HELP US PRESERVE OUR CULTURAL HERITAGE with our collection care, digitization, and access projects. Please consider supporting our projects through a donation that helps us maintain our overall operations or donate to a specific project.

Our collective history expressed through stories, memories and performances captured on videotape are 'in crisis'. Access to viable video playback equipment is becoming more difficult and the videotape medium itself is 'breaking down' and disintegrating. We need to immediately start to archive and preserve our cultural heritage programming and documentaries before they are lost forever.

Minnesota Media Arts is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization with a mission to preserve, catalog, and provide improved access to Minnesota's media arts programs recorded on magnetic media as documentations, performances and creative expression.We continue to work with Minnesota's creative communities, both individuals and organizations, to better manage and stabilize their media collections to preserve our rich and expressive Minnesota cultural heritage. We do this by offering educational resources, research, media archive collection care management, and archival quality media preservation and digital conversion services.

You can DONATE anytime via our secure GIVEMN.org online portal

Your donations will help us maintain our services as we:

Provide affordable archival quality Collection Care, Preservation/Digitization and Distribution services for the arts and independent producer communities through our media preservation labs.

Build a Digital Archive and Repository* to support cataloging and accessibility of legacy digital media assets

Create a “Funding Strategy” for our 2025 Office Facility Space . We’ve been working in remote offices since the Pandemic. Our 2025 funding goal is to secure an affordable space for our offices, production studios, centralize our preservation labs and improve media collection storage capabilities. We also want to foster and improve our engagement opportunities with both our members and target audiences through events such as AV media preservation seminars and community media archiving workshops.

Questions? Contact Mark at MN Media Arts 612-801-7355

Let us know, via our Contact Form to reconnect with you if you prefer to contribute by check, PayPal or volunteer your services and/or donate equipment.

Minnesota Media Arts is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization.Your donation may be tax-deductible based on your tax filing status and applicable laws.

THANK YOU!

You may be interested in our special project fundraiser underway now !

Minnesota Media Arts has started the development of our UCVideo Documentary Project about the pioneering alternative media center, its scope, programming and community outreach in the 1970's-80's. To help our fundraising efforts we have created a secure UCVideo Documentary GiveMN Campaign page for more historical background information and the opportunity to support this project directly by making your donation online at our secure GiveMN fundraiser page.

Contributing and Supporting MN Media Arts through technology donations.

We also are very grateful for the donations of 'legacy' video equipment. Our Media Lab has received numerous donations from the following; Medtronic, Saving Tapes-Cargill, City of Rivers Falls WI, University of Wisconsin-River Falls, Northwestern University-St. Paul, Eagan Community Television, Legal Education Services, U of M, Hendlin Communications, St. Paul Neighborhood Network (SPNN), Wayne Potratz, Craig Sinard Productions, Tom Grotting- Digital Pictures, Greg Stiever Productions, Big Bang Productions, Robert Hanson Video, The Ray Conover Estate, Mark Stanley-4insight LLC , Ron McCoy-McCoy & Associates, Mike Wolsted.

We are very interested in “functioning” computers, hard drives, servers and video monitors. We are continuing our search for legacy video and audio recorders/players: EIAJ 1/2" reel-to-reel VTRs, Betamax, Hi-8, S-VHS, 3/4" U-matic VCRs and operating Digital Betacam, Betacam-SP, DV-Cam and Mini-DV VCRs, TBC's, Proc Amps, test scopes, manuals etc. Also pro audio equipment such as reel-to-reel recorders, three head pro audiocassette decks, DAT recorders. Apple Macintosh computers, both intel and Apple silicon M series chips.

Most importantly, we are seeking people who know how to repair and maintain legacy video equipment. Referrals and Volunteers would be greatly appreciated.

You can DONATE anytime via our secure GIVEMN.org online portal