Meet our grantees

Albuquerque Museum Foundation – Albuquerque, NM
2020 / $20,520 / Creative Age
2020 / $3,000 / Online Mixed Media Collage Class

Alive & Kickin – Minneapolis, MN
2019-2021 / $155,095 / Three-Year Expansion Plan

American Alliance of Museums – Arlington, VA
2021 / $10,000 / 2022 TrendsWatch Report

Anchorage Museum Association – Anchorage, AK
2021 / $25,000 / Creative Vitality: Arts-Based Learning for Older Adults
2020 / $25,000 / Creative Vitality: Arts-Based Learning for Older Adults
2020 / $3,000 / Virtual Movement Class

CommonBond Communities – St. Paul, MN
2021 / $112,000 / Arts and Aging
2020 / $100,000 / Arts and Aging
2019 / $100,000 / Arts and Aging
2019 / $25,000 / Engaged Aging at CommonBond Communities

Community Music Center – San Francisco, CA
2017-19 / $120,000 / Older Adult Choir

Craft Contemporary – Los Angeles, CA
2020 / $21,667 / Crafting Histories
2020 / $3,000 / Interactive Online Programming

Episcopal Homes of Minnesota – St. Paul, MN
2019 / $12,500 / Artistically Unpacking 125 Years of History

FilmNorth – St. Paul, MN
2021 / $20,000 / Stories 55
2020 / $3,000 / Stories 55: Virtual Adventures in Visual Storytelling
2019 / $17,500 / Stories 55

Garfield Park Conservatory Alliance – Chicago, IL
2022 / $25,000 / Active and Engaged: Arts Programming for Older Adults
2020 / $25,000 / Senior Art Programs
2020 / $3,000 / Virtual Programming: Botanical Drawing

Heard Museum – Phoenix, AZ
2022 / $25,000 / Creative Aging Workshops
2020 / $25,000 / Creative Aging Workshops

John Michael Kohler Arts Center – Sheboygan, WI
2020 / $25,000 / Art Links Sheboygan
2020 / $3,096 / Online Learning: Polymer Clay

Johnson Memorial Health Services Foundation – Dawson, MN
2019 / $12,500 / Releasing Your Inner Artist in Rural Minnesota

Keshet Dance Company – Albuquerque, NM
2021 / $25,000 / Fine Wine Dance FWD: 2021 – 2022 Series
2020 / $3,000 / Fine Wine Dance aka Moving FWD Online Workshops

Lifetime Arts, Inc. – New Rochelle, NY
2022-2024 / $1,500,000 / Strategic Plan/General Operations
2021 / $63,500 / Digitial Services Expansion
2021-2022 / $700,000 / Advancing Creative Aging
2020-2021 / $62,500 / Seeding Vitality Arts in Museums
2019 / $31,185 / MN Teaching Artist Trainings
2018-2020 / $135,000 / Seeding Vitality Arts in Museums
2017-2020 / $1,500,000 / National Impact Initiative
2017-2020 / $182,500 / Seeding Vitality Arts MN
2016-2019 / $228,750 / Seeding Vitality Arts U.S.

Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) – Los Angeles, CA
2021 / $44,361 / Create + Collaborate
2020 / $40,300 / Create + Collaborate
2019 / $37,015 / Create + Collaborate

MacPhail Center for Music – Minneapolis, MN
2022 / $85,000 / Forte at 55+: Turning Up the Volume on MacPhail Music
2021 / $85,000 / Forte at 55+: Turning Up the Volume on MacPhail Music
2020 / $85,000 / Forte at 55+: Turning Up the Volume for Music for Life
2019 / $77,000 / Forte at 55+: Turning Up the Volume for Music for Life

Metropolitan Opera Guild, Inc. – New York, NY
2021 / $20,000 / Creative Aging Choir

Minneapolis Institute of Art – Minneapolis, MN
2020 / $3,000 / Online Learning Pilot
2019 / $22,096 / Hands-on Art

Minnesota Conservatory for the Arts – Winona, MN
2021 / $25,000 / Creative Aging at Minnesota Conservatory for the Arts
2020 / $6,000 / Vitality Arts
2019 / $10,000 / Seeding Vitality Arts

Museo de Historia, Antropología y Arte – San Juan, Puerto Rico
2020 / $25,000 / La Vida es un Arte (Life is an Art Form)
2020 / $2,992 / La Vida es un Arte 2.0 (Life is an Art Form 2.0)

Museum of Contemporary Art Tucson – Tucson, AZ
2020 / $25,000 / Stay Gold and School of Drag
2020 / $3,000 / The Real Imagined: A Collaborative Zine

