The mission of the Arts Council of Central Louisiana is to enhance the quality of life in our communities by promoting, developing, and encouraging the arts in Central Louisiana. The Arts Council of Central Louisiana is a solid, supportive community arts agency guided by a dedicated board of directors and a qualified professional staff working to help the community to understand the value of the arts both for their intrinsic worth and for what they can do to improve the quality of life for its citizens. The Arts Council of Central Louisiana is committed to evoking broad support for the arts and producing tangible community benefits through a dual commitment to quality art and quality community life. To ignore community interests and needs is to isolate the arts into ever more marginalized comers of society. To compromise artistic quality is to diminish the very power that enables the arts to make a difference.