Community Resources
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2025 McKnight Visual Artist Fellowships
Deadline: Friday, March 14, noon CT
Ann Bancroft Foundation Spring Grant Cycle
Girl-identifying youth in grades K-12 can apply for grants up to $1,000 to cover a wide array of activities. With these excellent opportunities, girls achieve more, realize their potential, and create lasting change in their communities.
Deadline: Tuesday April 1, 2025
Straight River Art Festival Call for Artists
Saturday, May 31, 2025
Deadline: Monday, March 31, 2025
2025 Vadnais Heights Days Market
Deadline: Thursday, July 31, 2025
Other Regional Organizations:
ARTS MIDWEST
3033 Excelsior Blvd Ste 380
Minneapolis, MN 55416
Phone: 612-341-0755
Email: general@artsmidwest.org
Website: artsmidwest.org
Arts Midwest promotes creativity, nurtures cultural leadership, and engages people in meaningful arts experiences, bringing vitality to Midwest communities and enriching people's lives.
COMPAS
450 Syndicate St. N.
St. Paul, MN 55104
Phone: 651-292-3261
Email: info@compas.org
Website: compas.org
COMPAS is a non-profit organization offering innovative programs that enhance the cultural lives of communities and schools in Minnesota. COMPAS offers a youth employment program and school-based interaction between artists and participants.
Forecast Public Art
2380 Wycliff St #200
St. Paul, MN 55114
Phone: 651-641-1128
Email: info@forecastpublicart.org
Website: forecastart.org
FORECAST Public Artworks is a Twin Cities-based nonprofit organization that strengthens and advances the field of public art locally, regionally and nationally. They offer consultation and facilitation services to those seeking to integrate public art into their communities.
Gallery 96
P.O. Box 270002
Vadnais Heights, MN 55127
Email: info@gallery96.org
Website: gallery96.org
The mission of Gallery 96 is to display the visual art of the community and to educate the community about the visual arts. The organization has two art shows per year, November and May, at the Shoreview Library.
Lake Country Pastel Society
Phone: 651-426-2052
Website: lakecountrypastelsociety.org
The Pastel Society seeks to unite artists interested in the pastel medium. We encourage artistic growth and development through education and sharing. We strive to create public awareness of pastels as a unique and beautiful art form.
The Loft Literary Center
1011 Washington Ave S, #200
Minneapolis, MN 55415
Phone: 651-215-2575
E-mail: loft@loft.org
Website: loft.org
The mission of the Loft is to foster a writing community, the artistic development of individual writers, and an audience for literature. Loft is now the nation's largest and most comprehensive literary center, offering programs and services for readers and writers.
Metropolitan Regional Arts Council (MRAC)
2334 University Avenue West, Suite 114
St. Paul, MN 55114
Phone: 651-645-0402
Email: info@mrac.org
Website: mrac.org
MRAC supports arts organizations and communities involved in projects that provide opportunities to engage in the process of creating art as well as opportunities to experience the art of others. MRAC serves audiences in Minnesota's seven-county metropolitan region through grants, services, and technical assistance to the arts communities of Anoka, Carver, Dakota, Hennepin, Ramsey, Scott, and Washington counties.
Minnesota Center for Book Arts
1011 Washington Ave. S. #100
Minneapolis, MN 55415
Phone: 612-215-2520, Fax: 612-215-2545
Email: mcba@mnbookarts.org
Website: mnbookarts.org
The mission of Minnesota Center for Book Arts is to engage diverse artists and learners in finding creativity, expression, and inspiration through the book arts. The artistic vision of Minnesota Center for Book Arts is to preserve the traditional crafts of bookmaking, advance the book as a vital contemporary art form, and interpret the book in its aesthetic, historic, and cultural contexts.
