McKnight Foundation’s Artist Fellowships 30th anniversary celebration from Minneapolis on Vimeo. This summer, we celebrated the 30th Anniversary of the McKnight Artist Fellowship program with a bang. No, wait–bang isn’t the right word. We celebrated with live music, participatory dance, spinning tops, commemorative flags, handmade rainsticks, narrative tree branches, original poetry, regal sashes, and more [...]
Last fall, 120 artists sent me their résumés. They were not applying for a job at the Foundation, nor was I creating a hard copy LinkedIn. Artists agreed to share this career documentation as part of a year-long celebration of the 30th Anniversary of the McKnight Artist Fellowship program. In thinking about the history of [...]
Hello! Today State of the Artist highly recommends that you check out Diane Ragsdale’s article, “What are the aims of direct subsidies to artists?” on Jumper. To wit, Direct grants to artists may make it possible for an artist, at a particular point in his or her career, to make (better or more ambitious) work (by [...]
We decided to start a conversation about artists. “We” in this context is The McKnight Foundation, a foundation based in Minnesota that, among other things, has given fellowships to artists for the last 30 years. Thirty years of support to artists—more than 1,500 awards to 1,100 individuals and counting—should be marked somehow, shouldn’t it? As [...]
