Springboard for the Arts

Artist resources -Springboard for the Arts' artist resources programming encompasses professional development resources for artists, economic opportunity programs, access to health and legal resources, and physical resource centers. In fy19 we continued to build the capacity of our resource center for artists, offering computer workstations outfitted with graphic and slide scanners, adobe creative cloud, microsoft office, a publications library, and other grant-making and opportunities databases. In our st. paul resource center, we expanded the a/v closet, a continued offering for artists to check out Arts technology such as cameras and lights. We've continued our legal referral service, connecting 156 artists with one-on-one attorney referrals in fy19. Springboard for the Arts supports artists' healthcare through several programs. Artists' access to healthcare (aah) removes financial and system navigation barriers for artists and their families. Aah provides artists with vouchers to cover the cost of medical, dental and mental health services. Through vouchers, ...

In fy19 our fergus falls office provided professional training and consultations, a resource center, legal and healthcare resources to approximately 350 artists, and community development training for 158 artists through artists on main street. In addition, 18 artists in our hinge Arts residency program reached approximately 740 community members through presentations, events and outreach activities, and the year of play project reached 472 community members. We also provided community development presentations and workshops to approximately 950 community, state and national leaders.

Springboard for the Arts' incubator: a fiscal sponsorship program provides fiscal sponsorship for Arts groups and individual artist projects that do not want (or are not ready) to become tax-exempt nonprofit organizations. In fy19 we managed over $1.3 million in revenues for the 240 artist-led projects in the program during that period.