Founded in 1973, Circum-Arts is a not-for-profit arts service organization providing administrative support to individual artists and other non-profits, particularly in the fields of dance, music, performance art, radio, theatre, film and video arts. Our work focuses on resource management, training, and hands-on approaches to management concerns. Circum-Arts also acts as a non-profit umbrella to artists, although its role extends far beyond the usual perceptions of an umbrella organization: it is deeply involved in development and management where a major focus is assisting emerging artists to become "self-managed." For those artists who are not quite ready, Circum-Arts fills the role of "company manager."

Circum-Arts is currently serving over 200 performing arts companies and individual artists. It represents artists in a variety of disciplines, from contemporary, traditional, and historic modern dance to experimental inter-media performance, and, most recently, classical music. These artists represent the very best in new and emerging talent that the performing arts' world has to offer.