Community School of Music and Arts

Community School of Music and Arts is one of the Bay Area’s largest music and visual arts education organizations, providing arts training for 40,000 people of all ages and abilities. The organization’s music program includes individual lessons, group classes, camps, and public performances; its in-school programs provide weekly standards-based, sequential visual arts and music classes in thirty-five local schools, reaching 15,000 children in San Mateo and Santa Clara counties, including some of the region’s most underserved populations. New leadership and strategic planning have strengthened the organization’s resolve to grow and sustain its programs and facility.

FROM PREVIOUS GRANT: Community School of Music and Arts is one of the Bay Area's largest music and visual arts education organizations, providing arts training for 40,000 people of all ages and abilities. The organization's music program includes individual lessons, group classes, camps, and a public performance series-all at Finn Center, its 25,000 square-foot building in Mountain View with studios, classrooms, digital arts lab, teacher resource center, 200+-seat concert hall, and exhibition area. Its in-school programs provide weekly standards-based, sequential visual arts and music classes in thirty-two local schools, reaching almost 10,000 children, including some of the region's most underserved populations.