Our Mission
To inspire and engage artistic creativity for all ages and abilities and to celebrate and strengthen the essential role of visual art in community life.

About Main Line Art Center
Since 1937, Main Line Art Center has enriched the lives of artists of all ages, levels and abilities, as well as art appreciators, by offering high quality visual arts experiences through classes led by professional Teaching Artists, exhibition opportunities, artistic development and networking opportunities.

Main Line Art Center still operates with the mission originally set forth by the passionate group of artists who founded our community’s home for creativity 75 years ago. We are guided by our core values: respect for individual creativity; a belief that everyone has the ability to learn and appreciate art; the belief that art is essential for balance and enrichment; and that that art is a catalyst for building community.

The vision of Main Line Art Center is to maintain and further enhance its unique culture of creativity in the visual arts. The art program at Main Line Art Center explores traditional art forms while embracing innovative, forward-thinking, and contemporary ideas. Our strength lies in welcoming new techniques and new teaching methods that encourage people at all levels of ability in the community to create and appreciate art. Classes and workshops are offered year-round in areas such as painting, drawing, sculpture, ceramics, photography, jewelry making, and printmaking. The Art Center offers up to ten annual exhibitions, including stretch and community exhibitions and seasonal fine crafts shows, that feature the work of established and emerging artists, many of whom are Members, faculty, and students.

Art for Everyone
We are committed to making art accessible to everyone and accomplish this by offering art programs for individuals of all ages and abilities, including a unique series of outreach programs for children and adults with developmental and physical disabilities, and by offering $12,000 in need-based scholarships from a restricted endowment to our students each year. More than 16,000 individuals, ages two to senior citizens, participated in our programs last year – either as artists, students, or enthusiastic viewers.

Inclusion Statement
Main Line Art Center is committed to a continuum of accessible education programs by providing reasonable and appropriate accommodations in a supportive environment that promotes and fosters inclusion of people of all ages, abilities, and skill levels. If you believe that you will require any accommodations to enable you to participate meaningfully in our programs, please contact the staff before you enroll, but ideally at least two weeks prior to the start of a program.