Minnesota State Arts Board
The Minnesota State Arts Board is a state agency that stimulates and encourages the creation, performance, and appreciation of the arts in the state. With an appropriation from the Minnesota State Legislature, supplemented by funding from private foundations and the National Endowment for the Arts, the Arts Board offers grants, services, and resource publications to individual artists, arts and community organizations, and schools throughout the state.
http://arts.state.mn.us/