Aug 3, 2018
Artspace welcomes Amanda Cortés and Jeremy Staab to the 2018 Rafala Green Fellowship program. Both Fellows will relocate to Minneapolis in September to work at Artspace headquarters for the fellowship program’s inaugural year. The mission of the Rafala Green Program is to promote equity and inclusion among cultural communities often underrepresented in the real estate development field.
Pullman Artspace Expanded Overview
Apr 4, 2018
Artspace invites the public to celebrate the Grand Opening of its new, mixed-use artist housing building, Artspace Hastings River Lofts, located at 121 Tyler Street in Hastings, Minnesota, 20 miles southeast of downtown Saint Paul. The special evening will begin at 5 p.m. Thursday, May 3, kicking off with a short program featuring remarks by Artspace staff, Hastings resident artists, and community and financing partners.
Apr 20, 2018
Artspace Projects announced today a $500,000 grant award from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF), in support of the Pullman Artspace Lofts capital campaign. The Pullman Artspace Lofts will provide 38 affordable live/work units for artists and their families in Chicago, as well as exhibition and community space.
Jun 5, 2018
Artspace Projects announced today $150,000 in capital grant awards from the HRK Foundation, in support of the Oglala Lakota Artspace building on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. An LLC partnership among First Peoples Fund, Lakota Funds, and Artspace will develop the Oglala Lakota Artspace, creating space for Native artists to work and showcase their art within the Pine Ridge Reservation. HRK capital is provided from both the HRK and MAHADH Funds; with the latter made in memory of HRK trustee Martha Hulings Kaemmer.
Jun 28, 2018
Artspace invites the public to a 10th anniversary celebration of the Artspace Franklin Arts Center (1001 Kingwood St., Brainderd, MN 56401), a former junior high school that Artspace transformed into a mixed-use arts hub. The lively arts community located in the building is collectively hosting this community event, underwritten by Brutger Equities, Inc., from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 9. Free and open to the public, guests can tour several artist live/work studios, shop for local arts and crafts, view an exhibition at the on-site community gallery, and see live performances.
Aug 13, 2018
Artspace invites the public to the Nov. 8 Grand Opening of the South Main Artspace Lofts (120 & 138 St. Paul Avenue), a $17 million arts development in the heart of the South Main district in Memphis, TN. The mixed-use arts campus pairs a restored historic warehouse with new construction, collectively housing 63 apartments for artists of all disciplines to live and work; as well as commercial space for creative businesses like ArtUp, a nonprofit that invests in creative entrepreneurs to empower disinvested communities.
Aug 27, 2018
Artspace today announced the Sept. 12 application deadline and details of the expanded “Artspace Immersion: Memphis” program. The competitive process will award six to 10 arts organizations entry into the 18-month cohort, designed to build local capacity for creating and maintaining affordable space for arts, cultural, and creative pursuits in Memphis, TN.
May 1, 2018
Over the decades, Artspace has surveyed and facilitated discussions with tens of thousands of artists across the country. At the top of nearly every artist’s wish list, in places as diverse as Los Angeles, CA and Council Bluffs, IA, is the need for quality, affordable space. Sadly, these two ideals often work in conflict.