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 offer an 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. |
All City Music, Plymouth | $ 35,000 | | All City Music will offer arts education programs in music and dance, providing a transformative experience for youth participants while fostering hope, self-acceptance, and new ways of thinking about a brighter future. |
American Russian Center, Savage | $ 33,800 | | American Russian Center will lead an intergenerational choral arts education project building vocal technique and ensemble skills for older adults, individuals with disabilities, and youth supported by theater, movement, and visual arts. |
Amherst H. Wilder Foundation, Saint Paul | $ 35,000 | | Amherst H. Wilder Foundation will offer music education programming for older adults and adults with disabilities living in two Saint Paul public housing high-rises, and for four Southeast Asian and one Afghan cultural support groups who meet at Wilder's Center for Social Healing. |
Ananya Dance Theatre, Saint Paul | $ 35,000 | | Ananya Dance Theatre will offer multiple series of in person and virtual dance education classes for new and existing students, based in principles of Yorchhā (transnational feminist contemporary dance form) and Shawngrām (a choreographic method). |
Angelica Cantanti Youth Choirs, Bloomington | $ 35,000 | | 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 facilitate Character Creation, a free, joyful, creative mentorship program in creative writing, comics, and drawing, for Twin Cities children in underserved communities to build creative confidence and connection with themselves and their community. |
Art from the Inside, Maplewood | $ 34,300 | | Art from the Inside will provide structured art fellowships for incarcerated Minnesotans, offering arts education, creative skill building, and opportunities for reflection, connection, and personal growth through visual art. |
ArtStart, Saint Paul | $ 30,980 | | ArtStart presents Minnesota Mosaic: A Celebration of Cultural and Environmental Creativity. It will provide nine cultural artist residencies in underserved schools, focusing on visual arts and poetry inspired by Minnesotan ecosystems. |
ARTS-Us, Saint Paul | $ 35,000 | | Arts-Us will present its culturally responsive Black eSTEAM series, a summer camp and an after school program serving Saint Paul youth with weekly artistic coaching in dance, visual arts, music, and spoken word, all rooted in the African diaspora. |
Ashby Public Schools, Ashby | $ 21,308 | | Ashby Elementary School will offer in classroom theater and interactive storytelling lessons for rural students in kindergarten through fourth grade, in addition to eight professional puppet shows with audience participation. |
Bancroft Elementary School, Minneapolis | $ 32,690 | | Bancroft Elementary School will offer a residency with Pillsbury House + Theatre to provide high quality, multidisciplinary arts learning experiences that build creativity and confidence while developing an interconnected and supportive community. |
Bemidji Area Schools, Bemidji | $ 35,000 | | Bemidji Area 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. |
Nikki Bettcher Erickson, Willmar | $ 17,393 | | Bettcher Erickson's Expanding Theatre Arts Education in Greater Minnesota project will give individuals in rural communities greater access to high quality theater learning opportunities, fostering confidence, belonging, and a deeper appreciation for the arts. |
Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Greater Twin Cities, Minneapolis | $ 34,860 | | 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. |
David Columbus Billingsley, Minneapolis | $ 22,000 | | Billingsley will lead in person piano and keyboard workshops with industry experts, providing instruction in music technology and culminating in a public performance. |
Bionik, Minneapolis | $ 25,000 | | Bionik will facilitate 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. |
Capoeira Minnesota, Saint Paul | $ 35,000 | | Capoeira Minnesota will offer a series of capoeira workshops led by lineage based teaching artists, helping participants develop creativity and artistic skills through movement, music, and cultural learning. |
The Capri Theater, Minneapolis | $ 34,955 | | The Capri Theater will partner with celebrated artist JD Steele to offer Capri Glee!, a North Minneapolis adult community choir that provides in-depth arts learning and creative expression while boosting community connections and comradery. |
Rocky Casillas Aguirre, Nerstrand | $ 16,087 | | Casillas Aguirre will hold a series of visual storytelling workshops that engage kids and teens in the creation of emotions based characters and stories. Workshops will be held at five public schools and a public arts space in Northfield. |
