Giving Back

In the past 20 years, the Anacortes Arts Festival has given over $500,000 in grants and scholarships alone. Thanks to another successful year, $26,000 has been awarded this past year:

  • Anacortes Arts Foundation
  • Anacortes Community Theater
  • Anacortes Farmers Market
  • Anacortes Sister Cities Association
  • Anacortes School District:
    • High School Band
    • Cultural Arts Series
    • Fidalgo Elementary School
  • Boys & Girls Club of Skagit County
  • Museum of Northwest Art
  • Skagit Symphony
  • Steamroller Printing

The Festival provided an additional $4,000 in Art Awards for its Anacortes Collects program.

Giving Philosophy

The Anacortes Arts Festival strives to impact the whole community through its range of giving by advancing arts education, increasing participation in the arts in the community and better linking the arts community to the community at large. The Festival endeavors, over time, to fund a well-balanced group of grant requests and projects, some self-initiated, that involves a diverse group of people and diverse art activities.

Giving Guidelines

The deadline this year is March 13, 2012.
View the Guidelines page.

Alash Ensemble
The Anacortes Arts Festival presented the Tuvan throat singers and instrumentalists Alash Ensemble in a rare West coast performance on April 29th at 7:30 pm at Brodniak Hall in Anacortes. The evening performance was made possible by grants from WESTAF, Western States Arts Alliance, NEA and the Anacortes Arts Festival.

 

 

Our Mission Statement

The Anacortes Arts Festival is a nonprofit organization that promotes and funds arts, artists and art education to create a vibrant arts community with the following objectives:

1. To produce an Annual Arts Festival and Fine Art Show. This is our primary focus each year and provides much of the means for us to support our other objectives.

2. To foster the growth and dissemination of the arts through the annual awarding of grants to artists and arts organizations, with an emphasis on those that have an impact on Anacortes and Fidalgo Island.

3. To promote and support a variety of arts activities throughout the year, either on our own or with the cooperation of other art organizations.