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 promotes arts access and education through its free After-School Writing Lab program for Twin Cities BIPOC youth. In this program, youth develop confidence in their artistic abilities by learning writing techniques and becoming published. |
A Great Day Farm, Northfield | $ 5,000 | | A Great Day Farm will offer "Rooted in Creativity: Art for All," a nature based arts program where adults with disabilities will create art using foraged natural materials. This program fosters self-expression, connection, and accessibility in the arts. |
Afghan Cultural Society, Minneapolis | $ 35,000 | | The proposed project will engage Afghan adolescents in the design and production of a coloring book. The books will depict Afghan cultural and historical scenes. The books will be distributed among Afghan children in the community for their use. |
Afoutayi Haitian Dance, Music and Arts Company, Lakeville | $ 14,090 | | Funding will support Afoutayi's programs including dance, drumming, and language classes, as well as community gatherings, ensuring access for 2,000+ learners while fostering cultural pride, artistic skills, and cross-cultural understanding. |
All City Music, Plymouth | $ 35,000 | | All City Music is an arts education hub focused on culture and youth empowerment. Through music and dance, it provides a transformative experience and fosters hope, self-acceptance, and new ways of thinking about a brighter future. |
American Choral Directors Association of Minnesota, Minneapolis | $ 31,870 | | The Minnesota chapter of the American Choral Directors Association will host Golden Voices, a statewide choral festival for older adults (55+) with the Minnesota conductor Natalia Romero Arbeláez serving as clinician. |
Amherst H. Wilder Foundation, Saint Paul | $ 35,000 | | Wilder will offer engaging music therapy sessions to older and disabled adults living in two Saint Paul public housing hi-rises and four Southeast Asian cultural support groups who meet at Wilder's Center for Social Healing. |
Ananya Dance Theatre, Saint Paul | $ 34,934 | | Ananya Dance Theatre will offer multiple series of in person/virtual dance education classes for new and existing students, based in principles of Yorchhā (transnational feminist contemporary dance form) and Shawngram (choreographic 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. |
ARENA Dances, Minneapolis | $ 35,000 | | ARENA DANCES will offer DanceON, an after-school residency program for teaching and learning dance, and Moving Practice, an apprenticeship program for hands-on dance teacher training to students at North High School in Minneapolis. |
Art Buddies, Minneapolis | $ 25,000 | | Art Buddies is a free, joyful, creative mentor programming for Twin Cities children who gain applied art skills, agency, and pride in themselves, connection to their community, a foundation of creative confidence, and inspiration for their futures. |
Aurora Center for the Arts, Fosston | $ 18,255 | | Aurora Center for the Arts will offer a series of visual and performing art classes to adults, children, and youth bringing new and expanded arts experiences to participants. |
Avivo, Minneapolis | $ 35,000 | | Avivo will engage 18 ArtWorks members as teaching artists, connecting them with professional mentors and providing stipend supported opportunities to lead at least one arts education class for 8-10 participants in Avivo's Community Support Program. |
Avon Hills Folk School, Avon | $ 35,000 | | The Avon Hills Folk School will host April Ogimaakwe Stone to present a series of demonstrations and workshops in black ash basketry. Learners will observe and practice construction techniques and the harvest and preparation of materials. |
Ballet Co.Laboratory, Saint Paul | $ 35,000 | | Ballet Co.Laboratory will program year-round dance education classes for students of all ages, abilities, and backgrounds. Through ballet classes and performance opportunities, learners will cultivate technique, artistry, and a strong sense of community. |
Cheryl Bannes, New York Mills | $ 6,560 | | Visual artist Cheryl Bannes will present a series of art workshops at the New York Mills elementary schools, that will be based on the integration of art and science based on the science curriculum. |
Bemidji Community Theater, Bemidji | $ 35,000 | | Bemidji Community Theater will offer a Starbridge Academy production of live theater where all the actors and crew will be under the age of 18. |
Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Greater Twin Cities, Minneapolis | $ 35,000 | | Big Brothers Big Sisters Free Arts Program will help young Minnesotans, ages 3-18, learn and practice artistic skills and art forms through teaching artist residencies offered on-site at community based organizations in Minneapolis and Saint Paul. |
