McKnight Artist & Culture Bearer Fellowship Grant

McKnight Artist & Culture Bearer Fellowship Grant

Status: ACTIVE
Funder: Pillsbury House + Theatre
Amount: US $25,000
Last Updated: November 26, 2025

Summary

The McKnight Artist & Culture Bearer Fellowship, supported by the McKnight Foundation, offers annual unrestricted cash awards to mid-career artists in Minnesota. Since 1982, it has prioritized community-engaged artists who utilize their practice to foster social or cultural transformation. With a commitment of approximately $2.8 million yearly, the fellowship facilitates professional development and opportunities for collaboration, ensuring that Minnesota's artistic community continues to thrive.

Overview

About McKnight Artist & Culture Bearer Fellowship 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. Support for individual working Minnesota artists and culture bearers has been a cornerstone of the program since it began in 1982. The McKnight Artist & Culture Bearer Fellowships Program provides annual, unrestricted cash awards to outstanding mid-career Minnesota artists in 15 different creative disciplines. Program partner organizations administer the fellowships and structure them to respond to the unique challenges of different disciplines. Currently, the foundation contributes about $2.8 million per year to its statewide fellowships The fellowship program supports established mid-career artists by providing significant financial assistance, by creating opportunities to meet with local and national arts and cultural specialists, and by working with the fellows to engage in professional development or pilot new creative initiatives.

Eligibility

You can learn more about this opportunity by visiting the funder's website. This fellowship is limited to Community-Engaged Artists who are at a stage beyond emerging.  Community-Engaged Artists, as defined for the purposes of this fellowship, are artists who use their artistic practice to engage relationship aimed at producing social or cultural transformation. And this intention drives choice and process throughout the conception, design, stewardship, and implementation of their work.