Create • Connect • Discover • Thrive

At Partnership Resources, we believe access to the arts and creative expression is essential to self-advocacy, skill development, and belonging. Our community arts partners play a vital role in making this possible. Through inclusive, community-based arts experiences, our partners help ensure the individuals we support are not just participants, but creators—building confidence, sharing their voices, and forming meaningful connections in spaces where everyone is welcomed as their authentic selves.

Artist with their Art
Artist with their Art
Pottery
Artist with their Art

Arts Access through Community Partnerships

Mudluk Pottery

 Clients from St. Louis Park learned new skills in pottery, including hand building and wheel throwing culminating in an exhibit where they could sell their pieces.

Mudluk Pottery

Textile Center

Clients from St. Louis Park and Minneapolis Day Services learned sewing, embroidery, and knitting

Textile Center

Arts Highlights

Boy Band in a Haunted Hotel:

In 2024, participants in the Minneapolis film class
created an original film, Boy Band in a Haunted Hotel.
After receiving accolades at film festivals across
the globe, Boy Band in a Haunted Hotel is now
publicly available on PRI’s YouTube Channel.

Filming of PRI Movie Boy Band in a Haunted Hotel
PRI clients singing and acting in Boy Band in a Haunted Hotel
Title for PRI Movie Boy Band in a Haunted Hotel
PRI clients acting in Boy Band in a Haunted Hotel
Cast and Crew of PRI Film Boy Band in a Haunted Hotel

SLP Arts Expansion

In 2025, PRI hired an Art Instructor who continues to provides art instruction to clients in a variety of visual arts disciplines at our St. Louis Park day services location, expanding arts access.

Minnesota State Arts Board Logos

This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.

Artist with their Art
Artist with their Art
Artist with their Art
Artist with their Art
Artist with their Art

The benefits of the art making experience are abundant!
The latest evidence-based findings report that
after engagement in the arts:

0%
experienced improvement in mood and self-esteem
0%
engaged in physical activity
0%
ate healthier

COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS

These are some of the amazing art organizations that PRI partners with!

Compas logo
Minneapolis Institute of Art logo
Northern Clay Center logo
Minnesota State Arts Board
Upstream Arts logo
Walker Art Center logo
Arts Midwest logo
Cow Tipping Press
Metro regional arts council
Mac Phail Center for Music
Highpoint Center for Printmaking Logo
Mudluk Logo
Partnership Resources Inc Logo

For more information contact Jennifer Crosby Zarth,
Development Director 612-259-2272