The Music Stand was founded from a vision to create meaningful, transformative experiences through music and the arts. As Founder and Executive Creative Director, Hope N. Jones leads the organization with a focus on creative development, artist relations, and community-centered programming.
With a background in hospitality and creative design, Hope brings a unique approach to building environments where artists and audiences feel welcomed, inspired, and supported. Her work centers on cultivating partnerships, developing programs, and curating experiences that elevate both emerging and professional artists. She is also a writer of inspirational publications, and her broader creative work explores innovative approaches across disciplines.
A haven for creativity, culture, and community.
For more than a decade, The Music Stand has enriched and uplifted lives through innovative, arts-integrated experiences, education, and support for professional and young artists.
Now, a longtime vision is taking shape in a new way: The Music Stand has a home.
The Music Stand ARTSHOUSE is a place where artists and community can come together to create, learn, perform, discover, connect, and experience the arts.
Within its walls, we envision performances and masterclasses, dance and movement, cultural discovery, creative arts education, rehearsals and workshops, opportunities for young artists, artist support, community gatherings, and room for new ideas to grow.
But a space alone does not create a community. People do.
We invite you to become a Vision Partner and help bring The Music Stand ARTSHOUSE to life.
Vision Partners are individuals, families, businesses, foundations, and organizations who believe in the mission of The Music Stand and choose to invest their time, talent, resources, influence, or financial support to help bring that vision to life.
Every gift helps create the capacity for artists to share their gifts, young artists to learn and grow, audiences to experience meaningful work, and people throughout our community to encounter creativity, culture, and one another.
Whether you plant a seed or make a transformational investment, you become part of the story of what is being built here.
Your Gift Helps Build the Vision
$25 — Plant a Seed
Helps provide supplies and resources that bring creative experiences to life.
$50 — Open the Door
Helps make The Music Stand ARTSHOUSE welcoming and ready for artists and community.
$100 — Create an Opportunity
Helps support artist-led classes, rehearsals, workshops, and creative experiences.
$250 — Invest in an Artist
Helps provide compensation and resources for professional artists sharing their gifts through The Music Stand.
$500 — Build the Experience
Helps bring performances, masterclasses, cultural programs, arts education, and community experiences to The Music Stand ARTSHOUSE.
$1,000 — Strengthen the House
Makes a significant investment in activating and sustaining The Music Stand ARTSHOUSE as a home for creativity, culture, and community.
$2,500+ — Champion the Vision
Helps build the long-term capacity of The Music Stand ARTSHOUSE and expand opportunities for artists and the community.
A Vision Partner is not defined by the size of a gift.
Every contribution represents someone who believes that the arts matter, artists matter, community matters, and spaces where people can experience all three are worth building.
Become a Vision Partner and help bring The Music Stand ARTSHOUSE to life.
The journey continues.
The Music Stand enriches and uplifts lives through innovative, arts-integrated experiences, education, and support for professional and young artists.
As The Music Stand establishes its new home, our immediate priority is creating the foundation for The Music Stand ARTSHOUSE to grow into a vibrant, active resource for artists and the community.
Support at this stage will help us equip and prepare the space, engage and compensate artists, develop and present programming, provide creative resources, welcome participants and audiences, and build the organizational capacity necessary for this next chapter.
Our $10,000 North Texas Giving Day goal represents an investment in possibility—helping us move from having a place to building what can happen within it.
We are seeking partners who believe in the value of the arts and understand what can happen when artists have opportunities to create and share their work, young artists have room to discover and develop their gifts, and communities have places designed to bring people together through meaningful arts experiences.
Every contribution helps strengthen that foundation and moves The Music Stand ARTSHOUSE forward from vision to impact.
The Music Stand was founded with the heart to reach all ages, races, cultures, and backgrounds through the arts and personal development. We believe music is a universal language that crosses cultures and generations and the arts has the power to unite and heal hearts. We are committed to providing uplifting programs, beneficial services, and opportunities to people from all walks of life. We find creative ways to bring our programs to communities. We will remain dedicated to enriching the lives of the people we serve.
Organization name
The Music Stand
Tax id (EIN)
46-4137592
Causes
Arts & Humanities
Operating Budget
Less than $100,000
Counties Served
Grayson, Wise, Tarrant, Somervell, Rockwall, Parker, Palo Pinto, Navarro, Montague, Kaufman, Johnson, Hunt, Hood, Fannin, Erath, Ellis, Denton, Dallas, Cooke, Collin
BIPOC Serving
Other, Native American, Hispanic or Latinx, Asian/Pacific Islander, Black or African American
BIPOC Leadership
Executive Director/CEO
Address
PO Box 170984