Bionik, Minneapolis | $ 25,000 | | Bionik will facilitate nine music mentorship sessions with six young artists that culminate in a community performance. Four junior mentors from previous programming will cofacilitate sessions along with established Minnesota guest artist mentors. |
Sheletta Brundidge, Cottage Grove | $ 25,000 | | Sheletta Brundidge will offer a series of in person workshops for young adults and adults interested in learning about digital media arts. |
BSA, Minneapolis | $ 28,680 | | Black Storytellers Alliance presents an intensive 12-week course on the art of oral storytelling from an African/African American perspective. |
The Bureau, Minneapolis | $ 34,850 | | The Bureau will offer a mentorship program for early career artists providing training in design, photography, and storytelling. Fellows will codesign a clothing collection and produce a visual campaign to build skills, confidence, and portfolios. |
Capoeira Minnesota, Saint Paul | $ 34,999 | | Capoeira Minnesota will expand its programming by purchasing new instruments, subsidizing tuition for underserved students, and enhancing outreach efforts to engage diverse communities in Afro-Brazilian music, dance, and culture. |
The Capri Theater, Minneapolis | $ 34,951 | | In partnership with celebrated artist J. D. Steele, the Capri Theater will offer Capri Glee!, a north Minneapolis adult community choir that provides in-depth arts learning and creative expression while boosting community connections and comradery. |
Center for Community Services, Saint Paul | $ 35,000 | | Center for Community Services will provide rigorous Chinese dance classes to build adult dancers' skills to a preprofessional or professional level. |
Chicago Avenue Fire Arts Center, Minneapolis | $ 34,720 | | Chicago Avenue Fire Arts Center will offer new workshops on specialty techniques taught by visiting artists, alongside our established arts education programs open to all ages and abilities, in unique art forms including blacksmithing, glass, jewelry, and metal casting. |
Children's Performing Arts, White Bear Lake | $ 21,600 | | Children's Performing Arts will implement accessible and affordable programming to local schools through its Theatre Outreach Program for Schools (TOPS) program. |
Children's Theatre Company, Minneapolis | $ 35,000 | | Children's Theatre Company will deliver 20 weeks of ACT Now, a year-round arts learning residency, to grades 1-5 at Bethune Arts Elementary in north Minneapolis. Age-appropriate, theater-based curricula will include Early Bridges, Neighborhood Bridges, and Art as Activism. |
Chops, Inc, Minneapolis | $ 35,000 | | Chops, Inc. 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. |
Catherine L. Colsrud, Sandstone | $ 24,900 | | Colsrud will engage underserved communities in making art. She will offer introduction to traditional blanket making classes. |
CommonBond Communities, Saint Paul | $ 35,000 | | CommonBond Communities will collaborate with professional teaching artists to deliver four 16-week arts education classes for low-income older adults living in its affordable housing communities across Minnesota. |
ComMUSICation, Saint Paul | $ 35,000 | | ComMUSICation will provide high quality afterschool music programs to youth in grades 3-12 through its on-site choir programs. Programs build community and develop musical, socioemotional, and leadership skills through ensemble music making. |
Copper Street Brass, Minneapolis | $ 35,000 | | Copper Street Brass (CSB) will partner with Nevis Schools to present an in-depth music learning residency with a focus on small group learning using chamber music. |
CornerStone: Community, Youth & Family Resource Center, Frazee | $ 29,988 | | CornerStone: Community, Youth & Family Resource Center will engage youth in grades 4-12, including marginalized youth, by providing easy access to art classes where they will learn gel and sublimation printing through structured workshops. Projects will be displayed in community exhibits. |
Crossing Arts Alliance, Brainerd | $ 35,000 | | The Crossing Arts Alliance will bring art education offerings to more sites and communities in the central lakes area, guiding residents of greater Minnesota in learning about art and encouraging creative expression in people of all ages and abilities. |
Jenny DeBower, Saint Paul | $ 25,000 | | DeBower will create and distribute transformative art kits and lead workshops for 100+ trans and gender expansive youth and families across Minnesota. Each kit will feature art projects inspired by local artists and a resilience theme. |
Duluth Art Institute, Duluth | $ 35,000 | | The Duluth Art Institute will offer a series of classes and activities that allow participants to cultivate knowledge, skills, and creativity in various art forms. |
Duluth Playhouse, Duluth | $ 35,000 | | Duluth Playhouse School of Performing Arts provides a variety of theater arts training for all ages and experience levels, emphasizing step-by-step skill development to nurture adaptable artists. |
