Powering Our Shared Prosperity: Rural Futures Summit 2024

A reflection on the 2024 Rural Futures Summit, which brought together over 100+ creative leaders from across the rural Upper Midwest involved in a diverse range of artistic practices, community organizing, and leadership.

July 8, 2024
By Springboard for the Arts

About the Summit

What does it mean to power our shared prosperity? At the 2024 Rural Futures Summit, we invited over 100+ rural artists and leaders to come together around that very idea. 

Invited by Springboard’s Rural Regenerator Fellows, the summit’s attendees spent 3 days connecting through conversation forums, breakout sessions, and art-making workshops. Beyond the gathering itself, the Summit builds an intentional peer network of learning and ideas to support the creative ecosystem of the rural Upper Midwest and foster solidarity and relationship building for larger social change.

“As people return and relationships grow, I can feel the web of possibility growing.”

– Summit participant

Thank you to the following Rural Regenerator Fellows, artists, and community partners for making the summit possible! Kandace Creel Falcón, Michelle Muri, Sikowis Nobiss, Trisha Rivers, Nhatt Nichols, Amy Thielen, Kyle Mesteth, frankie voeltz, Klaire Lockheart, Keith Leismeister, Awanigiizhik Bruce, Rufus Jupiter, Conor Lee, Elisha Marin, Siricasso Garcia and Eliza Blue, Fergus Brewing, the Bigwood Event Center, Kaddatz Galleries, the Foundry, the Creation Shop, Balanced and Brave Yoga Studio, Steel Wheels, County Inn & Suites, the City of Fergus Falls, Foxtail Fern, Union Ave Bar & Eatery, Fish Factor 108, Peney Cakes, Spanky’s Stone Hearth, Cotton Candy Co., and Falls Baking Company.

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