OUR HISTORY

The Creative Arts Center is a project of the Fannin Community Foundation, Inc., a public, non-profit 501(c)(3) charity dedicated to creating, implementing, and maintaining educational, social, cultural, and recreational programs based on traditional values, which benefit children, youth, adults, and senior citizens. With the support of individuals, local churches, civic organizations, and other community groups, the Fannin Community Foundation, Inc. provides innovative approaches to meet emerging needs in Fannin County.  The fifteen members of the Board of Directors all come from the Fannin County community and are dedicated to the missions of the foundation and it’s two facilities.

OUR FACILITY 

The Creative Arts Center occupies a remodeled 1946 building near historic downtown Bonham, donated to the Foundation by Texoma HealthCare Systems, Inc., of Denison. This major gift consisted of the 200 West Fifth Street building and property formerly occupied by the TexomaCare Clinic, made available after the clinic moved to its new Bonham facility on Highway 121. The decision to gift the Foundation with the property represents one of many steps in TexomaCare’s Community Outreach Programming, focused on thanking the communities in which it provides health care services. In 1946, the building housed the Medical and Surgical Clinic and Hospital. In 1961, Dr. Walter Sisk began his practice there, joined later by his son Dr. Dana Sisk. They operated the M & S clinic until in 1996, Texoma HealthCare System acquired the facility and its practice, as the TexomaCare Multi-Specialty Clinic.

Following a programming and use-specific design phase, the interior renovations began. Monetary assistance included a $100,000 matching grant and was enhanced by successful pre-opening fundraisers (from which all profits were doubled by the anonymous grant donor, who generously matched, dollar for dollar, all gifts raised by the Foundation up to $100,000 until June 30, 2002). The Creative Arts Center’s grand opening in April of 2002 was a highly anticipated, celebrated event and a critical success, exceeded only by its continued growth and popularity. This art gallery and teaching facility is dedicated to providing cultural exposure, art education and the spaces and events critical to an artist’s productivity, growth and public exposure needs.

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