Crocker Art Museum is the only accredited visual arts museum in the greater Sacramento metropolitan area which has 2.4 million residents and welcomes more than 4 million annual visitors. The Museum served 250,000 people annually (pre-pandemic) and in FY2025 is projected to serve 200,000 visitors with an array of temporary permanent collection and travelling special exhibitions (9-12 each year), and educational programs for all age that feature and highlight the Museum’s 30,0000+ objects in its permanent collection. The Crocker houses a premier collection of California art (Gold Rush to today), an important collection of Master drawings, European paintings, a renowned international ceramics collection, and collections of Asian, African, and Oceanic art. Robust exhibition-related programming serves as a crucial source of arts exposure and engagement for the community including for thousands of students. Core education programs include docent-led tours; film; talks by curators, artists and experts; jazz, Classical and contemporary music series; and a monthly art extravaganza, ArtMix. Educational programs provide in and out-of-school arts engagement and instruction for K-12 public, private, and homeschool audiences (students, teachers, parents) and school district staff throughout the state, with a focus on schools and districts within a 60-mile radius of the Museum. School and teacher programs provide ongoing professional development for teachers, district officials, and parents. Core programs also include those at the intersection of art and wellness; programs for youth of all ages; a robust Studio Program that contracts with dozens of regional artists to teach art instruction courses; and the Art Ark, the Museum’s mobile museum that travels to numerous schools throughout the Sacramento region each year.