Elizabeth Marie Chatelain, Hibbing | $ 24,540 | | Chatelain will offer "Sky Waters Script Lab," a five-day fiction film script development lab in Hibbing, for emerging Minnesota filmmakers. |
Chicago Avenue Fire Arts Center, Minneapolis | $ 34,957 | | Chicago Avenue Fire Arts Center will deepen learning opportunities within its established arts education programs, open to all ages and abilities. Along with regular classes, it will sustain partnerships, increase access to studio practice, and host a signature community event. |
Children's Theatre Company, Minneapolis | $ 34,973 | | Children's Theatre Company will deliver 20 weeks of ACT Now, a year-round arts residency, to grades 1-5 at Bethune Arts Elementary in north Minneapolis. Age appropriate, theater based curricula will include Early Bridges, Neighborhood Bridges, and Activating the Artist's Voice. |
Chops, Minneapolis | $ 35,000 | | Chops, Inc's Pan Outreach program will provide free steel drum residencies at low-income Twin Cities public schools, and a free summer camp, teaching at least 2,000 K-12 students fundamentals of culturally rooted Caribbean music on the steel drum. |
Catherine Lynn Colsrud, Sandstone | $ 25,000 | | Colsrud will offer a series of hands-on educational opportunities in traditional Native American blanket making for new and returning participants from the reservation and local communities. |
CommonBond Communities, Saint Paul | $ 35,000 | | CommonBond Communities will partner with professional teaching artists to deliver 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 after-school music programs to youth in grades 3-12 through its onsite choir programs, building community and developing musical, socioemotional, and leadership skills through ensemble music making. |
COMPAS, Saint Paul | $ 35,000 | | COMPAS will offer arts education residencies in theater, painting, sculpture, and music for people with disabilities, at four different partner sites. |
Copper Street Brass, Minneapolis | $ 35,000 | | Copper Street Brass will partner with Fergus Falls schools to present an in-depth music learning residency with a focus on small group learning using chamber music. |
Jax Downs, Alexandria | $ 22,885 | | Jax Rose will offer multimedia illustration classes for teens in an accepting third space that uses art education to foster community and confidence in one's craft. |
Duluth Playhouse, Inc, Duluth | $ 35,000 | | Duluth Playhouse School of Performing Arts will provide a variety of theater arts training for all ages and experience levels, emphasizing step-by-step skill development to nurture adaptable artists. |
Duniya Drum and Dance, Brooklyn Park | $ 25,000 | | Duniya Drum and Dance will host its annual Fakoly Drum and Dance Conference and continue to offer weekly community drum and dance classes. |
Ely Folk School, Ely | $ 35,000 | | Ely Folk School offers a variety of in person and online arts education programs that build community, strengthen confidence, and preserve traditional arts. |
Emerging Curators Institute, Minneapolis | $ 34,650 | | Emerging Curators Institute will offer a ten-month arts education program for Minnesota based creatives, providing structured learning in curatorial practice through workshops, mentorship, research, and public engagement. |
Epic Enterprise, Inc, Dundas | $ 35,000 | | Epic Enterprise, Inc will provide accessible arts learning opportunities in a variety of mediums for adults living with disabilities through its programming, while also serving broader communities in rural Minnesota. |
Episcopal Homes Foundation of Minnesota, Saint Paul | $ 27,680 | | Episcopal Homes will partner with FilmNorth to explore the art of digital filmmaking through documentary video memoirs to foster artistic growth, combat isolation, and offer a unique way for older adults to be seen as individuals and an honored community. |
Face to Face, Saint Paul | $ 35,000 | | Face to Face will provide youth experiencing homelessness opportunities to engage their creativity and develop their artistic skills in a variety of art forms, including music, sewing , and visual arts. |
Fireweed Community Woodshop, Minneapolis | $ 34,400 | | Fireweed Woodshop will offer a series of open shop sessions, an independent study course, open craft sessions, and two intermediate in-depth courses for new and returning participants who want to develop their woodworking projects. |
Luis Fitch, Minneapolis | $ 24,500 | | Fitch will lead five bilingual Spanish/English intergenerational visual storytelling workshops at Mercado Central, culminating in a community showcase of participant created artworks. |
