The Minnesota State Arts Board is holding a free information session in Hutchinson at 5:00 pm on June 16 about funding opportunities for artists, arts organizations, schools, community organizations, and human and social service organizations. The session includes an overview of all Arts Board grant programs followed by a question...
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Monthly Archives: May 2014
Arts & Economic Impact Survey
Posted by SMACMinnesota Citizens for the Arts (MCA) and the Southwest Minnesota Arts Council (SMAC) request your participation in Arts & Economic Prosperity—an important study to measure the economic impact of the arts and culture both on our state’s economy and on your local region. Imagine having hard numbers at your fingertips...
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Call for Regional Public Art: Region 6W
Posted by SMACRegion 6W seeks artists interested in creating a public art project for the region, including the counties of Big Stone, Swift, Lac qui Parle, Chippewa and Yellow Medicine along the upper Minnesota River Valley in Western Minnesota. While our communities have had occasional public art projects, our goal is to...
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ArtSmart’s Creative Education Station: A Call to Artists
Posted by SMACThe Pearson Lakes Art Center (PLAC) in Okoboji, IA, in partnership with the AWC Family Foundation, seeks an artist/designer to develop a site-specific hands-on, low-tech interactive art station for PLAC’s ArtSmart Interactive Gallery. The selected artist/designer will work with the PLAC staff to create an interactive learning station that address...
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Regional Literary Magazine Seeks Entries
Posted by SMACLake Region Review seeks quality fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry by writers in Minnesota and the eastern Dakotas, especially from those with a personal connection to this region. Submissions don’t need to be grounded in this region, though the editors admit a fondness for seeing it represented in creative and...
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Spellbound Theater Laboratory for Students
Posted by SMACWORKSHOP CANCELLED Spellbound Theater of Hadley, MN is putting on a six-week Theater Laboratory summer workshop for students ages 8 to 18 at the Schwan Community Center for the Performing Arts in Marshall. The workshop runs from June 16 through July 27, Monday through Friday, 9:00 am until 3:00...
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SW MN Arts Council receives recognition for effective use of Legacy funds
Posted by SMACConservation Minnesota and Minnesota Citizens for the Arts (MCA) recognized the Southwest Minnesota Arts Council (SMAC) at Minnesota’s Arts Advocacy Day on March 27, 2014 for the impact the organization is having statewide utilizing funds provided by the Clean Water, Land and Legacy Amendment. “For the past few years, our...
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