About

ArtsFwd is an online community of arts and culture leaders committed to doing things differently in their organizations in order to stay relevant and vital in a changing world.

A New World

Shakespeare Festival St. Louis gave the entire canon to its residents with only one rule: make the play happen any way you see fit.

Small Town, Big Vision

Lanesboro Arts Center is reimagining the future of rural America and the role that the arts can play in its sustainability by transforming an entire small town into an arts campus.

Artist-led Ecosystem Interventions

McColl Center for Visual Art’s community engagement model highlights the value of artist-led ecosystem interventions that foster inter-generational relationships, create stronger communities and elevate the value of artists as catalysts for change.

Radical Hospitality

Revolutionizing access to live theatre has changed Mixed Blood Theatre Company’s audiences, shaped a new way of doing business, and defined a strategy for pursuing social justice through the arts.

Reclaiming Our Community

The All My Relations Arts Gallery has created a destination and anchor in the south Minneapolis American Indian community that continues to generate innovative ideas and strategies for a more vibrant future.

Creative Practice + Social Service = Happy People

Pillsbury House + Theatre is exploring how artists and artistic practice can infiltrate social service in a way that makes radical organizational restructuring easier, collaboration and collective impact successful, and neighborhoods better places to live (without displacing the people who live there).