Rick Epting Foundation

Upcoming Events:

8/15/26 – 6-8pm, The Walrus at The Heart of Anacortes
8/22/26 – 6-8pm, The Savage Blues Band at The Heart of Anacortes
8/29/26 – 5-8pm, REFA 20th Anniversary Fund Raiser Party featuring The Enthusiats at The Heart of Anacortes
9/5/26 – 6-8pm, Mama Dirty Skirt at The Heart of Anacortes

Click ABOVE to view this Summer LIVE MUSIC schedule
Grant - YMCA Art Camp, CLICK for more info
2025 Sedro Woolley School Grant to music/arts program, CLICK for more info
Grants - Mount Vernon Illuminate Walk, CLICK for more info
Grants - Salish Sea School, CLICK for more info
Grants - Riverwalk Concert Series, CLICK for more info
Tom Robbins bobble head doll donated to the Skagit County Historical Museum
Grant to Anacortes School music program, CLICK for more info
Grants - Skagit Community Band, CLICK for more info
Grants - Anacortes Family Center 2025, CLICK for more info
Grants Anacortes Procession of the Species, CLICK for more info
Geoffrey Castle's Celtic Christmas fundraiser, CLICK for more info

THANKS to community supporters our grant program has provided over $100,000 in grants to local artists, art and music events, and arts organizations over the last 20 years and we’ve given scholarships to local high school students who are in collegate arts programs.

Please check out our Helping The Arts page to see what grants we’ve provided and the Events page to view past events.

In 2006, friends of the late Rick Epting formed the Rick Epting Foundation for the Arts and continued his legacy of supporting the Arts in Skagit County with a showcase of local talent and humor. Our mission is to help raise money that is needed for Organizations, Scholarships, and other non-profit groups, to promote and encourage live performance shows and to provide ongoing support for local artists in the community.

Rick Epting was one of the founding members of both the Lincoln Theatre Center Foundation, the Skagit Performing Arts Council (SPAC), and appointed by the Governor to serve on the Washington State Arts Commission. He was also instrumental in the restoration campaign for the Lincoln Theatre and the planning and organization for McIntyre Hall in Mount Vernon. Rick was a proud supporter of Arts groups and organizations in Skagit County until his untimely death in August 2005.