Cuban Connections: Near & Far

November 2, 2011- January 7, 2012

Highlighting several Bay Area collections, this group exhibition features Cuban artists whose work explores

cultural icons, architectural form and the human condition.

Exhibition includes prints, paintings, drawings, sculpture and photography.

Recent work by Raül Cañibano, Antonio “Tonel” Fernandez, Nereida Garcia-Ferraz, José Manuel Fors,

Kadir Lopez, Alicia Leal, Juan Carlos Quintana, Perfecto Romero, and Vivian Stephenson.

Collectors: Carmen & Alcario Castellano,Tressa Berman & BorderZone Art,

Diana Campoamor, Mary Drobny,Vivian Stephenson & Margarita Gandia, Ron Herman,

Sandra Moll & Rick Holden, Everardo Rodriguez & Gabriela Valencia, and Mills College Art Museum.

It’s time for MACLA’s 2011 Family Portraits Project! Don’t miss this opportunity to have your portrait taken for FREE by a professional photographer. Bring your family, friends, coworkers, roommates and/or pets.

You will receive a FREE photo package for participating and your portrait may be used in the creation of a digital mural that reflects the diversity and changing face of our community. .

Family Portraits Photo Shoot Schedule

• Friday, November 4^th

CommUniverCity and SJSU’s Day of Service

9:00 am – 11:00 am

O’Donnell’s Gardens Park (corner of South 6th and East William)

• Friday, November 4^th

South First Friday Art Walk

7:00 pm

MACLA (510 S. 1^st St)

• Saturday, November 5^th

Plaza Maria Apartments

11:00 pm – 1:00 pm

115 East Reed Street (at the corner of Reed and South 3^rd)

For more information, please call Monica at (408) 938-3594 or email

This project is supported in part by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, Cultural Affairs grant from the City of San José, and the Arts Council Silicon Valley.

MACLA/Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana, 510 South First Street, San Jose, CA 95113, www.maclaarte.org

In First Woman on the Moon performance artist Elia Arce conducts an investigation of space, movement through it and the claiming of one’s own. Through the use of her body, language, sound and visual images, Ms. Arce leads us through a series of places both physical and emotional, from the dark, lush jungles of her Costa Rican roots to the barren, lunar landscape of her adopted desert home.  This piece is a re-creation from 2001, which received the Masterpiece Award from NPN.

Tickets:$10 purchase at the door or online through http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/203671

MACLA is pleased to announce its fourth Chicana/o Biennial, an exhibition and public forum conceived to take inventory of and invite reflection every two years on the continuously emergent energy, critical edge, and aesthetic interventions within contemporary Chicano art.

Over the last thirty-seven years the field of Chicana/o art and scholarship has developed and expanded exponentially. As an art movement that developed alongside the Chicano civil rights struggles of 1960s and 1970s, Chicano art emerged in direct correlation to social change. Today, there are more points of view and subsequent artists contributing to this important movement of contemporary art, some of which are re-defining what it means to create “Chicana/o art” at this moment in time.

MACLA is looking to challenge the questions and concerns that are currently being brought forth in the contemporary art world. As such, this year’s biennial takes a thematic approach by asking the following questions: 1) What are the pressing concerns at this moment in time? (politics) 2) What does Chicana/o art look like today? (aesthetics) 3) How do artists engage the community? (activism & organizing). We are looking for artwork that is politi­cally charged and aesthetically innovative on many different levels and that addresses one or more of the above mentioned questions. We are also interested in work that depicts the intersection of art, technology and new media. We welcome proposals and projects from disciplines/genres/ activities that are not normally displayed in the gallery setting. All artwork must have been created within the last three years (2009 to 2011).

Looking to invert the dynamics of the art world biennial, this exhibition is a no-fee juried exhibition open to all artists who self-identify as Chicana/o. This biennial is about contemporary art through the lens of the Chicano experience, as nuanced and varied as that might be. MACLA is interested in work that is both about identity politics and beyond. This exhibition is open to artists whose work deals with all issues and is created in all mediums.

How to submit:

Submit artwork and information via www.callforentry.org (this is a free service)

You’ll be asked for the following:

1-5 digital images (for more info see http://www.callforentry.org)

Image list (size, year, media, etc.)

-Artist’s statement: focus on the intention of the work submitted

-Artist bio

-Contact info

For installation work submit visual images in the above format and the following: a full written description and supporting materials such as drawings and/or a diagram of how the work will be dis­played. Send this additional information via email to biennial@maclaarte.org or the address below.

