Who We Are
Focus on the Masters (FOTM) is a nonprofit arts education and appreciation program that documents, preserves and presents the works and lives of accomplished contemporary artists. We emphasize the importance of the arts to a healthy society.
The FOTM archives includes oral histories, videotaped interviews, photographic portraits and examples of artists’ work. All FOTM community outreach projects, including our cross-curricular in-school program Learning To See, are built upon the research and documentation collected in the FOTM archive. Archival documentation, consisting of visual, written and recorded oral histories, is at the heart of the FOTM mission. The Focus mission is to demonstrate the full significance of the arts to society by bringing highly accomplished and diverse artists to the forefront of the community.
What We Do
We do a range of activities that we can match with our volunteers' skills sets, including: inventory of craft supplies, prepping materials for teaching and events, photographing artwork, preparing mailings, preparing for galleries and events, digitizing physical items for the archives, and more.
