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<p class="hero-text">We rely on the generous financial support of individuals and organizations to keep Mia free and accessible to all. Your support matters now more than ever. Your contributions allow Mia to support our staff, maintain our collection and facility, and reopen the galleries to our community.</p>
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Third Thursday: Egypt?s Sunken Cities

My Mia Membership

<p>The Arts of Africa and the Americas Department is dedicated to the immense creativity of Native artists across the world, from prehistory to the present.</p>
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<p>Mia’s renowned collection of Asian art represents 17 cultures spanning nearly 5,000 years. Best known for the size and quality of its Chinese and Japanese collections, it also has important examples of Indian, Southeast Asian, Korean, Himalayan, and Islamic art.</p>
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<p>In 2008 Mia launched an initiative to focus on the art of our times. Through its Department of Contemporary Art, the museum brings a fresh dynamism to its galleries by collecting and exhibiting works by living artists produced since 1960.</p>
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<p>Originally established to focus on furniture, metalwork, ceramics, and glass, the department today encompasses more than 18,000 works across all mediums from the Americas and Europe, and dating from the Middle Ages to the present.</p>
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Decorative Arts, Textiles, and Sculpture Affinity Group

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<p>Established with the museum’s opening in 1915, Mia’s Art Research &#038; Reference Library is one of the Midwest’s premiere research centers dedicated to the study of art. </p>
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<p>The museum’s Native American art collection celebrates the artistic achievements of America’s first peoples. The collection began with a gift of 25 objects from the Northwest Coast in 1928. The collection now encompasses nearly 1,500 objects from the major cultural regions across the continent, from ancient to contemporary times.</p>
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<p>Mia’s internationally acclaimed collection of paintings contains nearly 900 European, Latin American, and U.S. works from the 1300s to about 1970. It offers a broad survey of the history of painting in those regions and includes some of the most accomplished works by innovative and influential artists.</p>
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<p>Established in 1973, the Department of Photography and New Media is one of the nation’s premier collections of photographic media. Holding nearly 13,000 objects spanning the history of the medium and a wide range of technical processes, the collection serves as a dynamic resource for research, exhibition, publication, and programming.</p>
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<p>The Department of Prints and Drawings at Mia is home to more than 35,000 original prints, 3,000 drawings, and 3,000 artists&#8217; books and other publications from the 1400s to the present.</p>
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Affinity Groups

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Planned Giving

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<p>Founded in 1922, Friends of the Institute is a volunteer organization of members of the Minneapolis Institute of Art dedicated to supporting, enhancing, and sustaining the collections, programs, and influence of the museum. Today, Friends of the Institute is one of the nation’s largest and most active art museum volunteer organizations.</p>
<p>The Friends support the museum in many ways, by providing free public lectures, buses to bring schoolchildren to the museum for docent tours, artwork for the permanent collection, and funding for innovative children’s art education programs. Our major fundraiser, <a href="http://new.artsmia.org/art-in-bloom/">Art in Bloom</a>, helps to make this support possible.</p>
<p>For more information, please contact the Friends office: (612) 870-3045; <a href="mailto:friends@artsmia.org">friends@artsmia.org</a>.</p>
<p><em>Pictured above: Friends Board of Directors (2017-18)</em></p>


Friends of the Institute

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<h3><a href="http://new.artsmia.org/join-and-invest/friends-of-the-institute/friends-history/">Friends History &amp; Timeline</a></h3>
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<h3><a href="https://new.artsmia.org/art-in-bloom">Art in Bloom</a></h3>
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<p style="color: #222222;">Friends membership is just $50 a year. Any Mia member may join the Friends. There are chapters in the Twin Cities, Rochester, and St. Cloud. Friends members enjoy many benefits, including:</p>
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<li>Friends-only classes and tours</li>
<li>Friends newsletter</li>
<li>First notice of volunteer opportunities at Mia</li>
<li>Activities especially for new members</li>
<li>The hospitality of the Friends office</li>
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<p style="color: #222222;">For more information or to join, contact the Friends office: (612) 870-3045; <a style="color: #1788a3;" href="mailto:friends@artsmia.org">friends@artsmia.org</a>.</p>
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Learn About the Friends

<p><a title="Friends Board, Committees, &amp; Chairs" href="http://new.artsmia.org/join-and-invest/friends-of-the-institute/friends-board-committees-chairs/">The Friends Board of Directors</a> is constituted of Friends officers, committee chairs, and special appointees. Members are appointed by a nominating committee each year and voted upon at the Friends annual meeting in May.</p>
<p>If you are interested in volunteering with a Friends committee, please contact the Friends office: (612) 870-3045.</p>


