{"id":63166,"date":"2025-08-19T09:38:24","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T14:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mcknight.org\/?p=63166"},"modified":"2025-08-19T09:47:28","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T14:47:28","slug":"supporting-minnesotas-next-generation-of-artists-and-culture-bearers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mcknight.org\/amh\/news-ideas\/supporting-minnesotas-next-generation-of-artists-and-culture-bearers\/","title":{"rendered":"Supporting Minnesota’s Next Generation of Artists and Culture Bearers"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Supporting Minnesota’s Next Generation of Artists and Culture Bearers<\/h1>\n

Creating an environment where artists and culture bearers can thrive<\/h3>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t
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“We know there are artists everywhere. Ensuring more artists and culture bearers can thrive here strengthens the economy, our health, social connections, and quality of life in more communities across our state.”<\/h2>\n

\u2013 Caroline Taiwo, Mcknight arts & culture program officer\u00a0<\/i><\/h5>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n
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Across Minnesota, support for artists and culture bearers goes far beyond the financial, stretching into less traditional but equally important forms of sustenance.<\/p>\n

In addition to the customary financial and physical support creatives need to do their work, organizations across the state have broadened their efforts by working to connect artists and culture bearers to each other and their broader communities, as well as validate and advocate for their work.<\/p>\n

This shift is not only helping support a new generation of artists and culture bearers, but also strengthening the arts infrastructure in communities across the state, elevating the perspectives of creatives who are often overlooked by mainstream institutions, and making a big difference for artists of color and folk artists in particular.<\/p>\n

Organizations\u00a0at the forefront of these shifts include Minneapolis\u2019\u00a0Public Functionary<\/a>, a nonprofit program that cultivates and supports\u00a0emerging\u00a0artists, particularly\u00a0those from Black, Indigenous, and Immigrant communities, and the\u00a0New York Mills Regional Cultural Center<\/a>, which does the same for folk artists in northern Minnesota.<\/p>\n

When Tricia Heuring, Public Functionary\u2019s artistic director, first met artist Leslie Barlow in her studio, Barlow was struggling with self-doubt. \u201cBecause she was painting [with a] mixed race identity and thinking about race in different ways, she wasn\u2019t really finding support in the arts community for her work,\u201d Heuring recalls. Barlow remembers the warmth of Heuring\u2019s support. \u201cI could see that she connected with my work, [she] was very affirming.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n

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