ACTA's Programs

Informational Meetings

Throughout May and June, ACTA will be hosting informational meetings throughout the state.  Join ACTA staff for an informational meeting in your area to learn more about ACTA’s programs and other funding opportunities for folk & traditional artists and organizations.

ACTA’s Traditional Arts Sustainability Grants aim to build the capacity of nonprofit organizations who integrate traditional arts in their work and serve low-income communities and communities of color in the Central Coast and San Joaquin Valley.

The Traditional Arts Development Program makes contracts up to $1,500 to support  consultancies, mentorships, and travel opportunities that foster a new level of growth for individual folk & traditional artists and organizations engaged in this field in California.  Requested services may be focused on organizational, program, and/or artistic development goals.  Individual artists and cultural practitioners, as well as organizations, whether incorporated or not, may apply.

The Alliance for California Traditional Arts (ACTA) Apprenticeship Program encourages the continuation of the state’s traditional arts and cultures by contracting master artists to offer intensive, one-on-one training to qualified apprentices.

Each $3,000 contract will support a period of concentrated learning for apprentices who have shown a commitment to and a talent for a specific artistic tradition.

The Living Cultures Grants Program funds nonprofit organizations to support exemplary projects in traditional arts in California.  Grant awards are generally limted to $5,000 or less.  A small number of grants of up to $7,500 are awarded to projects that demonstrate significant impact on a particular cultural tradition.

With generous support from The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation and the San Francisco Arts Commission, ACTA presents its free 2010 Traditional Arts Roundtable Series at various Bay Area venues with sessions for traditional artists, organ