This pilot program provides support to help individual artists and culture bearers develop or
sustain their creative practices and meaningfully engage with Minnesotans. Grantees may use
funds to support their creative practice and meaningfully connect to and engage with audiences,
participants, students, and/or communities during the grant period.
Applicants may be working in a variety of art forms including dance, media arts, music,
photography, poetry, prose, theater, two-dimensional or three-dimensional visual art. Culture
bearers refers to individuals who have been trained by traditional elders or master artists and
whose artistic practice is reflective of the cultural life of a community that shares a common
ethnicity, geographic or regional identity, occupation, language, or tribal affiliation.

All eligible applicants must also:
-Have a history of producing artistic work;
-Have been actively engaging members of the public with their artistic work for at least two
years prior to the application deadline;
- Be a United States citizen or have attained permanent resident status;
- Be at least 18 years of age; and
-Have been a Minnesota resident for at least six months prior to the application date, and
must continue to reside in Minnesota throughout the grant period.