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About us

What we do

The Canal Arts is a nonprofit coalition of fourteen Marin County educational, social, community service, arts and business organizations* supporting the creation of lively public art that sends a positive spiritual message, inspiring and inviting imagination in the crowded, long underserved, largely Latinx, immigrant-rich Canal community in San Rafael, the community that does so much for all, yet is unknown and invisible to so many.

The power of art is that it talks to you. It is a language.

Rich Storek

Founder, The Canal Arts

Kathleen Edwards, artist

Our Partners


  • Art Works Downtown
  • Canal Alliance        
  • Dominican University of California   
  • East San Rafael Working Group
  • Marin Museum of Contemporary Art
  • Marin Open Studios
  • Marin School for Environmental Leadership
  • Marin Society of Artists
  • Multicultural Center of Marin
  • Parent Services Project
  • San Rafael Chamber of Commerce                              
  • Storek Studio/Architecture           
  • Team Works Art
  • Voces del Canal