Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund
The committee has completed a 25-Year Vision, Framework, Guiding Principles and Ten-Year Goals for the Minnesota Legacy Amendment, Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund. Thank you to all the citizens' of Minnesota who provided their input, whether online or at public listening sessions. Your voice helped to create and shape this document.
25-year Framework and Ten-year Goals
Key Findings
Listening Sessions Completed
The Minnesota Historical Society, the Minnesota State Arts Board and the Minnesota Humanities Center hosted a series of listening sessions to obtain public input for a 10-year plan and 25-year framework for the use of funds made available through the Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund. The constitutional amendment, approved by voters in November 2008, added a provision to Minnesota’s constitution that provides for an increase in the sales tax to support outdoor heritage, clean water, parks and trails, as well as arts, history and cultural heritage.
Representatives from the three organizations and 10 other history, arts and cultural organizations and libraries will work together to develop a plan for how proceeds of the Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund will be spent. Members of the public attended listening sessions in locations across the state. An online survey was available through Nov. 20. The results of this collaborative planning process will be reported to the legislature by Jan. 15, 2010.
- Read compiled comments received from the first three statewide listening sessions and input received to date from the online survey.
Draft Plan
A draft plan will be available in December. Additional input will be taken at that time.
Listening Sessions
The following listening sessions were held:
- October 21 Minnesota History Center in St. Paul
- October 27 at the Minnesota
Discovery Center , Highway 169, Chisholm
- October 29 at the Fergus
Falls Center for the Arts , 124 W. Lincoln Ave.
- November 16 at the Rochester
Community and Technical College , Heinz Center, 851
30th Ave. S.E.
- November 17 at the
Eastside Neighborhood Services, 1700 2nd St. NE., Minneapolis, MN 55413 | Google Map
- November 18 in Marshall at Charter
Hall, Rooms 201 and 217, Southwest
Minnesota State University, 1501 State Street South
(Park in "A" or "B" lots on
east side of campus)
Online Input
An online survey was available through November 20.
Committee
The 13-member committee was chosen from a field of 50 applicants nominated by their peers.
Members are
- Peggy Adelman, chief financial officer, Minnesota Zoo, Apple Valley;
- Jennifer Bloom, executive director, Learning, Law and Democracy Foundation, St. Paul;
- Michael Garcia, president and CEO, Duluth Children’s Museum;
- Allen Harmon, president and general manager, Duluth-Superior Area Educational Television;
- Andrea Kajer, deputy director, Minnesota Historical Society;
- Patricia Mulso, executive director, Freeborn Historical Society, Albert Lea;
- Jeff Nelson, public strategy managing director, Minnesota Public Radio, St. Paul;
- David O’Fallon, president and CEO, MacPhail Center for Music, Minneapolis;
- Rebecca Lynn Petersen, executive director, Fergus Falls Center for the Arts;
- Brenda Raney, director of government relations, Science Museum of Minnesota, St. Paul;
- Mark Ranum, director, Plum Creek Library System, Worthington;
- Stanley Romanstein, executive director, Minnesota Humanities Center;and
- Pam Perri Weaver, board member, Minnesota State Arts Board.
