Vision Awards 2025 – old – Northeast Minneapolis Arts District

Northeast Minneapolis Arts District Bi-Annual Vision Awards

“Leadership and Commitment in the Service of Arts, Artists , and Culture”

Northeast Minneapolis Arts District’s 2025 biennial Vision Awards

October 29th 2025 at the Hollywood Theater – Sponsored by Northeast Bank

The Arts Districts Vision Award is in recognition of outstanding work and dedication to the arts community by indivuals. The Vision Awards aim to recognize and elevate visionary thinkers, activists, and individuals of action who strive for the greater good of the arts and the broader community ideals.

Visionary artists and community members who will receive the 2025 Vision award:

Kari Dziedzic posthumas

Marko Fields

Nickolas Harper

Dyani White Hawk

Jonathan Query

Peyton Scott Russell

Casket Arts Building artist Sara Hanson will be creating the awards.

Lisa Roy from the California Building will be our photographer

Damian Kussian, videographer

Margo Ashmore will be our master of ceremonies (MC) for the evening. Margo will open the ceremony and give us some historical anecdotes on Northeast Minneapolis and the arts community.

We thank the committee Herman Milligan, Sarah D. Bogenreif, Ingrid Restemayer, and Josh Blanc for volunteering their time and skills for the Vision Awards program.

We thank the Hollywood Theater for their generosity and help on this event. We are very pleased to have such an epic space for the awards to take place.

Criteria for Nomination

Someone who has worked tirelessly for their passion and ideas pertaining to the arts. An individual who shows insight into unique ways of looking at the world through their art, policy, or actions. Their ideas and work express a way forward or inspire others to look outside themselves for answers or inspiration. People that have had a profound impact on the arts community.

All are welcome to attend. The Arts District will be provided catering the event with Marino’s Deli. A bartending will be present. It is a free event and celebration of our cornerstone arts community people.

This event is sponsored by: Northeast Bank, Bolger Printing & Arts District Image Works.

To help us confirm our catering needs, people can RSVP with this link.

Previous Vision Awards

The Vision Awards say “thank you!” to those who paved the path to create the Northeast Minneapolis Arts District, and those who continue working to support artists and sustain their livelihoods. It acknowledges the artists and business owners who came together, many who had been gentrified out of other Minneapolis neighborhoods, to work with politicians and city leaders, stressing the economic and philanthropic values that a thriving, creative sector provides. The Vision Awards celebrate The Northeast Minneapolis Arts District’s uniqueness, its history and its future.