Columbia Arts Network

Establish and Manage a Visual Arts Center for Southwest Washington 

Our strategies will include the following:

• Enlarge the base of support, networks, and connections for visual artists.
• Enhance our credibility and influence with local businesses, government and political entities.
• Provide guidance to the city in identifying the needs and wants of visual artists.
• Reduce duplication of effort/resources.
• Facilitate the exchange of information, skills, experience, materials, collaboration, etc.
• Cut costs/combine and share resources.
• Respond to community goals and produce social impact.

Capabilities:

Columbia Arts Network has a membership of 11 Art Organizations, 3 art related businesses, and over 300 individual artists members.

In the last two years, not only have we built strong relationship with the regional art communities, we have also built relationships through collaborations with the Cultural, Arts, and Heritage Commission, the City of Vancouver, the Vancouver Downtown Association, The Vancouver Symphony, as well as the Clark County Arts Commission.  

Our Executive Board includes artists, an organizational development professional, an attorney, local businesspersons, a financial consultant, as well as skilled marketers and technicians.    

We also have a very large volunteer base.