Mid-year-2025: Help us offer an arts education to everyone who can benefit from it, regardless of their financial situation. Our sliding-scale fund allows students experiencing hardship to name their price for paid programming, without affecting our ability to pay our staff and teaching artists a fair wage. In the past year, we’ve given away roughly $6,000 in sliding-scale assistance.

The arts are a tool for healing and change, and shouldn’t be a luxury. Every dollar raised by this fundraiser goes directly to families in need of financial assistance. Please help us raise $7,000 for the coming year so we can share the power of an arts education with our whole community!

The theme of this year’s fundraiser is “Resist.” There’s a lot of terrible stuff happening in the world that we have no control over. It is a scary time to be an arts nonprofit. It is a scary time to be a human being. But one thing we can do is resist the values that are being normalized. We can resist the idea that our wealth is a measure of what we deserve. We can resist relentless competition and lift up cooperation. We can resist the idea that we are powerless individuals and believe that living in community makes us powerful.

Everyone deserves to participate in the arts. Being creative triggers parts of our brain that think differently, that think compassionately, that teach us there is a better way to envision our future. Please help us resist the paradigm and support equal opportunity by donating even a small amount to our sliding scale fundraiser. Thank you. So much!