The Community School of Music and Arts (CSMA) was founded in Mountain View, California, in 1968.
The school is now the largest non-profit provider of art and music education programs in both Santa Clara and San Mateo Counties.
Headquartered in the Finn Center in the City of Mountain View, CSMA directly serves over 22,000 people of all ages, skill levels and economic means each year, including over 16,000 students at 40+ schools in San Mateo and Santa Clara Counties.
CSMA is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization,[1] and is a member of the National Guild for Community Arts Education.
Opened in January 2004, it is an $11.7 million, 25,000-square-foot (2,300 m2) building housing 17 music studios, classrooms, a ceramics studio, a digital arts lab, a teacher resource center, a recital hall, the 200-seat Tateuchi Hall for concerts, and exhibition space in Mohr Gallery.