Our Mission
The Center for the Arts mission is to enrich lives by supporting, promoting, and connecting literary, performance, and visual artists of all ages in our communities.
How do we do this?
Enrich:
- Showcasing existing arts organizations and artists through our First Fridays Programs and Arts Shows throughout the year
- Offering creative educational opportunities for adults and students
Support:
- Offering scholarship opportunities for students and grants for teachers
- Providing venues, visibility, and opportunities for arts organizations and artists of all disciplines
- Providing opportunities for creative individuals to gather and collaborate
- Providing community events that stimulate the local and broader economy
Promote:
- Publicizing cultural events on our monthly e-calendar, website, in print and other media
- Creating opportunities for wider visibility for arts organizations and artists of all disciplines
- Creating collaborative opportunities with businesses, educational Institutions, community organizations and the towns in which we serve.
What We Do
We support Arts and Artists in the Lake Sunapee Region!
We support over 100 area artists and art related businesses!The Center for The Arts
- seeks out artists and helps them find a voice before the public
- collaborates with other organizations to increase public awareness of their art and cultural programs and help support them
- creates events and programs to enhance existing venues and experiment with new venues
- expands existing educational opportunities and provides access for all
The arts are an essential component of our greater community. The Center for the Arts, facilitates sustainable partnerships with both other organizations and artists in our region. It is these private and public partnerships that create the collaborative platform which enhance and strengthen our Art and Cultural offerings and regional desirability.
Center for the Arts is a small organization with a big vision. We welcome your ideas and encourage your partnership though communication, membership and volunteering. CFA acts as a centralized source of information for regional cultural events.
We support Arts Education in our Region!
Each Year The Center for the Arts awards Scholarships to Talented Students in the Lake Sunapee Region. Scholarships for those with a dream of pursuing their education in Art, Music, Theater, Dance and Literature.
Supporting the Stars of Tomorrow!
The Center for the Arts Teacher Grant Program encourages teachers and administrators to create projects that will not only expose students to the arts but also to motivate and inspire their students to think creatively and act creatively.
Throughout the year The Center for the Arts sponsors school-wide programs in Music, Theater, Literary, and Visual Arts to supplement the existing Arts Curriculum in our schools.
