Updates from the Executive Director

Welcome.

Hello and welcome to the Fresno Arts Council website.  We are excited to bring new online features on our new website redesign. On the right side of this message are links to the features we've just created, including our Arts Database, Social Network for the Arts, as well as online processing of memberships.

And if you would like to read more on what's happening on a monthly basis, read the FAC Blog for updates.

Message from the Board President

Greetings friends, colleagues, and art lovers.

We’ve faced some great difficulties in the last couple years but the New Year brings renewed optimism for 2010. The phrase “creative business” has probably been overused lately, but I feel this is the direction the Fresno Arts Council is striving towards. Who better to take on that responsibility than those who use creative thinking in their everyday lives? With this direction I’m proud to announce the outcomes of your Art Council's hard work and dedication to you and your work. I’d also like to take this opportunity to show you how you can make your arts council work for you.

A unified arts community is a healthy, powerful and prosperous one. The unification of any diverse community takes guidance. Five years ago the FAC adopted the Cultural Arts Plan as a tool to guide long term projects that require a high level of maintenance, documentation, and response to the funding arms. The plan is a tool to delineate the . . .     Read More