ARTS & CULTURAL AFFAIRS
Powering Minneapolis’ economic and social growth through support for community artists, cultural expression and creativity in our neighborhoods.
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Our programs
Creative Response Fund
Empowering local BIPOC artists to bring healing and repair to harmed communities through resident-focused creative initiatives.
Creative CityMaking
Partnering community artists with City departments, programs and projects to reimagine City practices and eliminate racial disparities.
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Inside Creative CityMaking
Economic impact of the arts
Squashing the sports sector
Creative industry sales surpass sports sector revenues by more than 9 to 1.
A decade of growth
Creative sector jobs grew 14.4% from 2006 to 2016.
Concentrated creativity
4.9% of all jobs in Minneapolis are in the creative sector compared with 2.9% nationwide.
A creative hub
Minneapolis is home to over a fourth of the state’s creative jobs.
Top 10 nationwide
The Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington metropolitan area ranks 8th in creative vitality.*
All data is from 2016.
*The Creative Vitality Index is a benchmarking tool of the Creative Vitality Suite, an online creative sector data tool created by the Western States Arts Federation (WESTAF).
COVID-19 and the creative sector
We track and report on the economic toll that COVID-19 has taken on creative workers, jobs, businesses and organizations.
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Our creative future
The 2016 Creative City Road Map is the City’s 10‑year strategic plan for arts and culture policy.
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Past artist projects
Through our programs, numerous local artists have completed projects that engaged and enhanced the community and helped develop the artist’s career.
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