California for the Arts

Join us for our next FREE webinar from our Arts & Health series, “Exploring Workforce Development for Arts & Health Initiatives,” on Wednesday, September 4th from 12 - 1:30 PM PST.

As interest grows among artists, healthcare workers, social services professionals, and others, as second responders, this session will explore the qualifications and training needed to effectively integrate arts into healthcare and public health. Our panelists will share insights and strategies to equip a diverse workforce with the skills necessary to support arts-based interventions, ensuring they meet the needs of individuals and communities.

This session will feature Alison Leitch, Assistant Service Manager, Community Link Worker Programme, Edinburgh Voluntary Organisations’ Council; Meida Teresa McNeal, PhD, Deputy Commissioner, Cultural Grants and Resources, Chicago Dept. of Cultural Affairs & Special Events; and Ping Ho, MA, MPH, Founder/Director, Arts & Healing Initiative.

Learn more about our speakers at caforthearts.org/events

🍎A special message to our CA for the Arts and CA Arts Advocates MEMBERS! 🥪

What does it mean to be a thriving arts leader? How can you continue to rise as an arts advocate? Bring your lunch and let’s talk about it during our first Member Virtual Picnic on August 22nd from 12-1pm! This is a unique opportunity to connect with fellow arts leaders across the state and talk about how our member program can serve members best.

If you are a member and would like to register, please contact our Field Engagement Coordinator, Jennica Bisbee, at [email protected]

Want to join? Become a member today! https://www.caforthearts.org/grow

NEXT WEDNESDAY! Join us for the next installment of our Arts & Health webinar series: “Strategies for Innovative Funding & Partnerships in Arts & Health Initiatives” on August 21, 2024 at 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM PT! Learn about diverse strategies to secure creative funding and ways to form impactful partnerships that drive meaningful change.

The webinar will be kicked off with a creative moment led by Jazlynn Pastor, Performing Artist & Cultural Worker, pinaypages. Jazlynn (she/they) is a cultural worker and teaching artist dedicated to serving the community through storytelling. She has spent the past decade learning Philippine Dance in the Bay Area and sharing it with communities around the world. Jazlynn continues their practice art through her LLC pinaypages which offers experiences for people to incorporate creativity and wellness into their everyday lives through programs like Wellness Wednesdays.

The creative moment will be followed by a conversation with our panelists, Alyson Maier Lokuta, MA; Michael J. Bobbitt; and Elizabeth Markle, PhD, who will share their expanding arts-based health initiatives that harness the power of the arts to improve health outcomes.

Learn more at https://www.caforthearts.org/events/arts-health-august-21

Learn more about Prop 28 during our next Wonky Wednesday lunchtime hour talk! Join us on August 14, 2024 from 12 - 1PM to learn about the latest developments in arts education policy and how Prop 28 is shaping the future of arts in our schools.

This month, we will be joined by Abe Flores, Deputy Director of Policy & Programs at Create CA, Lindsey Kunisaki, Laura Zucker Fellow for Policy & Research at Arts for LA, Samantha Theisen from San Gabriel Unified School District, and Tracy Hudak, Director of Field Engagement at CA for the Arts.

Wonky Wednesday is a program designed specifically for folks who want to dig deeper to understand cultural policy, state budget, and legislative processes. Join us for a lunchtime, casual meeting with our policy, advocacy, or arts experts for your chance to ask and engage monthly in arts advocacy. Recordings will also be made available.

Learn more and register here: https://www.caforthearts.org/events/wonky-wednesday-august

Don’t miss our next Arts & Health webinar: “Strategies for Innovative Funding & Partnerships in Arts & Health Initiatives” on Wednesday, August 21, 2024 at 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM PT!

Join in on this conversation with Alyson Maier Lokuta, MA, Senior Director, Arts & Well-being, New Jersey Performing Arts Center; Michael J. Bobbitt, Executive Director, Mass Cultural Council; and Elizabeth Markle, PhD, Co-Founder/Executive Director, Open Source Wellness. Our panelists will share their expanding arts-based health initiatives that harness the power of the arts to improve health outcomes. Learn about the diverse strategies they use to secure creative funding and form impactful partnerships that are driving meaningful change.

There will also be a creative moment at the beginning of the webinar led by Jazlynn Pastor, Performing Artist & Cultural Worker, pinaypages.

Learn more: https://www.caforthearts.org/events/arts-health-august-21

The 2018 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) Manual is eligible for possible revision in 2028. The SOC is a tool that organizes workers, including artists, by code. From now through Aug. 12, workers are invited to offer feedback on the current SOC.

📣 The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) has issued a call to artists to exercise their voices and comment by visiting regulations.gov. According to the article, one of the concerns voiced by the National Endowment for the Arts is that there is no code for artists working across multiple disciplines.

