Artist Opportunities
AVAILABLE RESOURCES
Springboard for the Arts
Springboard for the Arts’ mission is to support artists with the tools to make a living and a life, and to build just and equitable communities full of meaning, joy, and connection. Founded as an independent nonprofit in 1991, Springboard for the Arts has an innovative 30-year history of supporting artists making a living and a life and artist-led community development work.
Prairie Lakes Regional Arts Council
The Prairie Lakes Regional Arts Council serves the artistic communities of the 9-county area of southcentral MN by supporting the creation and presentation of diverse art forms, fostering equitable access to arts opportunities, and integrating arts and culture to enhance quality of life in our communities.
ARTIST OPPORTUNITIES
Prairie Lakes Regional Arts Council
The Prairie Lakes Regional Arts Council offers several grant programs in its current fiscal year (July 1, 2021–June 30, 2022.) All of the grants are reviewed by the PLRAC Board of Directors.
Deadlines:
July 1 – April 1 – Small Arts Project Grant & School Arts Project Grant, Monthly deadlines, until funds are exhausted.
August 1 – Arts and Cultural Heritage Grant
October 1 – Professional Mid-Career Artist Grant, $3,000
November 1 – Youth Scholarship, grades 3–12, $300 or $200
January 1 – Arts and Cultural Heritage Grant
March 1 – Artist Career Development Grant, $1,500
Minnesota State Arts Board Creative Support for Individuals Grants
Creative Support for Individuals grants are flexible. They are meant to help artists and culture bearers adapt to a changing and challenging environment in which to work. By using their creativity and connection to community, this grant program will help Minnesota artists and culture bearers maintain their visibility and financial sustainability. Grantees will be able to use funds to sustain their practice and stay relevant and connected to audiences, participants, students, or communities now and in the future.
Deadline: TBD
Mn Artists
Mn Artists is a platform of the Walker Art Center that supports Minnesota’s local artist community by nurturing arts writing and relationship building. Through Mn Artists and other initiatives, the Walker champions the regional art community by forging connections between locally-rooted artistic practices and national and international conversations in contemporary art, while spotlighting the rigor and vitality of the local arts scene.
Deadline: Varies
Southwest Minnesota Arts Council
The goal of the Southwest Minnesota Arts Council is to provide resources and recognition to regional artists that will allow their work to develop and evolve. It is their intent to inspire creativity in its unique and true state without consideration of what is saleable. Individual Artist grant programs are designed to aid in the career development and arts activities of artists living and working in the eighteen counties of southwestern Minnesota served by the SW MN Arts Council and to aid the development of young artists.
Deadline: Varies
Springboard for the Arts
List of resources for grants and funding opportunities for artists in Minnesota. This is not a grant database, but a directory of actively updated calendars and resources available for finding grant opportunities and information.
Deadline: Varies
Forecast
Organized below by region, opportunities include Requests for Qualifications (RFQs), grants, other calls for entry, as well as employment, fellowship, workshop, conference, and volunteer opportunities. Forecast’s best practice is to post Requests for Qualifications (RFQs) for artists/artworks, rather than Requests for Proposals (RFPs). If you would like to learn more about best practices for public art calls, please reach out to our consulting team at consulting@forecastpublicart.
Deadline: Varies