For video or new media submit VHS video, DVD or a PC compatible CD (include program to run on the computer) along with the above mentioned materials to:

MACLA  - Chicana/o Biennial

510 South First Street San Jose, CA 95113

The Small Print:

Insurance: All works selected for the exhibition will be insured by MACLA for their designated value for the duration of the exhibition. Artist Honorarium: All artists will be paid an artist’s honorarium ($200) for exhibiting at MACLA. Shipping: We have a limited budget set aside for shipping assistance for artists based outside of the San Francisco Bay Area available on first-come, first-served basis. Please take size and shipping into consid­eration when submitting work. Once our shipping subsidies are expended, artists must assume this expense. Artwork: All work must arrive framed and ready to hang. Publicity: MACLA may reproduce all or portions of selected artwork for advertising, promotional and educational purposes. Questions?: email biennial@maclaarte.org

Restrictions:

Artwork must have been created within the last three years (2009 to 2011).

Timeline:

Deadline to submit work: Monday, October 24, 2011, 11:59 pm PST for online submission. Artist’s notification mailed: Monday, October 31, 2011. Exhibition dates: January 18-March 10, 2012 Opening Reception: February 3, 2012

Jurors:

Eugene Rodríguez, artist and professor of Art at De Anza Community College, and

Lisa Mari Ramirez, MACLA’s Director of  Programs.

About MACLA/Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana MACLA is an inclusive contemporary arts space grounded in the Chicano/Latino experience that incubates new visual, literary and performance art in order to engage people in civic dialogue and community transformation.  Founded in 1989 as the result of a broad community mobilization in the City of San Jose and nationwide on behalf of multicultural arts, MACLA has evolved into a well respected arts organization known for our commitment to artistic excellence and civic dialogue.  Located in downtown San Jose, more than 30,000 people participate in the 50 programs MACLA produces annually.  Our four core program tracts include: visual arts; performance and literary arts; youth arts education; and community development through the arts.  In 2010, MACLA was honored to be the only San Jose organization to be named by Philanthropedia as one of the 21 most effective arts and culture organizations in the greater San Francisco Bay Area.

Support provided by: Arts Council Silicon Valley, in partnership with the County of Santa Clara, a Cultural Affairs grant from the City of San Jose, the David & Lucile Packard Foundation, the Castellano Family Foundation, The Institute of Museum and Library Services, Silicon Valley Community Foundation, The James Irvine Foundation, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, and MACLA donors. MACLA is a participant in the grantee network of Leveraging Investments in Creativity, funded by the Ford Foundation.

510 South First Street San Jose, CA 95113

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Job Description

We are looking for star digital media instructors to teach sound and video production, mentor youths, and provide individual assistance on youth projects as part of MACLA’s Peapod Adobe Youth Voices Academy.

Primary Responsibilities

• Developing a cohesive class lesson plan that follows the flow of an after-school program (irregular class attendance with lots of drop in students).
• Engage youth in technical and artist concepts.
• Mentor youth from a wide variety of socioeconomic circumstances to provide a positive influence.
• Work one on one with youth on individual projects.
• Assist in the implementation of youth group projects that may include: music videos, narratives, installations, sound art, performances, or projects of your own design.

Qualifications

Interest in youth arts education, experience working with youth, technical mastery of video or sound production (such as Pro-Tools, Reason, Adobe Premiere, max, or sound booth), current audio-visual practice, desire to engage and influence youth in meaningful ways, and ability to use a Windows based pc.

Education

The ideal candidate will be in pursuit, or have a completed college degree in a related field. Graduate level degrees will be considered a plus.

Compensation and Hours

$25.00-$35.00 hour depending on experience

3:30-5:00 pm

1 hour class

30 minute individual instruction and special projects

1 ½ prep time

3 total hours paid per weekly session

To Apply:

This is a contract position that will begin as soon as the position is filled. Please send a cover letter (in the body of the email), relevant links to current work, and attached resume or curriculum vitae (pdf or doc) with the subject line: “Youth Academy Instructor Position” to Dave@maclaarte.org by September 30^th 2011.

Un Cuerpo Partido: Esquirlas de Tiempo Presente

An interdisciplinary work that takes a multi-layered approach to immigration and border crossing by the Secos y Mojados artist collective: Victor Cartagena, Violeta Luna, David Molina, Antigone Trimis, and Roberto Varea

This is part II of the trilogy BORDER TRIP(tych) / TRIP(tico) de la frontera a project of Creative Capital.

