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- EIN 41-1843609
- (651) 257-6668
- 29836 Saint Croix Trl Shafer MN 55074-9743 USA
- www.franconia.org
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Causes: Arts & Culture, Visual Arts
Mission: The mission of franconia sculpture park is to provide physically and intellectually wide-open spaces where all are inspired to participate in the creative process. Franconia supports sculptors and sculpture in the broadest definition of the art form by providing artists a place to create and learn with no limitations, and by creating opportunities for the public to access the arts through immersive educational programs and participatory experiences with art and artists. Franconia's community programs make contemporary art accessible, provide context to the large-scale, 3-dimensional artwork within franconia's 43 acre outdoor exhibition space, and instill vibrant arts and arts learning into the communities that franconia serves. It is franconia's mission to make visual arts accessible while developing future generations of artists and arts appreciators.
Programs: Arts learning: with a commitment to arts learning and to providing access to the arts since 1996, franconia enhances its ever-changing exhibition of contemporary sculpture with educational and outreach programming, including weekly artist-led guided tours, kids make sculpture workshops, customized programming for under-served and homeless youth, the annual community collaboration hot metal pour, franconia artist talk symposia series, music @ franconia concert series and community arts programming and exhibitions at franconia's satellite gallery in ne minneapolis, "franconia in the city @ casket. "
arts access: franconia utilizes its locale and proximity to the metropolitan minneapolis/st. Paul area to bridge the gap between rural and urban artists, audiences, and settings. Franconia encourages audience engagement and education in a charged and focused, yet widely accessible, public setting. Visitors to franconia interact directly with art and artists-in-residence through guided tours, arts learning programming, symposia, and informal connections that happen each day at the park. Franconia is free and open to the public from dawn to dusk, 365 days a year. We estimate that we service over 150,000 visitors this year.
artist programs: franconia offers fellowship, internship and workshop programs that provide a combined residence, work, and exhibition environment for visual artists at all levels of their careers as they create work to be sited specifically at the park. To support the vision of franconia, our educational programming is focused on nourishing the development of visual artists as they create three-dimensional artwork, on providing access for all people to arts experiences that transform and inspire, and on engaging kids, families, and the greater community through diverse, high-quality, and interactive programs and exhibitions.