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Committed to inclusive and welcoming arts access for all.
Articulture empowers individuals and communities to create positive change through the visual arts.
We are dedicated to nurturing imaginations, sharing valuable first-hand art knowledge and skills, and cultivating a more inclusive, accessible, intentional, compassionate, creative, free and connected world. We believe art can be a tool for personal and social change, and everyone is worthy of experiencing its power and healing.
By creating access to arts experiences for people of all backgrounds and skill levels in Minneapolis, Saint Paul, and the surrounding Twin Cities metro area, we want to ensure as many people as possible are given opportunities to find creative expression through the visual arts. Apart from offering adult classes to the general public at Twin Cities Maker’s site, we also focus on Outreach and Art Healing programs and partnerships with other local nonprofits.
Current partnerships include: People Serving People Shelter, Opportunity Partners, Twin Cities Makers, and Minneapolis Public Schools (for after school programs).
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Mail It to Minneapolis
Out of the blue, we recently received an email from a similar nonprofit community art center, Art City in our sister city of Winnipeg, Canada. We were deeply moved by both the thoughtfulness and the generosity of their unique idea—a desire to send artwork! In response to growing stress and uncertainty affecting families in Minneapolis, Art City opened their studio doors and invited the public to create artworks in an act of solidarity called “Mail It to Minneapolis”.
Through inclusive, drop-in art sessions, children, youth, and adults created small original artworks. These community-made artworks are now arriving at Articulture, where we are preparing to share them through a public exhibition and fundraising event. To help the community, we will be auctioning off this artwork at the event to support the needs of our vulnerable neighbors in Minneapolis.
For us, this cross-border collaboration reflects the heart of community arts practice: accessible art education, creative expression, and mutual support in action.
“Mail it to Minneapolis” shows how community art programs can connect cities, amplify compassion, and transform creativity into real-world impact. Thank you, Art City and all of the participants!
Articulture is now in the planning stages for the exhibition and fundraising event. We will share the details of the upcoming exhibition soon. STAY TUNED!
We work at making the arts accessible to people from all walks of life through both short- and long-term programming. A new field of research, Neuroaesthetics or neuroarts, does quantitative studies of how arts experiences positively affect the brain. Test results demonstrate that arts interactions have extensive therapeutic outcomes to both physical and mental health. This perfectly ties into our Art & Healing partnership program.
Articulture partners with social service, health, and other nonprofit organizations who serve vulnerable populations. Arts curriculum is purposefully designed for each partnership to best support the specific needs of their client communities. We have worked with at-risk children and teens, people with developmental disabilities, substance abuse recovery programs, those suffering from mental illness, the houseless, neurodivergent students, and more.
In an atmosphere of trust and nurturing, participants learn new skills and artistic techniques through the creative process. They begin to understand that it’s not just for personal expression, but can also be used for change—as a tool for healing, meditation, self-esteem, and solace. Arts learning creates an environment for cognitive development, art and healing, social interaction through communal experiences, in addition to the more obvious benefits of personal enrichment. In addition to personal experiences, Art & Healing participating clients often establish a powerful communal kinship that can help break a sense of isolation.
Art & Healing Programs
Outreach Projects and Collaborations
For the last 25 years, Articulture implemented outreach programs in collaboration with other community-serving organizations. We provided Art & Healing programs, as well as accessible arts education, to both children and over 28,000 adults. Now, we’re making that work our primary purpose.
Current partnerships:
People Serving People Shelter (art programming to teens)
Opportunity Partners (arts access and education to clients with developmental and physical disabilities)
Minneapolis Public Schools (after school programs in local elementary schools)
Adult Art Classes
In 2025 Articulture moved its classes to Twin Cities Maker’s site at 3119 E 26th St, Minneapolis, MN 55406.
If you’ve never been, TCM is a community-oriented playground for builders, tinkerers, and mad scientists. It's a place where people carve canoes one day and program robots the next, a place where ideas - no matter how wild - get plugged in and turned on. Very inspiring atmosphere.
Join our Board of Directors
We aim to serve Minneapolis, Saint Paul and metro area communities on a deeper level, and we invite you to contribute your ideas and time as to the possibilities of it happening.
Becoming a board member gives you a seat at the table to help make a lasting impact and directly shape how art empowers people across our cities.
Art is power, and not just a creative power - a major power for healing, social justice, and communal experiences.
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This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.