Fort Point Arts Community Inc

The Fort Point Arts Community, Inc. of South Boston (FPAC) is a non-profit community organization founded in 1980 and run by neighborhood artists and volunteers. Our mission is to enrich the Fort Point area with a resident live/work artist population that contributes to the district’s and the City of Boston’s cultural life. Accomplishments include:

• Organizing Fort Point Open Studios weekend, now in its 28th year, which draws an estimated 8,000 to 10,000 visitors each October.
• For more than 20 years, negotiating affordable leases with landlords.
• Operating the FPAC Gallery at 300 Summer Street.
• Publishing Artpoint, a quarterly newsletter featuring neighborhood news and artist spotlights.
• Maintaining a website with information about events and members.
• Providing and administering a yahoo e-group.
• Developing 249 A Street Artists Cooperative and The Artist Building at 300 Summer Street, two limited equity artists cooperatives that provide live/work space for 90 artist households.

Gabrielle Shaffner of the FPAC is on the Friends of Fort Point Channel Program Committee and is actively involved in the support, planning and promotion of the historic Fort Point district and its neighborhoods.