The Art Project grant program provides nonprofit organizations with funding to stimulate and encourage the creation, performance, and appreciation of the arts in the region.
Donor Name: Southwest Minnesota Arts Council
State: Minnesota
County: Selected Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 07/23/2025
Size of the Grant: $1000 to $10,000
Grant Duration: 1 Year
Details:
Art Projects may include, but are not limited to:
- Music, dance, and theater productions by community groups
- Productions by professionals brought into the community
- Visual art exhibits
- Readings by authors
- Arts classes for community members of all ages (excluding projects in schools)
- Public art
- Arts festivals.
Funding Information
- Art Project grants are available for up to $7,000.
- Organizations may be awarded a maximum of $20,000 in SW MN Arts Council grants per fiscal year, excluding operating support.
Grant Period
July 1, 2025 through June 30, 2026.
Eligibility Criteria
- Geographic Area
- Applicant organizations must be located within the SW MN Arts Council service region, consisting of eighteen counties (Big Stone, Chippewa, Cottonwood, Jackson, Kandiyohi, Lac qui Parle, Lincoln, Lyon, McLeod, Meeker, Murray, Nobles, Pipestone, Redwood, Renville, Rock, Swift, and Yellow Medicine counties) and two tribal nations (Pezihutazizi/Upper Sioux Community, Cansayapi/Lower Sioux Community). They acknowledge that the Southwest Minnesota region occupies the traditional, ancestral, and contemporary lands of the Dakota people.
- Types of Organizations
- The Art Project grant program is open to nonprofit organizations as described in Section 501 (c)(3) of the United States Internal Revenue Code with Articles of Incorporation on file with the State of Minnesota or official units of city, county, or state government of the State of Minnesota. Public schools may apply if they have a community project.
- Fiscal Sponsors
- If your organization is not yet a registered nonprofit, you may apply using a fiscal sponsor. Some examples of organizations in this situation include one that has just recently been formed, with only a few board members and a couple of activities completed so far. Or, an organization may have been in existence for years, but the scale of its activities and capacity of its volunteers haven’t warranted filing for nonprofit status.
For more information, visit SMAC.
