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Activating, inspiring, and advocating for public art that advances justice, health and human dignity / Publisher: FORWARD
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From the story of the Underground Railroad to SE Asian family dinners, the Red Caps of Union Depot & native species of the Mississippi, Stef Kiihn, Ngân Huynh, Shea Maze & Ruby Thompson's designs transform 16 utility boxes into public art that reflects St Paul's identity & vitality: bit.ly/AmpedArt
A colorful and detailed design covers a municipal street utility box, featuring a bird and other creatures native to Minnesota's stretch of the Mississippi River On a municipal utility box, a vibrant design features a young Black child wearing a red shirt and looking up to a Black person gazing upward and wearing a shirt, tie and the iconic red cap of St Paul's Red Cap porters of Union Depot A vibrant design on a city utility box features Southeast Asian inspired culture and food references in swirling reds, pinks, oranges, and yellows, with small figures gathered around bowls, and tree limbs filled with flowers. A detailed design covering a municipal utility box features a map of the city of Saint Paul during the Civil War era with a monochrome portrait of Joseph Farr referencing the Underground Railroad.
November 12, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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⏰ Register by 11:59pm TONIGHT, Oct 8 for Making It Public for Louisiana Admins: bit.ly/MIPla25

FREE in-person, 10/17–18, Baton Rouge

Louisiana Division of the Arts will award selected orgs a grant to create a temporary artwork using skills from the workshop
Making It Public for Louisiana Administrators, register by October 8 in-person training October 17–18, from Forecast Public Art and Louisiana Division of the Arts
October 8, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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⏰ Register by 10/8 for Making It Public for Louisiana Admins: bit.ly/MIPla25

FREE in-person, 10/17–18, Baton Rouge
Please share with your creative networks across the state!

Louisiana Division of the Arts will award selected orgs a grant to create a temporary artwork using skills from the workshop
Making It Public for Louisiana Administrators, register by October 8 in-person training October 17–18, from Forecast Public Art and Louisiana Division of the Arts
October 6, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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Register by Oct 8 for Making It Public for Louisiana Admins 🌟
bit.ly/MIPla25
Free in-person training Oct 17–18 (Baton Rouge)

Strengthen your capacity to support, create + promote public art!

Select orgs will receive a Louisiana Division of the Arts grant to create a temp artwork in their community
Making It Public for Louisiana Administrators, register by October 8 in-person training October 17–18, from Forecast Public Art and Louisiana Division of the Arts
October 1, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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Artists are equipping people w/ info to help them participate in civic life. Find 2 case studies on building civic knowledge: bit.ly/FWD8knowledge

One is CO-based nonprofit Warm Cookies of the Revolution. Their goal: exciting citizens about taking part in democratic processes

📸 From The Hip Photo
In a grassy field before a mountainous horizon, a group of people on yoga mats reach for the sky during a crescent lunge yoga pose. A person laughs as they wave a colorful silk banner during a dance party. A marker with a pile of postcards that say "I pledge my commitment to my community" and a stack of stickers emblazoned with "Vote every day" Two people dressed in '70s-era clothes lead a bingo game.
September 16, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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Have you heard? Our annual artist grants are open! Forecast grants support MN-based early- & mid-career artists looking to advance their work in public art. We fund self-initiated public art projects and R & D
Apply by 10/15
Support + inspo: bit.ly/Grant…

📸 Forecast grantee projects (next thread):
A hand points to a detail on a mosaic tile mural set in a concrete sidewalk. A Native woman chats with children while painting a mural. A street utility box wrapped in a yellow, black and pink design supporting immigrant families. A person with long braids and black-rimmed glasses forges a hot steel pipe at an anvil.
September 12, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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Artists are equipping people with info that helps them participate in civic life.

bit.ly/FWD8knowledge

In one example, Brooklyn nonprofit the Center for Urban Pedagogy links illustrators + designers w/ community organizers, helping educate New Yorkers on rent policy, immigrant rights + more

