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The Alliance of California Traditional Artists (ACTA), a national leader in the folk and traditional arts field, is seeking its first full-time development manager.
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Click the video to learn how ACTA impacts traditional artists up and down CA.
For more than 20 years, ACTA has invested in making California a home to everyone—a home that respects cultural diversity... |
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Join us in kicking off this season of our Traditional Arts Roundtable Series (TARS) in Los Angeles! Meet with traditional and community-based artists and supporters to share practices of... |
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On October 4, 2018, ACTA had the honor of recognizing one of Native California’s most prolific and beloved artists: Brian D. Tripp (Karuk). Brian is a visual artist, a poet, a ceremonial singer and... |
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Professor, activist, and community leader, Dr. Dawn Mabalon, passed away unexpectedly earlier this month, just shy of her 47th birthday. As a historian and co-founder of the Little Manila Foundation... |
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Not often does a small organization try to recruit three new staff members simultaneously, but we did it well, and were encouraged and inspired by the process of interviewing so many impressive... |
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by Lily Kharrazi, former Senior Program Manager
On June 24, ACTA grantees, Bay Area artists and colleagues, community members, staff and board gave Lily a farewell reception at BrasArte Cultural Center in Berkeley. Lily is leaving full... |
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Congratulations to beloved California artists Ofelia Esparza (Los Angeles) and Marion Coleman (Castro Valley) who were named Wednesday, June 20th, as recipients of the 2018 National Heritage... |
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The Alliance of California Traditional Arts (ACTA), California’s leading advocate for the folk and traditional arts, announces three job openings. |
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Applications are NOW OPEN for the following ACTA funding opportunities:
LIVING CULTURES GRANTS PROGRAM Deadline to apply: JUNE 29, 2018
The Living Cultures Grants Program seeks to sustain and... |
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by Lily Kharrazi
In this Sounds of California Bayview concert on April 29, 2018, our musical artists ponder displacement, migration, and creating a new sense of home. They musicians hail from the Bay Area's African-... |
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As ACTA's new accounting assistant, Donna Middleton will be supporting ACTA’s administrative work, working alongside our operations manager in our Fresno office. Donna has more than three decades of... |
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The Alliance for California Traditional Arts (ACTA) invites you to a lively afternoon of music and conversations from the San Francisco Bay Area’s African-American, Vietnamese, Kurdish, and Chicano... |
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The Since 1999, the Alliance for California Traditional Arts’ (ACTA’s) Apprenticeship Program has supported California’s cultural traditions with 331 contracts to outstanding folk and... |
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This year, the Alliance for California Traditional Arts (ACTA) is awarding $200,000 to 41 organizations to support folk and traditional arts. Since 2005, the Living Cultures grants have supported... |
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In 2017, the Alliance for California Traditional Arts marked twenty years of serving California’s folk and traditional artists, from cowboy poetry and African American quilting, to Hmong qeej music... |
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Sonia Narang is ACTA’s first Digital Media Specialist, based in Los Angeles. She will be supporting ACTA's media and communications efforts, including the website, social media, and the creation of... |
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This month ACTA welcomes two impressive new staff members to the ACTA team to steward and facilitate the expanding ACTA Arts in Corrections (AIC) program, now working in 16 prisons... |
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This month, we say farewell to our former Arts in Corrections Program Coordinator, Marisa Martinez, who is moving on to focus on time with her family and her music.
Read an interview with... |
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By Shirley Kazuyo Muramoto-Wong.
Master Artist, Japanese koto (ACTA Apprenticeship Program 2016, 2014)
My grandmother, Masaye Ishikawa Hori, loved the sound of the koto. She could hear the Honnami family playing koto, shakuhachi (bamboo flute), and shamisen (3-stringed lute)... |
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by Rebecca Tortes, CIBA
For over a quarter of a century, the California Indian Basketweavers’ Association (CIBA) has worked diligently to increase the number of active California Indian basket weavers and to increase... |
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A collaboration between ACTA and The California Endowment's Building Healthy Communities Initiative, Building Healthy Communities: Approaching Community Health Through Heritage and Culture... |
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On June 20th, a Traditional Arts Roundtable with ACTA and the Koreatown Immigrant Workers Alliance (KIWA), LA Uprising: 25 Years Later (1992-2017) gathered members of the Koreatown and South L.A.... |
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With this issue, we say farewell to programs manager, Russell Rodríguez, who will be joining the faculty at the University of California, Santa Cruz as an assistant professor in the Music Department... |
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As we commence our fourth year facilitating Arts in Corrections programs throughout the state, we are proud to announce the California Arts Council and the California Department of Corrections... |
