Program/Grant: Folk and Traditional Arts

Did you know that this SPAM-tastic museum is free to visit and less than two hours from the Twin Cities?

For one night, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the Chicago Refugee Coalition turned inspirational immigrant stories into a musical journey to bring awareness of the current migrant crisis.

Willard Malebear Jr. of Iktomi Tattoo in Minneapolis carved his own path as a creative, and is now looking to provide access to art to locals.

Artist Talle Bamazi turned personal tragedy into an ongoing series of works centered on the calabash, an object from African culture representing sharing and community.

In Wisconsin, Indiana, and Illinois, explore three different stories of the Black experience in America.

One grandfather’s vision about ‘gallons and gallons’ of Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara seeds nurtures Nueta Hidatsa Sahnish College food sovereignty project.

Wenceslas Martinez transforms Sandra Jo's paintings into intricate woven masterpieces. The couple started by selling their creations from a chicken coop and have since expanded their reach internationally.

At the start of Covid lockdown, Harmony Hill felt called to support her community of Native artists in Milwaukee. Since then, she's built a nonprofit – Red Magic – that hosts festivals and provides resources for all Native artists. Through it all, she's upending colonial narratives about what art is.

In North Dakota and Minnesota, a new generation continues a centuries-old tradition.

Afnan Isleem Algharabli of Balady Stitch and Jenin Yaseen of Sr7aneh are stitching the Palestinian traditions of the past to a new generation for the future.