Fall Fest 2025: Celebrating Our Creative Community
Join our anniversary and community appreciation party at Springboard in Saint Paul on Saturday, October 11.
September 26, 2025
By Springboard for the Arts
Read stories from Springboard’s creative community, and stay updated on our latest events, news, and announcements.
Join our anniversary and community appreciation party at Springboard in Saint Paul on Saturday, October 11.
September 26, 2025
By Springboard for the Arts
Meet our latest impact report on why rural-urban communities need each other, what solidarity looks like in action, and how artists are central to repairing divides.
September 26, 2025
By Springboard for the Arts
New Emergency Relief Funds for Artists will be available through 5 Regional Arts Councils
September 20, 2025
By Springboard for the Arts
“If the arts are not at the table, we need to set the table.”
September 9, 2025
By Creative Change Coalition
Ready Go Art brings artist-led experiences for all ages to Otter Tail County
September 9, 2025
By Springboard for the Arts
Garages become galleries, warehouses become studio spaces, and stages emerge out of emptiness—all thanks to local art organizations.
August 26, 2025
By Minnesota Monthly
“We started this program because rural artists are doing really critical work in their communities, and it can be a really isolating role to have,” says Michele Anderson, the rural director for Springboard.
June 25, 2025
By MPR News
How artmaking and creative practice in the United States can address community challenges, strengthen local economies, and rebuild human connections—and three less-well-traveled ways to support it.
May 13, 2025
By Stanford Social Innovation Review
Springboard for the Arts is running both a rural and urban program and has some lessons for success.
May 12, 2025
By Fast Company
Art installations, including a set of phone booths that connect urban and rural communities, aim to bring the city and the countryside closer together.
March 21, 2025
By The Daily Yonder
The animated show’s depiction of the potential in providing basic income couldn’t be further from the truth
December 18, 2024
By Salon
Minnesota’s three-year-old Guaranteed Income for Artists pilot program offers a small yet mighty payment that has unlocked creative freedom and opened new opportunities that ripple through our communities.
November 21, 2024
By Common Dreams
Springboard for the Arts is expanding its funding to support a greater number of artists.
November 10, 2024
By The Art Newspaper
Inside the annual anniversary party and community appreciation event at Springboard in Saint Paul.
October 28, 2024
By Springboard for the Arts
The pandemic made financial stability even more difficult for artists. A privately funded Guaranteed Income program for artists in Minnesota helps many find stability and creative freedom.
October 4, 2024
By NPR
Springboard for the Arts is ramping up guaranteed income advocacy with a new exhibition of public works by recipients of its monthly payment pilot.
August 26, 2024
By Hyperallergic
Meet the 2024-26 Rural Regenerator Fellowship Cohort
August 8, 2024
By Springboard for the Arts
“When our histories have been erased, it’s the people that continue to tell the stories and create the art [who] mark our point in time.”
July 18, 2024
By Creative Change Coalition
A reflection on the 2024 Rural Futures Summit, which brought together over 100+ creative leaders from across the rural Upper Midwest involved in a diverse range of artistic practices, community organizing, and leadership.
July 8, 2024
By Springboard for the Arts
Vice presidential candidate Tim Walz’s home state is expanding a guaranteed income program, and now 25 more artists can get the $500 no-strings-attached monthly payments.
June 11, 2024
By Newsweek
Read about Springboard’s first year participating in Basic Income Week, a global week of action to raise awareness about Basic Income.
February 4, 2024
By Springboard for the Arts
Read about how Springboard engages our local community with a mini-ice rink and artist-led activities on our front lawn!
January 20, 2024
By Springboard for the Arts
Meet the national coalition of place-based organizations that center people, creativity, and equity working together to create a stronger ecosystem for communities and artists.
December 13, 2023
By Creative Change Coalition
Meet the 2023-24 Rural Regenerator Fellowship Cohort
August 5, 2023
By Springboard for the Arts
Springboard for the Arts is expanding its Guaranteed Minimum Income for Artists (GMI) program in St. Paul and Otter Tail County, giving 75 local and rural artists cash payments for the next 18 months to use on anything they want.
February 23, 2023
By Axios Twin Cities
Meet the 2022-24 Rural Regenerator Fellowship Cohort
August 8, 2022
By Springboard for the Arts
Meet the 2021-23 Rural Regenerator Fellowship Cohort
August 1, 2021
By Springboard for the Arts
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