Folk Will Save Us, Minneapolis | $ 35,000 | | Folk Will Save Us will produce a series of public, culturally rooted music and dance education workshops, giving Minnesotans the opportunity to connect with cultural roots and learn about underrepresented arts traditions. |
The Full Moon Puppet Arts, Owatonna | $ 35,000 | | Full Moon Puppet Arts will support learners across Minnesota by offering workshops in large scale puppetry making, culminating in the creation of original puppet performances. |
Good Samaritan Society-Westview Acres, Waconia | $ 35,000 | | The Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Society will deliver a wide variety of arts education programming at West View Acres and Heritage Grove to inspire creativity, support senior well being, and build meaningful community connections. |
The Grand Center for Arts & Culture, New Ulm | $ 34,056 | | The Grand Center for Arts and Culture will continue to grow arts education offerings for youth and adults in Cellar Press and in the community, allowing people of all ages to develop and demonstrate their skills in a variety of letterpress, printmaking and book arts processes. |
Grand Marais Art Colony, Grand Marais | $ 35,000 | | Grand Marais Art Colony will expand its short class offerings in ceramics, drawing, and watercolor painting, to increase access to its arts programming for community members. |
A Great Day Farm, Northfield | $ 10,000 | | A Great Day Farm will provide accessible, participatory music learning experiences where people with disabilities and their communities develop a personal relationship with music while building meaningful connections with one another. |
GREAT Theatre, Waite Park | $ 35,000 | | GREAT Theatre will strengthen and build upon its theater education pathway of programming to introduce youth and adults to theatrical storytelling experiences that foster creativity, belonging, and personal growth. |
Greater Twin Cities Youth Symphonies, Saint Paul | $ 35,000 | | Greater Twin Cities Youth Symphonies' Harmony program will provide year-round violin and cello instruction for 2nd-5th graders, and orchestra lessons and access to instruments for Harmony graduates through 12th grade. |
Hallberg Center for the Arts, Wyoming | $ 34,425 | | Hallberg Center for the Arts will offer free art programming for seniors and adults with disabilities in east central Minnesota. Hosted at various accessible local venues, this initiative will expand arts education in rural communities. |
Headwaters Music & Arts, Bemidji | $ 35,000 | | Headwaters Music & Arts will develop and expand its group music classes and art classes for youth and adults in rural Minnesota. |
Heijeu Arts, Royalton | $ 25,000 | | Heijeu Arts will provide six monthly visual arts education programs in three rural Minnesota communities (Fairmont, Milaca, Thief River Falls), serving learners of all ages through hands-on exploration of drawing, painting, collage, and design fundamentals. |
Hometown Opera Company, Rochester | $ 12,995 | | Hometown Opera Company will offer workshops in southeast Minnesota elementary schools, expanding arts education to audiences with limited access to opera. |
Honors Choirs of Southeast Minnesota, Rochester | $ 32,750 | | 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 will provide affordable music lessons and programs for all ages in North Minneapolis, offering access to diverse genres, formats, and instruments that inspire creativity, learning, and strong community connections. |
Igbo Women Leauge of Minnesota, Minneapolis | $ 35,000 | | Igbo Women League of Minnesota will offer Igbo Cultural Arts: Preserving Heritage Through Dance, Drumming, and Song, a year-long initiative providing structured arts learning to Minnesotans. |
Iglesia Piedra Viva UMC-Guitarra en el Barrio, Minneapolis | $ 25,000 | | Iglesia Piedra Viva UMC-Guitarra en el Barrio will unite and engage Latino families with art through bilingual guitar instruction that enriches social and emotional wellness, enhances academics, and promotes self-expression and group expression in the arts. |
In Progress, Crookston | $ 35,000 | | In Progress's The Collective is a program that will provide quality arts education activities for developing artists in the field of digital art making. |
In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre, Minneapolis | $ 35,000 | | In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre will offer community workshops, monthly artist affinity gatherings, and programming that builds access to puppetry and mask arts for all Minnesota communities. |
Neeka Jackson, Minneapolis | $ 19,500 | | Jackson will offer a series of in person textile workshops for youth and adults. Participants will learn small loop stitching with handheld tufting tools, yarn selection, color theory, and the cultural significance of textile arts. |
