Community Arts Support Grant
ACHF Arts Access
Bemidji Sculpture Walk will gain fifty 5-year sustaining memberships in 2014. Grants for Public Art will be researched and submitted to funding agencies. Three artists from outside of the region (more than 350 miles) will display their art in the Bemidji Sculpture Walk.The sustaining annual membership income will be at least $2,000 by 1/2015. A minimum of one Public Art grant will be obtained by March 2015. Artists from outside the region will be surveyed to discover if the housing stipend was number one or two in a tipping point of barriers that caused them to apply for the 2014 and 2015 Bemidji Sculpture Walk.
The Bemidji Sculpture Walk exceeded their membership drive goal with contributions of $3,500 and they received a George W Neilsen grant to match membership contributions up to $10,000 resulting in $7,000 their first year. A grant submitted to Forecast Public Arts is pending. This work was accomplished by paying a stipend for grant writing and membership drive activities. Thus far the Bemidji Sculpture Walk has attracted two outside artists for the 2015 Sculpture Walk and two outside artists for the Dragonfly Series.