To provide a home for the surrounding community to engage with the arts.
core values and hisory
Our Values Statement
Windmore Foundation for the Arts is organized around 5 Core Values that drive our decision-making and the direction of our programs. This ensures accountability and transparency to our sponsors, donors, and members.
Creativity - We believe that creativity is the spark of all artistic expression
Accessibility - We have an obligation to provide access to the arts for the entire community
Education - Cultivating skills in the arts provides the foundation for social and intellectual growth
Diversity - Whether you are actively participating as an artist or as a patron, the arts engage the body and mind
Participation - The best expressions of art come from a multitude of experiences and backgrounds. Windmore embraces Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Access {IDEA}
Our History
Windmore Foundation for the Arts, Inc. was founded in the spring of 1984 under the working title of Culpeper Center for the Visual and Performing Arts. The name “Windmore” was chosen to honor the dairy farm that once operated at the site of Windmore’s amphitheater.
Windmore was created to promote the arts in the Northern Piedmont area, serving the counties of Culpeper, Fauquier, Rappahannock, Orange, and Madison. Since its inception, Windmore has supported, presented, and provided education in many of the fine arts disciplines: theatre, music, dance, literature, visual arts, and arts education.
Windmore continues to focus on maintaining the diversity of the arts represented and increasing the participation of people from all ethnic and economic backgrounds.
Painting of the Windmore Farm Barn by Mille Lane is from the collection Mike Markley.