Jazz Central Studios, Minneapolis | $ 31,900 | | Jazz Central Studios will present Jazz Narratives, a concert and master class series featuring Minnesota jazz artists who share Twin Cities jazz history and creative practice through lived experience and firsthand perspective. |
Kaddatz Gallery, Fergus Falls | $ 32,900 | | Kaddatz Gallery will establish a consistent arts education program that offers printmaking and visual arts instruction to youth, fostering creativity and technical skills in rural Minnesota residents. |
KAIROS ALIVE!, Minneapolis | $ 35,000 | | Kairos Alive! will present its Dancing Heart program to autistic and neurodivergent adults. Participants will build skills in dance, music, storytelling, and theater. |
Kicks Band of Fargo Moorhead, Moorhead | $ 18,400 | | The FM Kicks Band Summer Band Camp will provide middle school, high school, and adult musicians with high quality jazz instruction, professional mentorship, and performance experiences that build musical skills, creativity, and confidence. |
Paul Kyusam Kim, Moorhead | $ 24,897 | | Kim will offer cello lessons to underserved students in the orchestra program of Horizon Middle School in Moorhead. He will also nurture the creativity of the school's orchestras through monthly improvisation workshops. |
Katie Knutson, Bloomington | $ 24,950 | | Knutson will partner with Oak Grove Elementary School to provide 20 unique storytelling, theater, and writing residencies that meaningfully engage participants in arts literacy activities. |
Lake Superior Youth Chorus, Inc, Duluth | $ 35,000 | | Lake Superior Youth Chorus develops future ready youth through choral artistry. Singers explore values of self confidence, empathy, and leadership through yearlong resident choir programming, after-school programming, summer camps, and more. |
Ren Lamott, Duluth | $ 25,000 | | Ren Lamott will offer clay workshops, providing community arts engagement and skill development to participants. |
Lao Culture Dance Fashion Minnesota, Saint Paul Park | $ 35,000 | | Lao Culture Dance Fashion Minnesota will teach students classical Lao traditional dances, Lam Salavahn Dance, while helping them learn and perform the story and historical significance of the "Seven King's Daughters" in the NangSangkhan pageant. |
Le Sueur-Henderson Elementary School, Le Sueur | $ 35,000 | | Le Sueur Henderson Elementary will create cross-curricular learning experiences for K-5 youth by offering artist residencies and field trips in puppet making, story writing, silk screen printing, theater, and Native American music and dance performances. |
The Legacy Choirs of the Lakes Area, Brainerd | $ 35,000 | | The Legacy Chorale of Greater Minnesota will empower youth through choral artistry. Singers cultivate values of empathy, self-assurance, and personal agency through year-round resident choir programming, collaboration with schools, and summer programs. |
Listen Up! Youth Radio, Saint Paul | $ 25,000 | | Listen Up Youth Radio will offer a 9-week media Intensive for youth and young adults, mentored by professional storytellers. Select participants will be able to continue their artistic development the following year. |
Locally Grown Theatre, Cottage Grove | $ 35,000 | | Locally Grown Theatre will provide a series of education camps throughout the year for youth in the south Washington County area to encourage creativity, artistic expression, and a lasting love of the arts. |
The Loft Literary Center, Minneapolis | $ 35,000 | | The Loft Literary Center will expand its Diversifying Writers Series with Firekeepers: Writing Our Cultural Heritage, to celebrate writers with disabilities, writers with Veteran status, writers from immigrant communities, and young BIPOC writers. |
Loon Country Arts, Bemidji | $ 20,700 | | Loon Country Arts Collective will offer literary, musical, and visual art classes and artist talks for community members of all ages. |
Amy Marie Lucas, Chisholm | $ 24,618 | | Lucas will provide acrylic art classes in ten different libraries, increasing confidence in creative expression and strengthening community connections among isolated adults in rural, northern Minnesota towns. |
Lundstrum Center for the Performing Arts, Minneapolis | $ 35,000 | | Lundstrum Performing Arts will provide free and accessible programs to underserved Twin Cities youth through its Youth Performing Arts Power-Up program, presenting high quality performing arts training in dance, voice, and acting, through school partnerships and summer programming. |