Minnesota Citizens for the Arts
661 Lasalle St #220
Saint Paul, MN 55114
Phone: 651-251-0868
Email: mca@mtn.org
Website: artsmn.org
Minnesota Citizens for the Arts (MCA) is a statewide arts advocacy organization that organizes the arts community to lobby the Minnesota State Legislature and Congress. Their mission is to ensure opportunity for all people to have access to and involvement in the arts.
Minnesota Council of Nonprofits
2314 University Ave. W, #20
St. Paul, MN 55114
Phone: 651-642-1904
Email: info@mnsn.org
Website: minnesotanonprofits.org
As Minnesota's membership association of nonprofit organizations, they work with members, foundations, businesses and government to provide the information and services Minnesota's nonprofits need.
ArtSage
3530 Lexington Ave. N.
Shoreview, MN 55126
Phone: 651-766-4300
Website: artsagemn.org
ArtSage is a connector, convener and catalyst for the field of arts and aging in Minnesota. Our vision is to foster an engaged and inspired community of older adults creating and appreciating art.
Minnesota State Arts Board
540 Fairview Ave N #304
St. Paul, MN 55104
Phone: 800-866-2787
Email: msab@arts.state.mn.us
Website: arts.state.mn.us
The Minnesota State Arts Board provides grants for individual artists, organizations and schools; offers publications and resource directories for download.
Mn Artists
mnartists.org is an online database of Minnesota artists and organizations from all disciplines. It offers to Minnesota-based artists a central gathering place on the Web and the public a new way to explore art and get to know artists. In addition to providing artists and organizations with a web page containing images and information, mnartists.org provides news and features about the local arts scene from a variety of sources.
Northfield Arts Guild
304 Division St.
Northfield, MN 55057
Phone: 507-645-8877
Email: info@northfieldartsguild.org
Website: northfieldartsguild.org
A non-profit organization located in Northfield, Minnesota, the Northfield Arts Guild offers year round classes and encompasses a gallery, shop, and theater as well as an art studio, dance studio, and clay studio.
NorthStar Watermedia Society
Website: northstarwatermedia.com
NWMS promotes the artistic use of water-based media* on paper surfaces. Founded in the White Bear Lake area in 1975, NWMS has approximately 300 members, drawing people from the greater metropolitan area. Member privileges are: Monthly membership meetings, September through May. which include any of the following: slide shows, discussion of supplies and their sources, painting critiques or demonstrations, panel Workshops featuring locally or nationally known watercolor artists who teach unique approaches to the media are offered.
Northwest Minnesota Arts Council
109 S. Minnesota St.
Warren, MN 56762
Phone: 612-871-0813
Website: northwestminnesotaartscouncil.org
The Northwest Minnesota Arts Council is a service of the Northwest Regional Arts Council. It is a free listing of area artists, arts organizations, and organizations with arts activities.
Springboard for the Arts
262 University Ave W
St. Paul, MN 55103
Phone: 651-292-4381
Email: info@springboardforthearts.org
Website: springboardforthearts.org
Springboard for the Arts is a nonprofit service organization whose mission is to provide affordable management information, consulting and training services designed to improve the business competence and confidence of independent artists and cultural organizations in the Upper Midwest.
Wisconsin State Arts Board
3319 W Beltline Hwy
Madison, WI 53713
Phone: 608-266-0190
Email: artsboard@arts.state.wi.us
Website: artsboard.wisconsin.gov
The mission of the Wisconsin State Arts Board is to take a leadership role in enhancing the appreciation of and ensuring the continued vitality of the arts in Wisconsin. The Wisconsin Arts Board is committed to creating an environment of free expression and open interpretation in which the arts can flourish, and to preserving the heritage and multiplicity of artistic standards of the state's cultural groups.
Women's Art Resources of Minnesota (WARM)
Phone: 612-567-WARM
Website: thewarm.org
WARM provides opportunities to experience and value women's contributions to the visual arts through exhibitions and education. WARM encourages women artists to form a web of support to provide opportunities in exhibition, networking, mentoring and education to assist each other in achieving their personal and professional goals.