Kolman & Reeb Gallery Celebrates 5 Year Anniversary of Project Space Grant Program
Tuesday, February 4, 2025 at 7:41AM
Since its inception, the Kolman & Reeb Project Space Grant initiative has supported 19 artists of various styles and techniques to finally undertake and realize their most ambitious projects.
2025 marks the fifth year of Kolman & Reeb Gallery’s Project Space Grant Program. Established in 2020 by gallery owner and partner, Anita Sue Kolman, the grant provides Minnesota visual artists with resources, exhibition space, and financial support to undertake projects that will substantially impact their artistic careers. By supporting the Minnesota art community with this grant program, the gallery aims to foster art that delivers engaging and thought-provoking experiences to gallery patrons and local art collectors.
Like so many of us, artists also have aspirations or excitement built around a future creative pursuit. For a professional artist, a new idea or concept could significantly impact the scope of their future work. However, most artists set aside these desires until the time and resources are available. By being awarded a Kolman & Reeb Gallery Project Space Grant, selected artists can finally fulfill on the development of these compelling, courageous, and even unimaginable endeavors.
Since its inception, the Kolman & Reeb Project Space Grant initiative has supported 19 artists of various styles and techniques to finally undertake and realize their most ambitious projects. As in the past four years, again in 2025, the Kolman & Reeb Gallery has awarded individual grants of $10,000 each to selected artists who met the submission criteria. However, the opportunity is more than just financial support. The grant also offers creative advice, curation, business, marketing, and promotional support. All it takes is a unique vision and a project proposal.
"The opportunity to create new work knowing that it will be exhibited in a gallery setting changes the entire focus of the project completely. The foresight of being assured the work will be offered for sale in a commercial art gallery removes nearly all constraints." Cameron Zebrun, 2022 grantee
The selection of artists who will receive one of several $10,000 grants each year is merit-based and determined by examples of past work and concepts used in their grant proposal. Submission requirements include a description, plans for public interaction, a budget, a timeline, a resume, work samples, and descriptions of how the work samples relate to the proposed project.
The gallery provides support throughout the grant period, including quarterly payments, space for public interaction, and guidance to ensure the successful completion and exhibition of the project. Applications are accepted annually from July 15 through September 15, with grantees notified by November 30. The selected artists are announced in January, and their exhibitions are scheduled throughout the following year.
The Kolman & Reeb Gallery Project Space continues to play a pivotal role in the Minnesota art scene by empowering artists to pursue transformative projects, engage with the community, and advance their careers through substantial financial and professional support.
"This validation of my artistic vision and talent allowed me to see past the usual limitations and present work that is not only an evolution of my current work and style, but it allowed me to offer distinctive, unique, and truly original art." Lisa Truax, 2024 grantee
Exhibiting contemporary, abstract artwork by Minnesota artists in diverse media, Kolman & Reeb Gallery is a unique collaboration between Anita Sue Kolman, arts patron, and Jodi Reeb, artist and curator. Kolman & Reeb Gallery creates essential connections between artists and collectors by holding exhibitions celebrating the evolving aesthetics of the established artists it represents, with an eye toward placing artworks in the homes and businesses of discerning collectors.
For more information about the Project Space Grant Program, please contact Anita Sue Kolman at anita@kolmanreebgallery.com or 612-385-4239. Kolman & Reeb Gallery is in Studio 395 of the Northrup King Building, 1500 Jackson Street NE.
