Every community has people who carry its stories, teachings, and creative practices forward to ensure cultural knowledge remains alive and accessible for future generations. The 2026 Midwest Culture Bearers Award is now open and looking to support those people. This year, 18 awardees will each receive $5,000 to support their work. They’ll also have the […]
Spaces are still available in each medium at the South Bear School Arts Retreat this Summer! Join our retreat-style pottery courses with multiple teachers from the upper midwest, where you’ll learn techniques passed down for six centuries through the Potters Guilds of Europe. Or participate in our shorter workshops, including Printmaking with Clara Wodny and […]
Artists, culture bearers, and makers are essential to the future of rural places—and to the ways those places help our society develop and build new systems or policies that are human-centered, equitable, and resilient. Since 2021, Springboard for the Arts’ Rural Regenerator Fellowship has invested more than $1 Million in rural cultural organizers across the […]
The Inkpaduta Canoe Trail – Midwest Memory Project is a community-driven memorial initiative intended to commemorate the legacy of Inkpaduta and the Dakota people along the Little Sioux River in Northwest Iowa. The project seeks to address and correct settler- centered historical narratives by centering Indigenous voices, lived experience, and justice- based public dialogue. The […]
The City of Dubuque (Iowa) is now soliciting sculpture proposals for consideration for the 2026-27 Art on the River public art sculpture exhibit, to be held along the Mississippi Riverwalk in the Port of Dubuque from August 2026 through August 2027. The theme for the 2026-27 exhibit is “Stillness in the Driftless”. Stillness in the […]
Stillness in the Driftless invites visitors to pause within the quiet beauty of the Mississippi River and the bluffs that cradle Dubuque. This theme reflects on the ways stillness allows us to listen to the landscape, to memory, and to one another. Featured works will explore presence, reflection, and connection, evoking the balance between movement […]
The Arts@MSP Program, a partnership between the Airport Foundation MSP (Foundation) and the Metropolitan Airports Commission (MAC), requests qualifications from performing artists and arts organizations (Artists or Organizations) whose work reflects the rich diversity of the Upper Midwest to showcase their unique talent at Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport (MSP). The purpose of this RFP is […]
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