Mission Statement
Mission
The mission of the Jamestown Arts Center is to engage, enrich and inspire our community through extraordinary arts and educational experiences.
Residents of small communities shouldn’t lack the opportunities of their big city counterparts to experience art and design that is aspirational, inspirational, challenging, and at the highest level of its craft. We are setting the pace and raising the bar at the JAC every day.
Vision
The Jamestown Arts Center’s vision is to be a leading arts and cultural hub, for Rhode Island and beyond, where creativity, ideas and innovation flourish.
Great art is fed by the richness of experiences and the cross fertilization of ideas. We encourage participation of people of all ages, cultures and walks of life, the amateur to the professional. We present the arts in a variety of forms and formats, from the visual to the performing arts, from classes to events.
Our Goal
Our goal is to unite our community by embracing the arts.
JAC provides space for education, exhibition, rehearsal, performance, and interdisciplinary art camps, as well as opportunities for our community including employment, mentoring, outreach, internships, and patronage. By creating the Jamestown Arts Center, we will enrich our essential self-worth individually and collectively for years to come.
Who We Serve
While we are committed to creating out-of-the-ordinary arts and design experiences for Jamestown and our surrounding communities, our center is open to all and enriched by participants from near and far. We hope the art and arts experiences created here will be an inspiration to people worldwide.
Community is the fabric of our being. The JAC exists because members of our community were inspired to create it. That spirit of collaboration and community ownership also sustains it. Everyone is invited to work, to create, to build and to invest here.