Grants to Minnesota nonprofit organizations, groups, community-based arts education programs, and individual artists in eligible locations for operational assistance. Funding is intended to support the general operations of cultural arts groups and organizations that produce and exhibit works of art; to groups and organizations that provide services to artists and art appreciators; and to organizations that make enriching, educational cultural arts opportunities available to the residents of Bloomington.
Goals:
Provide cultural arts opportunities for Bloomington residents.
Bring cultural arts activities to people who may not otherwise have access to the arts.
Make cultural arts opportunities more accessible, equitable, and inclusive for all.
Make Bloomington a more desirable place to live and work by encouraging a thriving, vital cultural arts community.
Use City funding to leverage additional donations from individuals, businesses, and charitable organizations.
Facilitate high-quality, cost-effective community arts programming
Encourage the development and expansion of the cultural arts in the community by using City funding to stimulate and promote additional activity.
Promote cultural arts activities at the Bloomington Center or the Arts, in the parks, and throughout the community.
Promote collaboration among various arts and cultural groups and other community entities to the mutual benefit of the arts community and the City so that all residents will have an opportunity to be fully engaged in Bloomington’s cultural arts community.
Provide opportunities for cultural arts groups and organizations to expand to new audiences, increase programs, and improve their community reach.
Non-profit organizations, groups, community arts education programs, and artists with a primarily Bloomington-based impact can apply.
Eligible to apply:
• Organizations, groups, and artists whose primary mission is to produce or present performing arts (which include dance, theatre, opera, spoken word, puppetry, music, and other types of performance) or visual arts. Performances and presentations with Bloomington-based impact are preferred.
• Informal and/or unincorporated Cultural Arts Groups whose primary mission is to produce or present a performing or visual arts activity. These groups must use a fiscal sponsor, with the sponsorship agreement formalized before receipt of BAP funds if awarded.
• Organizations, groups, and artists whose mission may include the offering of Community Arts Education programming with Bloomington-based impact.
• Cultural Arts groups and organizations that host most of their cultural arts activity in Bloomington.
Important 2025 Dates:
• April 22, 2025: Application deadline (by 11:59 pm)
• April 23 – May 7: Panel review of eligible applications.
• May 14: Award recommendations considered by Parks, Arts and Recreation Commission (PARC).
• June 2: Award recommendations considered by City Council.
• June 2025: Awards distributed to 2025 grant recipients.
Before starting your grant application, please review
the funding source's website listed below for updates / changes / addendums /
conferences / LOIs.
