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FEAST MPLS

Posted October 12, 2009 @ 11:22am | by reDesign

I (Peet) was just invited to submit artwork to unique, community-driven arts event called FEAST MPLS.

This is a great example of how sustainability doesn't always have to be about proper paper choices and recycling. Sustainability can also be about supporting your local arts community by providing resources and support networks. This is a super hip idea and one that I hope catches on.

Do you have a project idea that you want funding for? Do you know of someone who could use some support themselves? Check out FEAST MPLS! 

To quote the FEAST MPLS website, FEAST MPLS is a recurring public dinner designed to use community-driven financial support to democratically fund new and emerging artmakers. By getting together and pooling our money, wealth becomes a plural communal attribute. We can then share that wealth with people whose projects our community finds most the valuable to implement.

As a potential grantee, you submit a short and concise project proposal, which will be distributed to diners at the next FEAST dinner. If your project is selected by popular vote the night of the FEAST, you walk home with that evening's available grant money.

As a patron who attends FEAST, you make a cash donation on a sliding scale to receive supper and a ballot. At the end of the night, you cast a vote for which of a handful of artists’ proposals should get the evening’s proceeds. The winning proposal is funded directly from the donations collected at the door, and the grantee is asked back to present the fruits of their labor to you—the patrons—at the next FEAST dinner.

FEAST MPLS is modeled after FEAST BKLYN, which fully supports our efforts here in the Twin Cities.