Preserving Northwest Indiana's Top Arts Destination
About Friends of the Munster CVPA
Our Mission
To keep the Center for Visual and Performing Arts open and serving as the Northwest Indiana region’s premier arts and events destination.
About the CVPA
The CVPA is Northwest Indiana’s number one arts center and serves at the vibrant home to the area’s most vital cultural assets: the South Shore Arts Gallery, Theatre at the Center, the Northwest Indiana Symphony and Trama Catering and Events. Each year, these thriving organizations provide 40,000 Region and South Suburbs residents with equity-class theater, a professional art gallery, special events space, Sunday brunches and educational opportunities in classical music, arts, and theater.
An Institution at Risk
After 35 years of forwarding Community Hospital founder Don Power’s mission to transform Northwest Indiana through the arts, the CVPA is now up for sale. Without urgent community intervention, this thriving arts and events hub will vanish forever. Here are just some of the many impacts of that loss:
- NWIs largest cultural arts organizations will be homeless.
- The town of Munster will lose its largest professional celebration space for weddings, reunions, and other major events.
- Region students will no longer have access to the Center’s many arts, music, and theater classes, camps, and internships: all taught by working creative professionals.
- Businesses in Munster, Highland, Lansing, Dyer, and more will lose the 6:1 revenue injection each dollar spent on the arts at the Center delivers to the local economy.
How We Can Save the CVPA?
Our group of volunteers are coordinating a new public-private partnership that will not only keep the CVPA open but allow the Center to greatly expand its programming and reach. This includes securing the funding to make the Center both self-sustaining and revenue-generating for the Town of Munster and surrounding communities.
How You Can Help
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2.) Click here to donate.
Our Story in Pictures: Friends of the Munster CVPA
