Photo shout out: artists Felicia Cooper, Kallie Melvin & Alex Young create The Official Bureau of Lost Things at Northern Spark 2022 at Springboard for the Arts. Captured by Drew Arrieta.

Give to the Max Day is here! A day when Minnesota non-profits join together to raise money to support our and each others’ work.

Today and all days at Northern Lights.mn, we are working to explore new possibilities for the world by supporting artists to create and present work in the public sphere. We believe in the power of art to create opportunities for connection, inquiry, healing, and growth.

Your donation today will be doubled, thanks to a generous $1,000 match from an NL donor. No matter how much you are able to give, your tax-deductible donation makes a big difference, helping us to reach more audiences, support more artists, and sustain Northern Spark. Donate here.

Thank you for supporting this work, and for helping us to sustain the arts in our community.

Also, we truly believe this statement from MN’s beloved political leader, Paul Wellstone: “we all do better when we all do better.”  In that spirit, we hope you load up your GTMD cart with donations to these organizations with whom we’ve worked or admire. Yes, this (incomplete) list is long! We live in a really great place! Please support as many with as much as you can.

All My Relations Arts / NACDI
Ananya Dance Theater
Art Shanty Projects
Climate Generation
Department of Public Transformation
Don’t You Feel It Too?
East Side Freedom Library
Emerging Curator’s Institute
Forecast Public Art 
Franconia Sculpture Park 
Hallie Q. Brown Community Center
HUGE Theater
Indigenous Roots
Irreducible Grace Foundation
Jungle Theater
Juxtaposition Arts
Lightning Rod 
Midtown Greenway Coalition
Minnesota Center for Book Arts
MN Fringe
MNIPL (Minnesota Interfaith Power and Light)
Mississippi Park Connection
Mixed Precipitation
Mizna
Penumbra Theatre Company
Pillsbury House + Theatre
Public Art St. Paul
Public Functionary
Red Eye Theater
Rosy Simas Danse
Saint Paul Almanac
Somali Museum of Minnesota 
Springboard for the Arts
The Great Northern  
Theater Mu
TruArtSpeaks 
Upstream Arts
Victoria Theater Arts Center
zAmya Theater Project

Jenni Undis, We All Do Better When We All Do Better, letterpress poster from Northern Spark 2012.