The Commonweal Theatre Company is a nonprofit, professional theater company dedicated to delighting and challenging audiences in its region, and enriching the common good through actor-based storytelling. Run by a collective of artist-administrators, the Commonweal is committed to the values of artistic excellence, education, balance, community, sustainability, and diversity while producing high-quality work in Greater …
August 2012 – Composed of individual recollections and historical data, this report is meant to serve as part of the “institutional memory” of McKnight’s Southeast Asia grants program.
November 2010 – Featuring essays about Armajani’s influence as a sculptor and public artist, a chronology of his work and life, and photographs.
August 2009 – Center for the Study of Art and Community. Research and recommendations which informed the 2009 revision of McKnight’s arts program guidelines.
Information about the Awards in Human Service, as well as profiles of our annual awardees.
July 30, 2012 In 2012, The McKnight Foundation’s board of directors and staff developed a strategic framework to guide our work during the upcoming three years. Rather than a traditional “strategic plan” that might detail specific activities to be pursued over a specified time frame, this framework offers a sense of how we will approach …
https://vimeo.com/48815490 Bog Walk from Works Progress on Vimeo. Artist Christine Baeumler wants us to get our feet wet. When we approached her about creating a short video for McKnight’s State of the Artist project about her and her recent work, she suggested we take a walk together. On one of the hottest days of the …
Poetry in Motion from Works Progress on Vimeo. How can poets collaborate with other artists and communities to bring poetry into the world in new ways? Dobby Gibson is a poet, but he doesn’t wear the title on his sleeve. In our initial conversations with him about the State of the Artist Documentary Project, Dobby …
Perpetual Inspiration Machine from Works Progress on Vimeo. What happens when creating work for a gallery audience isn’t enough? During our visit to visual artist Carolyn Swiszcz’s home studio in West Saint Paul, she shared a book of sketches she’d done back in grade school. From the time she was a kid, Carolyn was making things, whether …
When we set out on our State of the Artist Documentary Project, working with some of the McKnight Artist Fellows of the past 30 years, we immediately saw a chance to satisfy our own curiosity about Bill Cottman and his family. We’d met Bill, his wife Beverly, and their daughter Kenna last year when they …