A new research report commissioned by United States Artists and written by Joanna Woronkowicz of Indiana University surveyed artists, analyzed existing labor data and offered suggestions to help artists comment on the SOC.

Sunil Iyengar, Director of the Office of Research and Analysis at the NEA, wrote about Woronkowicz’s findings, “If these labels have gone unchanged, then how well do the numbers reflect macro-level shifts in the functions and characteristics of working artists in the first quarter of this century? Put another way, have the job titles, the technologies used, the nature of work performed, and educational requirements altered to such an extent that we now should reconsider who counts as an artist?”

🗣️ Visit our website to read the full article, find the full list of codes, and leave a comment by Aug. 12: https://www.caforthearts.org/news/nea-advocates-for-artists-to-weigh-in-on-federal-job-coding

❣️Save the date for Wednesday, August 21, 2024 at 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM PT for the second FREE webinar from our Arts & Health series.

“Strategies for Innovative Funding & Partnerships in Arts & Health Initiatives” will feature panelists who will share their expanding arts-based health initiatives that harness the power of the arts to improve health outcomes. Learn about the diverse strategies they use to secure creative funding and form impactful partnerships that are driving meaningful change.

We are so excited to be joined by Alyson Maier Lokuta, MA, Senior Director, Arts & Well-being, New Jersey Performing Arts Center; Michael J. Bobbitt, Executive Director, Mass Cultural Council; and Elizabeth Markle, PhD, Co-Founder/Executive Director, Open Source Wellness for this conversation. There will also be a creative moment at the beginning of the webinar led by Jazlynn Pastor, Performing Artist & Cultural Worker, pinaypages.

Learn more and register here: https://www.caforthearts.org/events/arts-health-august-21

🍎MEMBERS! You are invited to our first Member Virtual Picnic on August 22nd 12-1pm! 💐

Bring your lunch while we welcome new members, connect with fellow arts leaders across the state, and talk about how our member program can serve members best. How do you want to grow as an advocate? How could our member program help? Let’s talk about it!

If you are a member and would like to register, please contact our Field Engagement Coordinator, Jennica Bisbee, at [email protected]

Want to join? Become a member today! https://www.caforthearts.org/grow

Join us on August 14, 2024 from 12 - 1PM for our Wonky Wednesday Webinar, where we will dive into the implementation of Proposition 28 in school districts across California.

This engaging discussion will feature insights from Abe Flores, Deputy Director of Policy & Programs at Create CA, Lindsey Kunisaki, Laura Zucker Fellow for Policy & Research at Arts for LA, Samantha Theisen from San Gabriel Unified School District, and Tracy Hudak, Director of Field Engagement at CA for the Arts. Don't miss this opportunity to learn about the latest developments in arts education policy and how Prop 28 is shaping the future of arts in our schools.

Wonky Wednesday is a program designed specifically for folks who want to dig deeper to understand cultural policy, state budget, and legislative processes. Join us for a lunchtime, casual meeting with our CEO, Julie Baker, and special guests. Got a question on how to advocate effectively locally or a problem you think legislation should solve, or just want to ask what’s up with funding for the arts in California, this is your chance to ask and engage monthly in arts advocacy. Recordings will also be made available.

Register here: https://www.caforthearts.org/events/wonky-wednesday-august

📣BAY AREA ART ADVOCATES ‼️

CA for the Arts invites you to join us for an exciting Bay Area Social! This event will take place on August 6th at 5:30 pm at the Lark Bar in San Francisco. All are welcome to join us for an evening of networking and connecting with fellow creative workers in the Bay Area.

This event is a fantastic opportunity to convene, share ideas, and learn more about CA for the Arts' new initiatives, including our upcoming Grassroots Artists Advocacy Program (GAAP), which will be launching in the Bay Area soon! GAAP will help support and grow arts advocates in the Oakland and San Francisco area, and is an initiative to support in building a more creative California focused on the well-being of creative workers.

Whether you are an artist, cultural worker, representative of an arts organization, culture bearer, educator, or art enthusiast living, working, or serving in the Bay Area, we encourage you to attend. Lend your voice to the conversation and discover ways to become more actively involved in our vibrant arts community.

This program is supported by a grant from the Kenneth Rainin Foundation.

We are so excited to introduce Ivory Rose, OTD who will be leading a creative moment for our Arts & Health webinar next Wednesday, August 7, 2024 at 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM PT!

Ivory is an occupational therapist and poet. Some of her favorite occupations (meaningful activities) include writing, spoken word poetry, walking in nature, and horseback riding. She has always been drawn to the healing and care of others.Ivory holds a master’s in occupational therapy from NYU and a post-professional doctorate in occupational therapy from Boston University. Her passion for “prescribed volunteerism” led her to the field of social prescribing. She has volunteered in various capacities for Social Prescribing USA and also enjoys raising awareness amongst occupational therapists about the “hot topic” of social prescribing.

