“Develop and promote the visual arts to enhance the quality of life in our community.”

“Educate, engage and enrich our community through visual arts.”

Arts Visalia is a nonprofit visual art center located in historic downtown Visalia, California. Free monthly art exhibitions featuring local, national, and internationally recognized artists, a marketplace filled with handmade gifts and art classes for children and teens, plus adult workshops that inspire creativity throughout the year.

Funding for programs at Arts Visalia comes from a combination of grants, community partnerships, special requests, donations, and scholarship donations.

Equity Statement:

“Arts Visalia’s equity goal is to establish a safe place in which everyone in our community can take part in the visual arts experience.  We intend to pursue this goal by prioritizing our focus on how Arts Visalia can more clearly become a space where each person in our community is able to pursue the enjoyment of art, artists and education in the visual arts that our gallery can provide. By doing this, we believe we can foster fairness and equity that can break down traditional barriers which hold back some segments of our population.”

Arts Visalia is committed to racial equity in both our work environment and our art classes, exhibits and special programs.

• We are committed to ensuring that every policy and procedure that we embrace considers the democratic principles of equity and justice.
• We understand that to do this we must consider the issues of implicit bias and discrimination which can hamper those principles.
• We believe that bringing together Arts Visalia staff, board members and community representatives/partners with differing backgrounds and life experiences will enhance our ability to increase opportunities for all those in the community that want to participate in some way in the visual arts.
• All of Arts Visalia’s classes, exhibitions and special programs will be developed with the intent to identify and avoid discrimination and barriers to access, and to avoid disproportionately high and adverse effects on communities of color.
• Arts Visalia is committed to the ongoing evaluation of the impact of our policies on our community and using this evaluation in the development of new policies.  We are committed to ensuring all populations have equal access to our programs.“

Winner: 2025 Tulare Kings Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Small Non-Profit of the Year

Having the support of the Hispanic Chamber has allowed Arts Visalia to reach diverse sectors of our community to spread the word on how the visual arts can enhance quality of life.