📸 CUP
On a city street, a man reads a large booklet titled "Vendor Power." A group of smiling people stand in a park on a sunny day holding up posters and pamphlets. A group of people sit around a meeting table smile at the camera. Some hold up pamphlets. Three people wearing masks in a city area hold up colorful booklets with writing in multiple languages, including Chinese and English. The phrase “Power to the People!” is prominent in English.
August 29, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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Artists: Leslie Barlow, Danielle Clifford, Jennifer Davis, Jose Dominguez, Philipo Dyauli, Xena Goldman, Jordan Hamilton, Maiya Lea Hartman, Hibaaq Ibrahim, Tom Jay, Mia Vue Jennings, Kalaka, Noah Lawrence-Holder, Flahn Manly, Juliette Perine Myers, Geno Okok, Shade Pratt, Xee Reiter, Joy Spika...
MN State Fair visitors rest on benches among murals depicting playful characters, pollinators, and adventurous comic book style children wearing eye masks. A beam of sunlight crosses a bright orange flower in the corner of a mural below the skyride at the MN State Fair. MN State Fair visitors rest on the ground among outdoor murals depicting scenes such as a brown-skinned woman scuba diving with a brown-skinned mermaid, a dreamily intense tiger, the word “flourish” filled with scenes like water, birds and butterflies, and adventurous comic book style children wearing eye masks. A mural at the MN State Fair of a young, brown-skinned child sticking their tongue out as they perform a spectacular backflip while a large monarch butterfly perches on the kid’s leg, mid-flip.
August 21, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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Our fave MN State Fair tradition? The Joyful World Mural Park! Find a moment of rest among 24 beautiful murals south of the Grandstand, east of Grandstand Ramp, near the carousel.

Since 2021 the Fair & Forecast have presented the mural park w/ MN State Fair Foundation

📸 Drew Arrieta + Andrés Pérez
At the MN State Fair, a visitor walks around a mural covered in dreamy watercolor-like warm swirls evoking figures and flowers. In the background people sit around a mural of a hummingbird among flowers and other pollinators near a ticket booth. A young child smiles broadly before an outdoor mural depicting a similar smiling child in a swing. A swath of morning sunlight illuminates a scene on a mural at the MN State Fair where two figures embrace in the front door of a friendly home. MN State Fair visitors pose in front of a mural of Hmong iconography among many colorful murals depicting things like a Loon and a cartoon alligator.
August 21, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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Making It Public for Louisiana Admins 🌟
Register by 10/8 bit.ly/MIPla25
FREE in-person, 10/17–18, Baton Rouge

With Louisiana Division of the Arts, we invite nonprofit arts orgs, nonprofits, public & private schools, school boards, colleges & universities, & local government agencies statewide.
graphic for Making It Public for Louisiana Administrators, register by October 8, in-person training October 17–18, with logos from Forecast Public Art and Louisiana Division of the Arts
August 18, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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📣 Our annual grants are open for MN-based artists! Each year, we work to provide access to our grant applications for a diverse group of artists who are working in all career stages & public art practices. Application support & inspo: bit.ly/GrantsFPA

Info session Sept 3 at 5pm: bit.ly/9325info
a grid of four public artist projects includes a mosaic tile set in a sidewalk, a person chatting with children while painting a mural, a person forging a metal pipe, and a street utility box wrapped in a design supporting immigrant families. A text graphic for Forecast Public Art grant application virtual info session on September 3 at 5pm
August 5, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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Apply today! We invite Minnesota-based artists of all experience levels to submit qualifications for the digital design of utility boxes to be installed near two of downtown Saint Paul’s signature parks. $4,000 stipend per artist. Apply by 11:59pm CDT, August 7, 2025, at bit.ly/DigitalUtilityBoxCall
A utility box in a park with a blue graphic below that reads "call for artists."
July 22, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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Tomorrow, hear from Change Lab Research Fellow, Paula Castillo, about her research on climate change and public art. She will be joined by Sherri Brueggemann, Public Art Urban Enhancement Program Manager for the City of Albuquerque. July 22, 5:00pm CT, register at bit.ly/ClimateArtTalk.
A blue graphic with headshots of two women with the text "climate resilience, public art, and under-resourced communities."
July 21, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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“...democracy isn’t about institutions, policies, or elections," says Richard Young. "It’s about the everyday... and the possibilities that bind us."
Embrace arts as civic infrastructure: bit.ly/FWD8intro

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Tyler McDaniel
Courtesy CUP
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Akeil Roberston, courtesy P Bachman
Outside at a woodsy cabin setting a person speaks at a mic to a crowd of seated smiling and laughing people a small group of people smile as they hold up resources they are distributing in a city plaza a small group of people seated around a table smile and laugh a hand reaches toward a quilted square featuring a book of fabric pages with a heart cutout
July 18, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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Next week, hear from Change Lab Research Fellow, Paula Castillo, about her research on climate change and public art. She will be joined by Sherri Brueggemann, Public Art Urban Enhancement Program Manager for the City of Albuquerque. July 22, 5:00pm CT, register at bit.ly/ClimateArtTalk.
A blue graphic with headshots of two women with the text "climate resilience, public art, and under-resourced communities."
July 15, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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You're invited—Our friends at the City of Bloomington, MN are holding a Citywide Creative Placemaking Plan Celebration tomorrow, July 16: www.bloomingtonmn.gov/cpcelebration