Utopia/Nightmare: The American Dream

Utopia/Pesadilla: El Sueño Americano

Exhibition by Victor Cartagena with sound elements by David Molina

Dates: August 31 – October 16, 2011

Reception & Artist Talk: September 2 at 7:00pm

Gallery Hours:
Wednesday & Thursday, 12pm – 7pm
Friday & Saturday, 12pm – 5pm
And by special appointment
Free Admission

Secos y Mojados Performances

Friday, September 23

7:30pm doors open, 8pm performance

Saturday, September 24

7:30pm doors open, 8pm performance

Sunday, September 25

1:30pm doors open, 2:00pm performance

$10 at the door; $9:00 in advance; $8:00 with student ID

Please call (408) 938-3594 for more information.

To read press release click here

This project is made possible in part by the following: The Creative Work Fund, a program of the Walter and Elise Haas Fund supported by generous grants from The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and the James Irvine Foundation.

This activity is funded in part by the California Arts Council, a state agency, as well as the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency.

This is part II of the trilogy BORDER TRIP(tych) / TRIP(tico)  de la frontera a project of Creative Capital.

Support provided by:

Arts Council Silicon Valley, in partnership with the County of Santa Clara, a Cultural Affairs grant from the City of San Jose, the David & Lucile Packard Foundation, the Castellano Family Foundation, The Institute of Museum and Library Services, Silicon Valley Community Foundation, The James Irvine Foundation, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, and MACLA donors. MACLA is a participant in the grantee network of Leveraging Investments in Creativity, funded by the Ford Foundation

MACLA/Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana

510 South First Street (in between William & Reed Streets)

San Jose, CA 95113

(408) 998-ARTE

info@maclaarte.org

Mural Unveiling

Thank you to all who came and visited MACLA on Friday, August 3rd. It was an incredible night of community building and art. We launched Victor Cartagena’s provocative 45′
mural with an artist talk and ribbon cutting ceremony.Victor discussed the development of the mural on MACLA’s William Street Façade including his meetings with San Jose’s immigrant community. Victor’s exhibition installation Utopia/Nightmare: The American Dream (Utopia/Pesadilla: El Sueño Americano ) which includes sound elements by David Molina opens on August 31. This installation is a key part of the Secos y Mojados project A Body Parted: Shrapnel of Present Time (Un Cuerpo Partido: Esquirlas de Tiempo Presente).

Join us for the opening reception, artist talk and micro-performance Friday, September 2, 2011. Victor will be collaborating with Secos y Mojados to activate the installation through performances scheduled for September 23 – 25. To purchase tickets please visit:

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This project is made possible in part by the following: The Creative Work Fund, a program of the Walter and Elise Haas Fund supported by generous grants from The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and the James Irvine Foundation. This is part II of the trilogy BORDER TRIP(tych) / TRIP(tico) de la frontera a project of Creative Capital. This activity is funded in part by the California Arts Council, a state agency, as well as the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency. Secos y Mojados is a Member of the Intersection Incubator, a program of Intersection for the Arts providing fiscal sponsorship, incubation and consulting services to artists. Visit www.theintersection.org. “A Body Parted was supported by CounterPULSE’s Artist Commissioning Residency”.

Image Credits: : Victor Cartagena photographs by Robertino Ragazza

The Black Eyed Peas and Adobe Youth Voices joined MACLA on Saturday, August 6^th to announce the launch of a Peapod Adobe Youth Voices Academy. The newest Academy will be hosted here at MACLA and will provide much needed training and resources for the talented youth of San Jose.

The collaboration between The Black Eyed Peas Peapod Foundation, Adobe Youth Voices (the signature program of the Adobe Foundation) and MACLA will focus on empowering youth to find their voice and become agents of social change in addition to learning important digital literacy skills.

Six-time Grammy Award-winning recording artists The Black Eyed Peas – apl.de.ap, Taboo and Fergie –  and Adobe Foundation officials along  with San Jose’s youth attended a private unveiling ceremony of the new San Jose Academy at MACLA.

“We are very excited to be part of the growing network of Peapod Adobe Youth Voices Academies,” said Anjee Helstrup-Alvarez, executive director, MACLA. “The collaboration with the Peapod Foundation and Adobe Foundation will provide invaluable support to our mission of engaging youth through visual, literary and performance arts programs to initiate civic dialogue on important topical issues and encourage transformation in our communities.”

