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California Institute of the Arts

Community Arts Partnership (CAP)

A group of three high school students look at a small camera screen while adjusting a microphone.

The award-winning CalArts Community Arts Partnership (CAP), a co-curricular program of CalArts, offers free after-school and school-based arts programs for youth 4-18 in every discipline taught at the Institute.

Opportunities for teaching artists

Our mission

Since 1990, the CalArts Community Arts Partnership’s (CAP) mission has been to serve as the bridge between the California Institute of the Arts and the diverse communities of Los Angeles County. CAP works to address the systemic and structural race and income-based opportunity gap in access to arts education for youth across LA County. Through its programs CAP provides innovative arts learning opportunities for CalArts students and alumni to have the opportunity to develop and refine their arts teaching skills and solidify the integral role of artists in education and society. CAP is dedicated to being an inclusive and transformative leader in arts education.

Vision statement

CAP is committed to providing responsive, authentic, and collaborative community partnerships through tuition-free, after-school, summer, and school-based arts programs for youth in LA County. CAP will champion and foster the professional growth of CalArts students and alumni through rigorous, high-quality, and relevant professional arts learning, career preparation, and real-world engagement in classrooms and communities.

Donors

The CalArts Community Arts Partnership (CAP) expresses sincere gratitude to the following donors whose generous support has made CAP’s success possible.

  • Ambassador Frank and Kathy Baxter
  • Anahita and James B. Lovelace
  • California Arts Council
  • City of Los Angeles, Department of Cultural Affairs
  • Clarence E. Heller Charitable Foundation
  • Doreen and Richard Barsky
  • Eileen Harris Norton
  • Exploring the Arts, Inc.
  • Judy and Craig Schulz
  • Los Angeles Found for Public Education
  • Mark Chung (MFA 96)
  • Maureen Furniss
  • National Endowment for the Arts
  • Peggy Funkhouser
  • Roy and Patricia Disney Family Foundation
  • Sony Pictures Entertainment
  • Susan Disney Lord and Scott Lord
  • The Angell Foundation
  • The Capital Group Companies Charitable Foundation
  • The Eisner Foundation
  • The Getty Foundation
  • The Herb Alpert Foundation
  • The JL Foundation
  • The Louis L. Borick Foundation
  • The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation
  • The Walt Disney Company
  • Virginia and Austin Beutner
  • Walter E. D. Miller