Be sure to join us for “Health Benefits of Arts Engagement and the Importance of Involving Community Organizations in Research” next week to listen in on a conversation discussing how engaging in the arts can significantly enhance physical and mental well-being with Alan Siegel, MD; Jill Sonke, PhD; and Christina D. Eskridge, MPH.

Learn more about our speakers at https://www.caforthearts.org/events/arts-health-august-7

❣️Join us for our FREE webinar “Health Benefits of Arts Engagement and the Importance of Involving Community Organizations in Research” on Wednesday, August 7, 2024 at 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM PT!

We are excited for Alan Siegel, MD, Co-Founder/Medical Director, Social Prescribing USA; Jill Sonke, PhD, Director of Research Initiatives, UF Center for Arts in Medicine and Director of National Research and Impact, One Nation/One Project initiative; and Christina D. Eskridge, MPH, Founder and Executive Director of Elevate Theatre Company LLC and National Mapmakers Coordinator, One Nation/One Project, join us for this conversation to discuss how engaging in the arts can significantly enhance physical and mental well-being.

We will also be joined by Ivory Rose, OTD, who will be facilitating a creative moment at the beginning of our session.

Learn more about our speakers at caforthearts.org/events/arts-health-august-7

🎨Check out this month’s round up of creative and job opportunities from arts and culture organizations across the state! Swipe ➡️to explore exciting opportunities for July. Don't forget to share them with your network!⁠⁠ ⁠
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For more information, visit https://www.caforthearts.org/job-postings

What’s Happening this Week: Join us for more summer nights filled with laughter and romance in As You Like It!
Performances are FREE, but registration is required due to space limitations. Visit iscla.org for directions & more information. See you in the park! 🌟

Join Otis College for their Webinar on the Creative Economy Dashboard on Wednesday, July 31 | 3:00—4:00 p.m. The Otis College Report on the Creative Economy is a vital resource analyzing the impact of creative industries on the economies of Los Angeles and California.

Get an overview of the latest Otis College Report on the Creative Economy research and the new Creative Economy dashboard. Gain insights into the performance of California’s creative sectors, explore ways to use the interactive dashboard, and participate in a Q&A.

The session will be hosted by Otis College and our research partners at Westwood Economics & Planning Associates.

RSVP:

2024 Otis College Report on the Creative Economy Webinar Join us for an in-depth discussion on the latest Otis College Report on the Creative Economy and a demo of our new interactive dashboard.

Attention all artists, creative practitioners, culture bearers, and everyone involved in arts & culture! 🎨✨ Explore these upcoming grants and funding opportunities to support your art practice and your creative career! SWIPE ➡️ to discover more about these incredible opportunities. Share this with your artistic circles and community!

For more information, visit https://www.caforthearts.org/job-postings

Congrats to our Board Members who have just been appointed officers as part of our organizations Executive Committees! These dedicated individuals have been chosen to lead our organization forward and shape its future. We are so grateful for their commitment to our mission, vision, and values!

❣️Join us on Wednesday, August 7, 2024 at 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM PT for our first FREE webinar on Arts & Health, exploring the impact of social prescribing and arts-infused strategies in public health.

The webinar titled “Health Benefits of Arts Engagement and the Importance of Involving Community Organizations in Research” will discuss how engaging in the arts can significantly enhance physical and mental well-being. We are excited to have Alan Siegel, MD; Jill Sonke, PhD; and Christina D. Eskridge, MPH join us for this conversation!

We will introduce the growing body of research demonstrating the therapeutic benefits of arts participation and the impact of community-based participatory research. The session will provide an overview of social prescribing, a progressive approach where healthcare providers recommend community-based, non-clinical and non-pharmaceutical activities, including the arts, to support health and well-being.

Learn more about our speakers and register here: https://www.caforthearts.org/events/arts-health-august-7

❣️Save the dates for our new upcoming FREE webinar series: Arts & Health, which explores the intersections of art and health. 🎨

Be sure to join us on Wednesday, August 7, 2024 at 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM PT for our first webinar: Health Benefits of Arts Engagement and the Importance of Involving Community Organizations in Research. Listen into our conversation about how engaging in the arts can significantly enhance physical and mental well-being.

Stay tuned to more information and speaker announcements! Learn more at caforthearts.org/events

CA for the Arts and CA Arts Advocates are thrilled to announce the election of 8 new members to our Board of Directors. This talented group of individuals will help us face new opportunities and continue our mission to be California’s #1 advocacy engine and network. We’re grateful for their passion and expertise. Let’s welcome them to the team!

CA for the Arts and CA Arts Advocates are thrilled to announce the election of 8 new members to our Board of Directors. This talented group of individuals will help us face new opportunities and continue our mission to be California's #1 advocacy engine and network. We're grateful for their passion and expertise. Let's welcome them to the team!