NEA Chair Jane Chu Praises Minnesota’s Arts Support, MCA In one of her first trips outside of Washington D.C., new NEA Chair Jane Chu came to Minnesota last month to help MCA celebrate 40 years of arts advocacy. She praised both...
It’s “Minnesota Citizens for the Arts Day!” The Mayors of Saint Paul, Minneapolis, and Duluth, Mayor Chris Coleman, Mayor Besty Hodges and Mayor Don Ness are celebrating MCA’s 40th Anniversary by declaring it to be...
Vote SmART! Find out where candidates stand on the arts. The election is next week! You want to be a smART voter, and we are here to help. We’ve done a survey of all of the candidates for the Minnesota House and Congress to find out where...
Minnesota Citizens for the Arts Celebrates 40 Years of Arts Advocacy! 1974-2014 Minnesota Citizens for the Arts (MCA) will celebrate 40 years as the oldest and most successful state arts advocacy organization in the country with a party at the...
Arts Alert: Who Supports the Arts? VOTE in Primary August 12. Primary Election is August 12 Who Supports the Arts? MCA is surveying all of the candidates for the Minnesota House and we have posted preliminary results on our web page. While the...
Twin Cities Economy Thrives with Arts Jobs & Businesses New study shows that both Minneapolis and St. Paul are extraordinary strong in arts businesses and arts jobs. Americans for the Arts recently released data that compares the largest 100...
Have You Been Counted? Deadline is June 30, 2014! Help Us Prove How Important the Arts Are to Our Economy: Your arts & culture nonprofit has an impact on your community’s economy, but no economic impact study of the nonprofit arts &...
Art Projects Win Big at Capitol The strange and very brief legislative session ended last week with lots of wins for the arts. The most obvious win was that many arts and culture projects were funded in the state’s bonding bill. We usually...
1. Minnesotans Increasingly Love the Legacy Amendment Minnesotans are becoming more aware of all of the good things happening around the state in the arts, land and water conservation and parks and trails because of the Legacy Amendment. New...
Creative Industries: How Do We Stack Up Against Other States? According to Americans for the Arts’ Creative Industries report, if attracting creative industries were a competition, Minnesota would win hands down against our surrounding...
National Study Finds Arts-Related Businesses in Minnesota Employ 55,040 People We’ve always known that the arts are important to Minnesota’s economy. Now we have some proof. Americans for the Arts recently released an update of its...
Minnesota’s Arts Advocates in Congress Did you know that eight of ten of our representatives in Congress are members of the Congressional Arts Caucus? Minnesota is extraordinarily fortunate in having a majority of members who support the...
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