give to the max to support the arts!

Create Life-Shaping Opportunities with The Crossing Arts

Experiences with the arts can shape lives and improve well-being.

Art brings us together, creating critical opportunities for cross-cultural connections.

Making art can help us relax and reduce stress and anxiety. Making and seeing art can increase serotonin levels and improve blood flow to the parts of the brain that register pleasure. (Source: Mayo Clinic. It's SCIENCE!)

For nearly 25 years, The Crossing Arts has created opportunities for us to connect, share, laugh, learn, and grow creatively with strong art programs in the Brainerd Lakes Area.

This work is powerful and important. Art can improve our lives and strengthen our communities. Right now, this work is essential.

The Crossing Arts is a community organization, and the support of our community is critical if this work is to continue.

 Your Give to the Max Day gift will:

• Invest in vital arts programming in Brainerd and the Central Lakes Region. We aim to be a beacon for the visual arts in Brainerd and beyond by building education programs that even reach neighbors in small towns.

• Fund Youth Studio Nights as teens and tweens gather after school to paint a mural (currently underway in our new workshop space!), build skills, eat snacks, listen to music, and have fun in a relaxed, safe, creative space. 

• Reduce adult workshop fees by helping to cover in-house costs related to scheduling and marketing workshops.

• Support living, working local and regional artists who exhibit in the Gallery, sell work in the Gift Shop, and work to develop their skills as part of The Crossing Arts community.

• Provide art education scholarships for youth and adults who cannot otherwise attend art classes at The Crossing Arts.

• Bring art education to community partners such as Port Group Homes, Relationship Safety Alliance, and others to share the healing power of the arts.

The Crossing Arts is here because of people like you, who believe in the power and importance of the arts. Your gift will help us continue sharing art programs that build community, improve lives, and prove that ART IS FOR EVERYONE.

Thank you!

Art is for EVERYONE!

All are welcome at The Crossing Arts! No matter your past experience creating, collecting, or appreciating art, The Crossing Arts is a place where you (yes, you!) can learn more about making and appreciating the world of visual art. At The Crossing Arts, you can see a range of work by regional artists; hear exhibiting artists talk about their work; learn more about the different painting techniques; encourage creativity in your kids; and/or find a handmade, unique gift.

Art is an expression of the human experience. It’s about creating something because it is relaxing and good for our mental health to be creative. It’s about seeing and appreciating something beautiful that someone else created. It’s about finding others who might also be yearning to try something new, meet someone new, and hear more about one another’s lived experiences.

Art is about life and what it means to be alive! We’re here for you, right in Downtown Brainerd. Come on in!

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Crossing Arts Alliance activities are funded, in part, by the voters of Minnesota through grants from Five Wings Arts Council and the Minnesota State Arts Board, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.