"To utilize the arts in order to support a healthy
Missoula society."
- Zootown Community Arts Center Mission Statement

In order to complete this mission, Zootown Community Arts Center seeks to provide a healthy environment for all ages in the community to experience art together. In the modern world, families are becoming more socially disjointed and physically separated by location. We seek to build a bond between generations and community by exploring the interconnectedness of all the arts. The plan is to provide a space in which local artisans can collaborate, teach, create, play, and learn skills together while building these bonds and connections with one another. As a result, the center will provide an alternative networking platform for artists, families, and educators in all fields to enrich the opportunities available to the growing city of Missoula.

The following are the main goals for the development of the Center:

To provide a space which acts as a nucleus facility in which currently fragmented or just starting out art programs can communicate, network, and collaborate

Providing a space for education dealing with art selling/making/teaching for adult artists

Providing studios that may be rented for temporary or permanent usage to teach, work, experience, and perform in a comfortable community environment

Offer a resident program for artists in Missoula that is not academia born

Offer facilities for community or individual use to rent including a digital and formal dark room, art library, kilns and fine art work areas, music recording equipment, all access gardens, and a coffee hut and social area/gallery