ 35,000 | | Saint Paul Ballet will offer financially and culturally accessible dance education classes, and increase its relationship with the Hamline-Midway neighborhood that it calls home. |
Saint Paul Conservatory for Performing Artists, Saint Paul | $ 35,000 | | Saint Paul Conservatory for Performing Arts will offer its students training and internship opportunities at Twin Cities' professional arts organzations. |
Saint Therese, Saint Louis Park | $ 34,378 | | Saint Therese will provide 136 MacPhail led ukulele play and general music education sessions along with 54 COMPAS visual art sessions to help residents develop a relationship with music and learn a new art form. |
Sauk Rapids-Rice Public Schools, Sauk Rapids | $ 35,000 | | The Sauk Rapids-Rice Schools will partner with Copper Street Brass to present an in-depth music learning residency with a focus on small group learning using chamber music. |
The Semilla Center for Healing and the Arts, Minneapolis | $ 32,800 | | Semilla Center for Healing and the Arts will host bilingual public art workshops, including mosaic Mondays, to teach and empower south Minneapolis neighbors to create public art that reflects the hopes and strengths of their community. |
SHAPESHIFT, Minneapolis | $ 35,000 | | Shapeshift will pilot Shift+Shape, an eight-week afterschool program for dance technique, collaborative composition, and creative career pathways at Justice Page Middle School in Minneapolis. |
She Rock She Rock, Minneapolis | $ 35,000 | | She Rock She Rock will provide an inclusive environment that values collaboration and diversity, develops leadership skills, and fosters self-confidence through its performance based music education and events, including its Girls Rock n Roll camps. |
Southeastern Minnesota Youth Orchestra, Inc., Rochester | $ 35,000 | | Southeastern Minnesota Youth Orchestras will provide opportunities for youth in grades three to twelve to grow through musical learning, discovery, and performance. |
Scott E. Stafford, Minneapolis | $ 25,000 | | Stafford will offer dance residencies in K-12 schools across Minnesota. These residencies are a continuation of efforts previously supported by the Cowles Center for Dance. All residencies are free of cost for schools. |
Stages Theatre Company, Hopkins | $ 35,000 | | Stages Theatre Company will offer theater education classes for students, age two through grade twelve. Taught by professional teaching artists, these classes are accessible to all young people and will build self-confidence, creativity, and performance skills. |
Step With Soul, Minneapolis | $ 25,000 | | Step With Soul will offer a year-long season of step dance education classes for new and existing students, expanding their step skills and cultivating leadership potential. |
Rita F. Sterling, Aitkin | $ 21,720 | | Sterling will provide fine arts training to the underserved in Aitkin and surrounding communities, with sessions in English, Spanish, and Italian. Accessible arts workshops cater to diverse ages and abilities uniting BIPOC, LGBTQIA2S+, seniors, and youth. |
StoryArk, Stillwater | $ 35,000 | | StoryArk will offer creative camps for middle and high school students to explore the arts of podcasting, film, creative writing, songwriting, and visual arts; develop artistic skills; and collaborate with their peers. |
Sullivan STEAM School, Minneapolis | $ 22,500 | | Sullivan STEAM School will expand a partnership with Speaking Out Collective in a multiweek arts residency for third and fifth graders; students will create, perform, and respond to stories of marginalized Minnesotans. |
Tasks Unlimited, Minneapolis | $ 26,081 | | Tasks Unlimited will work with adults with mental illness to develop their artistic skills and creativity as they learn about and practice drumming, visual arts, and storytelling. |
Ten Thousand Things, Saint Paul | $ 35,000 | | Ten Thousand Things will produce 25 theater workshops on acting and playwriting for individuals impacted by incarceration, through four correctional facilities and one reentry program for returning citizens. |
Theater Mu, Saint Paul | $ 34,360 | | Theater Mu will engage Asian American, BIPOC artists and youth in grades three to twelve in three Mu Training Institute programs to develop theater skills, instill lasting arts appreciation, and build a shared artistic community. |
Thief River Falls Area Community Theater, Thief River Falls | $ 35,000 | | The Thief River Falls Area Community Theater will engage local school-age children and adults by conducting arts education workshops, and by offering summer camps for youth that culminate in musical theatrical productions for the public. |
Touchstone Mental Health, Minneapolis | $ 32,000 | | Touchstone Mental Health will offer music and visual art classes for clients living with mental illness. |
TU Dance, Saint Paul | $ 33,800 | | TU Dance will sustain its CULTIVATE dance trainee program to meet the specific needs of advanced dance performing artists, preparing them for a career in the professional field and building pathways to work opportunities. |
Twin Cities Jazz Workshop, Minneapolis | $ 35,000 | | Twin Cities Jazz Workshop will expand beyond its summer program to offer weekly music education workshops in spring and fall 2025. Students will play in small ensembles, receive instruction from jazz professionals, and learn a varied jazz repertoire. |
