Luther Burbank Center for the Arts

The Luther Burbank Center for the Arts, based in Sonoma County, is a multidisciplinary performance venue and community arts hub. It provides live performances, arts education, and community connection to North Bay residents. Each year, more than 500,000 people attend its events; its arts education programs serve approximately 50,000 students, teachers, and parents in over 130 local schools. Support for the Luther Burbank Center for the Arts advances the Performing Arts Program’s Communities strategy.

The Luther Burbank Center for the Arts, based in Sonoma County, provides live performances, arts education, and community connection to North Bay residents. Each year, more than 150,000 people attend performances in its 1,600-seat theater, and its standards-based arts education and outreach programs serve another 30,000 K-12 students and teachers. This grant aligns with the Performing Arts Program's Communities strategy by supporting the Luther Burbank Center for the Arts's activities to build its diversity, equity, and inclusion capacity.

The Luther Burbank Center for the Arts (doing business as the Wells Fargo Center for the Arts as the result of a ten-year naming sponsorship with the financial institution in 2006) works to implement its mission to enrich, educate, and entertain its five-county community through a diverse calendar of arts and popular entertainment performances for more than 100,000 people in its 1,600-seat theater. The Center’s standards-based arts education and outreach programs serve 30,000 K-12 students through school shows, school residencies, and professional development for teachers. Support for the Bridge to the Future project would provide support for much-needed facility repairs and capital improvements to its forty-year-old venue.