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?

• Minnesota Fringe Festival 2012 coming to Duluth, Thursday, Dec. 8

• Arrowhead Arts Award :  Nominations are now being accepted for 2012:
  Arts Administrator &  Artist Categories
• DEADLINE,  January 27, 2012 Art Project Grants

Workshops Announced

Grant Workshop:  Art  Projects

Wednesday, January  11, 2012      3:00-5:00pm ARAC Conference Room

 

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

• The ARAC Career Development Panel will review the 18 submitted applications on Thursday, January 5, 2012, beginning at 10:00am in the ARAC conference room in the Marshall Professional Building. All ARAC grant reviews are open to the public.

• The ARAC board will review Two-Year Administrative Support  Grants and approve the recommendation from the Career Development Grant Panel on Thursday, January 19, 2012, beginning at 2:00pm in the Common Room of the Marshall Professional Building.  These meetings are always open to the public. For more information, contact the ARAC office.

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.

Comments are closed