Create • Connect • Discover • Thrive

PRI is committed to being inclusive of all forms of art and weaving art through all services, to provide access to the benefits of art to all, while building community, promoting self-advocacy and self-expression.

In 2024, PRI partnered with two new arts partners, Highpoint Center for Printmaking and Mudluk Pottery, to expand arts education in printmaking and ceramics.

Happy PRI Client with his print
Happy PRI Clients at Mudluck Pottery
PRI Clients in front of Mudluck Pottery
PRI Client working at a pottery wheel
PRI Client with his print

Arts Access through Community Partnerships

Thanks to funding from the Minnesota State Arts Board clients have access to engaging arts activities that empower personal growth, goals attainment, and joyful living.

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.

Arts Highlights

See Me Gallery:

In 2023, Karly Bergmann, PRI’s Art Instructor curated the reopening of the See Me Gallery at PRI’s Minneapolis Day Service site

PRI Client with her painting
2 Paintings hanging on a wall
PRI Client with painting
PRI Client art on the wall
PRI Client with self portrait

PRI Art Machine:

During September 2023, forty-seven artists at PRI collaborated on this textile art installation.
Each artist created one or more snacks from felt, glue, and fabric paint.
These soft sculptures are displayed in a vending machine made by Karly Bergmann, Art Instructor.

Photo/video credit: Deacon Warner & Jes Rosenberg

This is a machine, inside is the food. It has pops, chips, candy, a 25 cent sticker, numbers, the bottom where stuff comes out. It’s a vending machine! It’s art made out of snacks! It’s snack art!

Our food is a kind of art. Details on the front, stuffing on the inside. We made the fake food with felt. Put chocolate on orange, layer the pieces of felt and glue it. Then we stuff it with white stuff to make it like a pillow. We used paint to write the names like professional artists. Then we put the food on the shelves.

We made pictures in here. It’s not just one person doing it, it’s the entire group. It’s your opinion, our opinion, my opinion- an assembly line to add their opinion. It’s a process. All the cans are different from each other. It’s kind of our own, we all made the snacks, but Karly is there to help us out.

We want the audience to feel surprised, excited, and happy. Maybe overwhelmed or shocked! “Is it real or fake?” We want you to think it’s real- like you can put your money in there and get your favorite pop out. We want you to feel like we are professional.

Use your brain for your own choice for the vending machine. Look through the glass and see what kinds of treats we have: Chocolate yellow M&Ms. Red white Coca Cola. Orange black Cheetohs. Select the one that’s your favorite, push the button to punch in the number and letter, and get the thing that comes out the bottom. How does it work? Just kick it! Just kidding, put money in (usually, they take $1 or $5 bills). Enjoy!

Boy Band in a Haunted Hotel:

In 2024, participants in the Minneapolis film class created and produced an original film, “Boy Band in a Haunted Hotel” it plans to publicly premiere at film festivals in 2025.

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

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

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experienced improvement in mood and self-esteem
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engaged in physical activity
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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