The Arts Council of Sonoma County was a nonprofit founded in 1984 to represent the county’s art community. The organization managed the popular ARTrails program until October 2013 (see Art Trails). Unfortunately the Santa Rosa Press Democrat reported in October 2013 that the Arts Council had to shut down, in the middle of an Art Trails event: “The group that organizes the popular ARTrails program underway this weekend has run out of money and has laid off its four-person staff.”