Maine Prairie Studio, Kimball | $ 35,000 | | Maine Prairie Studio will offer ceramic education classes for both adults and youth designed to support a range of skill levels from beginner to advanced. The studio will also host youth field trips and visiting artist workshops. |
Brian J. Malloy, Grand Marais | $ 12,887 | | Malloy will offer creative writing classes and clinics to residents of Cook, Lake, and Saint Louis Counties. |
Mankato Area Youth Choirs, Mankato | $ 22,000 | | Mankato Area Youth Choirs will provide inclusive, high quality choral education for youth in grades 1-12, performing two annual concerts and at community events across the greater Mankato area. |
The Mankato Makerspace, Mankato | $ 35,000 | | Mankato Makerspace will continue to offer classes and programs that provide low-cost access to a variety of arts learning opportunities in ceramics, woodworking, stained glass, and more, to southern Minnesota residents of all ages, backgrounds, identity, and ability. |
Roosevelt Mansfield, Saint Paul | $ 24,899 | | Mansfield will lead a six-week photography series for BIPOC Saint Paul youth, offering hands-on instruction in visual storytelling, narrative change, technical photography skills, and a culminating community exhibition of student work. |
Marcy Arts Elementary School, Minneapolis | $ 24,990 | | Marcy Arts Elementary School will offer an in-depth storytelling, theater arts, and puppetry residency with six classrooms in two grade levels. |
Marine Mills Folk School, Marine on Saint Croix | $ 27,033 | | Marine Mills Folk School will offer Create, Connect, Age Well programming, a series of folk art classes for rural and semirural senior populations in Washington County and surrounding communities. |
Matchbox Children's Theatre, Austin | $ 35,000 | | Matchbox Children's Theatre will provide The Matchbox Theatre Experience summer programs for children ages 3-18 in Austin. Participants will develop age appropriate theater skills, grow in creativity and confidence, and perform for the community. |
Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis | $ 35,000 | | Minneapolis Institute of Arts's Creativity Academy helps fourth graders develop critical thinking, empathy, and creativity skills through visual art lessons that introduce progressively complex creative challenges. |
Minnesota Chinese Music Ensemble, Lakeville | $ 35,000 | | Minnesota Chinese Music Ensemble will offer free private erhu (Chinese violin) lessons to committed students aged fifteen or younger, welcoming new and returning learners. Instruction will include both in person and online lessons. |
Minnesota Conservatory for the Arts, Winona | $ 25,000 | | The Minnesota Conservatory for the Arts will partner with professional artist teachers to provide arts camps in dance, theater, film, and multidisciplinary arts experiences for students aged 5-21 in rural southeast and greater Minnesota. |
Minnesota Dance Theatre, Minneapolis | $ 35,000 | | Minnesota Dance Theatre and School will provide dance classes to Minneapolis Public Schools students that display a natural propensity for dance. The program's purpose is to promote artistic and personal growth through dance education opportunities and exposure to dance. |
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, designed in collaboration with "Writers Collectives" of experienced students at each facility. |
Minnesota Shakespeare Theater, Saint Paul | $ 35,000 | | Shakespearean Youth Theatre will offer the Summer Ensemble program, a ten-week intensive study of foundational acting techniques, and Shakespearean language, culminating in a performance of Macbeth and As You Like It for Twin Cities audiences. |
Mnprov, Saint Paul | $ 35,000 | | MNprov will present weekly in person and virtual MNprov Mixers - improv workshops for neurodivergent adults. Participants will develop creative expression, collaboration, confidence, and social connection in an inclusive setting. |
Monticello Arts Initiative, Monticello | $ 35,000 | | Monticello Arts Initiative will offer a series of artist led workshops that allow participants to develop advanced mosaic skills while collaboratively creating a large-scale public mosaic mural for the community |
Moreland Arts and Health Sciences Magnet School, West Saint Paul | $ 35,000 | | Moreland Arts and Health Sciences Magnet School will work with Z Puppets Rosenschnoz for residencies and after school programs for students in kindergarten, special education and grade 3 to strengthen skills in puppetry and theater arts. |
MSS, Saint Paul | $ 34,840 | | Midwest Special Services' Fresh Eye Arts program will engage participants in a series of classes and workshops with Chicago Avenue Fire Arts Center, FOCI Center for Glass Arts, and Highpoint Center for Printmaking. |
