We reached and raised $8,000 for ACTA’s Apprenticeship Donor Campaign! We couldn’t have done it without you. Fifty-seven of you gave from the heart and raised the funds to support two of the eighteen master/apprentice pairs that have been selected for ACTA’s 2017 Apprenticeship Program. Our 2017 Apprenticeship artists hail from twelve different counties and represent an incredible range of traditional art forms and disciplines, ethnicities and cultural groups, ranging from Cambodian classical dance, to Middle Eastern derbekki hand drumming.
Thank you for bringing this essential support to California’s traditional artists at a critical time in our nation’s history and politics—when fear threatens to overshadow the voices of many.
Gratitude to our 2016 Donors:
Michael Alexander
Anonymous (A salute to ACTA and its artists, the great keepers of California’s cultural flame)
Anonymous
Anonymous
Anonymous
Artivist Entertainment
Jennifer Bates
Juan y Ada Carrillo
Marion Coleman (Thanks for supporting traditional arts)
Vern and Patsy Crow
Kenya Curry
Celine Schein Das (Our communities and world are richer because of the work of ACTA, thank you!)
Esailama Diouf
Beto González
Jo Farb Hernández
Leigh Henderson
Anne Huang
Maria Rosario Jackson
Michael Owen Jones
Lily Kharrazi (In Tribute to Master Artists Chitresh Das and Danongan Kalanduyan)
Sojin Kim
Virginia H. King
Edward Kissam (Inspiring, illuminating, all the efforts you support, keep up the great work!)
Amy Kitchener and Hugo Morales (In honor of Don Nati Cano, visionary mariachi and co-founding ACTA board member. We miss you.)
Ruth Kitchener
Prudy Kohler
Kathy Knopoff
Judith Kunofsky
Amy Lawrence
Malcolm Margolin
Nayamín Martínez
Nikiko Masumoto
Libby Maynard
Patricia A. Montgomery
Murasaki Ensemble
Crystal Murillo
Alicia Najera
Antonio H. Ramírez
Amy Rouillard (In Memory of John C. Rouillard)
Charlie Seemann
Sarah and Steve Remmert
Judy and Bob Reynolds
David Roche
Richard Rodríguez
Russell Rodríguez (In Memory of Danny Kalanduyan)
Dan Sheehy
Carol and Steve Shore
Eric Solano
Andrea Temkin and Sofia Fojas (In Memory of Barbara LaPan Rahm)
Khampha Thephavong
Hang Le To (In tribute to ACTA keep the traditional music arts alive)
Ferenc Tobak
Pimm Tripp-Allen (In Memory of Amos Tripp)
Patricia Wakida (In honor of my ACTAvist teammates)
Deborah Wong
Eleanor San San Wong
Raphael Xavier (Thank you for continuing this program. It made a difference during an important turning point in my life. I am grateful and hope it will do the same for other artists)