Medtronic Arts Access Program Supports 31 Local Art Organizations

The Medtronic Foundation, Minneapolis, in partnership with COMPAS, has awarded grants to 31 arts organizations whose programs reach new audiences and expose people to the arts. The Medtronic Arts Access Program enhances the vitality of the Twin Cities community through support of organizations with community-based programs that increase access to the arts, particularly among community members whose access is limited, and promoting cross-cultural understanding.

Organizations throughout the metro area received the grants for programs including school outreach programs in the arts, artist-in-residence programs, family-centered art programs and art mentoring programs.

Since its inception in 2002, the Medtronic Arts Access Program has awarded more than $482,000 to 52 successful arts organizations.

The most recent grant recipients include:

• American Composers Forum

• Banfill Locke Center for Arts

• Center for Hmong Arts & Talent

• In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre

• Hmong Cultural Center

• Interact Center for the Visual and Performing Arts

• Intermedia Arts of Minnesota

• Jawaahir Dance Company

• Jungle Theater

• The Loft Literary Center

• Lyric Arts

• Madeline Island Music Camp

• Minnesota Center for Book Arts

• Mixed Blood Theatre Company

• Northeast Chamber Orchestra

• Northern Clay Center

• Open Eye Figure Theater

• Ordway Center for the Performing Arts

• Pangea World Theater

• Penumbra Theatre Company

• Pillsbury House Theatre

• Project SUCCESS

• Ragamala Music & Dance Theater

• SASE: The Write Place

• SteppingStone Theatre

• Stuart Pimsler Dance & Theater

• Ten Thousand Things Theater Company

• Twin Cities Community Gospel Choir

• United Theological Seminary of Twin Cities

• VSA arts of Minnesota

• Youth Performance Company

• Zenon Dance Company & School

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