Welcome to Hutchinson Center for the Arts website!

The mission and purpose of the Hutchinson Center For The Arts (The Center or HCA) is:

To coordinate activities of arts organizations in the Hutchinson area and encourage cooperation and collaboration, improvement of programming and improvement of artistic excellence.
To supplement activities of existing arts organizations, incubate new activities, and encourage a greater arts presence and awareness of quality arts in the Hutchinson region.
To educate the public to the importance of the arts, arts education, and the impact of the arts on community life and the economy.
To increase participation in quality arts activities.
To encourage working artists to locate in Hutchinson.
To develop a supportive arts environment to secure for the Hutchinson area the economic and social advantages inherent in such an environment.
Encourage diversity in the arts and provide better experiences for the underprivileged and underserved.
To provide children with quality arts opportunities and experiences they currently can’t get through the educational system.

. The Hutchinson Center for the Arts was first conceived in 2006 as a way to assist the existing arts organizations in Hutchinson and the surrounding area, by having an organization that can:

‘bring the various arts organizations in the Hutchinson area together, to share resources, lower operating costs, increase audiences and programming and secure greater resources than each can alone’…

while maintaining their general operating and financial autonomy. It will be an umbrella organization which can help the partnering members in management, promotion and advertising, audience and volunteer development and develop collaboration and coordination among these organizations. For those without 501.c.3 status, the Center for the Arts will provide fiscal agency.

Our immediate goal, beside developing our structure, policies and programs, is to secure a home for the Arts in Hutchinson.

This activity is made possible in part by a grant provided by the Southwest
Minnesota Arts and Humanities Council (SMAHC), and is funded, in part, by the Minnesota Arts and Cultural
Heritage Fund as appropriated by the Minnesota State Legislature with money
from the vote of the people of Minnesota on November 4, 2008.