Virtual Events & Resources from the Minnesota Creative Community
Now more than ever, our creative community is looking for ways to connect and lean on each other for support and growth. To help cultivate these opportunities, we are collecting a list of organizations offering virtual events and online resources, both from within Minnesota as well as from our friends and partners around the country.
Local Organizations
UXPA Minnesota
Upcoming Events Providing a community for local user experience professionals and students to communicate, network, educate and celebrate! UXPA hosts monthly events that include presentations & case studies, panel discussions, and roundtables on current topics and trends in usability.
Creative Mornings
Upcoming Events CreativeMornings/Minneapolis envisions a united and connected creative community. Every month, we host a free event that gathers to foster these connections. Each event features a speaker from the creative community, plus coffee and breakfast. We gather like-minded people to share inspiration. Everyone is creative. Everyone is welcome.
Minnestar
Upcoming Virtual Events Minnestar exists to build, nurture and engage those interested in technology through meaningful connection. We are a non-profit 501(c)3 organization that is organized, funded, and built to serve our great community of technologists.
Twin Cities Collective
Upcoming Events The Twin Cities Collective was created to help Twin Cities bloggers and creatives connect with other like-minded individuals in our area & learn more about how to market their businesses on social media.
MIA
Virtual Open Studios The Minneapolis Institute of Art enriches the community by collecting, preserving, and making accessible outstanding works of art from the world’s diverse cultures. Inspired by Mia’s Free Open Studios, browse how-to videos and projects with step-by-step instructions to create your own artworks.
Pollen Midwest
Upcoming Events Founded in the belief that change comes from being in deeper connection with a robust and diverse network of humans, we share stories of individuals that reveal how interconnected we truly are, we host events where essential conversations happen, and we link people to personal and professional opportunities.
The Coven
Upcoming Events The Coven is so much more than a workspace; it’s a vibrant, welcoming community of women, non-binary, and trans individuals. Born of a desire to support our community through the impact of COVID-19, The Coven is now offering a pay-what-you-can digital membership option. Digital members will have access to all virtual programming through April 30, 2020.
Make It MSP
Events & Resources The GREATER MSP Partnership launched the Make It. MSP. initiative to better recruit, welcome, and retain people from around the world, and includes a coalition of thousands of amazing people at organizations throughout the region. By working together in teams, they are connecting even more people in and beyond our region.
Minnesota Center for Book Arts
Virtual Workshops MCBA is committed to book art, artists and appreciators. Our mission is to lead the advancement of the book as an evolving art form.From the traditional crafts of papermaking, letterpress printing and bookbinding to new methods of art-making and communication, MCBA supports the limitless creative development of book arts.
The office of Arts, Culture, and the Creative Economy
The office is responsible for the development of the City’s arts and cultural planning and policies, creative economy research, creative workforce support, cross-sector collaborations, and the integration of arts-based strategies in City departments.
National Events & Resources
AIGA, the professional association for design
National Events List
National Community Resource List
As the profession’s oldest and largest professional membership organization for design—with more than 70 chapters and over 18,000 members—we advance design as a professional craft, strategic advantage, and vital cultural force.
AIGA Baltimore
Virtual Events Collection
Our friends in Baltimore have collected a few interesting digital experiences, and plan to continue updating this list as more events surface.
AIGA Connecticut
Healthcare4All Poster Design
AIGA Connecticut’s Healthcare4All initiative is about raising awareness and identifying action through design on why America should have healthcare—free or paid—for all Americans. Join Milton Glaser, Alexander Isley, Bonnie Siegler, and others in designing for social change — non-partisan posters and social media visuals to engage the public with tangible actions that can help others find their voice in regard to healthcare.
Adobe Summit
Free Breakout Sessions The digital experience conference has gone digital. Hear from Adobe leaders. Discover new product innovations. Explore 100+ breakouts across six tracks. All in your browser and on demand.
An Event Apart
The Complete AEA DC 2019 Each session offers a unique, expert perspective on aspects of the web, interaction design, and user experience, from our industry’s best speakers and greatest visionaries.
Eye On Design
Guide to Self-isolation for Designers and Creatives A growing and evolving resource for education, connection, money-making, and entertainment during the crisis.
Tune In
Watch our new video series “Conversations with Quarantiened Creatives” with new content releasing weekly!
Business Resources
Hennepin County Small Business Relief Program
Self-employed entrepreneurs and business owners with no additional employees will be able to apply for grants of $1,500 up to $3,000 from May 19-29 at noon. This funding is part of the Small Business Relief Program, which is designed to help small local businesses meet immediate financial needs by providing emergency grants for eligible expenses of business interruption due to COVID-19.
National Endowment for the Arts research lab
The O’Neill School and IUPUI are pleased to collaborate with the National Endowment for the Arts to launch the Arts, Entrepreneurship, and Innovation Lab under its Research Labs initiative. The work in this lab is undertaken in partnership with the IU Public Policy Institute and the Center for Cultural Innovation.
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