Season/Series Arts Support Grant

The Season/Series Arts Support Grant is designed to assist arts organizations in Minnesota's Beltrami, Hubbard, Clearwater, Lake of the Woods, and Mahnomen counties. It allows for a single application to fund multiple arts activities, aiming to save time and resources for nonprofits. Eligible proposals include public arts projects, educational performances, and community engagement initiatives that demonstrate a commitment to expanding arts programming and removing barriers to access.

Season/Series Arts Grant Intention
This grant program was created to help arts organizations, and other nonprofit entities that do a high volume of arts activities or arts programming, by allowing them to fill out one grant application to fund many events instead of multiple grant applications to fund each individual event. It is our hope that this will save valuable staff/volunteer time and effort in applying for our funding and subsequently filling out all the follow up information connected to a funded grant.
Each Season/Series Arts Support Grant assists an organization in funding the creation, production, and presentation of two or more arts activities to benefit the residents of Minnesota’s Beltrami, Hubbard, Clearwater, Lake of the Woods, and Mahnomen counties. Proposals that include public art, arts festivals, engagement of guest artists, artists-in-residence programs, educational performances, educational arts field trips, arts training or workshops, exhibitions, presentations, or performances will be considered. These proposals must show a commitment to developing new/and or expanded arts programming from what the applicant organization has presented in the past. Additional attention should be paid to one or more of the following:

• Access - removing barriers that audiences may have to accessing arts activities
• Education - developing knowledge, skills, and understanding for the arts for Minnesotans of all ages
• Arts & Cultural Heritage - representing through the arts the diverse ethnic and cultural arts traditions in our state
• building bridges between Minnesotans through arts and culture.

Eligibility

Eligible Organizations must have planned and executed at least 4 arts or arts and culture activities, programs, performances, projects or workshops accessible by the public within the 24 months prior to this application deadline.arts organizations
schools (parochial schools are ineligible)
community education programsBased on Minnesota Statute 124D.19, Community Education Programs will be assumed to be operated by the school district and will be subject to all grant guidelines that apply to schools.institutions of higher learning (colleges or universities)
non-profits providing arts programming
tribal government entities from Red Lake, Leech Lake, or White Earth Nations
arts affiliate to a 501(c)3 host organization or other non-profit entity (such as a school, institution of higher learning, or city, town, county, or tribal government entity)Applications are open to organizations located in Beltrami, Hubbard, Clearwater, Lake of the Woods, and Mahnomen counties only.Eligible Uses:Art, craft, music, literary, dance, film, fashion, or theater festivals
Public art projects
Art, craft, music, literary, dance, film, fashion, theater, or traditional cultural arts workshops
Arts exhibitions
Arts presentations such as author readings, craft talks, demonstrations, etc.

Ineligibility

If your organization receives a current Season/Series Arts Support Grant you will be ineligible to apply for this year's Arts Access Grant.Project specific costs incurred and paid prior to a project’s Earliest Start Date will make a project ineligible for funding.Read more about this here.