Our Reach for the Arts annual fund campaign is an opportunity to highlight the many amazing things our Lanesboro Arts members help make happen over the year. Your support has continued to make wonderful programs and events happen here at Lanesboro Arts, even through both global, national, and local landscape changes, and the usual day to day realities of non-profit work. Lanesboro Arts continues to adapt and grow with a sustained and enthusiastic commitment to fostering the arts in our area. We’re deeply grateful for your support that makes it all possible.

In 2025, we dug deep into what grounds us: art as a tangible way to find meaning in the world around us and to engage curiosity, keeping us connected to one another across differences. Rooted in what grounds us and looking to what guides us, our team has focused on our organizational values to ensure that our programs – ie our actions – align. Our values are artist-centered, equity, inclusivity, community stewardship, and curiosity. 

This means that we empower artists and culture bearers, and uplift their stories. We believe rural artists and places have incredible worth. We are committed to amplifying voices that have been historically underrepresented in our rural community, grounded in transparency, relational care, and trust. We are committed to fostering a sense of belonging and making arts accessible, regardless of background, ability, or experience level. We care about being responsible stewards of our resources, community connections, and environment. We lean on the value of curiosity to lead us forward in growth and self-awareness.

Read our full values statement here.

In 2025, our programs reflected our values in ways that overlapped and complimented one another, having a tangible impact on artists and our community. We hosted two month-long early career artist residencies and six BIPOC artist residencies. We welcomed thousands of visitors to the Lanesboro Arts Gallery. We completed the Gallery Equity Systems Change Review program, which evaluated our gallery systems for improved trust, welcome, and equity. We engaged over 200 local youth in our beloved summer youth art programs, gallery programs and school partnerships. We hosted 80 performing artists on stage at the St. Mane Theatre, Rhythms on the Root, Art in the Park and Gallery Openings, with technical guidance from our newly hired Performing Arts Coordinator and the Rural Arts Production Training Program Cohort. Through it all, we gathered with our community of artists, art lovers, and neighbors around impactful, creative experiences.

This brief list only highlights some of the wonderful ways in which Lanesboro Arts works to fulfill its mission as a regional catalyst for artistic excellence and educational development in providing diverse art experiences for people of all ages in our vibrant and unique community.

We believe in the transformative power of creativity in our daily lives. We believe in the collective impact of art and artists in processing our world. We believe that our community is strongest when we rise together to grow into new challenges and opportunities. While we may not see the full transformation we dream of in our life time, we are secure in the map that our values provide.

We ask you now to join us on this path by supporting the work that we do at Lanesboro Arts. Your tax deductible gift to Lanesboro Arts helps us realize our collective vision for rural communities every day through our arts programs. Unrestricted donor support is one of the most powerful ways to propel nonprofit organizations like ours through to the future.

Your support will help:

• Support new and continued public art projects.
• Youth arts programming that enriches art educations and inspires young people to create.
• Rhythms on the Root concert series in Gateway Park.
• Support and uplift emerging and established regional artists
• Artist Residency Programs and more!

Our goal is to raise $10,000 by December 31st. We are consistently amazed at the strength of our community support. Thank you for your part in bringing the arts to life in Lanesboro.

We’re relying on people like you to help us reach our goal and provide these experiences for our region. Please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to support Lanesboro Arts’ vital community programming today! Contact Executive Director Kara Maloney with any questions 507-467-2446 ext 3 or kara@lanesboroarts.org

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Thank you to those who donated to this year’s Reach for the Arts Campaign:

Keith and Catherine Baker
Susan Roberts Banken and Joseph Banken
Beth Hennessey and Tom Barnes
James and Courtney Bergey Swanson
Perry and Terry Butler
Kathy Greden and Dave Christenson
Cecilia Cornejo
Rebecca Damron
Nathan and Denise Davidson
Mary Bell and Joe Deden
Michael Dixon
Matthew and Kelly Fluharty
Jon Buggs and Anne Flynn
Nancy North and John Gaddo
Molly and Aaron Gage
Carla and Jim Gallina
Bonnie Gibson
Daryl Goetz
Cliff and Jane Grevstad
Dick and Diane Haight
Margaret and Wayne Hanson
John Harrer
Nathan Dungan and Susan Hawks
Benji and Aryn Henning Nichols
Yvonne and Gayle Johnson
Richard Nethercut and Loni Kemp
Patti and Karl Knutson
Michael Augustin and Kathy MacLaughlin
Steve and Marlene Maloney
Mark and Rebecca McCaughey
Brian McConnell
Patrick Moore
James and Mary Ellen Nichols
Joe O’Koren
Art Raak
Jodi Reeb
Elliot and Susan Riggott
Betsy Roder
Joan and David Ruen
Ole Ryan
Linda Sifford and Tom Sautter
Jim Sheeley
Barb and Jeff Soma
Steve and Anne Stelness
Julie and Kyle Stierwalt
Lynn and David Susag
Pat and John Torgrimson
Harvey Benson and Bonita Underbakke
Bob and Margret Vagts
Kathryn and Gary Wade
Vern Riddle and Jennifer Wood