McKnight Fellowships for Community-Engaged Artists Grant

McKnight Fellowships for Community-Engaged Artists Grant

Status: ACTIVE
Funder: Pillsbury United Communities
Amount: US $28,000
Last Updated: November 26, 2025

Summary

The McKnight Fellowships for Community-Engaged Artists, supported by the McKnight Foundation, provide annual unrestricted cash awards to outstanding mid-career Minnesota artists. This fellowship focuses on artists who utilize their practice for social or cultural transformation, offering significant financial assistance and professional development opportunities. With an annual contribution of approximately $2.8 million, the program aims to address the unique challenges faced by artists across various creative disciplines and foster community engagement.

Overview

The McKnight Foundation 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. McKnight Community-Engaged Artist Fellowship 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. 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

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