Organizational Grants

The Operating Support Grant Program provides up to $15,000 of unrestricted funding to arts organizations within the Arrowhead Region. The Art Project Program provides funding of up to $5,000 to support relevant, meaningful arts activities with value to the community your organization serves.

October 9, 2025

Cultural Expression

Project grants to support activities that share, explore, pass on, express, or celebrate culture through the arts. Culture may be defined by a common ethnicity, tribal affiliation, geographic or regional identity, occupation, language, or recreation. Traditional and contemporary forms of cultural expression may be funded in this program. Funds could be used to support practicing […]

December 10, 2024

Accessible Arts

This pilot program offers project grants to increase the capacity of the arts sector to make arts experiences more accessible. 

December 10, 2024

Awesome Foundation

A global community “advancing the interest of awesome in the universe, $1000 at a time.” Each fully autonomous chapter supports awesome projects through micro-grants, usually given out monthly. In the Upper Midwest, there are chapters in North Minneapolis, Minnesota and Madison Wisconsin.

December 10, 2024

Visual Arts Fund

The Visual Arts Fund awards five $5,000 and three $10,000 grants to artists in the Twin Cities metro region. The VAF supports the development of experimental projects and/or new initiatives that engage the public with visual art. 

December 10, 2024

Forecast Public Art

Forecast Public Art offers a Mid-Career Project Grant, a Mid-Career Professional Development Grant, an Early-Career Artist Project Grant, and an Early-Career Artist Research & Development Grant. Applications typically open in late summer for a grant period of 11 months the following year.

December 10, 2024

Metropolitan Regional Arts Council (Region 11)

Serving Anoka, Carver, Dakota, Hennepin, Ramsey, Scott, and Washington counties. Two individual artist grant, the Next Step Fund and Arts Impact for Individuals.

December 10, 2024

Southeast Minnesota Arts Council (Region 10) 

Three available grant categories. Deadlines in October, April, July, February, and on an ongoing basis. Serving Dodge, Fillmore, Freeborn, Goodhue, Houston, Olmsted, Mower, Rice, Steele, Wabasha, and Winona counties.

December 10, 2024

Prairie Lakes Regional Arts Council (Region 9)

Four available grant categories. Serving Blue Earth, Brown, Faribault, LeSueur, Martin, Nicollet, Sibley, Waseca, and Watonwan counties.

December 10, 2024

Central Minnesota Arts Board (Region 7W)

Five available grant categories. Serving Benton, Sherburne, Stearns, and Wright counties.

December 10, 2024

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