CURA’s Artist Neighborhood Partnership Initiative (ANPI) provides small grants to artists of color and Native artists working in neighborhoods in Minneapolis, St. Paul and the surrounding suburbs.
Donor Name: Center for Urban and Regional Affairs (CURA)
State: Minnesota
City: Minneapolis, St. Paul
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline (mm/dd/yyyy): 02/13/2022
Grant Size: $15,000
Details:
The goals of the program are to identify and support compelling projects that support neighborhood wellbeing that artists have developed in response to their community’s specific challenges and opportunities.
Projects must demonstrate a clear commitment to a neighborhood or place, as shown by the relationship between that place’s community and the project’s development process and focus. These are some of the strategies that projects might use to achieve the program goal:
- Public-facing, narrative-shaping work that tells a more just story about the people who live in a place and an issue they are facing
- Problem-solving work, including developing new models or solutions that build neighborhood wellbeing
- Strengthening a community’s identity, voice and/or connection to each other and their history, focused in a place where that community lives or has strong ties
Funding Information
Total of $30,000 in grant dollars for 2022, with maximum grant awards of $15,000/project.
Eligibility Criteria
ANPI Program based on the following criteria:
- Project is located in communities of color, Native communities and/or low-income communities in Minneapolis, St. Paul or the surrounding suburbs.
- Projects are led by an artist of color or a Native artist, and there is a partnership component to the project.
- The artist or artist team has connection and accountability to a clearly defined community and the project is strongly connected to a geographic place.
- Art and art-making are at the center of the project.
- Projects address the program goal and have a clear plan and partnerships identified to accomplish the project.
- Majority of funding must go directly to the artist(s), to support the art making (their time, equipment and/or materials needed for the project, etc.).
- Note: Projects with a focus on youth arts education and/or where the artist is primarily in the role of arts educator are funded only very rarely. They encourage you to look at other funding sources for projects of this type.
- In addition, while ANPI projects might include an artist’s participation in an event or the artist team hosting a gathering/event/etc for the project, ANPI does not provide general funding for large events.
For more information, visit Small Grant Program.
