Goal: To enable Marin’s artists and arts organizations to be more effective in contributing to the cultural vitality of the community

Overview: Marin residents and visitors alike benefit from a wealth of cultural assets, including nationally prominent communities of individual artists and a diverse array of arts organizations. Yet these assets face enormous challenges. Social, economic, technological, and demographic challenges are changing the role of arts and culture in Marin, as elsewhere, and are profoundly altering the context in which artists and nonprofit arts organizations operate. These changes offer tremendous opportunities but require that artists and arts organizations understand these shifts and adapt. The arts and cultural sector needs to better understand its changing circumstances and work collaboratively to remain a vital component of Marin residents’ lives, while more efficiently and effectively managing their efforts.

Under this goal, MCF will support projects that incorporate the following strategies:

Strategy 1: Through the Marin Fund for Artists, increase opportunities for artists to create new work with support from individual and institutional donors

Process for Strategy 1: A primary, but not exclusive, focus of this strategy will be support for the Marin Arts Council’s unique role in assisting and representing Marin’s arts and cultural organizations and individual artists. In particular, MCF will continue to partner with the Marin Arts Council in supporting the Marin Fund for Artists, a major effort to support Marin’s community of individual artists and nurture increased sources of institutional and private philanthropic support for artists’ needs and the creation of new work.

Detailed information about the Marin Fund for Artists, including additional information about the types of grants and programs available, application procedures, and deadlines, is available on the Marin Arts Council’s website, or by calling MAC at 415.499.8350. All requests for support for activities within the Marin Fund for Artists should be directed to the Marin Arts Council.

You can also learn more about the Marin Fund for Artists in the document below. This is a PDF document that requires Adobe Reader.