Grantee Database
Amador Arts
Grant Year
2025-26
Grant Program
State Local Partner Mentorship
Award Amount
$56,500.00
Project Description
With support from the California Arts Council, the AMADOR COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL (Amador Arts) will mentor the San Joaquin creative community and the Stockton Art League toward establishing the State Local Partner for this county.
Modeling best practices in Anti-Racism, Tribal Land acknowledgments, safe space holding, cross-disciplinary arts business resources, and technical assistance services, Amador Arts will partner with the Stockton Art League, using an OF/BY/FOR ALL approach to serves the people, especially those in the bottom quartile of the Healthy Places Index.
This includes:
• Strategic plan updates
• Increasing staff capacity
• Preparing staff for the 2026 State Local Partner application
• Developing a sustainable Poetry Out Loud program with the County Office of Education
• Launching a user-friendly Artist Directory & In Memoriam platform
• Designing and implementing a data collection plan
Organization Summary
The Amador County Arts Council (Amador Arts) keeps the arts central to Amador’s life through programs, services, and initiatives.
(1) PUBLIC OFFICE: Our accessible public office is open to the public and is located in a historic building on Jackson Gate Road in Jackson, CA. Open Tuesday through Saturday from 11 to 4 PM and staffed by volunteers and employees from the Mother Lode Land Trust, our partner.
(2) TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE: Our team provides free Technical Assistance on California Arts Council grants.
(3) PRODUCING PERFORMANCES: Since its establishment, Amador Arts has played a central role in performing arts throughout Amador County. Most notably, since 1998, our “TGIF Free Summer Concerts” have brought live music to thousands of people in outdoor venues where it would otherwise not be available. Producing Poetry Out Loud since 2016, with multi-generational poetry engagement opportunities in addition to the traditional competition.
(4) ARTS EDUCATION ADVOCACY: Amador Arts has been a trusted consultant to Amador County Unified School District, providing support and administration for the district’s Arts Plan and the rollout of Prop 28. Additionally, since 2012, Amador Arts has been an Arts Now community, surveying the state of arts education annually and teaching advocacy tools and skills to youth so they can impact their own arts education.
(5) PROMOTING THE ARTS: Weekly newspaper article “Heart of Art” in the Ledger Dispatch, which covers all types of impacts of the arts and leans heavily on the research from Americans for the Arts and their Arts Impact Explorer. The articles are also published on our blog.
Organization
Amador Arts
Address
1324 Jackson Gate Rd
Jackson
95642-9539
County
Amador
Region
Central Valley
Website
Congressional District
District 5
State Assembly District
District 1
State Senate District
District 4
