Press

ACTA's briefing, Weaving Traditional Arts Into the Fabric of Community Health -- the result of a study by UC Davis’s Center for Reducing Health Disparities, which links participation in traditional arts to individual and community health -- was featured this month in the statewide media outlet California Watch. Read the article by Patricia Leigh Brown on California Watch's website.

From Rodeo Cowboy to Custom Saddle Maker, by KFSN-TV Fresno's Nancy Osbourne, features Al Gould, a 2010 master artist in ACTA's Apprenticeship Program.

California Tribe Hopes to Woo Salmon Home, by Jesse McKinley of the New York Times, features the Winnemem Wintu Tribe, a grantee of ACTA's Living Cultures Grants Program in 2010.

A family tradition: Grandfather teaches grandson art of saddle making, an article by Laura Christman of the Redding Record Searchlight, features master artist Gaylerd Thissell and his grandson and apprentice Lance Zazueta, participants in ACTA's Apprenticeship Program in 2010.