Duniya Drum & Dance, Minneapolis | $ 25,000 | | Duniya Drum & Dance will present its 2026 Fakoly Drum and Dance Conference and expand its weekly community drum and dance classes. |
Ely Folk School, Ely | $ 18,877 | | The Ely Folk School will continue offering and expanding folk art classes and programming organized and taught by local artists and culture bearers. |
Folk Will Save Us, Minneapolis | $ 35,000 | | Folk Will Save Us will support cohort artists in leading music learning workshops where participants can develop skills in culturally rooted music and dance traditions. |
Sabrina D. Ford, Bloomington | $ 17,900 | | Ford will offer a series in person workshops and programming with an emphasis on expanded and nontraditional filmmaking philosophies and techniques, highlighting the mediums of cinema, video art, and archive. |
Freeze Pop Records, Saint Louis Park | $ 35,000 | | Freeze Pop Records will offer a year-long mentorship and pop music education program which will include the facilitation of mentor connection and quarterly workshops on songwriting, production, and performance. |
Girl Scouts River Valleys, Saint Paul | $ 11,162 | | Girl Scouts River Valleys will offer a summer camp for Hmong girls where they can learn about their culture and history through unique cultural arts activities. |
Good Samaritan Society-Westview Acres, Waconia | $ 29,473 | | The Good Samaritan Society-Westview Acres will offer senior residents' artistic activities to provide health benefits, improve mood, and encourage community engagement, for the purpose of improving their quality of life. |
Grand Marais Art Colony, Grand Marais | $ 35,000 | | Grand Marais Art Colony will continue to 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 | $ 35,000 | | 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 life skills and foster personal growth for youth and adults. |
Greater Twin Cities Youth Symphonies, Saint Paul | $ 35,000 | | To create low-cost access to instrumental music education, GTCYS will provide year-round violin and cello instruction for 2nd-5th graders through the Harmony program and provide orchestra tuition, lessons, and instruments for Harmony graduates through 12th grade. |
Cindy M. Haffner, Eagle Bend | $ 24,548 | | Haffner will coordinate the construction of a barn quilt trail throughout Douglas County, by instructing community members to design and paint barn quilts to tell the story of the region. |
Cindy Hamilton, Williams | $ 23,941 | | Hamilton will offer a 10-month long, free beading circle to people of all ages so they have the opportunity to learn the art form and connect through the shared experience of beading, nurturing deep connections to their community. |
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/performance, and photography classes. |
Highpoint Center for Printmaking, Minneapolis | $ 26,529 | | Highpoint Center for Printmaking will host a series of accessible print programs for Minnesota 5th graders to grow their creativity and technical skills, learn a new art form, and develop work in the printed medium. |
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 3-6. |
Hopewell Music Cooperative North, Minneapolis | $ 35,000 | | Hopewell Music Cooperative North offers affordable music lessons and music programs for all ages in north Minneapolis. The music programs will provide access to a range of instruments, formats, and music genres inspiring creativity and community. |
Hawley Public Schools, Hawley | $ 35,000 | | Hawley Public Schools will collaborate with Copper Street Brass (CSB) to present an in-depth music learning residency with a focus on small group learning using chamber music. |
Independent School District 518, Worthington | $ 28,245 | | Independent School District 518 will host a statewide singing festival for high school tenors, baritones, and basses with the Minnesota chamber ensemble Cantus serving as clinicians. |
Iglesia Piedra Viva UMC-Guitarra en el Barrio, Minneapolis | $ 25,000 | | Guitarra en el Barrio 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- and group-expression in the arts. |
Indigenous Peoples Task Force, Minneapolis | $ 35,000 | | The Indigenous Peoples Task Force will present an Indigenous fashion show with 12 Native American teens who will create their own clothing designs. The performance will be presented to 200 Native American audience members in Minnesota. |
Itasca Orchestra and Strings Program, Grand Rapids | $ 24,714 | | The Itasca Orchestra and Strings Program will address the significant lack of access to string instrument instruction in remote and underserved communities in northern Minnesota. |
Nate Johnson, Bemidji | $ 22,415 | | Johnson will present a series of workshops to train community members in the diverse art of birch bark basketry. We will explore various techniques from Scandinavia as well as Anishinaabe styles of baskets. |
