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Building a Place Where Art Brings Us Together

A montage of four photographs around the GivingTuesday logo and the date December 1, 2026: a mother with two children, a group of adults holding the watercolours they painted, two girls laughing over their work, and an adult painting class with an instructor demonstrating

In the Community

November 12, 2026

GivingTuesday is a global day. Your gift stays right here.

On December 1, millions of people will give to a cause in their own community. Ours is this one — and board matching funds double what you give.

On warm cream paper: the words Your impact, did you know, above the headline Because of you, The Meyer is grateful. Mounted beside it like a framed print, a photograph of a teaching artist and a young student painting a mural together.

In the Community

Nov 10

Because of you, The Meyer is grateful.

A third-grader in a camouflage cap paints a red and blue animal in watercolour at his classroom desk, with two other students working behind him. On the left, the Afternoon of the Arts logo sits above the words “in partnership with” and the Stanwood-Camano School District logo.

Afternoon of the Arts

Nov 7

A Science Unit You Can Hang From the Ceiling

A rendering of The Meyer Art Center seen straight on: a long building in weathered vertical wood siding with black steel windows, a mural at one end and a brick plaza in front. Below it reads: capital campaign, November 2026 — The Meyer is at the permit stage. You put it there. A five phase rail runs beneath: Initiate Fundraising, Permit Stage marked we are here, Deconstruction and Site Prep, Break Ground and New Construction, and Complete and Open the Doors.

In the Community

Nov 6

The Meyer is at the permit stage. You put it there.

Step by step, the number moves. $7.4 million raised toward a $13 million building, 57% funded. A five phase rail runs beneath: Initiate Fundraising complete, Permit Stage marked we are here, then Deconstruction and Site Prep, Break Ground and New Construction, and Complete and Open the Doors. Alongside, a photograph of someone on a ladder fixing new vinyl numbers to the campaign thermometer on the side of the building.

In the Community

Nov 4

Step by Step: The Number on the Wall Is Now $7.4 Million

White vendor tents lining the brick street in downtown Stanwood at the Meyer Art Festival, with visitors walking between booths, the Meyer Art Center's own tent at the far end, and blue sky above the 1896 building

In the Community

Nov 2

Meyer Art Festival 2026: All Was Right on the Brick Road

Year-End Campaign 2026 · Now through December 31

Before the Doors Open

Help us take the next step for art in Stanwood and Camano — and keep art in front of every student in our school district.

$100,000

goal

$25,000+

board match

Holiday Open House and Student Art Show, Wednesday December 16, 2026, 5:00 to 8:00 PM, free

Dec 1

Giving Tuesday

Dec 16

Holiday Open House & Student Art Show

Dec 31

Year-End Gift

Stanwood, WA

Art. Community. Connection.

We partner, educate, celebrate, and advocate for the arts - from youth classes to the Meyer Art Festival and beyond.

Campaign Process

$7.3M raised toward a $13M goal

56% funded

Phase One

Initiate Fundraising

Phase Two

Permit Stage

Phase Three
Up Next

Deconstruction & Site Prep

Phase Four

Break Ground & New Construction

Final Phase

Complete & Open the Doors

Building a Place Where Art Brings Us Together

The Meyer Art Center’s mission is to build community by partnering, educating, celebrating, and advocating for the arts.

The Ask

From Blueprint to Bricks

We have raised $7.3 million of the $13 million it takes to build the Meyer Art Center. Here is what the rest of it builds — and what is already happening while we get there.

Community Artist Hub at Meyer Art Center

Galleries & Artist Hub

A home for local artists

Two galleries and a gallery store, so artists from Stanwood and Camano have somewhere to show their work, sell it, and teach the next person who wants to try.

Creativity at Meyer Art Center

Classes for Every Age

Rooms built for messy work

Three classrooms made for clay, paint and print — so classes run after school for kids and in the evening for adults, instead of whenever a borrowed room happens to be free.

Learning at Meyer Art Center

Digital Media

L'Atelier digital studio

A studio for film, photography and design, so a teenager here can learn the tools a creative career actually runs on, on real equipment, close to home.

Community Connections at Meyer Art Center

Afternoon of the Arts

Art in the schools, already

Our teaching artists are already in the schools of the Stanwood-Camano district — Utsalady Elementary this fall, homeschool families at Saratoga, and three more elementary schools in the spring — growing toward every school, preschool through the transition program for ages 18–22. That part is not waiting for a building.

What's Happening Near You

Don’t miss out! Browse upcoming community events, classes, and more!

November 15, 2026

Puget Sound Group Northwest Artists - The Great Northwest Art Exhibition

Rexville Grange Art Show 2026 Holiday Show banner: a moonlit coastal painting on the left, a bald eagle crossing a full moon on the right, and the show title in red script, on a slate blue ground.

November 22, 2026

Rexville Grange Art Show 2026

Art Hop banner: the Art Hop wordmark over a stylised sunrise and blue water, with December 4 and 5, 2026, 10am to 4pm, Camano Island, WA.

December 5, 2026

Camano Art Hop 2026

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