The Saint Paul Art Collective is a non-profit organization that supports local artists in Saint Paul, Minnesota. It was founded in Lowertown Lofts to showcase and sell artwork, connect artists to opportunities and each other, and promote the arts. The Collective works to designate Lowertown as an arts district and partners with groups like the Saint Paul Saints baseball team and Artspace on events and exhibitions. It also shares information on art competitions and ways for artists to enhance their skills while bringing art to the community.

1. What is the Saint Paul
Art Collective?
How, when and why did it begin?
What does it do?
What does its future hold?
Why do we care?

2. The History

3. Lowertown Lofts and More

4. Now and Beyond

6. St Paul Art Center Designation Initiative
• SPAC and Artspace are working
together to measure the interest
and potential for establishing a
dedicated community art space in
the Lowertown neighborhood, as
well as the possibility of creating an
arts district designation for
Lowertown

7. The St Paul Saints Connection
• Home Plates
• Game Day Art

8. Collaborations
• The Show
• A non-profit showcasing artists with
disabilities
• Gather
• An online gallery
connecting art with
purchasers

9. Connections & Competitions
• MnExposure
• Passing along information on
competitions and “Artist Calls”
• Cinco de Mayo
• Button art competition

10. Conviviality
• Lowertown First Fridays
• On the first Friday of each month,
artists’ spaces in St. Paul’s Lowertown
neighborhood join forces to present
an easily walkable assortment of arts
events.

11. Why We Care

12. Art Enhances Life
• “We need new ideas, we need new ways of
doing things and we need a whole new
way of approaching each other with much
more empathy and understanding. This
means that the rest of society really needs
to focus on the world of art and culture as
a vital source for not only solutions, but
also ways of finding solutions… and a
whole knew concept of what a valuable
life really means.” – Uffe Elbaek, former
Danish Minister of Culture
• If you want to find more creativity,
satisfaction, and happiness, the single best
solution I know is adding more art to your
life. Michael Hyatt, Online Mentor