Summary
Organization name
Department of Public Transformation
other names
DoPT
Tax id (EIN)
83-0770235
Categories
Arts & Culture, Community
Address
726 Prentice StGranite Falls, MN 56241
MISSION
The Department of Public Transformation is an artist-led organization that works to develop creative strategies for increased community connection, civic engagement, and equitable participation in rural places.
VISION
Our vision is one where rural communities across the country acknowledge, support, and integrate art and artists as vital contributors to economic, community, civic, and social life.
HOW WE WORK
We work nationally, regionally, and locally in ways that intertwine and grow. We believe that rural people and places have the answers they need to address community challenges, but economies of extraction and narratives of deficit have fragmented many of our communities. This prevents us from reimagining our rural spaces and sharing the knowledge, skills, and resources we have to dream and build an equitable and just future. We seek to support rural communities in identifying and leveraging resources through artist-led, creative, cross-disciplinary, and radically inclusive programs. We believe in celebrating rural culture and cultural workers by uplifting small-town stories and connecting people to each other and their places. In doing so, we are working to shift damaging dominant narratives of what it means to live and work in rural America.
CORE VALUES
GUIDING PRINCIPLES
Organization name
Department of Public Transformation
other names
DoPT
Tax id (EIN)
83-0770235
Categories
Arts & Culture, Community
Address
726 Prentice St