Water Bar & Public Studio
A nonprofit fundraiser supporting
Holland Neighborhood Improvement AssociationWe need your help to sustain Water Bar & Public Studio in Minneapolis while we grow our impact!
$3,210
raised by 46 people
$50,000 goal
Water Bar & Public Studio is a neighborhood storefront space and community where people and water meet!
Together with an emergent network of artists, scientists, activists and others, we #ServeWater to build relationships that transform culture. You can read more about our work in this article from Twin Cities Daily Planet, or this case study by the nonprofit US Water Alliance.
We need your help to sustain our storefront space while we grow our staff and network of investing partners!
As a small artist-led organization, we know how to do a lot with very few financial resources. A critical part of Water Bar's work is providing our Minneapolis community (and visitors) with a welcoming art and ecology space, unique opportunities to know water and connect across differences in experience, and the inspiration to create in an open and encouraging environment.
When we collaborate in these everyday ways, we deepen our understanding and connection with place, and our shared commitments to water equity, climate resilience and more reciprocal and just relationships.
Commercial rent in our northeast Minneapolis neighborhood is increasingly expensive... One of the reasons we feel it's important to keep creative space accessible and affordable for community use!
We do this by re-investing our resources in our creative community, supporting shared work space in our storefront, and the activities of other artists and neighbors. This is something Water Bar artists have been doing since the inception of this project, and this way of working has led to many spin-off projects, practices and partnerships!
We're at a critical point in the development of Water Bar & Public Studio where we need to grow our paid staff and network of investing partners, so we're asking our community for help!
Your tax-deductible gift will to help cover the costs of sustaining and activating the Water Bar storefront, so we can continue providing accessible creative community space and public programs while we seek investment to grow our paid staff and our impact.
Don't like paying additional online fees to GiveMN?
You can write a check PAYABLE TO Holland Neighborhood Improvement Association (write Water Bar on the MEMO LINE) and drop it in the mail ... Or come by for a glass of water :)
2518 Central Ave NE
Minneapolis, MN 55418
(612) 839 - 0810
hello@water-bar.org