Overview The Arts & Culture program funds organizations across many artistic disciplines and cultural practices. Our grantee partners offer support structures that equip and empower artists and culture bearers to practice, to produce, and to lead. We also work with key partners to provide fellowships and regranting to support individual working artists. Individual Artists For individual …
The McKnight Foundation funds the state’s 11 Regional Arts Councils (RACs), established by the Minnesota Legislature in 1977 to encourage local art and cultural activity throughout the state. Since 2010, the RACs have directed all McKnight funding to support individual artists and artist-centered activities. Region 1: Northwest Minnesota Arts Council Warren, MN (218) 745-9111 Counties …
Explore Meet the Awardees Nominate an Artist or Culture Bearer (Nominations are accepted from February 14 to April 16) Recognizing the artists and culture bearers who have made significant lifelong contributions to Minnesota, enriching our communities. The annual $100,000 McKnight Distinguished Artist Award recognizes artists and culture bearers who have made a lifelong commitment to …
Explore Meet the Fellows How to Apply Brand Guidelines Community Values Statement Working artists activate our communities and deepen the dimension and quality of our lives. Support for individual artists has been a focus of the McKnight Foundation’s Arts & Culture program since its inception. McKnight Artist & Culture Bearer Fellowships increase the exploratory opportunity, …
The strategy of McKnight’s Arts & Culture program is to fund organizations, programs, and projects that provide support structures for working artists and culture bearers to develop and share their work, and to lead in movements and communities. This includes artists and culture bearers working in a broad continuum of activities and approaches across disciplines …
Explore Our Approach How to Apply Learn More Program Goal: Cultivate resilient food systems globally by bridging farmer-centered agroecological research, action, and influence. The Global Collaboration for Resilient Food Systems (CRFS)—formerly called the Collaborative Crop Research Program (CCRP)—works to ensure a world where all have access to nutritious food that is sustainably produced by local …
Explore Our Approach Artist & Culture Bearer Fellowships Distinguished Artist Award Regional Arts Councils How to Apply Program Goal: Catalyze the creativity, power, and leadership of Minnesota working artists and culture bearers. Minnesota artists and culture bearers help the McKnight Foundation accomplish our mission to advance a more just, creative, and abundant future where people …
Arts & Culture Catalyze the creativity, power, and leadership of Minnesota working artists and culture bearers About the Program Global Collaboration for Resilient Food Systems Cultivate resilient food systems globally by bridging farmer-centered agroecological research, action, and influence About the Program Midwest Climate & Energy Take bold and urgent action on the climate crisis by …