Desi Murphy, Saint Cloud | $ 24,800 | | Murphy will provide community arts engagement and skill development to learners through ceramics workshops and youth summer camps. |
The Museum of Russian Art, Minneapolis | $ 24,600 | | The Museum of Rissian Art will offer a series of on-site and off-site visual art education workshops for new and returning audiences, focusing in particular on youth, families, and older adults. |
Isabel Kate Nelson, Saint Paul | $ 12,032 | | Nelson, a theater artist and songleader, will offer four, ten-week Music as Healing courses to men incarcerated at state prisons in Lino Lakes, Oak Park Heights, and Stillwater. |
New Arab American Theater Works, Minneapolis | $ 35,000 | | New Arab American Theater Works will offer opportunities for Minnesotans to learn traditional SWANA drumming skills, decolonized acting techniques, and SWANA folk arts from culture bearers in our community. |
New Ulm Suzuki School of Music, New Ulm | $ 28,905 | | The New Ulm Suzuki School of Music will provide weekly lessons supplemented with enrichment programming including weekly note reading and group classes, an annual Suzuki workshop, a Summer Pops Camp, and a Midwinter Orchestra Workshop. |
Sho Nikaido, Minneapolis | $ 22,335 | | Nikaido's BlueSky Photo Workshop will offer four sessions of six week photography workshops, with classes held at various Japanese restaurants throughout the Twin Cities metro area. |
North House Folk School, Grand Marais | $ 27,050 | | North House Folk School will connect youth in rural Cook County with hands-on craft learning in beadwork, textiles, and more, through on campus field trips and in classroom artist residencies, imparting new skills while inspiring creativity and lifelong learning for local kids. |
Northern Starz Center for the Performing Arts, Ramsey | $ 35,000 | | Northern Starz Theatre Company's Penguin Project will give individuals with disabilities the opportunity and skill set to be a star, both on and off stage. |
Northfield Public Schools, Northfield | $ 35,000 | | Northfield Public 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. |
Northfield Union of Youth, Northfield | $ 15,000 | | Northfield Union of Youth will support youth in developing artistic skills and a sense of creative expression through hands-on experience across multiple art forms, deepening technical skills through exposure to professional teaching artists. |
Northwoods Young Writers, International Falls | $ 15,000 | | Northwoods Young Writers will offer a five-day retreat that connects award winning Minnesota authors with teen girls from across the state who are looking for a supportive writing community where they feel heard, encouraged, and meaningfully challenged. |
Akiko Ostlund, Minneapolis | $ 15,680 | | Ostlund will host collage making workshops in two towns in greater Minnesota, bringing unique opportunities for rural Minnesotans to gather and learn storytelling techniques through the medium of collage. |
Owatonna Public Schools, Owatonna | $ 35,000 | | Owatonna Public 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. |
Lara Palmqvist, Faribault | $ 24,978 | | Palmqvist will engage Minnesotans in sustained literary arts education by facilitating an in person writing workshop series, an online generative writing workshop series, and an educational writing booth in conjunction with small town festivals. |
Pangea World Theater, Minneapolis | $ 35,000 | | Pangea World Theater will conduct theater residencies and summer camps for youth, teens, and young adults. |
Paradise Center for the Arts, Faribault | $ 27,840 | | Paradise Center for the Arts will offer two after-school theater camps for new and returning students, providing inclusive, high quality performing arts education that builds creativity, collaboration, confidence, and self-expression through theater. |
Park Rapids Area Schools, Park Rapids | $ 35,000 | | Park Rapids Area Public Schools will partner with Copper Street Brass (CSB) to present an in-depth music learning residency with a focus on small group learning using chamber music. |
Park Square Theatre, Saint Paul | $ 35,000 | | Park Square Theatre will offer arts education experiences for youth that build creativity, empathy, and critical thinking through year-round camps, classes, mentor programs, and performances, led by professional teaching artists, actors, and designers. |
Partnership Resources, Inc, Minneapolis | $ 35,000 | | Partneership Resources, Inc will provide arts programming for individuals with disabilities through two 8-week book arts units that will include instruction at the Minnesota Center for Book Arts and in agency, culminating in a public exhibit of participant work. |
Project SUCCESS, Minneapolis | $ 35,000 | | Project Success will present Middle School Musicals arts programming for four Minneapolis Public Schools. |