Naples Botanical Garden – Naples, FL
2021 / $25,000 / Creative Aging Workshops
2020 / $17,565 / Nature Journaling: Botany through Art
2020 / $3,074 / Observing Nature Around Me through Artful Journaling

National Assembly of State Arts Agencies – Washington, DC
2020 / $268,000 / Leveraging State Investments in Creative Aging Phase 2

National Guild for Community Arts Education, Inc. – New York, NY
2021 / $87,500 / Catalyzing Creative Aging: Shifting Culture
2021 / $50,000 / Activating Communities of Care: The Creative Aging Movement in a Time of Pandemic
2019-2020 / $470,000 / Catalyzing Creative Aging: Building a Movement

National Museum of Mexican Art – Chicago, IL
2021 / $25,000 / Viva La Vida
2020 / $25,000 / Viva la Vida
2020 / $3,000 / Viva La Vida (Virtual Workshops)

Neon Museum – Las Vegas, NV
2020 / $25,000 / Reclaim Restore Remember Creative Series
2020 / $2,945 / Creative Aging: Telling Personal Stories

Ohio History Connection – Columbus, OH
2020 / $25,000 / Seeding Vitality Arts in Museums Year 2
2020 / $2,856 / Virtual Watercolor Class

PrimeLife Arts Learning – Minneapolis, MN
2022 / $38,000 / General Operating Support
2021 / $25,000 / General Operating Support

Park Square Theatre – St. Paul, MN
2019 / $25,000 / Theatre Workshops for Theatre Lovers Age 55 and Up

Pillsbury House Theatre – Minneapolis, MN
2021 / $25,000 / CenterstAGE Memoir Explorations
2020 / $3,000 / Virtual Memoir Classes
2019 / $12,500 / CenterStAGE

Rumriver Art Center – Anoka, MN
2021 / $25,000 / Vitality Arts
2020 / $3,000 / Online Learning Pilot
2019 / $25,000 / Vitality Art-Reach Classes

Rutgers-Camden Center for the Arts – Camden, NJ
2020 / $25,000 / Encore Arts Creative Aging Program

School One – Providence, RI
2021 / $19,825 / Intergenerational Arts Program
2020 / $3,000 / Life’s Gems: Intergenerational Creative Writing

Smithsonian Institution – Washington, DC
2022 / $25,000 / Smithsonian Studio Arts and Boomers’ Chorus
2020 / $25,000 / Smithsonian Boomers’ Chorus
2020 / $3,000 / Curating a Life: Art as Memoir

Speed Art Museum – Louisville, KY
2020 / $25,000 / Community Connections
2020 / $3,000 / Online Bookmaking

St. Francis Music Center – Little Falls, MN
2019 / $12,500 / Franciscan Sisters of Little Falls (St. Francis Music Center)

Taller Puertorriqueño – Philadelphia, PA
2021 / $25,000 / Moving Stories 3: Sharing Memories through Art-Making
2020 / $3,000 / Online Learning Pilot
2020 / $6,400 / Best Practices in Vitality Arts among Philadelphia’s Latino Community

Teachers & Writers Collaborative – Brooklyn, NY
2021 / $25,000 / Legacy Arts: Telling Out Stories
2020 / $3,000 / Our Oral Histories

Textile Center – Minneapolis, MN
2021 / $25,000 / Interlace
2020 / Interlace Online
2019 / $25,000 / Interlace

The Louisiana Museum Foundation – New Orleans, LA
2020 / $17,753 / Illustrating New Orleans: Arts Workshops for Older Adults
2020 / $3,000 / Resilience in Writing: Online Poetry Courses for Older Adults at the Louisiana State Museum

The Olana Partnership – Hudson, NY
2022 / $25,000 / “Young at HeART” Workshop Series
2020 / $25,000 / “Young at HeART” Workshop Series

TU Dance – St. Paul, MN
2021 / $16,544 / Dance Workshops for Older Adults
2019 / $12,500 / Dance-Writing Workshops for Older Adults: Dancing Your Story

Twin Cities Public Television – St. Paul, MN
2021 / $125,000 / Next Avenue: Exploring Museums
2020 / $124,355 / Next Avenue: Arts Courses
2019 /$255,641 / Next Avenue: Telling Our Stories

Union County Historical Society and Heritage Museum – New Albany, MS
2020 / $25,000 / Pottery, Mosaics, and Stitchery
2020 / $3,187 / Online Memoir Writing and Mixed Media

