California Arts Council

Don't miss this opportunity for relief funding. Apply by FRIDAY at 5pm! Here are some quick facts about this state grant opportunity: - Average application takes less than 30 minutes! - Only CA Relief Grant dedicated to Arts & Culture Nonprofits! - Only CA Relief Grant with NO REVENUE CAP! - No documentation needed to APPLY! If selected for document verification, you will have time to upload your documents (2019 990, etc.)... - Awards range between $5,000 - $25,000 (Repost from Californians for the Arts) See more

Don't miss this opportunity for relief funding. Apply by tomorrow at 5pm! Here are some quick facts about this state grant opportunity: - Average application takes less than 30 minutes! - Only CA Relief Grant dedicated to Arts & Culture Nonprofits! - Only CA Relief Grant with NO REVENUE CAP! - No documentation needed to APPLY! If selected for document verification, you will have time to upload your documents (2019 990, etc.)... - Awards range between $5,000 - $25,000 (Repost from Californians for the Arts) See more

DEADLINE EXTENDED! Apply for state relief grants by this Friday, March 26 at 5pm. Also, please note, the "organizing" and other verifying documents, such as Form 990s, are not required for the initial application! Don't miss your chance for this designated funding for nonprofit cultural institutions! https://careliefgrant.com/arts-and-culture/

Join our team! We're seeking a Procurement Administrator to handle our procurement and contracting processes. Apply by 4/5. https://arts.ca.gov/collective/procurement-administrator

In a conversation for our #CreativeUplift series, our Arts in Corrections staff, Coordinating Organizations, and past participants discuss the arts as a vehicle for growth, the pandemic's shift to prison arts programs, and art as a leader for change. #ArtsCA KALW TheatreWorkers Project CACorrections

On Monday, Nov. 2, the California Arts Council is transitioning to a new web design. During the changeover, www.arts.ca.gov may be temporarily unavailable. We appreciate your patience as we work to launch our new site!

OCT 29: Building Justice from the Source: Traditional Artists Respond this Moment. Join us for part 2 of this online panel series focusing on Race and (In)Justi...ce. This national panel moderated by Heather L. Hodges (Executive Director, Gullah/Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor) brings together a group of emerging, African American traditional artists and scholars from across the nation: Jake Blunt, Sara Makeba Daise, Marquise Knox and Latanya d. Tigner. They are all deeply rooted in traditional culture and drawing on that powerful wellspring to offer important, contemporary social critiques of race, racial injustice and notions of self-identity. Their work encourages us to shape new narratives around contemporary, cultural identities rooted in traditional ways of knowing, living and making art yet keenly responsive to our current moment. Register: https://actaonline.org//building-justice-from-the-source-/

Californians for the Arts is gathering information about the financial and human impacts of Covid-19 on California's creative individuals and organizations. View and complete the surveys for artists and arts businesses at https://www.californiansforthearts.org/

New for our Creative Uplift series: Inlandia Institute's Executive Director Cati Porter shares with us the organization’s path and process, from its humble beginnings as a book, to a brick-and-mortar, to its launch into virtual waters amid the pandemic with unexpected benefits along the journey.

The U.S. Census Bureau has announced they are ending the Census today, October 15! Time is running out... Get counted TODAY! https://census.ca.gov/

Art is part of the solution! Today it is our honor to announce the recipients of our Council's Innovations + Intersections pilot grant program, whose creative projects address urgent community needs across the technology and wellness sectors: http://arts.ca.gov/news/prdetail.php?id=322

ICYMI: The Arts & Culture Commission of Contra Costa County - AC5 recently held a virtual panel for its first ever Virtual Artist Cafe, featuring some of the teen artists in the exhibition representing 27 county high schools. Check out the Zoom conversation here:

Mark your calendars: California's arts grant season is on its way! This year, we're prioritizing funding to nurture and heal our communities through the arts; to keep the doors of our arts and cultural institutions open; to protect jobs in the creative field; and to preserve our cultural heritage, our stories, and our culture bearers. Get a sneak preview of our 2021 program offerings here - including NEW funding to support the creative practice of individual artists - and stay tuned for more details prior to our season launch, coming this November! http://arts.ca.gov/news/atcdetail.php?id=1435

This Indigenous Peoples' Day, and every day, we seek to honor and acknowledge the stewardship of the Native peoples of these lands. We offer gratitude for their past, present, and future leadership. Looking to learn more? Our colleagues at the CA Native American Heritage Commission created a new digital atlas, focusing on the history and cultural heritage of Native Americans in California and illustrating the impacts of colonization: http://nahc.ca.gov/cp/ Another tool to help start your acknowledgment of ancestral lands is the #HonorNativeLand Guide: www.usdac.us/nativeland. Acknowledgment is one way of showing respect and a step toward correcting the stories and practices that erase Indigenous people’s history and culture and toward inviting and honoring the truth.

NEXT WEEK: The Native Arts & Cultures Foundation is celebrating the experiences of Black-Indigenous/Afro-Indigenous people with a webinar, The Black-Indigenous/Afro-Indigenous Experience, as part of their Black Lives Matter webinar series. They will be examining the relationships between black and Native cultural identities, notions of community recognition, artistic practice and activism.