Before You Begin – This survey is specifically for Northeast Minneapolis Artists, Space Providers, and Arts & Cultural Organizations.
Please complete this survey only if you identify with one or more of these sectors:
- Artists living or working in Northeast Minneapolis
- Space Providers with buildings in Northeast Minneapolis
- Arts & Cultural Organizations serving Northeast Minneapolis
If you work across more than one sector, please complete a separate survey for each sector that applies to you. This helps us better understand the unique needs, experiences, and perspectives of each sector. BUT you need to use different email addresses each time you do the survey
The survey takes 12 minutes or less to complete.
The Northeast Minneapolis Arts District board has developed a new Arts Action Plan survey (AAP II) to help us all understand our Arts District community’s current status: who we are now and what our needs are as artists in today’s environment. It has been 23 years since the original Arts Action Plan (AAP) was written. That document, released in 2003, is arguably the most important artist document ever created in Minneapolis’s art history. Help us update that plan by competing this survey.
This initial survey will help the Arts District build stronger data on the arts community, supporting grant applications for a larger, more extensive survey like the one conducted in 2002.
In 2002, Jerry Allen and Associates completed the first Arts Action Plan. Once Jerry Allen and Associates completed it in January 2003, the City Council voted to create the Northeast Minneapolis Arts District. The Arts Action Plan was a 15-year plan. We are now eight years past the first 15 years. It is time to update the Arts Action Plan and design a path forward for the next 15 years in the Northeast Minneapolis Arts District. The original 2002 survey cost $60,000. The Arts District Board is raising funds for a full survey, estimated at $100k-$120k.
The Arts District community has changed dramatically since the early 2000s. There was no social media, cell phones were not widespread, and the internet was in its early stages. At the time, there were only six art buildings; now we have seventeen. Accurate data on who inhabits, works, and plays in the Arts District gives the arts community strong tools to defend itself, foster artists’ ideas, and continue to thrive through surrounding changes.
The Arts District Board has hired Brenda Kayzar, PhD, of Urbane DrK Consulting, to create this survey.