United Methodist Retirement Communities (URMC) Foundation – Chelsea, MI
2021 / $25,000 / Art of Aging: Crafting a Creative Community
2020 / $3,000 / Online Learning Pilot

Walker Methodist Foundation – Minneapolis, MN
2021 / $25,000 / In-Person Art After a Year of COVID
2020 / $3,000 / Online Learning Project
2019 / $17,500 / Transforming Arts at Highview Hills

YMCA of Greater Syracuse – Syracuse, NY
2019 / $15,000 / Active Adult Artists

Children’s Theatre Company – Minneapolis, MN
2022 / $75,000 / ACT Pass
2021 / $75,000 / ACT Pass
2020 / $75,000 / ACT Pass
2019 / $50,000 / ACT Pass

Cowles Center for Dance & the Performing Arts – Minneapolis, MN
2022 / $68,376 / First Moves
2021 / $68,376 / First Moves
2019 / $87,801 / First Moves

East Side Arts Council – St. Paul, MN
2021 / $25,000 / Arts for All
2020 / $25,000 / Arts for All
2019 / $25,000 / General Operating Support for Youth Programming

FilmNorth – St. Paul, MN
2021 / $50,000 / General Operating Support
2020 / $50,000 / Youth Media Education
2019 / $50,000 / Youth Media Education

Greater Twin Cities Youth Symphonies – St. Paul, MN
2022 / $85,000 / Harmony Program
2021 / $85,000 / Harmony Program
2020 / $80,000 / Harmony Program
2019 / $65,000 / Harmony Program

Lundstrum Performing Arts – Minneapolis, MN
2020 / $50,000 / General Operating Support for Youth Programming
2019 / $45,000 / General Operating Support for Youth Programming

MacPhail Center for Music – Minneapolis, MN
2022 / $90,000 / All Together Now! North Minneapolis E-12 Music
2021 / $90,000 / All Together Now! North Minneapolis E-12 Music
2020 / $85,000 / All Together Now! North Minneapolis E-12 Music
2019 / $75,000 / All Together Now! North Minneapolis E-12 Music

Minneapolis Institute of Art – Minneapolis, MN
2022 / $57,372 / Creativity Academy
2021 / $57,372 / Creativity Academy
2020 / $52,900 / Creativity Academy
2019 / $59,629 / Creativity Academy

Northern Clay Center – Minneapolis, MN
2021 / $25,000 / Clay to Go
2020 / $25,000 / Clay to Go
2019 / $25,000 / Clay to Go

Pillsbury House + Theatre – Minneapolis, MN
2021 / $45,000 / Chicago Avenue Project
2020 / $45,000 / Chicago Avenue Project
2019 / $45,000 / Chicago Avenue Project

TU Dance – St. Paul, MN
2021 / $40,000 / Access to TU Dance Center Programming for Children & Youth
2020 / $40,000 / Access to TU Dance Center Programming for Children & Youth
2019 / $40,000 / Access to TU Dance Center Programming for Children & Youth

VocalEssence – Minneapolis, MN
2021 / $100,000 / VocalEssence Singers Of This Age
2020 / $100,000 / VocalEssence Singers Of This Age
2019 / $100,000 / VocalEssence Singers of This Age

Walker Art Center, Inc. – Minneapolis, MN
2019 / $40,000 / Cultural Experiences Partnership: 6th Grade Animation Workshops
2017-2019 / $47,500 / Cultural Experiences Partnership Animation Program

MacPhail Center for Music – Minneapolis, MN
2022 / $144,114 / Music Therapy at Andrew Residence
2021 / $144,114 / Music Therapy at Andrew Residence
2020 / $171,395 / Music Therapy at Andrew Residence
2019 / $151,519 / Music Therapy at Andrew Residence

Mateo Lodge, Inc. – Redwood City, CA
2021 / $98,150 / Mateo Lodge Art Program and Renovation
2020 / $77,700 / Mateo Lodge Art Program and Renovation
2019 / $71,200 / Mateo Lodge Art Program and Renovation

People Incorporated – St. Paul, MN
2021 / $80,000 / Artability – Art and Music 2022
2020 / $120,000 / Artability
2019 / $120,000 / Artability

Tasks Unlimited, Inc. – Minneapolis, MN
2021 / $17,850 / Lodge Renovation
2020 / $35,350 / Lodge Renovation
2019 / $88,384 / Lodge Renovation

Touchstone Mental Health – Minneapolis, MN
2021-2022 / $127,059 / Creative Expression Program
2019-2020 / $89,240 / Creative Expression Program