Concrete and Grass Lowertown Music Festival

To support the Concrete and Grass Lowertown Music Festival, a free music event that opens the downtown St. Paul performing arts season in September

Alliance with GTC Youth Symphonies

To support the development of The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra (SPCO) and Greater Twin Cities Youth Symphonies (GTCYS) strategic alliance

Artplace

To support ArtPlace, a creative place-making initiative that uses investments in the arts and other creative assets to shape the social, physical and economic character of cities, towns and communities across the U.S.

Arts Incubator Program

To support a sustainability initiative for the Arts Incubator Program, providing fiscal sponsorship, pro bono legal services, fundraising support and organizational development assistance to artist-led non-profit projects

Giant Sing Along

For a participatory public art experience called the Giant Sing Along at the 2011 Minnesota State Fair

Latino-Asian Fusion Series

To foster cross-cultural exchange and dialogue among Twin Cities Latino and Asian communities, Teatro del Pueblo and Pangea World Theater will collaborate on a series of new works titled "Latino-Asian Fusion Series"

Minnesota Opera Company: Wuthering Heights

To record and distribute the Minnesota Opera's production of Bernard Herrmann's opera Wuthering Heights in movie theaters worldwide

OKRA: Penumbra Theatre Company

To support Penumbra Theatre's New Play Development Program called OKRA

Park Square Theatre Company

To expand programming to teen audiences through use of a new 142-seat thrust stage

Random Acts of Culture: St. Paul

To break down barriers of access to the performing arts and touch the lives of residents with Random Acts of Culture (RAC), a series of unexpected, spontaneous cultural performances in non-traditional settings

Social Media Outreach

To engage a group of young professionals by piloting a program providing subsidized tickets in exchange for social media coverage and community ambassador support geared at building future audiences

Springboard for the Arts

To bring Springboard for the Arts' Community Supported Art program to Knight Foundation's eight communities over the next two years, inspiring local art movements