With support from the California Arts Council, Arte Americas will share it’s 3-year art and history project, CAMINOS, with established venues in Merced and Tulare Counties. CAMINOS documented and exhibited 247 years of Central Valley Latino History in a project that culminated in an exhibit and programs that filled five galleries and spaces. The Multicultural Arts Center in Merced and The Tulare County Museum in Visalia will augment and reproduce the project in 2020, a CAMINOS VALLEY ROAD TRIP.
With multiple exhibitions a year in four gallery spaces, an outdoor music series, indoor concerts, receptions, lectures and community festivals, Arte Américas is the largest Latinx Cultural Center in the Central Valley. Major opportunities to engage include our annual dia de muertos programs and exhibitions, a Mothers’ Day Mariachi Brunch and Summer Concert Series (6 per year) in an outdoor venue known as Plaza Paz. We facilitate biweekly bilingual storytime and art workshops as well as biweekly artmaking workshops so that every weekend, our community can connect at Arte Américas. We function as fiscal sponsor for scaling organizations including an ongoing program of Mexican folkloric dance groups in the valley, Danzantes del Valle. We contract with Fresno Unified School District to teach after school and winter break arts enrichment programs for youth.

