Season/Series Arts Support Grant

Maximum Award: $18,000
Applications Open: August 15, 2023
Last Day to Submit: September 15, 2023
Online Grant Review: October 10, 2023
Earliest Start for Granted Activity: November 3, 2023

Note: If your organization receives a 2024 Season/Series Arts Support Grant you will be ineligible to apply for the 2024 Arts Access Grant.

Applications are open to organizations located in Beltrami, Hubbard, Clearwater, Lake of the Woods, and Mahnomen counties only.

Recording from Info Session on 9/5/23 (one hour in length)

Eligible Organizations (must have planned and executed at least 4 arts or arts and culture activities, programs, performances, projects or workshops accessible by the public within the 24 months prior to this application deadline)

  • arts organizations
  • schools (parochial schools are ineligible)
  • community education programs*
  • institutions of higher learning (colleges or universities)
  • non-profits providing arts programming
  • local city, town, county government entities within our 5-county service area
  • tribal government entities from Red Lake, Leech Lake, or White Earth Nations
  • arts affiliate to a 501(c)3 host organization or other non-profit entity (such as a school, institution of higher learning, or city, town, county, or tribal government entity)

*Based on Minnesota Statute 124D.19, Community Education Programs will be assumed to be operated by the school district and will be subject to all grant guidelines that apply to schools.

Season/Series Arts Grant Intention
This grant program was created to help arts organizations, and other nonprofit entities that do a high volume of arts activities or arts programming, by allowing them to fill out one grant application to fund many events instead of multiple grant applications to fund each individual event. It is our hope that this will save valuable staff/volunteer time and effort in applying for our funding and subsequently filling out all the follow up information connected to a funded grant.

Each Season/Series Arts Support Grant assists an organization in funding the creation, production, and presentation of two or more arts activities to benefit the residents of Minnesota’s Beltrami, Hubbard, Clearwater, Lake of the Woods, and Mahnomen counties. Proposals that include public art, arts festivals, engagement of guest artists, artists-in-residence programs, educational performances, educational arts field trips, arts training or workshops, exhibitions, presentations, or performances will be considered. These proposals must show a commitment to developing new/and or expanded arts programming from what the applicant organization has presented in the past. Additional attention should be paid to one or more of the following:

  • removing barriers that audiences may have to accessing arts activities
  • developing knowledge, skills, and understanding for the arts for Minnesotans of all ages
  • representing through the arts the diverse ethnic and cultural arts traditions in our state
  • building bridges between Minnesotans through arts and culture.

Eligible Uses:

  • Arts festivals
  • Engagement of guest artists
  • Public art projects
  • Arts workshops
  • Arts exhibitions
  • Arts presentations
  • Arts performances

New to applying with R2AC? View a video on how to create an account for your organization in our grants portal!
OR – Login and apply online

Is your grant project eligible?  Is your organization? Check out our eligibility section: Season/Series Arts Support Grant Eligibility Requirements – If you can answer true to all the statements, then you should be eligible to apply. If you answer false to one of the statements, please contact us to discuss your eligibility.

The Grant Application
The online grant application will ask questions about demographics which we use for reporting to the Minnesota State Arts Board (see our Data Privacy Policy), and questions based on our scoring criteria. There are also pieces needed for the grant application that you should gather before you apply, such as photos or links for your 4 qualifying arts activities, resumes or bios of key staff, volunteers, or participating artists, work samples of participating artists, timelines of projects, and a list of all costs for the funded arts activities or programming.

Budget Guidelines
IMPORTANT FOR ALL APPLICANTS: Project specific costs incurred and paid prior to a project’s Earliest Start Date will make a project ineligible for funding. Read about this and more: R2AC Budget Guidelines for Organizations

Sample Application Form for download
Season/Series Arts Support Grant Application
(Sample only – cannot be submitted – only online submissions through our grants portal are accepted)

Region 2 Arts Council Season/Series Arts Support Grants are made possible by the voters of Minnesota thanks to a legislative appropriation from the Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.