Support

<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>
<p class="hero-text"><a href="https://ticket.artsmia.org/products/membership">Join</a>,<a href="https://ticket.artsmia.org/products/membership"> Renew</a> or <a href="https://tickets.artsmia.org/products/donate">Donate Here</a>.</p>


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Third Thursday: Egypt?s Sunken Cities

My Mia Membership

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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>
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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>Baby Amelie was just two weeks old when she made her first visit to Mia. Her mother, Courtney, had been nervous about venturing out with a newborn. What if Amelie cries? How am I going to feed her? </p>
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<p>This summer, Mia held its first “empathy tours.” Designed by the museum’s Center for Empathy and the Visual Arts (CEVA), the tours may seem like any other school visit: students pass from one gallery to the next, study artworks, and discuss them. </p>
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<p>Joe Horton grew up in Milwaukee, studied psychology at the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire, and gravitated to the Twin Cities, where he has established himself as a multidisciplinary force. Rap music, theater, fiction writing, film directing—he does them all, often with the help of a loyal crew. “It all feels like one thing to me,” he says. “Art is simply the way for me to explore alternative narratives of reality.”<br />
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<p>To lose mobility, to lose companionship, to lose touch—too often, aging can be isolating. It can make you feel invisible, even to yourself. Mia’s “creative aging” workshops are creative and social outlets for people over 60.</p>
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<p>Nils Heymann was a teenager when he fled the civil war in El Salvador, along with his mother, sister, brother, and other family members. They came to St. Paul, where his aunt was the first school principal of Latinx descent in Minnesota. And then he fell silent.<br />
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<p>When Mia began planning an exhibition of art by Native women, artistDyani White Hawk was among the first people consulted.<br />
White Hawk grew up in Wisconsin, negotiating her identity as a woman of mixed Lakota and European ancestry—a quest that shaped her early art.<br />
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My Mia Membership

Affinity Groups

Planned Giving

Friends of the Institute

Corporate Partnership

Why Giving Matters