At the Multicultural Arts Center, we work to foster cultural and creative equity through access to the arts for both artists and audience members.
At the heart of our community, the Multicultural Arts Center serves as a gathering place where social justice and creativity intersect. We aim to help artists and performers – especially those that identify as people of color – to be able to tell their stories through music, dance, poetry, theater and the visual arts.
We use facilitated dialogues, talkbacks, creative incubators, and networking events to create spaces that foster conversations on identity, race, and equity. The stories shared through art reflect and elevate the artists’ diverse lived experiences through their cultural identities as well as their genders, religions, sexualities, abilities and intersectional identities.
We are an accessible facility. We work to present pieces that are accessible to a broad range of audiences through virtual and hybrid programming, language access and translation, captioning, audio descriptions, as well as representation of identities.
We are proud to maintain over 50% of our performing and visual arts programming free or donation based in order to keep the arts accessible to student, low-income and culturally diverse populations.