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McKnight Fellowships for Dancers and for Choreographers

The McKnight Fellowships for Dancers and Choreographers annually award three fellowships of $25,000 each to Minnesota dancers & choregraphers. The awards are unrestricted and can help an artist set aside periods of time for study, reflection, experimentation, and exploration; take advantage of an opportunity, or work on a new project.

MAEP Open Call for the March–June 2026 Exhibition

The MAEP Open Call for the March–June 2026 exhibition launches February 1–28, 2025. The deadline is Friday, February 28, 2025, at 11:59 PM. Decisions will be announced by April 30, 2025. Founded in 1975 as a partnership between the Minneapolis Institute of Art (Mia) and regional artists, the Minnesota Artists Exhibition Program (MAEP) has become […]

Minnesota Film Production Grant

This grant supports eligible Minnesota-based early career film directors whose work takes creative risks in expanding, questioning, experimenting with, or re-imagining filmmaking with production grants of up to $30,000. The Foundation seeks to fund filmmakers who take creative risks, seek innovative approaches, have a clarity of purpose and vision for imaginative storytelling, are engaged directly […]

Minnesota Filmmaker Mentorship Grant

This grant provides Minnesota-based early career film directors, working in short and/or long form experimental, narrative, animation or documentary genres, or in any hybrid combination of these forms, up to $10,000 to engage in self-designed mentorship with experienced directors or other film professionals to strengthen their film directing craft and/or professional skills in connection with […]

McKnight Printmaking Fellowship

Highpoint Center for Printmaking McKnight Printmaking Fellowship Application due: November 24, 2024 Founded on the belief that Minnesota thrives when its artists and culture bearers thrive, the McKnight Foundation’s arts and culture program is one of the oldest and largest of its kind in the country. The McKnight Artist & Culture Bearer Fellowships Program provides […]

Center for Hmong Studies Fellowship

The Ramsey County Historical Society has partnered with the Center for Hmong Studies, located at 1245 Carroll Ave, St Paul, MN 55104 to provide paid fellowships to up to four talented individuals interested in the preservation and promotion of Hmong history and culture. • Hybrid fellowship • Funding: Maximum of $10,059.50 per Fellow. o $6,900 […]

McKnight Composer Fellowships

McKnight Composer Fellowships: Seeks applications, including work samples and artist statements, from mid-career music creators living in Minnesota with a Social Security Number or US Tax ID (such as an ITIN). Four selected composers will each receive $25,000 in unrestricted funds, $3,500 to develop works in progress, and the opportunity to attend an artist residency. […]

2024 Visual Arts Fund Grant

The Visual Arts Fund is a grant program established in 2016 by Midway Contemporary Art with generous support from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Minneapolis–Saint Paul is one of 35 cities and regions included in Warhol’s Regional Regranting Program, which is aimed at promoting vibrant artistic activity in cities across the United […]

Yéigo Action Grant

The Yéigo Action Grant provides support for the growing landscape of Native artists and culture bearers who need financial assistance with a professional development opportunity or towards a hardship that is hindering their creative practice. This program offers grants between $100 and $5,000 for individual Native artists and culture bearers. First Peoples Fund (FPF) finds […]

Native Performing Arts Production Grant

The Native Performing Arts Production Grant (NPAP) supports Native-led performing arts productions that include multiple Native performers and artists. “Production” means the artist(s) are actively engaged in creating a live piece of work, either in person or virtual. Productions can include: theatrical plays, Indigenous fashion shows, touring for Native performance groups, performances in Native communities, […]

Native Performing Arts Fellowship

The Native Performing Arts Fellowship (NPA) supports Native performing artists, emerging and established, to develop and enhance their skills and knowledge of their craft. The FPF’s Native Performing Arts Fellowship provides grants of up to $10,000 for Native individuals who practice/work within the performing arts landscape (theater, dance, music, etc.). This is not a project-based […]

Midwest Memory

Midwest Memory, an initiative to fund new monuments that celebrate and preserve diverse stories and prioritize the inclusion of voices and experiences of BIPOC communities and support rural BIPOC and other practitioners in the rural Midwest. • Eight communities will be selected. These communities must have an existing monument or memorial project or challenge for […]

Project Space

The Kolman & Reeb Gallery Project Space is an initiative, launched in 2021 to further support Minnesota visual artists. In 2025 the program will award three grants of $10,000 each to three Minnesota visual artists who have met the submission requirements.The goal of the grant program is to provide artists with the funds, space, and […]

Community Spirit Awards

Named after FPF’s founder, the annual Community Spirit Awards program offers grants of $50,000 to four to six Native artists who have worked selflessly throughout their lives to share their cultural knowledge and ancestral gifts with their communities. The award is designed to support these essential bearers of cultural practice to carry forward their wisdom […]

Rural Regenerator Fellowship

The Rural Regenerator Fellowship brings together individual artists, makers, and culture bearers, grassroots organizers, community development workers, public sector workers and other rural change-makers who are committed to advancing the role of art, culture and creativity in rural development and community building. The 2024-26 Fellowship will focus on supporting artists whose work is connected to […]

About Midwest Award for Artists with Disabilities Please note that we acknowledge both identity first and person first framing of disability identity. When we use the phrase “disabled artists,” we intend to align with the Social Model of Disability understanding that people are disabled by environmental and societal barriers. Visual artists with disabilities, across many […]

Rauschenberg Dancer Emergency Grants

This program provides one-time grants of up to $3,000 to professional dancers in need, who are in dire financial emergency. You must demonstrate an urgent and critical need for emergency support in your application, and live in the United States, the District of Columbia, a Tribal Nation, or a U.S. Territory. This program is made […]

Rauschenberg Medical Emergency Grants

This program provides one-time grants of up to $5,000 for recent unexpected medical, dental, and mental health emergencies to artists in financial need* who are creating in the visual arts, film/video/electronic/digital arts, and choreography. Only generative artists are eligible—artists creating their own, independent work, with recent and ongoing opportunities for the public to experience that […]

GIG Fund

Arts Midwest is now accepting applications for the 2024-2025 cycle of the GIG Fund. Through this grant, Midwestern organizations may request up to $4,000 to contract with a professional artist and offer activities to their community. If you’re part of a small to medium-sized Midwestern non-profit that wants to host performing and visual arts activities between […]

Strokes of Genius Fund

Strokes of Genius is an open application program that provides artists, curators, journalists and scholars with funding to develop new creative projects. (noun phrase): an outstandingly brilliant and original idea (TBGF remix): a genius creative project ABOUT: The Black Genius Foundation continues its mission to celebrate and invest in the genius of the Black Creative […]