Arts organizations, schools, and community groups are all encouraged to apply for arts grants. June 1 is the postmark deadline for our Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund grant program that will award over $50,000 in Legacy Amendment funds! The Northwest Minnesota Arts Council in Warren is accepting applications for a variety of grants in literary, performing, and visual arts. The Arts Council serves the Minnesota counties of Kittson, Marshall, Norman, Pennington, Polk, Red Lake, and Roseau. Therefore organizations, schools, cities or individuals applying must be from those counties.
The Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund grant category is mainly geared towards funding non-profit arts organizations; but other agencies and schools, and perhaps even artists within our region, can also apply. New outcome measurement tools for evaluation are part of this application process. Each applicant may apply for a maximum of $10,000.00 with a 10% cash match requirement. One-on-one assistance is available with the application form. Examples of projects already funded include a music recording studio at the Fosston Community Arts Center, a series of residency artists for Camp Art in Hallock, and a variety of artists for a Cinco de Mayo Hispanic celebration in Crookston. Public art projects and proposals that bring about lifelong learning and access to the arts are encouraged. More examples of highlighted projects are on our web site at www.nwrdc.org/arts.htm in the grants awarded section. The next deadlines are June 1, 2011 and August 1, 2011.
Mara Wittman will be holding a grant informational workshop at 4:00 pm in East Grand Forks at the library on Wednesday, May 11, 2011. There will also be a second public hearing on the Arts Council biennial plan at that same time and location, for those that were not able to attend the public meeting on May 5, 2011 at 4:00 pm in Warren at the NWRDC office. A second grant informational session will be on May 23, 2011 in Warren at 1:00 pm. Please RSVP if you will be attending this workshop and public hearing to (218) 745-9111 or mara@nwrdc.org.
Application materials for all the grant programs are available from Mara Wittman, Arts Council Director, NWRDC, 115 South Main, Warren, MN 56762, (218) 745-9111 or through the agency website at www.nwrdc.org/arts.htm in the grants section.
Do you sing? Paint? Write? Dance? Act? Sculpt? Weave? Draw? Compose? Play an instrument? Your art matters! Be proud, be counted today during the Arts Census now through May 31, 2011 at www.mnartscount.com. This activity is funded, in part, by the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund as appropriated by the Minnesota State Legislature with money from the vote of the people of Minnesota on November 4, 2008.
