Shemer Art Center and Museum in Phoenix, Arizona, is an art education facility and gallery founded in 1984 by Martha Shemer. She bought a mission-style house and three acres to preserve the property and donate it to the City of Phoenix for arts education. Its identity rests on combining exhibition space with a broader educational mission in a preserved historic house. In 2010, budget pressures nearly forced its closure, but local citizens formed the Shemer Art Center and Museum Association to help manage and protect it. It continues as both a civic cultural institution and historic property, recognized as one of the Phoenix Points of Pride.