Do you have a deepening desire to use your skills and knowledge to build a stronger and more creative community?

This Spring (2023) Five Wings Arts Council will partner with Springboard for the Arts to offer the first-ever Five Wings’ Artist-Working-in-Community Cohort training program. BUT, Your feedback is needed to help us determine when and where this will happen.

If you are interested in being a part of this inaugural Artist-Working-in-Community Cohort, please take a moment to complete our short 3-minute survey.

What is the Five Wings Artist in Community Cohort program?

This is a professional development intensive, for a cohort of 10-15 artists, who hones skills to drive community change through creative placemaking and art-based community organizing – while maintaining their artistic integrity and practice.

Participants Can Expect to-

  • Learn about current issues your community is facing

  • Create shared visions of solutions, or steps to solutions, of those issues using their skills and the skills/resources in their community

  • Develop collaboration skills

  • Complete the session with an action plan to find collaborators with whom to do a project to address a community issue

  • Be awarded $1000 to carry out your action plan

Bring your arts-based action plan/solution to your community! Additionally, artists will gain skills in leadership, organizing, program development and management, fundraising, and cross-sector collaboration, and learn how to adapt and respond to community change.

Who can apply to be part of the Five Wings Artist in Community Cohort program?

Artists of ANY discipline, Culture-Bearers, Community Development Practitioners, and other leaders seeking to deepen their impact in creative community building. If you are at least 18 years old and live in Cass, Crow Wing, Todd, Wadena, and Morrison counties or on the Leech Lake Reservation you are eligible to apply. Whether you are a writer, a musician, a painter, a filmmaker, a quilter, a storyteller, or any other kind of creative or culture bearer, you can apply to be a part of this cohort!

When will the Cohort Happen?

The Cohort is planned for Spring 2023 – but the exact dates are up to you!

What is the cost of this training?

This training is provided FREE OF CHARGE to you, thanks to a grant from the McKnight Foundation. In fact, WE’LL PAY MILEAGE to and from the meetings and PROVIDE FOOD DURING MEETINGS.

What Comes Next?

Because we want to make this upcoming Community Cohort program accessible to everyone our first step is to go to the source.

YOU!

We need your feedback about when and where we should offer the Community Cohort Program. Please take our short, 3-minute survey below.

And if you feel up to spreading the word, share our survey and upcoming Community Cohort Program ideas with your friends, post it on your social media or email it to anyone who might dig our idea as much as you do!