Twin Cities Media Alliance, Minneapolis | $ 35,000 | | Twin Cities Media Alliance will offer PROLOG Intensives + Talks, immersive workshops and public discussions led by acclaimed filmmakers of color, to strengthen the skills, artistic voices, and professional networks of Minnesota's filmmakers of color. |
Twin Cities Theater Camp, Edina | $ 24,600 | | Twin Cities Theater Camp will offer students five weeks of high quality theater arts education programming in a loving and supportive community. Campers will study acting, dance, art, music, and social justice oriented dramaturgy and will perform in a full-scale musical production. |
Universal Music Center, Red Wing | $ 30,950 | | Universal Music Center will bring inspiring, purposeful programming to marginalized community members in southeast Minnesota through in-house music lessons, and learning programs in the field where these populations live and congregate. |
Upstream Arts, Inc., Minneapolis | $ 35,000 | | Upstream Arts will offer arts residency programs in five special education classrooms in the Minneapolis Public School District. This programming will bring theater, music, dance, visual arts, and poetry to 75 students with disabilities. |
USA Community Chorus, Swanville | $ 24,750 | | The Upsala/Swanville Area Community Chorus will continue its choral arts education program that, for 23 years, has provided access to some of the nation's finest choral conductors for singers in the central Minnesota area. |
Vail Communities, Hopkins | $ 25,410 | | Vail Place will collaborate with the History Theatre 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 education experience, and learning skills in creative writing and movement. |
Paul M. Van Dyke, Northfield | $ 24,900 | | Van Dyke will offer two, ten-week creative nonfiction writing courses and two, ten-week fiction writing courses to U. S. military veterans and adult veteran family members, with a public reading highlighting student work. |
Violence Free Minnesota, Saint Paul | $ 35,000 | | Violence Free Minnesota will offer storytelling, theater, music, and art education workshops that center joy and imagination for residents at member program shelters. |
VocalEssence, Minneapolis | $ 35,000 | | VocalEssence Singers Of This Age will support its community of 40-50 Twin Cities teenagers, expanding what it means to be a choir with instruction on the fundamentals of music, collaborative composition, and voice lessons. |
The Waawaate Programs, Ely | $ 25,000 | | Waawaate Programs will offer live classes in traditional music, dance, art, and craft to Bois Forte Band members that restore the ancestral connection with the land and Ojibwemowin culture. |
Walker|West, Saint Paul | $ 34,891 | | Walker West Music Academy will operate a fun, three-week Grow Through Music summer camp for forty K through grade six beginner and returning students, to learn to play simple tunes on several instruments and share what they've learned in a culminating group performance. |
West Central Initiative, Fergus Falls | $ 35,000 | | West Central Initiative is partnering with The NEST to host an open-ended visual arts education experience for young people and their communities to explore identity and belonging, culminating in a public art exhibit in Otter Tail County. |
White Bear Center for the Arts, White Bear Lake | $ 35,000 | | White Bear Center for the Arts will offer immersive, welcoming art classes in new and traditional mediums, providing students a safe and inclusive space to experience art, increase their proficiency, and connect with others. |
Wingspan Life Resources, Saint Paul | $ 22,750 | | Wingspan will provide new and returning clients with developmental disabilities access to a series of educational offerings in multiple artistic disciplines and varied cultural influences, learning skills in dance, movement, poetry, and spoken word. |
Wyoming Creative Arts Community Inc, Wyoming | $ 34,800 | | The Wyoming Area Creative Arts Community will offer free art education programming to seniors in the community and senior living facilities, held at Hallberg Art Center and other accessible locations, promoting arts access and education through different mediums, including painting, printmaking, and sculpture. |
Kao K. Yang, Saint Paul | $ 25,000 | | Yang will offer a series of six public writing workshops for refugees who are interested in writing their stories. |
Qian X. Yin, Medina | $ 25,000 | | Yin will offer a series of in person (or virtual) singing lessons for new and returning participants suffering from cancer and depression, and senior Chinese immigrants who are passionate about singing. |
Young Dance, Saint Paul | $ 30,686 | | Young Dance creates access to dance for people living with disabilities with its All Abilities Dancing Initiative for new and experienced dancers. |
Youth Performance Company, Saint Paul | $ 35,000 | | Youth Performance Company will expand its education program into Minneapolis during the summer of 2025. The pilot program will be offered at the Conn Theater for two weeks, providing theater arts classes for 64 youth, ages 8-18. |
Zeitgeist, Duluth | $ 35,000 | | Zeitgeist's Minnesota Media Arts School will offer classes and workshops for beginner and experienced filmmakers and media artists, and will develop new teaching locations throughout northeast Minnesota. |
Zenon Dance Company and School, Inc., Minneapolis | $ 35,000 | | Zenon Dance School outreach partnerships will make artistically excellent dance instruction accessible for underserved youth in the Twin Cities area. |
