Praxis Photo Center • Expand Community Access

Support Minnesota’s Only Non-Profit Photo Arts Center, Exhibition Space, and Public Access Darkroom!

• More exhibition opportunities for artists
• Larger exhibition space for solo or group shows
• More available space for art organizations to rent / utilize
• NEW!! Praxis Public Access Darkroom

Praxis Photo Arts Center is concerned for the health and well-being of all of our community members.  We aim to maintain a creative space that survives to serve the artists and patrons who have invested so much into Praxis Photo Arts Center, well after this pandemic. Praxis Photo Arts Center is adding a second exhibition space adjacent to our existing gallery. This expansion will create new opportunities for local and regional photographic artists to exhibit their work - and provide additional space for our expanding workshop and educational programing mission.

The mission of Praxis Photo Arts Center is to create a Look, Learn, and Practice approach to community-based arts engagement. Praxis creates opportunities for community members to look at art through our exhibition programming, to learn about art through free demonstrations and artist presentations, and to practice creating art through workshops and classes taught by professional working artists.  

We can’t complete this expansion without you!

Thanks to your help the Directors Gallery and Community Access Darkroom at Praxis Gallery | Photo Arts Center are fully operational!  As a part of our programming expansion, we have already built a municipal darkroom and dry lab at our facility. This non-profit, public access darkroom has expanded our educational programing at Praxis Photo Arts Center. In addition to creating expanded workshop programing opportunities, the community darkroom supports our organization’s goal to preserve traditional and historic photographic processes as a community space where artists can use the facilities to develop film print traditional darkroom prints and use our UV Lightbox for alternative processes.

 To achieve our vision, we need your help complete the next portion of our next phase of expansion.

We are now moving towards our next phase of expansion the Community Access Studio "Praxis Project Lab” The room which will house this new area requires renovation to support the expanded programing and community space.  With the help of the Arts Impact for Groups and Flexible Support grants from the Metro Regional Arts Council renovations are already underway.

 We are creating a community space that will expand access to a photography studio shooting bay. Continued expansion of photographic learning opportunities through even more workshop programing and photobook library. There will be expanded wall space where artists can have studio visits for project development and solo exhibitions.  But most importantly this will be an open welcoming space where all artists can work collaboratively in a shared photographic community center.

That is why we need your help!  A donation of any amount can create a valuable resource for the photographic arts community for years to come! 

Help us: 

• Expand our workshop opportunities
• Create a Non-profit public access studio and learning center for our community 
• Preserve traditional and historic photographic processes

We’ve already received $4,495.00 from your generous donations towards our expansion goals.  We are asking for your help to complete our second gallery and municipal darkroom to finalize the second phase of Praxis Photo Arts Center’s expansion. 

Total Goal: $11,500.00

Your tax-deductible contribution will help create a thriving, self-sustaining, non-profit photographic exhibition and education center for years to come.

About Praxis Photo Arts Center

Praxis Gallery and Photographic Arts Center is a community based, non-profit, artist-led organization in Minneapolis that aims to support the development of new and emerging artists through exhibition and education. Since 2017 our mission is to bring diverse perspectives into focus through lens-based art, creating exhibition and learning opportunities that engage, challenge, inspire, and surprise the public. Praxis provides solo and group exhibition opportunities, free monthly Artist Talks and Critiques Sessions, Workshops, Artist Memberships, and Access Memberships to our darkroom and soon studio facilities.