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Heartland, Heartwork: A Field Guide to Place and Possibility for Rural Leaders

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Basic Income Week, Illustration by Alicia Thao

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Vickie Benson Resource Center at Springboard for the Arts in Saint Paul, Minnesota

Grid of artist images and the text: Here for artists making a living and a life

CSA

ANNOUNCEMENTS

CSA: Community Supported Art

Community Supported Art is an exciting new model of art support and distribution for artists that establishes relationships with local collectors and patrons.

Pre-sales are open for 2025 CSA shares! Purchase yours today.

Buy a CSA share

Spring Impact Report

IMPACT REPORT

The Art of Environmental Stewardship

Our latest impact report, The Art of Environmental Stewardship, is a culmination of several years of work, programming, and artist-led projects. It offers a framework for how artists are key partners in environmental stewardship by connecting us more deeply to our environments and one another, facilitating community repair, and reimagining a more sustainable future.

Read the Report

Guaranteed Income

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Guaranteed Income Pilot for Artists Expands to 5 Years

Originally launched in 2021 as a “sidecar” to the City of St. Paul’s People's Prosperity Pilot, Springboard’s pilot has grown to support 100 artists across Minnesota, including 50 in Otter Tail County, and 50 in the Frogtown/Rondo neighborhoods for a total of 5 years, making it one of the longest running pilot programs in the nation.

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Jobs & Opportunities Board

FOR ARTISTS

Jobs & Opportunities Boards

Springboard hosts a variety of resources for economic opportunities. We run a Job Board for jobs with arts organizations, or organizations specifically looking to hire artists and creative workers. We also have an Opportunities Board that lists open calls, RFP/RFQs, board service opportunities, studio spaces and volunteer opportunities. Start exploring today!

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Resource Lab

FOR ARTISTS

Working on a new project? Visit a Resource Lab!

Our Resource Labs in Saint Paul and Fergus Falls, MN, offer individual artists and small organizations access to a full array of equipment, tools, and services in an informal, self-directed environment. Artists can use the Lab for artwork documentation, design, digitization and for general technical assistance on small projects.

Book time at a Resource Lab

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OUR WORK

You make this work possible!

For 30 years, Springboard has helped make it easier for artists to make a living and for communities to benefit from the vitality and connectedness that is rooted in culture, and work for more vibrant and just local economies. Artists bring that meaning, joy, and connection into our lives, and if this is work you value, please consider making a tax-deductible gift to Springboard for the Arts.

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Building professional skills for artists

From the Work of Art: Business Skills for Artists toolkits and workshops, to career consultations, Springboard for the Arts is dedicated to artists of all disciplines making a living and a life. We make resources and create opportunities for artists to learn entrepreneurial, business, and strategic skills.

Thrive as an artist

Artists working in community

Artists and communities thrive when they work together. Our goal is always to create projects that are adaptable to the the needs of individual communities; and to catalyze relationships and mechanisms that bring artists and communities together, and have lasting impact.

Connect to artists

We power Creative Exchange

Springboard for the Arts' national program is Creative Exchange, an online platform sharing stories of artists with impact and practical toolkits for you to create and run artist-centered projects in your community.

Visit Creative Exchange

Support Springboard for the Arts!

Our work builds creative people power – connecting artists to resources they need, and communities to their artists. Support us in the work we do together!

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CSA: Community Supported Art

Artists Respond: Rural-Urban Solidarity

The Art of Environmental Stewardship

Heartland, Heartwork: A Field Guide to Place and Possibility for Rural Leaders

Meet the Creative Change Coalition

Guaranteed Income Pilot for Artists Expands to 5 Years

Work of Art: Business Skills for Artists

Jobs & Opportunities Boards

Working on a new project? Visit a Resource Lab!

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You make this work possible!

CALENDAR OF EVENTS

JOB BOARD

ARTIST CAREER CONSULTATIONS

RESOURCE LABS

GRANT RESOURCES

PROFESSIONAL SERVICES DIRECTORY

INCUBATOR FISCAL SPONSORSHIP

MINNESOTA LAWYERS FOR THE ARTS

READY MADE

CREATIVE EXCHANGE

SPRINGBOARD BOOKS

ART-TRAIN

ST. PAUL

FERGUS FALLS

ABOUT US

Together we
build the movement of
art and community.

Building professional skills for artists

Artists working in community

We power Creative Exchange

Support Springboard for the Arts!

our offices

Saint Paul

Fergus Falls

CSA: Community Supported Art

CALENDAR OF EVENTS

JOB BOARD

ARTIST CAREER CONSULTATIONS

RESOURCE LABS

GRANT RESOURCES

PROFESSIONAL SERVICES DIRECTORY

INCUBATOR FISCAL SPONSORSHIP

MINNESOTA LAWYERS FOR THE ARTS

READY MADE

CREATIVE EXCHANGE

SPRINGBOARD BOOKS

ART-TRAIN

ST. PAUL

FERGUS FALLS

ABOUT US

Together we build the movement of art and community.

Building professional skills for artists

Artists working in community

We power Creative Exchange

Support Springboard for the Arts!

our offices

Saint Paul

Fergus Falls

Together we
build the movement of
art and community.