Arts Council Silicon Valley

As a grant agency, the ACSV provided funding and fundraising support services to more than 140 local arts organizations and individual artists.

Arts Council member J. Michael Bewley was “The Umpire” that refereed the sometimes tumultuous discussions around funding, growth, and downtown investment.

Afterwards, Tunstall Grant stated with some resignation: “We decided the big organizations need to go first,” referring to acquiring major funding for the museum, opera, and all.

[4] In 1990, Tunstall Grant served as a facilitator for a Multicultural Center panel, Santa Clara County Arts Council Symposium “Challenges, Choices & Solutions: A Vision for American Art in the 1990s.”[5] In the new millennium, Silicon Valley's cultural ecology changed rapidly with emigrants from India, Taiwan, Vietnam, and Mexico.

New systemic disparities in formal education and income levels increasingly presented opportunities and challenges in social, economic, technological, and government realms.