Survey on Dance Residency Opportunities
Are you a dancer or choreographer who is interested in time and space to create new work? Do you wish there were more creative residency programs for dance? The Alliance of Artists Communities is conducting a survey and would like to hear your voice on how to make the residency field even more supportive for dance artists.
ACTA Master Artist Featured on Local News
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.
ACTA's New Traditional Arts Sustainability Grants for the Central Coast and San Joaquin Valley
ACTA's new Traditional Arts Sustainability Grants will strengthen up to ten grassroots 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. Support includes operational grants of up to $15,000 per year over three years, organizational development with nationally recognized consultants, and participation in a three-year learning community to sustain cultural work through small business ventures and/or grassroots fundraising.
Free half-day workshops on June 5, 2010 (Central Coast) or June 19, 2010 (Fresno).
For more information about the grants and workshops, visit the Traditional Arts Sustainability Grants webpage.
New Guidelines Available for ACTA's Living Cultures Grants Program
ACTA announces new guidelines for the 2011 iteration of its Living Cultures Grants Program.
The Living Cultures Grants Program funds nonprofit organizations to support exemplary California-based traditional arts projects with grants of up to $7,500 for projects that demonstrate significant impact on particular cultural traditions. Organizations without nonprofit status are eligible to apply through a fiscal receiver.
For more information, and to download guidelines and application forms, visit the Living Cultures Grants Program's webpage.
New Guidelines Available for ACTA's Apprenticeship Program
ACTA announces new guidelines for the 2011 iteration of its Apprenticeship Program.
The Apprenticeship Program fosters cultural transmission by contracting master artists for $3,000 to offer intensive one-on-one training in a specific art form to qualified apprentices for six to twelve months. Master artists and apprentices must apply together and be based in California.
For more information, and to download guidelines and application forms, visit the Apprenticeship Program's webpage.
ACTA Hosts Statewide Informational Meetings & Webinars
Throughout May and June, ACTA will be hosting informational meetings in Berkeley, San Jose, Santa Cruz, Los Angeles, and San Diego. 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.
If you can't make an informational meeting, join us for a webinar (online seminar)! Those with internet and telephone access may join ACTA staff for a "virtual" informational meeting.
ACTA Welcomes Blogger Lance Zazueta
Saddlemaker Lance Zazueta is a current apprentice ACTA's Apprenticeship Program, with grandfather, master artist Gaylerd Thissell. Lance Zazueta's Apprenticeship Blog will follow the course of Lance's apprenticeship with his grandfather, as he works with Lance in the basics of building a saddle from start to finish.
