The St. Louis Park Arts & Culture Grant program is a collaborative program between the City of St. Louis Park, St. Louis Park Friends of the Arts and the Park Public Schools & Community Foundation to facilitate the creation of arts and culture projects and activities in St. Louis Park.
Donor Name: City of St. Louis Park
State: Minnesota
City: St. Louis Park
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 09/17/2023
Size of the Grant: Up to $15,000
Details:
The program makes grant dollars available every year for music, visual arts, theater, film, multimedia, dance and other art projects. It provides funding for new arts programs that support community pride, connect artists and the community, and engage people in creative learning.
The grant program is designed to fund proposals that:
- Support community pride and build bridges between artists and communities in St. Louis Park
- Provide opportunities for new and emerging artists
- Include public expression of arts and culture in ways that are accessible and appeal to large populations
- Engage people in creative learning experiences through the arts
- Promote St. Louis Park as a city with rich arts and cultural activity and experiences.
The core themes of the plan include:
- Connect people, ideas, communities
- Focus on cultural expression and community-gathering. Arts and culture activities are targeted to neighborhoods and provide opportunities for neighbors to meet and meaningfully connect.
- Enliven public spaces
- Focus on the power of arts and culture to enliven streets, neighborhoods, parks, and public spaces with an emphasis on local identity. Formal and informal activities, permanent and temporary installations serve to create chance encounters with the arts and add aesthetic beauty to the city.
- Promote health and wellbeing
- Focus on creativity and the arts as important vehicles to strengthen and improve individual and community health and wellbeing through programs and projects that support mental health, encourage active lifestyles, encourage sustainability, and create connections to nature.
- Along with the core themes, the Strategic Roadmap for Advancing the Arts and Culture recognized the process lens of – among other attributes – Advancing Equity and Inclusion as a key component for all three core themes.
- Advance and celebrate St. Louis Park’s diversity of people, places and cultures, while providing creative community voices in efforts to eliminate the underlying barriers and disparities—social, economic, health—that impact underrepresented communities.
The St. Louis Park Arts & Culture Grant program is uniquely established to promote the arts and culture for the residents of the City of St. Louis Park. While the applicants for the Arts & Culture Grant do not need to live or work within the city, all applications should demonstrate a strong connection and commitment to St. Louis Park in a variety of ways: artists, audiences, locations, etc.
Funding Information
Grants average $5,000, though applicants may request up to $15,000. For projects that exceed $5,000, it is common that projects may not be fully funded. For that reason, applicants requesting more than $5,000 are encouraged to have additional funding sources beyond this grant program.
Eligibility Criteria
- Artists, arts groups, students, community groups, and neighborhood, cultural and religious organizations are encouraged to apply. Applicants do not need to live in St. Louis Park, but projects must take place within the city. s
- Grant recipients are eligible for no more than three grants during any five-year period.
- Projects that occur as a part of the curricular school day are ineligible and should consider applying to the Park Public Schools & Community Foundation.
Ineligible activities
The Arts and Culture Grant does not fund the following grant areas:
- Multiple applications from the same organization in the same year
- Food
- Door prizes
- Travel expenses or accommodations
- Projects that begun prior to grant awardee notification
- Repeat installations or performances of existing projects
- Organization or affiliated organization has received three grants in a five-year period
- Repeat installations or performances of existing projects
- The purchase or rental of materials that have been used to implement the same project elsewhere (such as: scripts, displays, photos, etc.)
- Programs that have lost funding or need replacement funding to be implemented.
- School Program, including artists-in-residence and school-based events.
- Program put on by City Commissions, City Departments, etc.
- Community Education programs
- Training programs
- Lecture series
For more information, visit City of St. Louis Park.