Purple Playground, Minneapolis | $ 35,000 | | Purple Playground will build on its Academy of Prince music programs for Twin Cities teens. These workshops increase their confidence and support mental health through writing and recording original songs inspired by Prince and other musicians. |
Ranee A. Ramaswamy, Minneapolis | $ 25,000 | | Ramaswamy will offer a multigenerational Bharatanatyam arts education program that nurtures artistic growth, supporting emerging dancers, welcoming new learners through movement and dance, and fostering vitality, connection, and creativity for older adults. |
The Reif Center, Grand Rapids | $ 23,000 | | The Reif will provide sensory friendly arts education experiences for youth in rural Minnesota that combines live performance and learning activities centered on movement, light, and sound. |
Rice County Neighbors United and Rice County Neighbors United/Vecinxs Unidxs, Northfield | $ 24,800 | | Rice County Neighbors United and Rice County Neighbors United/Vecinxs Unidxs will build community through Hispanic art, music, and poetry across three initiatives, including instruction in mariachi band music for youth, community mural making, and a "poems to go" program, which encourages creative writing, visual art, and community engagement. |
Rumriver Art Center, Anoka | $ 35,000 | | Rumriver Art Center will provide affordable, high quality, sequential learning courses in a variety of visual arts mediums and self-guided open studio sessions for kids, older adults, and people of all ages with disabilities. |
SAATH, Minneapolis | $ 30,760 | | South Asian Arts and Theater House (SAATH) will provide workshops and classes that celebrate the cultural diversity of our South Asian community through the mediums of dance, performing arts, writing, and related South Asian cultural traditions. |
Saint Francis Music Center, Little Falls | $ 19,660 | | Saint Francis Music Center will offer a series of visual arts workshops and weekly music classes to rural seniors, encouraging active lifelong participation in the arts. |
Saint Paul Ballet, Saint Paul | $ 35,000 | | Saint Paul Ballet will offer ballet education for career-minded youth and for new and returning adult learners, with lifelong ballet programming. |
Saint Therese Foundation, Brooklyn Park | $ 34,801 | | Saint Therese will offer 74 MacPhail led ukulele play and general music education sessions along with 57 COMPAS visual art sessions to help residents develop a relationship with music and learn a new art form. |
She Rock She Rock, Minneapolis | $ 35,000 | | She Rock She Rock will offer two weeks of Girls Rock n Roll Retreats for girls and gender expansive youth ages 9-16 in summer 2027. Campers will learn instruments, write original music, and perform a concert for family and friends in a culminating event. |
Somali Museum and Cultural Center, Minneapolis | $ 35,000 | | Somali Museum and Cultural Center will offer traditional Somali dance education through seasonal classes that build cultural knowledge, support youth leadership, and expand access to Somali arts for Minnesotans of all backgrounds. |
South High School, Minneapolis | $ 23,400 | | South High School will work with Pillsbury House + Theatre resident teaching artists to offer an arts residency for the South High community focusing on large-scale performance, culminating in an outdoor performance in the spring of 2027. |
Southeastern Minnesota Youth Orchestra, Inc, Rochester | $ 35,000 | | Southeastern Minnesota Youth Orchestra will provide youth in grades 3-12 opportunities to grow through musical learning, discovery, and performance. |
Mike Speck, Winona | $ 20,660 | | Speck, a certified teacher with the Society of American Fight Directors, will teach classes in stage combat for actors in southeastern Minnesota. |
Scott Stafford, Minneapolis | $ 25,000 | | K-12 students across Minnesota will receive free dance residencies facilitated by teaching artist, Scott Stafford. These residencies are a continuation of efforts previously supported by the Cowles Center for Dance. |
Stages Theatre Company, Hopkins | $ 35,000 | | Stages Theatre Company will offer theater education classes and camps for children and teens. Taught by professional teaching artists, classes are accessible to all youth, and build theater performance skills, self-confidence, and creativity. |
Step With Soul, Minneapolis | $ 35,000 | | Step With Soul will expand its after-school program, offering step dance classes to three new charter schools throughout Minneapolis and Saint Paul. |
