Every Child Deserves Art Project Receives Grant

Marco Island Center for the Arts is the recipient awarded $10,000 to fund “Every Child Deserves Art” Project that includes Young Artists Academy, Free Children’s Summer Art Workshops, and Art Supply bag distribution. The Art Center remains humbly honored to be one of the organizations being awarded a grant and is extremely thankful for the Community Foundation’s partnership.

This grant will make it possible for Marco Island Center for the Arts to continue to produce programs that expand and amplify the Art Center’s mission of bringing art education to the community through youth programs that are available to all of the youth applicants and recipients free of charge, removing financial barriers to arts exposure.

Marco Island Center for the Arts brings a wide variety of arts programs to Marco Island including the visual arts, music, presentations, performances, and literary arts. The Art Center offers dynamic monthly art exhibitions, engaging educational programs for all ages both onsite and now virtually. The Art Center engages the members of the community in these diverse programs to encourage an overall appreciation of the arts while promoting collaboration, cultural diversity, and community cohesion.

The Community Foundation of Collier County now in its 36th year of serving donors and nonprofits right here in Collier County is comprised of board members that live in the communities that the foundation supports. The Community Foundation of Collier County serves the community by giving to organizations that show a need and that provide a valued and necessary resource to the residents of Collier County.