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With support from the California Arts Council, the Fresno Arts Council INC will continue to provide mentorship and technical assistance to members of the Kings County Arts community to lead them to the eventual establishment of the Kings County State Local Partner of the California Arts Council.

Fresno Arts Council Programs and Services
• ARTHOP- Multiple venues and days
• Curate Art at FAC
• Curate Art at City Hall
• Public Art Projects – FAT Airport, Cal Trans multiple projects, Crosswalks
• Poet Laureate
• Readings
• Poetry Out Loud – High School Students
• Arts in Education- Selma Unified
• Teaching Artist Training
• Art Haven Project for the Unhoused
• State of the Arts/Horizon Awards
• Arts Alive in Agriculture
• Technical Assistance
• Fiscal Receiverships
• General Resources and Referrals for local artists
• Rural Access to the Arts Grants

With support from the California Arts Council, Nevada County Arts Council will continue to mentor a new a county-designated local arts agency in Glenn County. Glenn County Arts & Culture (GCAC)—now a 501c3—will build infrastructure, deepen community partnerships, and will plan for culturally inclusive programming guided by input from multilingual Listening Sessions held across the county. Year Two activities include formalizing a strategic plan, expanding board and advisory leadership, launching public programs centered on youth and Latinx culture, and strengthening systems for outreach and accessibility. Grant funds will support local staffing, mentorship, public engagement—and shared office space in Orland. Under continued mentorship from Nevada County Arts Council, GCAC will document its progress toward meeting CAC’s requirements for State-Local Partner designation, including securing a Board of Supervisors resolution and demonstrating two years of arts programming and services.

Nevada County Arts & Culture’s Core Programs and Services can be understood across six interconnected areas.

CORE PROGRAMS

ARTS & CULTURE PLANNING / CULTURAL INFRASTRUCTURE

—Culture Forward 2026–2032 implementation
—Administration of the Grass Valley–Nevada City and Truckee California Cultural Districts
—Cultural asset mapping and regional cultural planning
—Arts & Economic Prosperity research participation
—Civic partnerships and public-sector collaboration

ARTIST SERVICES & CREATIVE WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT

—Business of Art Symposium
—Artist Accelerator
—Technical assistance and grant guidance
—Artist networking and convenings
—Fiscal sponsorship / Arts Incubator
—Artist directories and Calls to Artists listings

ARTS EDUCATION & YOUTH DEVELOPMENT

—Artists in Schools
—Poetry Out Loud
—Bass Dojo
—Sierra Poetry Festival youth programming
—Teaching artist residencies and workshops

LITERARY ARTS & PUBLIC PROGRAMMING

—Sierra Poetry Festival
—SPF Fringe
—Nevada County Poet Laureate Program
—Youth Poet Laureate Program
—Public readings, workshops, and civic dialogue programs

PUBLIC ART, EXHIBITIONS & PLACEKEEPING

—Art in Public Spaces
—Cultural District activations
—Art at the Airport
—MUSE magazine and cultural storytelling initiatives
—Creative placemaking and community exhibitions

REGIONAL LEADERSHIP, ADVOCACY ®GRANTING

—State-Local Partner leadership
—Regional mentorship of Glenn County Arts & Culture
—Upstate California Creative Corps legacy leadership
—Arts advocacy training and legislative engagement
—Regranting and Individual Artists Fellowship administration

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

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.