SB-Brochure 2012-web - Springboard for the Arts

On the Cover: Irrigate Intern exhibit “Corridor Constructions: Narratives of Placemaking along the Light Rail Line,” Saint Paul
Community Philanthropy Officer,
The Minneapolis Foundation
Eric L. Anderson, Chair, Advisory Board
Principal, Strategic Development Consulting
Program Assistant
Kathryn Smith
Executive Assistant
Carl Atiya Swanson
Rural Program Coordinator
Bryce Barsness
Artist Resources Coordinator
Zaraawar Mistry
Irrigate Project Coordinator
Peter Haakon Thompson
Rural Program Director
Michele Anderson
Artist Resources Director
Andy Sturdevant
Operations and Program Manager
Caly McMorrow
Program Director - Health
Nikki Hunt
Program Director
Noah Keesecker
Artist Community Organizer
Jun-Li Wang
Artist Education Director
Sheila Terryll
Employment Law Counsel, The Valspar Corporation
Jeremy D. Sosna
Senior Consultant, Community Affairs,
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota
Susan T. Schuster
Arts and Culture Nonprofit Consultant
Anne Jin Soo Preston
Bush Leadership Fellow
Kathy Mouacheupao
Senior Planning Analyst/Sustainable Communities
Grant Coordinator, Hennepin County Housing,
Community Works & Transit
Lisa Middag
Executive Director, Givens Foundation for
African American Literature
Arleta Little
Associate, Leonard, Street & Deinard, PA
Melanie Full
Director, Marketing and Public Relations, Walker Art Center
Ryan French
Director of Institutional Giving, The Trust for Public Land
Sally Sand, Secretary
V.P., Institutional Marketing–Asia, Pacific and Latin America,
Ecolab Inc.
Staff
Board
Laura Zabel
Erik Takeshita, President
Molly Chase
Chris Kemp, Treasurer
Kathleen Richert
Shannon Pettitt
Managing Director
Executive Director
Theater Artist
for artists. by artists.
Deputy Director, Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC)
“We’ve had a lot of success
recently, thanks in no small part
to support from Springboard.”
“Your info has made a very
real difference in my work
going forward.”
“I really appreciate that you
guys work so hard to hear/
listen/respond to the needs
of the local arts community. That’s why you’re still
trucking, and we’re a better community for it.”
“AAH (Artists’ Access to Healthcare)
helped me realize I could afford the
health care I needed at a moment
when I might have thought otherwise.”
“Springboard goes out of its way for artists.”
“Thanks for having these very
important and informative classes
(Work of Art: Business Skills for
Artists). They are vital to those of us
trying to launch an art career!”
Springboard Staff: (back row) Carl, Peter, Noah, Caly (center row) Zaraawar, Michele, Laura, Kathleen
(front row) Molly, Jun-Li, Nikki, Andy
Springboard for the Arts’ mission is to cultivate vibrant communities
by connecting artists with the skills, information and services they
need to make a living and a life.
Springboard is an economic and community development organization that has served
more than 80,000 artists and arts organizations over the past 20 years. Our style is
responsive, community-based, collaborative and entrepreneurial. We understand the
specific needs, challenges and competencies of creative individuals and businesses
because our staff is comprised entirely of practicing artists. Springboard is the only
artist-led economic development agency in the country, and is one of the only arts
organizations recognized for its social entrepreneurship. Springboard’s goal is to change
the way our culture values art and creativity and to create new systems of engagement
and support for artists; systems that ensure that artists are visible and valued in every
neighborhood in America.
We do our work from our locations in Lowertown, St. Paul and Fergus Falls, MN.
“We believe artists are a powerful, creative force to be mobilized.”
— Laura Zabel
for artists. by artists.
Programs
Current programs include:
Professional Development
One-on-one career coaching for artists; and a ten-session
business skills training program, The Work of Art: Business
Skills for Artists, which has been presented in over 80
communities in the Upper Midwest.
Incubator
An organizational incubator program that currently serves
over 150 artist-led projects with financial and donor
management, fundraising assistance and legal help.
Community
Partnerships and consulting with city governments,
neighborhood organizations and other groups that wish to
engage and train artists to address community issues,
contribute to creative placemaking, or develop new ideas.
Community Supported Art
Our innovative patron education program based on the
Community Supported Agriculture model that is being
replicated across the country.
Resources
A comprehensive online job book for artists, which serves
over 10,000 individual users each month; attorney and
accountant referrals through our association with Volunteer
Lawyers for the Arts; and a physical resource center in our
Lowertown, St. Paul headquarters.
There Are 7 key principles
that drive our work:
We view artists as vital contributors to their communities
We believe deeply that economically and creatively productive artists are
community assets who build social and economic capital. We also believe
that artists make art to communicate, to move, to change, to build.
Our programs are delivered by artists to artists
The simple act of naming people as artists, and giving them responsibility
for programs, is an important means of empowerment and building
artists’ agency.
Our capacity to build relationships is the basis of our effectiveness
With all our local partners and artists, we seek mutual respect, trust,
commitment, and reciprocity; our programs are customized, not
one-way transactions.
We emphasize building systems of investment and support
We believe that interdependent networks foster new levels of community
impact by artists, in ways that single interventions cannot. We want to
change the way our culture values art and creativity.
We develop cross-sector collaborations
To integrate art with the whole of people’s lives, we break down traditional
boundaries between disciplines and professions. We help artists leverage
existing resources and systems, because we believe there is great
efficiency in using resources that already exist.
We operate with a sense of transformational possibility
All our work is characterized by optimism about the potential contribution
of artists to communities, and vice versa. Artists are not victims in need of
service, they are a powerful, creative force to be mobilized.
Health
Artists’ Access to Healthcare (AAH) which includes an annual
Health Fair for Artists, a community clinic voucher program,
the Artists’ Guide to Healthcare; and the Emergency Relief
Fund, a small grant program that helps artists who have had
career threatening emergencies.
Awards and recognition
Visionary Leader 2012 from
Minnesota Council for Non-Profits for
Executive Director, Laura Zabel
Winner of the 2010 Minnesota Council of Nonprofits
Excellence Award
Winner of the 2010 Minnesota Social Entrepreneurs Cup for
Artists’ Access to Healthcare Program
Best Arts Innovation from
Minnesota Monthly for Community Supported Art
METRO 100 for Community Supported Art
Best of 2010 from
Minneapolis/St. Paul Magazine for
Community Supported Art
40 under Forty from
Twin Cities Business Journal for
Executive Director, Laura Zabel
[email protected] | www.springboardforthearts.org
Springboard for the Arts
308 Prince Street, Suite 270, St. Paul, MN 55101 | 651-292-4381
135 South Mill Street, Fergus Falls, MN 56537 | 218-770-3485
We are non-judgmental about artists’ work
We engage with the full spectrum of creative individuals who make art,
and don’t exclude any for artistic reasons.
Funders
Memberships
Arts Midwest
ArtPlace
Central Corridor Funders Collaborative
Ecolab Foundation
EmcArts Innovation Lab
Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation
F. R. Bigelow Foundation
Jerome Foundation
John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
Leveraging Investments in Creativity (LINC)
Lowertown Future Fund
Mardag Foundation
McKnight Foundation
Minnesota State Arts Board
Multi-Arts Performance Fund
National Endowment for the Arts
Rosemary and David F. Good Family Foundation
Pohlad Family Foundation
Saint Paul Cultural STAR
Saint Paul Foundation
Trillium Foundation
Xcel Energy Foundation
Americans for the Arts
Metropolitan Consortium of Community Developers
Minnesota Citizens for the Arts
Minnesota Council of Nonprofits
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