Molly Kay Stoltz, Saint Peter | $ 9,395 | | Stoltz will offer seated flamenco classes for two Ecumen assisted living apartments in Saint Peter, and three professional flamenco performances over the class session, with students performing in the final show. |
H. M. L. Swann, Duluth | $ 21,675 | | Swann will facilitate free community writing classes that foster community, develop creative writing skills, and empower participants. |
Tartan High School, Oakdale | $ 5,000 | | Tartan High School will collaborate with a professional composer to offer students a variety of master classes in music, exploring the creative process of choral composition. |
Tasks Unlimited, Minneapolis | $ 32,630 | | Tasks Unlimited will partner with COMPAS teaching artists to deliver multi session arts education learning opportunities for adults with mental illness in fiber arts, mosaics, music, and more, providing hands-on instruction that builds artistic skills, supports learning, and strengthens creativity. |
Theatre in the Round Players, Inc, Minneapolis | $ 20,500 | | Theatre in the Round Players will offer a year-long series of pay what you can theater workshops for adult learners, including LGBTQIA "safe zone" designated learning opportunities. |
Thief River Falls Area Community Theater, Thief River Falls | $ 35,000 | | Thief River Falls Community Arts Council will provide theater workshops for youth and adults, alongside intensive youth summer camps that offer hands-on education in performance and technical artistry, culminating in theater productions for the community. |
TU Dance, Saint Paul | $ 35,000 | | 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. |
Urban League Twin Cities, Minneapolis | $ 35,000 | | Urban League Twin Cities will offer an eight-month series of music, creative writing, and performing arts education workshops for students in grades 9-12, centering the needs and interests of Black students and focused on exploring the connections between art and civil engagement. |
Valley Friendship Club, Stillwater | $ 35,000 | | Valley Friendship Club will offer arts education classes and camps where kids, teens, and adults with disabilities can build skills, express themselves creatively, and explore theater, music, and visual arts in ways that honor their abilities and interests. |
Paul Michael Van Dyke, Northfield | $ 25,000 | | Van Dyke will teach creative writing courses in fiction and nonfiction to United States military veterans and veteran 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 45 Twin Cities teens expanding the boundaries of choir through the creation of artistic works, message driven performances, and collaboration with culturally diverse audiences. |
Waabiigaagaagiikwebik, Laporte | $ 25,000 | | Nordrum, also known as Waabiigaagaagiikwebik, will offer two to three in person and online creative art classes in visual art and basket making. Classes will be open to all people of all ages in the surrounding areas of Bemidji. |
Walker|West, Saint Paul | $ 35,000 | | Walker West Music Academy will operate a three-week Grow Through Music Summer Camp for beginner and returning students to learn to play simple tunes on several instruments and share what they've learned in a culminating group performance. |
Wingspan Life Resources, Saint Paul | $ 13,500 | | Wingspan Life Resources' five accessible arts residencies will engage people with developmental disabilities in creative processes including sculpture, upcycled materials, storytelling, movement, and self portraiture, supporting skill building and self-expression. |
Winona Symphony Orchestra, Winona | $ 35,000 | | The Winona Symphony Orchestra will provide music education 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. |
Write to Hope, Saint Paul | $ 35,000 | | Write to Hope will offer a series of in person arts education workshops focused on mindful writing. Programs will serve adults in correctional and community based settings, expanding access to creative expression and arts learning. |
Kao Kalia Yang, Saint Paul | $ 25,000 | | Yang will provide a foundation for refugee writers to share their stories through a series of creative writing workshops. |
Shun Jie Yong, Minneapolis | $ 24,007 | | Yong and five other BIPOC artists will offer a series of five storytelling through photography workshops. Participants will create their own photo story zines. |
Young Dance, Saint Paul | $ 30,581 | | Young Dance will create access to dance for people living with disabilities through its All Abilities Dancing initiative for new and experienced dancers. |
Zeitgeist Center for Arts and Community, Duluth | $ 35,000 | | Zeitgeist will offer arts education learning opportunities in film, theater, and musical performance for youth and emerging artists across northeast Minnesota, leading to new work and original productions. |
