Partnerships, collaborations, residencies and more!

ArtiCulture strives to bring art to new audiences.

Our Artist-In-Residency Program offers integrated approaches to arts and academic learning, which is tailored to the individual desires and needs of each participating school. Artist residencies with which we participated ranged from issues of literacy, writing and storytelling to cultural studies, math and sequential learning skills.

When creating arts curriculum using multi-disciplinary arts residencies, we are able to incorporate the use of our artists who work in disciplines such as theater, literary arts and dance.

Contact us for more information about having an artist-in-residence at your school!

Arts partnerships:
ArtiCulture collaborates with other arts organizations when possible, to enhance the richness of our diverse art classes.

Community Partnerships:
ArtiCulture believes that cultural experiences are important to all aspects of society and that the arts need to be accessible to all. With this in mind ArtiCulture partners with a number of community organizations to bring visual arts programming to fringe and disadvantaged popuations.

Partial partner list includes:

    1. The Northern Clay Center
    2. Partnership Resources, Inc.
    3. CommonBond Communities
    4. Project Pride for Living (PPL)
    5. VSA Arts Minnesota
    6. The Jeremiah Project
    7. Hennepin County Library
    8. YWCA
    9. Pillsbury United Communities

 
ArtSlam Project:
ArtiCulture introduced the ArtSlam Project in 2006 to address issues of literacy, community and personal/social growth in youth. ArtSlam is an annual project where literary/spoken word and visual artists work with teens at community sites in Minneapolis and St. Paul to create performance poetry in conjunction with visual arts. We have partnered with several schools, libraries, YWCA and nonprofit transitional housing for homeless youth.

Along with the spoken word, students make artists books, art trading cards, and apply the written form of their poems in conjunction with a visual arts component. Student groups from these individual sites then gather at the Minneapolis Central Library for an Open Mic night grand finale of spoken word performed by students and teachers alike along with an exhibit of their visual creations.

We offer free hands-on art experiences for attendees at local festivals. Powderhorn Art Fair and the International Children’s Festival at the Ordway are two festivals with which we annually participate. Other invitational festivals are selected on an individual basis.