KAIROS ALIVE!, Minneapolis | $ 35,000 | | Kairos Alive! NeuroArts Dance and Story Learning Engagement Project engages people from neurodivergent, senior, disability, LGBTQIA2+, and BIPOC communities in in person and two-way webcast dance, music, and theater learning in a radical welcome model. |
Kicks Band of Fargo-Moorhead, Moorhead | $ 14,850 | | The FM Kicks Band offers a summer band camp dedicated to developing jazz knowledge and skills in young musicians. This unique opportunity educates by integrating instruction, mentorship, and dynamic performance for middle and high school students. |
Paul LaJeunesse, Duluth | $ 24,900 | | LaJeunesse will teach K-12 students the mural making process at Marshall High School. Students will learn ideation and iterative processes, creating a collaborative design culminating in a community mural on an exterior building. |
Lake Superior Youth Chorus, Duluth | $ 35,000 | | Lake Superior Youth Chorus develops future-ready youth through choral artistry. Singers explore values of self confidence, empathy, and self efficacy through year-long resident choir programming, after-school programming, summer camps, and more. |
Ren Lamott, Duluth | $ 25,000 | | Lamott will provide community arts engagement and skill development to learners through free of charge workshops. |
Lao Culture Dance Fashion Minnesota, Saint Paul Park | $ 35,000 | | Lao Culture Dance Fashion Minnesota will teach and train new students in classical Lao traditional dances while helping them learn and perform the story and historical significance of the king's seven daughters in the NangSangkhan pageant. |
Le Sueur-Henderson Elementary School, Le Sueur | $ 35,000 | | Le Sueur-Henderson Elementary School will attend a field trip and host guest artists workshops with students including muraling, skateboard art, spoken word poetry, wordless picture books, and theater during the 2025-2026 school year and fall of 2026. |
Camila S. Leiva, Minneapolis | $ 25,000 | | Leiva will lead a series of eight workshops focused on graphic memoir creation, designed for Latinx artists eager to explore their creative voices through autobiographical comics. The workshops will culminate in the creation of a zine. |
Little Theatre of Owatonna, Owatonna | $ 12,375 | | Little Theatre of Owatonna will offer a five-day summer theatre camp and introduction to theater field trips for local public school students. |
The Loft Literary Center, Minneapolis | $ 34,926 | | The Loft Literary Center will expand after-school creative writing programs and increase access to Loft programming to reach more underresourced Twin Cities youth. |
Amy M. Lucas, Chisholm | $ 18,561 | | Teaching artist Amy Lucas will provide acrylic art classes in eight different libraries to increase confidence in creative expression and strengthen connections among isolated adults in rural, northern Minnesota towns. |
Shannon J. Lucas Westrum, Bemidji | $ 24,973 | | Lucas Westrum will bring the art of basket making, in person, to communities across greater Minnesota while introducing locally sourced materials and new techniques. |
Lyngblomsten, Saint Paul | $ 12,725 | | Lyngblomsten will host a nine-week series of hour-long dance classes, presented by Rhythmically Speaking. The series will help older adults learn to feel joy in moving their bodies through the art of dance. |
MacPhail Center for Music, Minneapolis | $ 35,000 | | MacPhail Center for Music will provide free group music instruction to Twin Cities metro based middle and high school students from historically underrecognized and marginalized backgrounds. |
Maine Prairie Studio, Kimball | $ 35,000 | | Maine Prairie Studio will offer ceramic education classes for adults and field tips for youth. These offerings will be for new and returning participants. |
Manidoo Ogitigaan, Bemidji | $ 35,000 | | Manidoo Ogitigaan will work with Indigenous artists and allies to connect community members with the land, language, and lifeways of the Anishinaabeg and to create art that comes from the heart and spirit. |
Mankato Area Youth Symphony Orchestra, Mankato | $ 29,480 | | The Mankato Area Youth Symphony Orchestra offers year round music performance opportunities for school age children using a professional orchestra model programming works from the repertoire of the great symphonic tradition. |
Manoomin Arts Initiative, Naytahwaush | $ 30,000 | | Manoomin Arts Initiative will coordinate six artist residencies in Mahnomen and Waubun schools, where students will create an art publication to build their literary and visual arts skills. |
Marine Mills Folk School, Marine on Saint Croix | $ 33,700 | | Marine Mills Folk School will offer Country Roads—a series of off-site folk art classes for rural and semirural senior populations, conducted through community partnerships in Washington and Chisago Counties. |
Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis | $ 35,000 | | Minneapolis Insitute of Art's Creativity Academy helps fourth graders develop critical thinking, empathy, and creativity skills through art lessons that introduce progressively complex creative challenges. |
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, Apple Valley | $ 35,000 | | Minnesota Chinese Music Ensemble will offer free, private erhu (Chinese violin) lessons for committed students aged fifteen or younger, for new and existing students. Lessons will be conducted online and/or in person. |
Minnesota Dance Theatre & School, Minneapolis | $ 35,000 | | Minnesota Dance Theatre & School will provide free dance classes in public schools and full tuition scholarships for a year-round dance program. These programs are designed to develop dance techniques and creativity and promote social emotional growth. |
Minnesota Northwoods Writers Conference, Bemidji | $ 35,000 | | The Minnesota Northwoods Writers Conference provides 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. |
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 were designed in collaboration with "writers collectives" of experienced students at each facility. |
MNprov, Saint Paul | $ 34,259 | | MNprov presents weekly in person and virtual MNprov Mixers—theatrical improv classes for neurodivergent adults. Participants will develop improv and collaborative skills, use their creative voice, build confidence, and develop social connections. |
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 grade 3 students to learn video production skills in residencies and after-school programs. They will create videos exploring creative tools for finding calm. |
Shannon R. Murray, Bemidji | $ 24,907 | | Murray will lead songwriting workshops and an inclusive choir for youth with and without disabilities. These activities will foster creativity, social connection, and self-expression. |
The Museum of Russian Art, Minneapolis | $ 14,100 | | The Museum of Russian Art -will offer a series of onsite and off-site art education workshops for new and returning audiences, focusing in particular on youth and older adults. |
New Native Theatre, Saint Paul | $ 35,000 | | New Native Theatre will collaborate with the Division of Indian Work for its Youth Summer Camp, open to the public and designed for Native Americans living in the Twin Cities. Students practice conventional theater skills led by Native instructors and professional artists. |
New Ulm Suzuki School of Music, New Ulm | $ 34,420 | | The New Ulm Suzuki School of Music provides weekly lessons supplemented with enrichment programming including weekly note reading and group classes, an annual Suzuki workshop, a summer pops camp, and a mid-winter orchestra workshop. |
Sho Nikaido, Minneapolis | $ 17,846 | | Nikaido will offer BlueSky Photo Workshop, a six-week-long workshop (four times a year), to teach the community how to document their life and heritage through photography. Classes are at Japanese restaurants during each session. |
North House Folk School, Grand Marais | $ 14,963 | | North House Folk School will connect youth residing in rural Cook County with hands-on craft education experiences through the multiweek after-school Let's Create program, inspiring creativity and lifelong learning. |
Northern Expressions Arts Collective, Duluth | $ 20,000 | | Northern Expressions Arts Collective will continue a series of theater classes intended to build self-esteem and help students to develop and discover their skills in the area of theater and expressive arts. |
Northern Starz Children's Theatre, Ramsey | $ 35,000 | | The Penguin Project, at Northern Starz Children's Theatre, will give individuals with disabilities the opportunity and skill set to be a star, both onstage and offstage. |
Lara Palmqvist, Faribault | $ 24,758 | | Palmqvist will engage Minnesotans in sustained literary arts education by facilitating an in person writing workshop series in greater Minnesota, an online generative writing workshop series, and an online educational community hub for writers. |
Pangea World Theater, Minneapolis | $ 35,000 | | Pangea World Theater will partner with Higher Ground Academy, Ikidowin Youth Ensemble, and Ubah Medical Academy to conduct free in school theater arts residencies that foster skills in working as an ensemble, performance, and devising new work. |
The Park Place, Minneapolis | $ 28,880 | | The Park Place will host five installments of mural workshops for the Latine community, creating a mural over 700 square feet, honoring and celebrating the migrant community represented in The Park Place. |
Partnership Resources, Inc, Minneapolis | $ 35,000 | | Partnership Resources will introduce a new arts discipline—textile arts—for individuals with disabilities through an eight-week unit that will include instruction at The Textile Center in Minneapolis and in agency, culminating in an exhibit of their work. |
