Arts, Culture & Creativity
Inspiring imagination and innovation through arts and culture
Arts and culture can be admired all around the FM area. From the opera, to festivals, to public art, we enjoy the creations of our talented local artists. Through diversity and creative placemaking, we experience a local, engaged community with a rich and vibrant culture.
These programs and projects focused on arts, culture and creativity need ongoing financial support in order to thrive in the FM area.
More than $2.8 million in the last 10 years to projects and programs dedicated to arts and culture in our region.
Grantee Stories
These are just a few examples of how our generous donor’s gifts are being put to work in the community through our grantees.

FM Opera Receives Grant for Young Artist Program
The FM Opera Company, founded in 1968, brings high quality opera experiences for any and all members of our community and region.
Completing its third year, the Gate City Bank Young Artist program has expanded to provide a 12-week intensive training program for young singers and pianists who have finished their graduate training and are in the early stages of their professional careers. Chosen from na…
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The Arts Partnership Receives Grant for Amplifying the Arts
The Arts Partnership is a collective of more than 150 artists, arts-related businesses and arts nonprofits in Cass and Clay counties. They work to ensure arts and culture in our community are being communicated about, advocated for and spread across many sectors.
With the support of the FM Area Foundation, The Arts Partnership (TAP) continues to build its capacity to serve the arts community in the Me…
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Fargo Moorhead Community Theatre Receives Grant for Lobby Lighting Upgrade
The Fargo Moorhead Community Theatre provides theatrical and educational opportunities to engage and enrich the greater community.
The grant was used to help The Stage at Island Park, home of the Fargo Moorhead Community Theatre, upgrade its outdated lobby lighting system to a more energy efficient system, creating an aesthetically and culturally pleasing space for patrons, artists and renters who fre…
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Arts, Culture & Creativity Grant Recipients 2019
Organization Name Project Name FM Area Youth Symphonies 2019-2020 Concert Season FM Community Theatre FMCT ED-On the Road Fargo Theatre Fargo Theatre Kids' Flicks Fargo Moorhead Ballet Raising the Barre-Operational Support to Help Grow Ballet FM Chorale Artists General Operating Support Fargo Moorhead Opera Open is Elementary--and Secondary! Heartsprings Healing Through the Arts for Neurological Conditions Historical and Cultural Society of Clay County General Operating Support Kindred Area Arts Partnership Native American Artist Series: Kindred Public Schools Artists in Residence and Community Event Lake Agassiz Concert Band James Barnes Commission and Residency The Arts Partnership General Operating Support: Cultivating and Amplifying the Arts Theatre B General Operating Support Youthworks N8V Youth Circle Arts, Culture & Creativity Grant Recipients 2018
Organization Name Project Name Cass Act Players Weather the Storm Theatrical Production Fargo-Moorhead Chorale Artists General Operating Support Fargo-Moorhead Opera Bringing Opera to Schools Fargo-Moorhead Symphony Orchestra General Operating Support HeartSprings Expressive Therapies: Healing Through the Arts for Neurological Conditions Fargo-Moorhead Youth Choir Choral Program Expansion Plains Art Museum Zoran Mojsilov: Take Only What You Can Carry The Arts Partnership Creating Good and General Operating Support: Cultivating and Amplifying the Arts Theatre B General Operating Support TuDeako Summer School (Cultural Activity) The Rourke Art Gallery Museum 2018 Rourke Art Academy Arts, Culture & Creativity Grant Recipients 2017
Organization Name Project Name Concordia College Langston Hughes' Ask You Mama: Twelve Moods for Jazz Featuring the Ron McCurdy Quartet Essentia Health Regional Foundation Expressions: The Art of Healing FM Area Youth Symphonies 2017/2018 Concert Season FM Community Theatre Seeing The World, Hearing the Image; The Artistic Possibilities of Audio Description In Theater Fargo Theatre General Operating Support-Kids' Flicks FM Chamber Chorale General Support for the 2017-18 Concert Season FM Opera North of Normal Opera Theater FM Symphony Symphony After Dark-Exile: Music of Syria, Turkey, Poland and Russia Heartsprings Expressive Therapies: Healing Through the Arts Lake Agassiz Girls' Choir General Operating Support Plains Art Museum Recycle the Clay Day The Arts Partnership General Operating Support: Cultivating and Amplifying the Arts Theatre B General Operating Support Trollwood Performing Arts School Trollwood Performing Arts School