Art to Change the World

Your contribution will help us pay artists, make artistry more accessible throughout Minnesota, fuel positive social change, and so much more.

After making your donation, if you want it to fund a specific project, please email info@arttochangetheworld.org to specify!

1. Transformational Housing Project for women and their children who have experienced homelessness. Artists have the opportunity to help create and supply an art room and commit to teach a 2 hour class in weekly art classes. Training Provided.

Donate at least $50 and join us as a member, or donate $500 to not only join us as a member, but also get invited to the spectacular seafood chowdah feed hosted by Art to Change the World's director and Maine native, Barbara Bridges, at her unique home and studio. See all donor benefits: https://www.arttochangetheworld.org/product-category/support-us

Donors at the table at ACW's 2022 Annual Chowdah Feed!

About Us

If we do not pay artists - there will be no artists. Art to Change the World is a non-profit organization that has paid artists over $107,000 in the last two years. The nexus of art and science is where innovation is incubated; we have over 400 members - only 200 are artists.

Future Events & Topics:

• Maker Space Project: Art Room & Lessons @ Transformational Housing & Youth Programs
  
  Echoes of Traditions Intercultural Harmony Music and Dance and History. 
  
  Mill City Museum Partnership  ACW Artists install major works at Mill City. 
• Intern Program Projects: 6 interns design projects on trauma recovery, wellness, environmental sustainability, and gender equity.
  • Paint to Process - for place-bound members
• Mississippi Management and Watershed Organization (MWMO) Project: Collecting trash from the Mississippi and turning it into artwork
• Partnership w/ Grand Hand Gallery
  • Exhibitions focused on autism, art workshops and divergent holiday light traditions
• Fox Den Exhibitions @ Solar Arts Building
• Studio Visits: Noble Truths
• On-Location Drawing Co-Op
• 2022 Longevity of Influence Award
• Click here to read more on all of our projects and events!
• Email info@arttochangetheworld.org to subscribe to the Change Report - a FREE monthly newsletter about ACW's projects, events, and more!

One river's trash is the same river's treasure - Volunteers on the MWMO project, looking at and sorting through their trash haul from the Mississippi River before transforming it into art!
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