Mission
To preserve and honor resistance art created by artists and community members during the uprisings of 2020 by re-homing over 800 plywood boards back into Minneapolis communities, organizations, businesses, public service entities, and those who serve and welcome all. To provide access to all images for public tools of learning, reflection, and healing via an interactive digital platform.
Vision
Uplift local artists and serve as a safe space for community education, reflection, and storytelling, allowing viewers to connect with art through their own experiences, voices, and personal journeys without geographical restriction. Boards will be re-allocated into public spaces over time as part of a long-term preservation effort.
Values
Throughout history, art has been created as a response to social unrest and used as a tool for opening up difficult conversations about racism, cultural understanding, and other challenges regarding justice and unity.
Historically, museums have highlighted certain stories while marginalizing and oppressing others. Through this manipulation of power and resources, influential elements of cultural, political, and economic systems sustain injustice and inequity at the hands of these institutions.
In our mission to preserve public street art, we acknowledge the moral obligation we have to confront bias and inequities entangled within the collection of these historical pieces of art.
For such reasons, SAVE THE BOARDS DOES NOT FUNCTION AS A MUSEUM, and works against upholding a role in supporting these systems.
Artist Values
Identified artists/creators may request physical ownership of their work at any point in time.
Identified artists/creators may rescind access to their work from any physical or digital space directly funded and maintained by STB at any point in time.
Identified black artists/creators may rescind access to their work from any physical or digital space directly funded or platformed by STB at any point in time.
Identified black artists/creators may retouch, reclaim, sell, keep, discard, showcase etc. Their work at any point in time.
We recognize all artists that contributed to the creation of boards and murals during the UPRISING, but we would like to emphasize the value of black artists and creators.