Forecast Public Art

We've just closed the books on 2011, and what a year it's been!

In 2011, Forecast supporters raised more than $53,000 to help us continue our work strenghtening and advancing public art in communities around the world!

Generous Forecast donors helped us accomplish so much, including these 2011 highlights:

• • Forecast facilitated 18 public art building and planning projects through our public art consulting service;

• • Forecast awarded 26 grants to emerging artists and community organizations across the state of Minnesota to help them explore, experiment, and learn about the field of public art, and served hundreds more with technical advice, guidance and support;

• • Forecast served 10,000 Public Art Review readers with high-quality analysis and coverage of the field;

• • Forecast initiated the new McKnight mid-career artist grants, the only grant program of its kind in the United States;

• • Forecast launched an international public art research project with Shanghai University;

• • Forecast created a valuable online Public Art Toolkit for artists and communities;

• • Forecast established a monthly e-newsletter, Public Art Update, to highlight more public art projects and deliver up-to-date news in the field;

• • Forecast educated and entertained audiences through public art lectures in Shanghai, North Carolina, Missouri, California, Arizona, and Minnesota;

• • And we've moved to a larger office and added staff in Operations, Development and Education.

We're off to a great start in 2012-- but we need your support to keep going strong.

Forecast is a small organization with a big mission and an increasingly mighty reach. The last year of growth and innovation was a direct response to the increased demand for Forecast’s services and expertise—locally, nationally, and now abroad. And that demand is continuing to grow at a rapid pace.

In the coming year we plan to do even more to support artists, assist educators, inform audiences and advocate for the field of public art.

Forecast Public Art connects artists and communities through the transformative power of public art - and you can help us!

Please give as generously as you can to help us fulfill the potential we see for public art in 2012. Every gift, in any amount, helps us continue our work. Thank you!