August 2 2022 | Arts & Cultural Affairs invites Minneapolis based small creative businesses, and arts and cultural nonprofit organizations to apply for Capacity Building for Creative Spaces.

Applications now open, due September 6, 2022. Info sessions on August 9th and 18th.

July 20 2022 | In celebration of the second annual Black Business Week (July 25-July 31), the City of Minneapolis’ Arts & Cultural Affairs spotlights Briauna Williams, a 2022 Creative Response Fund recipient. Williams an aspiring entrepreneur shares her insights on the intersection between music, art and business.

July 5 2022 | Arts & Cultural Affairs invites Minneapolis based small creative businesses, and arts and cultural nonprofit organizations to apply for Business Support Funds for Creatives. 

Applications are open for Creative Apprenticeships and Artist Driven Marketing grants, due August 1, 2022. Sign up for the next info session on July 20th, from 2:00-4:00 pm.

June 23 2022 | Arts & Cultural Affairs invites Minneapolis based small creative businesses, and arts and cultural nonprofit organizations to apply for Business Support Funds for Creatives. Save the Dates.

Three new funding opportunities are available. Grants range from $5,000-$18,000 depending on the category of support.

June 14 2022 | The City of Minneapolis’ Arts & Cultural Affairs is pleased to announce funding for 12 artist-led working teams for projects that provide creative healing and support to Minneapolis communities.

May 12 2022 | Artists David Sánchez Beltrán and Lucero Paniagua Ortuño from Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico, visit Minneapolis May 29 - June 7 for arts residency. The City of Minneapolis’ Arts & Cultural Affairs and the University of Minnesota’s Weisman Art Museum will host a Mexican Folk Arts Residency to strengthen and elevate the presence of and access to Mexican traditional art forms in Minneapolis.

Mar 17 2022 | The City of Minneapolis’ Arts & Cultural Affairs invites applications for a second round of the Creative Response Fund-Community Well-Being grant. Community based artists in Minnesota are invited to gather a team and apply for grants of up to $15,000 per project, 12 projects will be selected in 2022.

Applications are now open. The application deadline is April 13th 2022.

Feb 28 2022 | Arts & Cultural Affairs will again be offering project funding to artist teams in a new round of funding through the Creative Response Fund-Community Well-Being grants. The application deadline is April 13th 2022. Mark your calendars, and save the dates.

In addition, new funding opportunities through a new Creative Business Support program will be available later in the year for individual artist entrepreneurs, creative businesses, and arts and cultural nonprofit organizations. 

Feb 28 2022 | Tanya L Eubanks, producer and director, and LaTanya Cannady, choreographer talk about their upcoming theatre, dance and singing performance of Rise Up! Cinderella! Two nights only: Saturday, March 26 at 6:30 pm and Sunday, March 27 at 4:00 pm at Lundstrum Performing Arts in North Minneapolis.

Take a peek at rehearsals and catch up on the vision and boundless energy of this remarkable mother daughter team. Click on “Read More” below for the full article.

Jan 25 2022 | Tamiko French, a 2021 Creative Response Fund (CRF) recipient speaks to her own brand of regal-ness and healing vibrations in her production of The Rock Royalty Experience. Synergizing earth science, ancestral alternative healing practices and functional fashion, Tamiko presented a high energy runway-style fashion show at George Floyd Square and showcased her own welded, fire-created and hand wrapped crowns, representing in her words, “grace and regal-ness under fire.”

Dec 14 2021 | Using magical realism and a journey into the Maya cosmovision, Creative Response Fund (CRF) recipients and artists Magdalena Kaluza and Rebekah Crisanta de Ybarra, performed Star Girl Clan, an intergenerational story of emergence and healing transformation. The show called on ancestors and cellular memory to inspire a new generation of descendants to look up into the stars and to care for the earth.

Sept 16 2021 | Internationally renowned artists visit Minneapolis, focus on reviving and enriching Mexican traditional art forms. In celebration of Latinx Heritage Month, the City of Minneapolis Office of Arts, Culture & the Creative Economy and and the University of Minnesota’s Weisman Art Museum will host a Mexican Folk Arts Residency to strengthen and elevate the presence of and access to Mexican traditional art forms in Minneapolis.

Sept 1 2021 | The City of Minneapolis Office of Arts, Culture and the Creative Economy (ACCE) is pleased to announce funding for 15 artist-led working teams for projects that provide creative healing and support to Minneapolis communities.

Jun 14 2021 | The Minneapolis City Council has approved the creation of a new Department of Arts & Cultural Affairs, which will begin to take shape this fall.

May 3 2021 | The Office of Arts, Culture and the Creative Economy invites applications for the Creative Response Fund- Community Well-Being grant opportunity.

Apr 28 2021 | The Office of Arts, Culture & the Creative Economy stands with others who are working for community well-being and a better future for everyone by addressing systemic racial inequities.

Feb 15 2021 | How Minneapolis artist D.A. Bullock is working in the community to reenvision a collective future of accountability and care.

Dec 7 2020 | How two Minneapolis artists turned to their immediate community to create a ripple effect of connection, healing and joy.

Nov 16 2020 | How a Minneapolis artist and architect created an outdoor barbershop and altar for his community to connect, process grief and heal together.