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We act as an advocate for the arts, serve the public by providing services and resources for artists and arts organizations, and ecourage collaboration among the arts, business, and civic organizations.

Welcome to the Community Arts Partnership (CAP), the arts council for Tompkins County.

CAP was founded in 1990 in response to a community-wide desire to strengthen and develop the County's arts and cultural community. Many sectors came together to engage in a community cultural assessment that would describe how a new arts council would assist and support the arts. After an exhaustive, inclusive 18-month study, CAP was launched as a not-for-profit agency that would serve the public by providing services to the arts in the County.

CAP receives annual programming and operational support from the New York State Council on the Arts and from the Tompkins County Tourism Program.