2027 Mid-Career Project Grant, Forecast Public Art

About this call

Forecast Public Art, based in St. Paul, Minnesota, United States, offers five Mid-Career Project Grants of USD 10,000 each, funded by the McKnight Foundation. The grant supports the creation of a new, publicly accessible, temporary or permanent artwork anywhere in the state of Minnesota by a Minnesota-based mid-career public artist. Projects may be in any form or discipline, including performance, dance, storytelling, photography, film, sculpture and painting. Projects may also be supported by public or nonprofit agencies or in-kind sources, but private commissions are not eligible. The grant-funded period runs from January 1 to November 30, 2027. Forecast places particular emphasis on supporting BIPOC and Native artists, LGBTQIA+ artists, womxn artists, immigrant artists, artists from rural communities and artists with disabilities.

Who can apply

• Regional applicants
• Medium: Installation / Painting / Performance / Photography / Sculpture / Video
• Entry fee: See official site
• For Minnesota-based mid-career public artists who have physically lived in Minnesota for 12 of the past 24 months and remain residents throughout the project period; collectives and artist teams may apply (a resume for each member). Mid-career means actively creating and exhibiting for at least ten years; age is not a factor, and established artists moving to a new discipline still count as mid-career. Not eligible: organizations; Forecast staff, Board, Consulting Partners and Jury members; K-12 students and students enrolled in undergraduate or graduate degree programs; former grantees with outstanding final reports; artists who received a Forecast project grant the previous year. An artist may apply for only one Forecast grant per annual cycle. The work must be new, original, in Minnesota and freely accessible, with no ticket sales or fees; remounts, reinstallations, ongoing projects, projects starting before the grant year and private commissions are not eligible. The project site must be secured by the deadline, with a letter or email from the owner of the location giving permission. Apply only through Submittable by 11:59pm Central Time on October 18, 2026, with a project overview (up to 75 words), proposal (up to 500 words), community benefit, mid-career public artist status, diversity of lived experience and perspective, and impact on artistic development or career (up to 250 words each), resume (up to 2 pages), budget with documentation of support already received or committed, site approval, up to 10 images of work samples (or equivalents: 30 seconds of video or audio, or half a page of writing, per image) and work sample information. Applications may be submitted as a video. The public pages do not mention an application fee.