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Massachusetts Cultural Council
10 St. James Ave., 3rd Floor Boston, MA 02116-3803
Tel: 617-727-3668
Toll Free (in MA only): 800-232-0960
Fax: 617-727-0044
TTY: 617-338-9153
mcc@art.state.ma.us
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We want
the Commonwealth to support arts and culture as much as arts and culture
support the Commonwealth.
OUR MISSION
The Massachusetts Cultural Council (MCC) is a state agency that promotes
excellence, access, education and diversity in the arts, humanities, and
interpretive sciences to improve the quality of life for all Massachusetts
residents and contribute to the economic vitality of our communities.
OUR VISION
The arts, sciences and humanities have the power to build healthier, more
livable, more vital communities. They enrich, exalt and provoke. They
are an essential part of a strong educational system. They contribute
enormously to our economy. They build bridges across cultures. They can
be used to address - or better yet, prevent - some of our most stubborn
social problems. They help us interpret our past and shape our future.
They help us understand what it means to be human.
The Massachusetts Cultural Council is committed to building a central
place for the arts, sciences and humanities in the everyday lives of communities
across the Commonwealth. The Council pursues this mission through a combination
of grant programs, partnerships and services for nonprofit cultural organizations,
schools, communities and individual artists.
OUR FUNDING
MCC receives an annual appropriation from the state Legislature and funds
from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Wallace Foundation, and
others. Details on our budget are available
online. In turn, MCC makes thousands of grants directly to non-profit
cultural organizations, schools, communities, and individuals artists,
through funding programs that
use arts, science, and the humanities to build strong, diverse, livable
communities. The beneficiaries of these programs comprise a cross-section
of the population and citizens in each Massachusetts city and town.
OUR IMPACT
There are few places in America as rich in arts and culture as Massachusetts.
From Boston to the Berkshires, from Cape Ann to Cape Cod, our state boasts
an array of exceptional cultural organizations, beautiful and distinctive
communities, and thousands of talented artists and educators. The MCC
nurtures the creative life of Massachusetts. We help organizations grow
and change. We help schools enrich students' lives by weaving quality
arts, humanities, and science programs into their curricula. We foster
dialogue among cultural leaders on issues of shared importance, and make
connections between artists and businesses. And we advocate on behalf
of the cultural community--ensuring that arts, humanities, and sciences
have a voice in discussions about the future of the Commonwealth and its
communities. The Council recently completed a five-year
strategic plan designed to strengthen support for arts and culture
in the Commonwealth.
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