• Now open: Arts Impact for Individuals grant applications, deadline Oct 7, 2024

    Applications are now open for the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council’s Arts Impact for Individuals grant program. Application deadline: October 7, 2024 at 11:59 PM Award notifications: March 1, 2025 Eligible… (read more)

  • Grantee Spotlight: Afoutayi Haitian Dance, Music and Arts

    MRAC’s Grantee Spotlight is a new series to showcase the impact of MRAC’s funding across communities. Disciplines: Dance, Music, Art, Culture | MRAC Grant Program: Arts Impact for Groups 2023, Flexible Support 2023, 2024 About… (read more)

  • Grantee Spotlight: Atlas of Blackness

    MRAC’s Grantee Spotlight is a new series to showcase the impact of MRAC’s funding across communities. ATLAS OF BLACKNESS Disciplines: Multimedia, Grassroots Storytelling, Artistic Research | MRAC Grant Program: Flexible Support 2024… (read more)

  • Grantee Spotlight: Fireweed Community Woodshop

    MRAC’s Grantee Spotlight is a new series to showcase the impact of MRAC’s funding across communities. FIREWEED COMMUNITY WOODSHOP Disciplines: Woodcrafts MRAC Grant Program: Arts Impact for Groups 2023; Flexible Support 2023… (read more)

  • Fiscal Year 2025 Grants Calendar

    MRAC has continued to experience a significant increase in applications, which is a testament to the need to support arts access in the region. Although this means we are reaching… (read more)

  • Public Participation Learnings and Update

    This past fiscal year, MRAC engaged our community to reimagine public participation for our grantmaking process. The goals were to explore potential new approaches beyond the panel process that would… (read more)

  • Fiscal Year 2024 Next Step Fund Awards Announced

    In June 2023, MRAC announced that we would not have a Next Step Fund grant round in FY24 (July 1, 2023 – June 30, 2024). We made this difficult decision… (read more)

  • Grantee Spotlight: LAO CULTURE DANCE FASHION MN

    MRAC’s Grantee Spotlight is a new series to showcase the impact of MRAC’s funding across communities. LAO CULTURE DANCE FASHION MN Disciplines: Dance / Fashion / Culture MRAC Grant Program: Arts Impact… (read more)

  • Fiscal Year 2024 Flexible Support Awards Announced

    On April 23, 2024, the MRAC Board of Directors approved $4,464,294 in funding for the following 193 organizations/groups to receive grant awards in the Flexible Support grant program for Fiscal… (read more)

  • Grantee Spotlight: Moheb Soliman

    MRAC’s Grantee Spotlight is a new series to showcase the impact of MRAC’s funding across communities. MOHEB SOLIMAN Disciplines: Interdisciplinary Poet MRAC Grant Program: Arts Impact for Individuals, 2022, 2024 About This… (read more)