Artists Respond: Safety in Neighbors

Are you an artist or culture bearer who cares about your neighbors’ safety, connection, and everyday survival in a cold and icy policy climate?

Springboard for the Arts invites artists and culture bearers in Minnesota to apply for Artists Respond: Safety in Neighbors. This program supports neighborhood-scale projects that help neighbors find sanctuary places in their communities where care, safety, and solidarity already live.

Many immigrant, refugee, BIPOC, and working-class neighbors are living with increased fear, surveillance, and the threat of being questioned or displaced. It can feel cold, scattered, and lonely, even in places that are full of life. At the same time, there are people, spaces, ideas, and networks that quietly hold things together.

Artists Respond is a Springboard program that supports artists to create modest, community-rooted projects that rapidly respond to community issues and opportunities. Past rounds have focused on social isolation, equitable rural futures, environmental stewardship, rural-urban solidarity, and economic justice through guaranteed income.

Artists Respond: Safety in Neighbors activates the local: neighbors, block clubs, apartment buildings, whisper networks, and local businesses, and asks artists to make it easier for neighbors to find resources, solidarity, and each other.

Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis through Winter 2026.

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Artists Respond is a series of programming engaging artists around critical issues, with funded opportunities for artists to create projects around a shared theme.  Learn more.