A first-of-its-kind in the nation, the plan centers equity, cultural representation, artist support and community connection.
Invite from the City of Bloomington, Minnesota to celebrate the Citywide Creative Placemaking Plan Approval, July 16, 2025 from 4–6pm at Bloomington Center for the Arts 1800 W Old Shakopee Road, Bloomington, MN 55431
July 15, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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We invite Minnesota-based artists of all experience levels to submit qualifications for the digital design of utility boxes to be installed near two of downtown Saint Paul’s signature parks. $4,000 stipend per artist. Apply by 11:59pm CDT, August 7, 2025, at bit.ly/DigitalUtilityBoxCall.
A utility box in a park with a blue graphic below that reads "call for artists."
July 14, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Applications due soon! Forecast's Change Lab seeks its fourth Research Fellow to explore how public art contributes to civic engagement and democratic participation. Apply at bit.ly/ChangeLabFellow4 by 11:59pm CT, Sunday, July 13.
A green and black graphic with the words "Call for research fellow, apply by July 13."
July 11, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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Hear from our Change Lab Research Fellow, Paula Castillo, about her research on climate change and public art. She will be joined by Sherri Brueggemann, Public Art Urban Enhancement Program Manager for the City of Albuquerque. Held on Zoom on July 22, 5:00pm CT. Register at bit.ly/ClimateArtTalk.
A blue graphic with headshots of two women with the text "climate resilience, public art, and under-resourced communities."
July 10, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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At a time when civic life is strained by polarization, disconnection, and declining trust, artists across the country are building the infrastructure that democracy depends on. Forecast seeks its fourth Research Fellow to explore these topics. Apply at bit.ly/ChangeLabFellow4 by 11:59pm, July 13.
Colorful pink graphic whichi reads "call for research fellow."
June 30, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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Hear from Forecast Change Lab Fellow, Paula Castillo, about her report on her research on climate change and public art. This event will be hosted through Zoom on July 22, 2025. Register at bit.ly/ClimateArtTalk. Photo credit to Jenna Robb for the second image.
Graphic for talk with Paula Castillo and Sherri Brueggemann.
June 27, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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Lately, we have been looking back at our Climate issue of FORWARD. Explore case studies about climate resilience and public art. In the Toolkit, you'll find initiatives, interventions, and content like a How-To Guide for Tackling Rising Temperatures with Art by Metropolitan Area Planning Council.
A Black man rides a bike with a storage space in the front. A piece of art that features figures splashing around in water coming from a fire hydrant. The cover of the How-To Guide for Tackling Rising Temperatures with Art in Our Communities from Metropolitan Area Planning Council (MAPC).
June 27, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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Join us to explore how art and culture are central tools advancing civic health in local communities around the country. Hosted through Zoom on June 26, 2025, at 2 PM ET. Register at bit.ly/FWD8discussion.
Headshots of three women with the text "how art and culture builds civic health."
June 23, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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Plus, join us next week for "How Art & Culture Builds Civic Health," to find how art and culture are central tools advancing civic health in communities around the country.

June 26, 2pm ET with Lisa Hicks Gilbert, Phoebe Bachman, and Savannah Barrett: bit.ly/FWD8talk

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How Art & Culture Builds Civic Health event live on Zoom at 2pm ET on June 26, 2025, includes headshots of three panelists.
June 18, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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Live now—explore FORWARD8: Civic Health; the work featured reminds us that democracy is about the everyday, and the possibilities that bind us.: bit.ly/fpaFWD8

📸 1) ©The People's Creative Institute; 2) Public Matters; 3) From the Hip Photo; 4) Center for Urban Pedagogy
for the FORWARD issue 8 civic health cover the headline Artists at the Heart of Civic Renewal overlays a scene with a larger than life yellow puppet with a red heart on its chest greeting smiling children on the street a young person sits on a bus stop bench in the sun surrounded by plywood trees shaped like air fresheners to point out the lack of shade Two people dressed in '70s-era clothes lead a bingo game. A man on a city street reads a resource titled Vendor Power! that is filled with graphics and words like Know the Law and Get involved.
June 18, 2025 at 10:28 PM