“ART MATTERS… Art connects, enriches, engages, empowers, strengthens, heals, and shapes…individuals, a community, and human culture as a whole."

Flockworks has widened access and participation in community arts since 2006. We bring people together and help shape creative life in our coastal community – with exhibits, events, workshops, art & science, collaborative ventures with film, writers, dancers, and others, art in schools, and art out in the community. We are specialists in saying YES! guided by a spirit of Creative Abundance and belief in the Power of Arts.

Engaging children and youth has been a core thread from the beginning. In 2018, when Art for elementary children was cut from the Fort Bragg School District budget, Flockworks stepped up with our Art@Schools program focused on Dana Gray and Redwood School. Bridging the linguistic and cultural divide is a cornerstone for the role of our Bi-lingual School Resource Artist to add more support for our Latino/Hispanic (48%) students and their families. 

Against the challenges of Covid-19 in 2020, we sharpened our focus on the children in Fort Bragg.  We found creative ways to steadily be there for children – from at-home art support to the virtual classrooms. Now, we continue to deeply integrate arts into the daily flow of our schools. "I love Art" is something we regularly hear from children, families, and teachers.  It reflects the growing recognition of how the arts truly do matter – for socio-emotional balance, diversity of learning strategies, and creatively engaging the modern world.  

 Flockworks' focus, as we move forward, is on children and youth through new partnerships with Fort Bragg Unified School District on creative learning and Mendocino Coast Clinic on Youth Wellness.  

This means expanding our Art Integration in Schools and growing children’s creative learning opportunities beyond school hours. Two special programs that have been vital to children and families for over 20 years are now becoming part of Flockworks.

KUDOS after-school care has been serving over 200 children and their families each week.

ASSETS provides homework assistance and enrichment for all high school students - nearly half of which use the support each year. 

Flockworks is dedicated to the expansion of creative learning opportunities, for all 1700 children in the Fort Bragg Unified School District. With Mendocino Coast Clinic, we are also partnering in a new youth-focused wellness strategy to provide accessible health, and mental health support and widen opportunities for creative community engagement.  

In 2023-24, we launch a new organizational framework supporting three main goals: 

1) Collaborate with artists/organizations to expand creative engagement for youth   
2) Support creative learning in school
3) Expand community art opportunities

Flockworks Board Of Directors

Board Member, Maiah Caito - Elementary Teacher, Parent
Board Member: Leah Garratt, Retired School Administrator
Board Chair, Baqi Kopelman - Photographer, Marketing expert
Board Member: Stacy Pollina - Millen, Reproductive Health Program Manager,
​Mendocino Coast Clinics
Secretary, Beth Pine, Expanded Learning Specialist, MCOE
Treasurer: Sally Rodriguez, Artist, Art Educator

Executive Director
Ariana Bayer | [email protected]
(707) 813-4053

Administrative Coordinator 
Morgan Brewer | [email protected]
​(707) 813-4078

Flockworks Program Leaders

​​ASSETS High School Homework & Enrichment Program
Program Coordinator
Jennifer Raye | [email protected]


Art@Schools Creative Learning
Program Director
Joanna Wigginton | [email protected]

Kudos for Kids after school programs at Redwood,
Dana Gray and Fort Bragg Middle Schools
Director
Victoria Anaya Franco | [email protected]