South Dakota

Midwest Culture Bearers Award

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 […]

Rural Regenerator Fellowship: Organizing for Care, Safety, and Solidarity

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 […]