McKnight Artist Fellowships for Dancers and Choreographers

McKnight Artist Fellowships for Dancers and Choreographers is sponsored by McKnight Foundation. Unrestricted fellowships for Minnesota dancers and choreographers to support career advancement, study, reflection, experimentation, and new projects in dance and performing arts.

McKnight Artist Fellowships for Dancers and Choreographers // THE CODE BELOW ADDS TEXT TO THE BOTTOM OF THE FELLOWS PAGES: McKnight Artist Fellowships McKnight Fellowships for Choreographers and the McKnight Fellowships for Dancers provide awards to individual choreographers and dancers who are beyond early practice and who reside in Minnesota.

The McKnight Fellowships are designed to enrich and strengthen our community by acknowledging the accomplishments of individual choreographers and dancers and providing for their artistic growth. The McKnight Foundation funds individual artist and culture bearer fellowships in 15 artistic disciplines. Support for individual artists has been a cornerstone of the McKnight Foundation’s Arts and Culture program since it began in 1982.

The foundation recognizes that the arts cannot flourish or enhance community life without the ideas, energy, and drive of individual artists and that artists cannot make these contributions without unfettered creative time. The McKnight Fellowships for Choreographers and Dancers annually awards three $25,000 fellowships to Minnesota choreographers and three $25,000 fellowships to Minnesota dancers.

The awards are unrestricted and can help an artist set aside periods of time for study, reflection, experimentation, and exploration; take advantage of an opportunity; or work on a new project. Meet the McKnight Fellows Choreographer Fellowships See the links below for program information as translated written and audio files: SPRINGBOARD FOR THE ARTS IS THE TEMPORARY HOME FOR THE MCKNIGHT FELLOWSHIPS FOR DANCERS AND CHOREOGRAPHERS.

Following the closure of The Cowles Center and with no new host organization yet identified for the McKnight Fellowship for Dancers and Choreographers, Springboard for the Arts has the capacity and infrastructure to temporarily house the Fellowship, ensuring its continuation without interruption. Springboard has already provided this transition home one other time for this Fellowship in the past.

Springboard for the Arts' mission is to support artists with the tools to make a living and a life, and to build just and equitable communities full of meaning, joy, and connection. Our vision is of a world where artists are essential; local economies are vibrant and just; and the systems that surround us are human-centered. We see these three parts of our vision as interdependent.