Phipps Center for the Arts, The

About Us

The Phipps has celebrated the creative spirit since 1983 by offering exciting theater, dance, and concert performances, engaging gallery exhibitions, and inspiring instruction in the performing and visual arts.Discover the distinctive energy that makes the Phipps a regional treasure in the St. Croix Valley. The spirited blend of performances, exhibitions, and classes ensures an accessible artistic experience for everyone. The Phipps welcomes you to explore the arts.

Its programs and offerings are held to the expectations set forth in its mission and vision statements as well as its statement of inclusion:

Vision
Bringing Arts to Life.

Mission
The Phipps Center for the Arts, propelled by our community-based Arts Council, serves as a welcoming and open home for the St. Croix River Valley region and beyond to empower and cultivate lifelong artistic expression, participation, and appreciation.

Statement of Inclusion
The Phipps Center embraces equity, diversity, and inclusion as core beliefs and values. We strive to create and foster an environment of respect, where everyone’s creative spirit is supported and celebrated, no matter their race, ethnicity, creed, color, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, socio-economic status, religion, age, gender, or gender identity.

We, at the Phipps, will endeavor to maintain an equitable, diverse, inclusive, and accessible organization by actively addressing barriers, exclusions, and biases. We will honor differences to make the Phipps a place in which each unique person can collaborate, create, and celebrate with others.