The Sunshine Coast Arts Council is a volunteer-based society founded February 22, 1966 to raise to profile of local artists and artisans and to broaden the opportunities for Sunshine Coast citizens to enjoy and to participate in cultural activities. The SC Arts Council maintains the Sunshine Coast Arts Centre located at Trail & Medusa in Sechelt, British Columbia.

For thousands of years the shíshálh and Sḵwx̱wú7mesh people have stewarded this land, their own (unceded) traditional territory. The SCAC is grateful to gather on these lands and waters, and we work from a place of respect and responsibility to this gift.