Friends Board

<p>Mia is proud to be among the good company of more than 100 organizations who help us provide a world-class museum that is accessible to all. Because of these partners, Mia is able to serve almost half a million people annually through free admission, powerful exhibitions, youth and adult educational offerings, and inspiring programs. The museum strives to create shared value with its partners, which translates into more effective and meaningful service to our region. Together, we help make Minnesota a vibrant and culturally rich community where people want to live and work. To learn more about the opportunities below, contact Senior Manager, Corporate and Foundation Relations, Aubrey Mozer: 612.870.6337, <a href="mailto:amozer@artsmia.org">amozer@artsmia.org</a>; or Corporate Relations Specialist, Steven Hall: 612.870.3216, <a href="mailto:shall@artsmia.org">shall@artsmia.org</a>.</p>
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<address><strong><span style="color: #000000;">The museum thanks all of its <a title="Institutional Supporters" href="http://new.artsmia.org/join-and-invest/institutional-supporters/">corporate, foundation, and organizational donors.</a></span></strong></address>
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Partner with Mia

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<p>Organizations large and small are vital to the museum’s success in providing accessible arts experiences for people of all ages and backgrounds. For Corporate, Foundation, and Organizational Partners (gifts of $2,000+), Mia provides customized community recognition and opportunities to enhance employee and customer relations. Mia’s Business League Partners (gifts of $300-$1,999) receive benefits that strengthen their community recognition and their employees’ and clients’ connection to a renowned and diverse art museum.</p>


Organizational Partners

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<p>Why <a title="Sponsorship" href="http://new.artsmia.org/join-and-invest/corporate-partnership/sponsorship/"><strong>sponsorship</strong></a>? Because it works. Several recent studies have shown that consumers understand and appreciate sponsorship—and that sponsorship can greatly influence buying decisions. In fact, sponsorship has the greatest impact on highly educated, higher income individuals who are difficult to reach through traditional media. Sponsorships at Mia allow companies to strengthen their name recognition and reach targeted audiences while meeting their business goals.</p>


Sponsorship

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<p>Another way that companies contribute to Mia is by matching employees’ gifts to the museum. Matching gift programs help companies support the causes important to their employees and enhance their good corporate citizenry. Mia is grateful to its many <a title="Matching Gift Companies" href="https://new.artsmia.org/join-and-invest/2017-annual-report/matching-companies/">matching gifts companies</a>.</p>


Matching Gifts

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Corporate Partnership

<p>“My big dream has always been to have my art in the Minneapolis Institute of Art,” she says. “But the best part is that the museum had no idea I was blind, and to be accepted like that is huge. I just want my art to be seen for what it is. For me, that’s everything.”</p>
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<p>When the novel coronavirus hit Minnesota, forcing the closure of schools, Greg Swan wasn’t about to let it cancel art, too. All three of their kids have benefitted from Art Adventure, Mia’s popular school program, which uses the museum’s collection to teach critical thinking, empathy, and other important skills in Minnesota classrooms. </p>
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<p>When Mia reopened, after closing temporarily to slow the spread of the coronavirus, it took a while for Lisa Arnold to feel comfortable returning. The St. Paul artist hadn’t been out much in seven months— not to a restaurant, or a store, or a friend’s home. The closure of the museum had been particularly tough. “Art is how I connect with myself and the world,” she says.</p>
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<p>Lilyana has been going to Mia all of her life. She especially loves the art of Claude Monet. So, when she learned that the museum was reopening after lockdown, she was motivated to do what was necessary to return: practice washing her hands until she had filled a week on her sticker chart.</p>
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<p>The arrangements were all made, everyone was ready to travel across the world, when the participants in Mia’s Global Youth Exchange got the bad news about the novel coronavirus. No one was going anywhere.</p>
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<p>When everything closed, a few months into 2020, Mia brought art into the open. From outdoor activities to at-home art kits to virtual Family Days, the museum continued to meet people where they were, wherever that happened to be.</p>
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<p>When Casey Riley decided to organize the “Just Kids” photography show, asking kids to choose and reflect on images of other kids, she had no idea how it would go. That was largely the point: to learn how younger people are responding to a medium as powerful in their lives as it is ubiquitous.</p>
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