Purple Playground, Minneapolis | $ 35,000 | | Purple Playground will build on its Academy of Prince programs to start a project for Twin Cities 4th-6th graders to increase their confidence and support mental health through writing and recording original songs inspired by Minnesota musicians. |
Red Wing Arts, Red Wing | $ 35,000 | | Red Wing Arts will provide accessible, artist centered education for greater Minnesota, offering workshops that build technical skills and business acumen. |
Regents of the University of Minnesota-Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Minneapolis | $ 35,000 | | Regents of the University of Minnesota-Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences will offer a nine-month, weekly creative arts course for teens. Led by professional artists from diverse backgrounds and supported by near peer University of Minnesota students, this course will encourage teens to explore and develop their creative selves. |
RGK Dance Academy, Plymouth | $ 35,000 | | RGK Dance Academy's Cultural Rhythms program fosters creativity, cultural awareness, and artistic expression through Bollywood dance and storytelling. Free and low-cost workshops remove barriers, promote inclusivity, and inspire lifelong arts engagement. |
River City Rhythm, Inc, Monticello | $ 24,000 | | River City Rhythm will offer free clinics for Minnesota youth interested in the marching arts. Seven clinics will be hosted that will focus on developing technical and performance skills for students interested in drum line, color guard, and wind instruments. |
Joshua Rosard, Minneapolis | $ 13,208 | | Rosard and team will coordinate a day of participatory hands-on klezmer workshops featuring master artists in the musical traditions and related dance forms of Eastern European Jews. |
Saint Francis Music Center, Little Falls | $ 17,180 | | The Saint Francis Center will offer a series of free arts workshops and weekly music classes to rural seniors to encourage lifelong participation in the arts and socialization through the arts. |
Saint Paul Conservatory of Music, Saint Paul | $ 34,892 | | The Saint Paul Conservatory of Music will offer artistically excellent music instruction and performance opportunities to students, families, and community members in greater Minnesota. |
Saint Paul Neighborhood Network, Saint Paul | $ 33,340 | | Saint Paul Neighborhood Network will offer a project based learning program to early career filmmakers who identify as part of a marginalized group. The cohort of six will build technical skills in media, learn how to be a part of a production crew, and work on a documentary. |
Saint Paul School of Northern Lights, Saint Paul | $ 29,300 | | Saint Paul School of Northern Lights will host after-school, weekend, and summer artist workshops in various disciplines to provide arts learning experiences for K-8 students. Projects and artists will be chosen through a student involved process. |
Shakespearean Youth Theatre, Saint Paul | $ 35,000 | | Shakespearean Youth Theatre will offer the Summer Ensemble program, an eight-week intensive program for 40 students to study foundational acting techniques, take a deep dive into Shakespeare's language, and perform RICHARD II and HENRY IV (part 1) for Twin Cities audiences. |
SHAPESHIFT, Minneapolis | $ 35,000 | | SHAPESHIFT will deliver a four-week program for Mississippi Creative Arts School's pre-K through grade 5 students. SHAPESHIFT in Schools will focus on exposure to professional dance, learning dance fundamentals, and facilitated reflections. |
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 youth in grades 3-12 opportunities to grow through musical learning, discovery, and performance. |
Mike Speck, Winona | $ 17,860 | | Speck, a certified teacher with the Society of American Fight Directors, will teach three skills proficiency test classes in stage combat for Rochester area actors. |
Scott Stafford, Minneapolis | $ 25,000 | | K-12 students across Minnesota will receive free dance residencies facilitated by teaching artist, Scott Stafford. |
State Street Theater Co., New Ulm | $ 15,500 | | In offering a summer youth drama camp, State Street Theater will introduce the joy and discipline of theater. Its efforts to particularly reach out to those on the autism spectrum or Hispanic campers provide an opportunity for marginalized children to experience the arts. |
Step With Soul, Minneapolis | $ 35,000 | | Step With Soul will partner with charter and private schools in the Twin Cities to offer after-school step dance classes, expanding students' step skills and cultivating leadership potential. |
StoryArk, Minneapolis | $ 35,000 | | StoryArk will offer creative camps and after-school programming for middle and high school students to explore the arts (podcasting, creative writing, songwriting, visual arts), develop artistic skills, and collaborate with their peers. |
