Los Cenzontles Mexican Arts Center

The Mission of Los Cenzontles Mexican Arts Center is to provide a quality education in Mexican art forms to the general public with an emphasis on youth; to promote and present unique and culturally valuable arts and artists in Mexican genres; to sponsor cultural exchanges between the U.S. and Mexico with an emphasis on youth; and to develop community awareness and responsibility through the arts.

Los Cenzontles in one of very few arts organization that is run by the community it serves. Most of LCMAC staff and faculty are young adults are from the neighborhood and grew up in the program. We strongly believe that lasting community transformation must come from within. We are also proud that our faculty has long histories with the organization. Our master artists are among the finest of practitioners of their traditions.

Los Cenzontles Mexican Arts Center is a 501(c)(3) non-profit with funding from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the James Irvine Foundation, the Columbia Foundation, the Levi Strauss Foundation, California Arts Council, National Endowment for the Arts, the Northern California Community Loan Fund, the May and Stanley Smith Foundation, the Walter and Elise Haas Fund, Dean and Margaret Lesher Foundation, the Nelson Fund of the Silicon Valley Community Foundation, the Marin Community Foundation, the San Francisco Foundation, the Gould Family Fund, JP Morgan Chase, Cisco Systems, the Alliance for California Traditional Arts, the California Traditional Arts Advancement Program, the Fund for Folk Culture, the Kaiser Permanente Foundation, the LEF Foundation the Mechanics Bank.