Forecast Public Art

What kind of future do we want to build together?
Image: an immigrant stories gathering space, CarryOn Homes was temporarily installed in St Paul’s City Hall Plaza during the Larry Cohen Recognition Project’s design, for which Forecast facilitated artist selection. Photo: Zoe Cinel.
APPLY | our annual grants for MN-based artists are open
Image: The mural by 2022 grantees Zamara Cuyún, Claudia Valentino & Thomasina Topbear affirms Latinx and Native identities & shared experiences. Photo: Dan Ploof.
We leverage public art to advance justice, health, & human dignity
Image: we partnered with the City of Bloomington to design & manage a process to hire a community curator & designer to develop the WE Mural in South Loop.
WATCH | Art, Design, and Justice
a FORWARD series conversation with Joseph Kunkel, Jeremy Liu, & Angela Two Stars
Read | FORWARD Issue 4: Redefining Sustainable Design in Indian Country
A collaboration with MASS Design Group, guest edited by Joseph Kunkel
View the latest Public Art Now collection
Guest curator Mary V Bordeaux asks, “What does public art mean to me, as a Lakota person?”
Support our new Public Art for Racial Justice Fund
Image: we donated support to All Here Together for a mural focused on Black history in the Fairfield District of Huntington, WV. Mural by Ernel Martinez.
WATCH | Public Art Now conversation with Amina Cooper
with artists Lava Thomas and Martha Jackson Jarvis
WATCH | Decolonizing Public Spaces

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Forecast is a nonprofit organization that activates, inspires, and advocates for public art that advances justice, health, and human dignity.

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Join us in creating real, responsive changes to public art policies and practices that advance justice, health, and human dignity in communities across the U.S.

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WHAT’S HAPPENING AT FORECAST

We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced fundraising and marketing professional to support the organization in a period of dynamic growth.

We are hiring a Development and Marketing Manager—apply by September 30

Join us for virtual info sessions, one-on-one drop-ins with Aki Shibata, our Artist Support Grant Coordinator, and artist talks with current grantees.

a grid of four grantee projects includes a massive colorful mural depicting two grandmothers kneeling with their backs to one another forming the center of a butterfly whose wings extend out around them; a project where three adult people who present as women install yard signs into a lawn including one sign that reads “this house had a racial covenant”; another project consists of a large colorful ceramic sculptural arch and bench set in a green park space; the fourth project depicts a Hmong person spoon-feeding a bed-ridden elder.

Minnesota-based artists: apply for our annual public artist grants through October 3

Voices in upcoming FORWARD Issue 5: guest editor Paul Singh of NeighborWorks and feature essay team Dr Lisa Yun Lee + Tiff Beatty from the National Public Housing Museum

A grid of three individual portraits features a light-skinned man with dark hair and a short beard wears a blue collared shirt, a smiling Asian woman with their long brown hair styled with bangs wears glasses and a pink shirt and lipstick, and a BIPOC person with dark curly hair pulled back wears a nose ring, dark and clear-rimmed glasses and a dark shirt

FORWARD Issue 5 will highlight projects and partnerships that use art and creativity to raise visibility and spur action around critical housing issues

Congratulations to these artists who will enliven the fairgrounds with four new murals for the second year of the Joyful World Mural Park!

These artists painted 4 new murals at the 2022 MN State Fair Joyful World Mural Park

In the middle of a pandemic, community artist liaisons developed a series of engagements that made community members feel valued, respected, safe, and heard

Forecast + partners awarded for community engagement work on Rice Street Visioning Study

Jessica Mehta, Public Art Now guest curator for FORWARD#5, and Forecast Change Lab Research Fellow on Indigenous Visibility in Public Art

Our next Public Art Now guest curator is Jessica Mehta, who is also our Change Lab Research Fellow on Indigenous Visibility in Public Art

Our team thoughtfully recommends artists through the lenses of racial and gender equity

Continuing to disrupt the mural festival status quo through artist selection for Chroma Zone 2022

Rendering courtesy Jackson Jarvis Studio/OLIN + OMA.

A rendering depicts large colorful hoops of varying size, up to two or three times the height of a person, that are spaced throughout a grassy tree-filled park filled with people who are relaxing and playing.

Forecast leads selection process for major artwork commissioning in Washington DC 11th Street Bridge Park—all local, all-women artist teams

Photo: At a Rice Street Visioning Project creative pop-up in September 2020, community members of all ages in Saint Paul, Minnesota shared with artist liaisons their vision for the future of their neighborhood.

A smiling young BIPOC child at an outdoor creative community event holds up a sign that reads, "my vision for Rice Street: BLM." In the background people interact at various stands. Colorful paper elements hang around the child.

How to Strengthen Your Next Community Engagement Project, from Jen Krava, Forecast Dir. of Programming

Your gift today will seed this new fund and allow us to donate our time and expertise to artists and communities as they confront racial inequities in their public art.

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44 years of supporting groundbreaking work in public spaces

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2380 Wycliff Street
SUITE 200
ST. PAUL, MN 55114

(651) 641-1128

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What kind of future do we want to build together?

APPLY | our annual grants for MN-based artists are open

We leverage public art to advance justice, health, & human dignity

WATCH | Art, Design, and Justice

Read | FORWARD Issue 4: Redefining Sustainable Design in Indian Country

View the latest Public Art Now collection

Support our new Public Art for Racial Justice Fund

WATCH | Public Art Now conversation with Amina Cooper

WATCH | Decolonizing Public Spaces