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Arts Funding Available — additional grant deadline is May 1
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Arts Funding Available — additional grant deadline is May 1

Arts Grants Funding Available!

May 1 Deadline for Project Grants Added

Artist Residency Grants Available

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Applications are open for Project Grants for nonprofit arts organizations, communities, schools, and other nonprofit organizations from our seven county Minnesota service area including Kittson, Marshall, Norman, Pennington, Polk, Red Lake, and Roseau counties.

Nonprofits and government organizations can apply for one arts project at a time. There is a bonus grant deadline of May 1. Grants are between $500 and $10,000. Funding sources for these grants are Clean Water, Land and Legacy funds and general allocation funds from the State of Minnesota. 

Organizational arts activities funded through these very important grant opportunities include festivals, community theatre projects, folk music entertainment, sponsorship of visual demonstrations, creative writing workshops and many other activities that improve the quality of life of people in our communities. This is a great way to bring arts experiences to your community.

Schools in our seven-county region can also apply now for an Artist Residency grant of $2,600 plus an additional $400 if the residency needs supplies. Our teaching artist roster is a great resource to view artists available to teach in our area and is available under the artists tab on our website. Another resource to view artists available to enhance curriculum is COMPAS.

Schools can initially apply for one residency. Then based on remaining funding, can request up to three additional residencies into spring and summer. Funding for residency activities comes from the Clean Water, Land and Legacy Amendment in Minnesota. 

Also available on a first come-first served basis are Quick Turnaround Grants for $500. These grants are awarded to performing artists, visual artists, media artists, and creative writing artists from our seven county Minnesota service area including Kittson, Marshall, Norman, Pennington, Polk, Red Lake, and Roseau counties.

You can begin your grant application by clicking on the Grant Login button on the top right of every page on our website. Please reach out with questions.

The grant application process is completely online and NWMAC's Director Mara Hanel can help walk you through the process of using the grants portal to get accustomed to it. Please contact her at director@NWArtsCouncil.org or call 218-745-8886.

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Fertile is looking for artists to provide after school programming or residency
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Fertile is looking for artists to provide after school programming or residency

The Fertile-Beltrami School ISD#599 is looking for artists to provide arts programming for upper elementary school students for after school programming. Think of this as an after school artist residency! This might be for 1-2 weeks and could be grade level specific).

 Please reach out to Brian Clarke at bclarke@isd599.org.

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