Meet our grantees

Akron Art Museum – Akron, OH
2022 / $90,942 / Vitality Arts Project for Art Museums

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

Alive & Kickin – Minneapolis, MN
2022 / $100,000 / General Operations
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

ASU Art Museum – Tempe, AZ
2022 / $119,978 / Vitality Arts Project for Art Museums

Be That Neighbor – Minneapolis, MN
2022 / $5,000 / Mill City Singers 

Boise Art Museum– Boise, ID
2022 / $215,283 / Vitality Arts Project for Art Museums

Bronx Museum of the Arts– Bronx, NY
2022 / $230,420 / Vitality Arts Project for Art Museums

Brooklyn Museum– Brooklyn, NY
2022 / $250,000 / Vitality Arts Project for Art Museums

CommonBond Communities – St. Paul, MN
2022 / $100,000 / Arts and Aging
2021 / $112,000 / Arts and Aging
2020 / $100,000 / Arts and Aging

Craft Contemporary – Los Angeles, CA
2022 / $25,000 / Crafting Histories
2020 / $21,667 / Crafting Histories
2020 / $3,000 / Interactive Online Programming

Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art – Bentonville, AR
2022 / $229,130 / Vitality Arts Project for Art Museums 

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

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco – San Francisco, CA
2022 / $250,000 / Vitality Arts Project for Art Museums 

Frist Art Museum– Nashville, TN
2022 / $129,545 / Vitality Arts Project for Art Museums

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 / $209,001 / Vitality Arts Project for Art Museums
2022 / $25,000 / Creative Aging Workshops
2020 / $25,000 / Creative Aging Workshops

Honolulu Museum of Art– Honolulu, HI
2022 / $250,000 / Vitality Arts Project for Art Museums

John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art– Sarasota, FL
2022 / $109,907 / Vitality Arts Project for Art Museums

John Michael Kohler Arts Center – Sheboygan, WI
2022 / $22,000 / Art Links Sheboygan
2020 / $25,000 / Art Links Sheboygan
2020 / $3,096 / Online Learning: Polymer Clay

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
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

Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) – Los Angeles, CA
2022 / $250,000 / Vitality Arts Project for Art Museums
2021 / $44,361 / Create + Collaborate
2020 / $40,300 / 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

Metropolitan Opera Guild, Inc. – New York, NY
2022 / $18,000 / Creative Aging Choir
2021 / $20,000 / Creative Aging Choir

Memphis Brooks Museum of Art– Memphis, TN
2022 / $249,993 / Vitality Arts Project for Art Museums

Minneapolis Institute of Art – Minneapolis, MN
2022 / $250,000 / Vitality Arts Project for Art Museums
2020 / $3,000 / Online Learning Pilot

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

Museo de Historia, Antropología y Arte – San Juan, Puerto Rico
2022 / $25,000 / La Vida es un Arte (Life is an Art Form)
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 San Diego– San Diego, CA
2022 / $250,000 / Vitality Arts Project for Art Museums

Museum of Contemporary Art Tucson – Tucson, AZ
2022 / $25,000 / Intergenerational & Creative Aging Programs
2020 / $25,000 / Stay Gold and School of Drag
2020 / $3,000 / The Real Imagined: A Collaborative Zine

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston – Houston, TX
2022 / $250,000 / Vitality Arts Project for Art Museums

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
2022 / $1,396,500 / States Leading Creative Aging
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

Neuberger Museum of Art – Harrison, NY
2022 / $246,822 / Vitality Arts Project for Art Museums

New Orleans Museum of Art – New Orleans, LA
2022 / $250,000 / Vitality Arts Project for Art Museums

Ohio History Connection – Columbus, OH
2022 / $25,000 / 55+ Creative Aging Classes
2020 / $25,000 / Seeding Vitality Arts in Museums Year 2
2020 / $2,856 / Virtual Watercolor Class

Pérez Art Museum Miami  – Miami, FL
2022 / $216,150 / Vitality Arts Project for Art Museums

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

Philbrook Museum of Art – Tulsa, OK
2022 / $162,350 / Vitality Arts Project for Art Museums

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

Queens Museum of Art – Queens, NY
2022 / $250,000 / Vitality Arts Project for Art Museums

Rumriver Art Center – Anoka, MN
2022 / $25,000 / Vitality Arts Outreach
2021 / $25,000 / Vitality Arts
2020 / $3,000 / Online Learning Pilot

Rutgers-Camden Center for the Arts – Camden, NJ
2022 / $25,000 / Encore Arts Creative Aging Program
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
2022 / $25,000 / Platinum Collective Jewelry Extravaganza
2020 / $25,000 / Community Connections
2020 / $3,000 / Online Bookmaking

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

Tampa Museum of Art– Tampa, FL
2022 / $250,000 / Vitality Arts Project for Art Museums

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

The Louisiana Museum Foundation – New Orleans, LA
2022 / $ 16,981 / Creative Aging Courses at the Louisiana State Museum
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 Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art– Kansas City, MO
2022 / $250,000 / Vitality Arts Project for Art Museums 

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

Toledo Museum of Art– Toledo, OH
2022 / $119,916 / Vitality Arts Project for Art Museums

TU Dance – St. Paul, MN
2021 / $16,544 / Dance Workshops for Older Adults

Twin Cities Public Television – St. Paul, MN
2022 / $125,984 / Next Avenue: Arts + Aging in Community
2021 / $125,000 / Next Avenue: Exploring Museums
2020 / $124,355 / Next Avenue: Arts Courses

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

Utah Museum of Fine Arts – Salt Lake City, UT
2021 / $158,500 / Vitality Arts Project for Art Museums 

Walker Methodist Foundation – Minneapolis, MN
2021 / $25,000 / In-Person Art After a Year of COVID
2020 / $3,000 / Online Learning Project

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

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

East Side Arts Council – St. Paul, MN
2022 / $25,000 / Arts for All
2021 / $25,000 / Arts for All
2020 / $25,000 / Arts for All

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

Lundstrum Performing Arts – Minneapolis, MN
2020 / $50,000 / 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

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

Northern Clay Center – Minneapolis, MN
2022 / $25,000 / Clay to Go
2021 / $25,000 / Clay to Go
2020 / $25,000 / Clay to Go
2019 / $25,000 / Clay to Go

Pillsbury House + Theatre – Minneapolis, MN
2022 / $45,000 / Chicago Avenue Project
2021 / $45,000 / Chicago Avenue Project
2020 / $45,000 / Chicago Avenue Project
2019 / $45,000 / Chicago Avenue Project

TU Dance – St. Paul, MN
2022 / $40,000 / Access to TU Dance Center Programming for Children & Youth
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
2022 / $100,000 / VocalEssence Singers Of This Age
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

Mateo Lodge, Inc. – Redwood City, CA
2022 / $87,275 / Mateo Lodge Art Program and Renovation
2021 / $98,150 / Mateo Lodge Art Program and Renovation
2020 / $77,700 / Mateo Lodge Art Program and Renovation

People Incorporated – St. Paul, MN
2022 / $125,000 / 2023 Artability Workshops and Showcase
2021 / $80,000 / Artability – Art and Music 2022
2020 / $120,000 / Artability

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

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