NAMAC’s mission is to strengthen media arts organizations as an integral part of the community; facilitate the support of independent media artists from all cultural communities and regions; integrate media into all levels of education and advocate for media literacy as an educational goal; promote humane uses of and individual access to current and future media technologies; and encourage media arts that are rooted in communities, as well as those that are global in outlook.
NAMAC's 350+ members form a profile of today’s media arts fields. From storefront art spaces to major museums, our membership reflects America's ethnic and geographic diversity. The roster includes – but is not limited to – media arts and technology centers, artist cooperatives, university-based programs, exhibitors and distributors, film archives, multimedia developers and community access TV stations. Many of our organizational members serve culturally specific, youth, senior and disabled communities. Although the public may not be aware of it, much of the media they see on public television, in schools, churches or other community centers was supported by NAMAC's member organizations, whose combined membership numbers over 400,000 media artists, independent producers and other media professionals.