Individual Artist Grants
Artist Access Grant
Open: July 7, 2023 | Deadline: Friday, August 18, 2023 at 4:30 p.m. | Project Start Date: November 1, 2023
Open: January 5, 2024 | Deadline: Sunday, February 18, 2024 at 11:59 p.m. | Project Start Date: May 1, 2024
The Artist Access program provides up to $1,000 to artists who have never received a grant from the Arrowhead Regional Arts Council. The funding is designed to allow you to carry out a well-planned project that will allow you to grow as an artist or to take advantage of an impending opportunity.
Individual Artist Project Grant
Open: July 7, 2023 | Deadline: Friday, August 18, 2023 at 4:30 p.m. | Project Start Date: November 1, 2023
Open: January 5, 2024 | Deadline: Sunday, February 18, 2024 at 11:59 p.m. | Project Start Date: May 1, 2024
The Individual Artist Project Grant Program provides project grants of up to $3,000 to artists. The criteria for this program include artistic vision of both past and current work, the ability of the artist to complete the work, and the impact of the project on the artist’s career and the public.
Arts and Cultural Heritage Grant
Open: July 7, 2023 | Deadline: Friday, August 18, 2023 at 4:30 p.m. | Project Start Date: November 1, 2023
Open: January 5, 2024 | Sunday, February 18, 2024 at 11:59 p.m. | Project Start Date: May 1, 2024
The Arts and Cultural Heritage Grant Program provides funding of up to $5,000 to individuals or organizations for projects that support arts activities with both community significance and authenticity to the community represented in the art. This program supports artistic traditions that come from and are rooted in the cultural life of a community. Community members may share a common ethnicity, geographic or regional identity, occupation, language, or tribal affiliation. These arts are learned and passed on through community-based systems of training and education where younger generations learn and attain mastery of a form by observation and practice or through apprenticeships with elders.
Individual Artist Equity Grant
Open: October 2, 2023 | Deadline: Sunday, November 19, 2023 at 11:59 p.m. | Project Start Date: February 1, 2024
Open: April 1, 2024 | Deadline: Sunday, May 12, 2024 at 11:59 p.m. | Project Start Date: July 1, 2024
The Individual Artist Equity program provides up to $3,000 to individual artists who are Black, Indigenous, People of Color, People with Disabilities, and/or Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, Asexual/Agender, Two-Spirit (LGBTQIA2+). The funding is designed to allow you to carry out a well-planned project that will allow you to grow as an artist or to take advantage of an impending opportunity.
Arts Learning Grant
Open: October 2, 2023 | Deadline: Sunday, November 19, 2023 at 11:59 p.m. | Project Start Date: February 1, 2024
Open: April 1, 2024 | Deadline: Sunday, May 12, 2024 at 11:59 p.m. | Project Start Date: July 1, 2024
The Arts Learning program provides funding of up to $5,000 to support arts learning activities in any arts discipline. This grant program is intended to support high-quality, age-appropriate arts education to increase knowledge, skills, and understanding of the arts. These projects may occur in a wide variety of community venues.
Small Grants
Application deadlines are on the first of each month.
Artists may only receive one Small Grant per year.
The Small Grants—Educational Opportunity Program provides grants of up to $750 for artists to attend an extraordinary educational opportunity within Minnesota.
The Small Grants — Professional Development Program (Out of Funding for FY24) provides grants of up to $750 for artists to attend a rare professional development opportunity.
The Small Grants—Emergency Program (Individuals) provides grants of up to $750 for artists and organizations to help recover from failure of, damage to, or theft of equipment or other things related to their artistic discipline.