Our Mission

The Arrowhead Regional Arts Council’s mission is to facilitate and encourage local arts development. This mission statement grows from a conviction that the arts improve the quality of life in the region.

What We Fund

ARAC awards grants to individual artists and nonprofit arts organizations in the Arrowhead region of Minnesota. We are one of eleven Regional Arts Councils in the state of Minnesota, and our grant funding comes from an appropriation by the state legislature, and from the McKnight Foundation, with additional funding from the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund as appropriated by the Minnesota State Legislature with money from the vote of the people of Minnesota on November 4, 2008.

What’s New?

• DEADLINE,  March 30, 2012

ACLH Community Arts Learning  Grants

McKnight/ARAC  Individual Artist Career Development Grants

Mcknight/ARAC  Artist Fellowship Grants

• DEADLINE, April 27, 2012

Small Capital Grants for Individual Artists

Announcemenst

Grant Workshops:

Small Capital Grants for Individual Artists

Thursday,  April 12, 2012     3:00-5:00pm ARAC Conference Room

1301 Rice Lake Rd.,  Suite 120
218-722-0952     800-569-8134
info@aracouncil.org

Information about  ARAC  Grant  Programs
Monday, May 14, 2012     1:30pm
Grand Marais Arts Colony

Join me for an informal AND informational afternoon looking at ARAC grant programs available between July 1, 2012, and June 30, 2013.  If you have questions, contact Sam:  sam@aracouncil.org

The ARAC Board will review the 18  submitted Rural and Community Art Project applications  on Thursday, April 19, 2012, beginning at 2:30pm in the Commons Room of the Marshall Professional Building.

• All ARAC grant reviews are open to the public, so you are welcome to observe.

VERY  IMPORTANT  ANNOUNCEMENT  FOR  ARROWHEAD  ARTS  ORGANIZATIONS

We are now in Fiscal Year 2012, and at a recent meeting, the ARAC Board made the following  SIGNIFICANT changes to the Art Projects
Grant and the Rural and Community Art Grant eligibility definitions:

ART  PROJECT  GRANTS

• Arts organizations located within the Duluth City Limits  MUST apply for arts funding with the Art Project application.
• Regional arts organizations located outside the Duluth City Limits with annual cash expenses of $40,000 or more, MUST apply to the Art Project program.
• Accredited non-profit schools, community colleges, private universities, and state universities located in the Arrowhead Region MUST apply to the Art Project program to request funding for public arts projects.

RURAL  AND  COMMUNITY  GRANTS

• All Arts organizations and all other potential applicants that reside within the Duluth City Limits may not apply to the Rural and Community Art program (no exceptions).
• Regional arts organizations with annual cash expenses under $40,000 MUST apply to the Rural and Community Art program.
• Accredited elementary and secondary schools, public school Community Ed. divisions, and units of local government located across the Arrowhead Region MUST apply to the Rural and Community Art program to request funding for public arts projects.

There have been changes to the grant narrative questions in the guidelines for both programs.

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