Theatre in the Round Players, Inc, Minneapolis | $ 21,685 | | Theatre in the Round Players will offer a year-long series of safe zone designated, pay as you are able adult theater workshops. |
Tibetan American Foundation of Minnesota, Saint Paul | $ 35,000 | | Tibetan American Foundation of Minnesota will provide dance classes for Tibetan children (aged 5-18) to engage and discover traditional Tibetan performing arts, thereby connecting them to their cultural heritage. |
TU Dance, Saint Paul | $ 35,000 | | TU Dance will sustain its CULTIVATE dance trainee program launched in fall 2022 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 workshops in spring 2026. Students will play in small ensembles, receive instruction from jazz professionals, and learn a varied jazz repertoire. |
Twin Cities Theater Camp, Edina | $ 24,600 | | Twin Cities Theater Camp will offer students five weeks of high-quality theater arts programming in a loving and supportive community. Campers will study acting, dance, art, music, and character building dramaturgy and will perform in a full-scale musical production. |
Universal Music Center, Red Wing | $ 33,350 | | Universal Music Center (UMC) will bring inspiring music and arts programming into the lives of marginalized community members in southeast Minnesota through in house music lessons at UMC and on-site, community based programming where members live and gather. |
USA Community Chorus, Swanville | $ 23,000 | | The USA (Upsala/Swanville area) Community Chorus will offer its choral arts education program that, for 24 years, has provided access to some of the nation's finest choral conductors for singers in the central Minnesota area. |
Paul M. Van Dyke, Northfield | $ 25,000 | | Paul Van Dyke will teach four, 10-week creative writing courses (two fiction/two creative nonfiction) to U. S. military vets and vet family members. After, he will host a public reading highlighting student work. |
VocalEssence, Minneapolis | $ 35,000 | | VocalEssence SOTA (Singers Of This Age) is a community of approximately 40 Twin Cities teens expanding what it means to be a choir through the creation of artistic works, performance, and collaborations with culturally diverse artists. |
Voices of Hope, Minneapolis | $ 34,122 | | Voices of Hope (VOH) will develop a prison music education curriculum to be implemented at two Minnesota state prisons. This curriculum will reflect the diversity of VOH singers and will be designed collaboratively with VOH staff, volunteers, and consultants. |
Walker|West, Saint Paul | $ 34,981 | | Walker|West will operate a fun, three-week Grow Through Music summer camp for kindergarten through grade six beginner/returnee students who will learn to play simple tunes on several instruments and share what they've learned in a culminating group performance. |
Waseca Art Center, Waseca | $ 21,000 | | The Waseca Art Center will offer in person workshops and classes for ceramics/pottery, and workshops in various artistic disciplines for students and participants of all ages, abilities and demographics. |
Whittier International Elementary School, Minneapolis | $ 22,100 | | Whittier International Elementary will offer a theater and storytelling residency in third and fourth grade. The curriculum will center multiple perspectives on Minnesota history and will result in student created performance. |
Winona Symphony Orchestra, Winona | $ 35,000 | | The Winona Symphony Orchestra will provide music educational programming for elementary students in the Winona area through its Music in the Schools program, promoting creativity, music literacy, and access to orchestral music and musicians. |
WISE, Saint Paul | $ 21,670 | | WISE will collaborate with local immigrant/refugee artists to offer in person, arts based activities for immigrant/refugee female identified 6-12 graders, to build art skills and use it as a vehicle for healing. |
Write to Hope, Saint Paul | $ 32,500 | | The grant will fund Write to Hope's writing classes for county jail inmates, fostering self-expression and growth. It will cover instructor fees, materials, and program expansion, enhancing rehabilitation and well-being through creative writing. |
Qian X. Yin, Medina | $ 25,000 | | Yin will offer a series of in person (or virtual, if required) 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 | $ 26,955 | | With the All Abilities Dancing initiative, Young Dance creates access to dance for people living with disabilities through an array of programming options for new and experienced dancers. |
Youth Performance Company, Saint Paul | $ 35,000 | | Youth Performance Company will extend its education program into Minneapolis through a pilot program, offered at the Conn Theater, for two weeks. It will provide theater arts classes for youth, ages 8-18. |
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. |