“Every day we are inspired by the immense talent we see in young people,” said The Black Eyed Peas. “The Peapod Adobe Youth Voices Academies provide these youth with opportunities to advance their artistic and academic skills and channel their creative energy in ways we can only imagine. We are proud to help them make their voices heard.”

“These youth are at a crucial point in their lives—at the intersection of self discovery and recognizing their potential,” said Miguel Salinas, senior manager, Adobe Youth Voices. “Our partnership with the Peapod Foundation has enabled us to help these youth realize what’s important to them while arming them with the essential means to become positive and productive members of society.”

MACLA provides a space for youth flourish – it is here they gather, they dream, they create art, write poems, and realize their impact on the world.

A special thank you to The Peapod Foundation, the Entertainment Industry Foundation, and The Black  Eyed Peas for partnering with MACLA  to support the creative development of San Jose’s youth.

Videos:
Black Eyed Peas at MACLA

Students discussing their participation in art programs at MACLA

Images credits:  Clockwise Anjee Helstrup-Alverez; Ive Torres, Taboo, Willie Wong, apl.de.ap, Deztiny Perales, Fergie; Black Eye Peas with Pablo Sanchez, Miguel Salinas and Anjee Helstrup-Alvarez

(Esquirlas de tiempo presente)

Performances, Exhibition & Digital Mural

San José, CA — August 23, 2011 — MACLA/Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana, presents “A Body Parted: Shrapnel of Present Time” (Esquirlas de tiempo presente), an interdisciplinary work that takes a multi-layered approach to immigration and border crossing by the Secos y Mojados artist collective: Victor Cartagena, Violeta Luna, David Molina, Antigone Trimis, and Roberto Varea.

Founded in 2007 Secos y Mojados is a San Francisco based collective that focuses on exploring immigrant narratives through interdisciplinary performance. The collective derives its name from the effect that clandestine border crossings, particularly the most dangerous ones across deserts, rivers and seas, have on the body of the migrant.

Presented at MACLA as a world premiere, A Body Parted: Shrapnel of Present Time / Esquirlas de tiempo presente is the second performance panel of the Secos collective’s “Border (TRIP)tych.” The project aims to generate a ritual/visual narrative focused on a migrant’s journey as she leaves her home in Latin America and arrives in the US searching for a better life. Continuing the work that began with the first panel (Buried In The Body of Remembrance), the (TRIP)tych’s second installment follows the difficult path of a woman as she migrates north, asking the audience to rethink the prevalent stereotypical images of immigrants in our society.

In MACLA’s gallery Victor Cartagena presents a major installation entitled, Utopia/Nightmare: The American Dream, – Utopia/Pesadilla: El Sueño Americano, with sound components by David Molina. “In this installation I project the dreams, fears and dangers of the journey taken to the North,”, explains Cartagena. The exhibition is a “conceptual map, with its use of red thread representing migration routes full of emotional and physical turmoil.”  Pillows suspended in mid-air, wrapped, tied and knotted in red threads criss cross throughout the gallery. Video projections by Cartagena and sound elements by Molina create an imaginary landscape that invites the viewer to feel and think about the impact of immigration on those who are willingly or more often forced to leave their homeland in search of a new one. Cartagena says of his work, “Every night we lie with our head on the pillow..; our dreams are journeys to utopian lands or nightmarish realities.” An integral part of the installation are the footprints and all imprints that we leave behind revealing our history and identity.

Cartagena’s installation, an integral element of the performance piece A Body Parted: Shrapnel of Present Time / Esquirlas de tiempo presente and will be activated by performance artist Violeta Luna and musician David Molina for the Creative Capital world premiere of the second panel of Secos’ trilogy. Roberto Varea writes that the work “…examines the immigrant’s moment of crossing as she is compelled to leave her homeland in el Sur (the South), and the process of being divided – by the landscape, memories, dreams, and a new life on the other side – begins to take hold of her.

A Body Parted… does not employ live spoken text as the primary storytelling mechanism; rather, it is embedded in gestures interwoven with visual and sound imagery, and grounded in a visual installation intervened by physical actions, a process that the audience is highly encouraged to take part of. By telling the story of the immigrant through this interdisciplinary collage, Secos y Mojados renders a marginalized subject profoundly human in spite of her oppressive circumstances, asking the audience to rethink the prevalent stereotypical images of immigrants in our society.”

This project includes a 45-foot digital mural created by Victor Cartagena that is currently on view on MACLA’s William Street façade and is supported by the Creative Work Fund. The mural focuses on the immigrant experience and it depicts images of an immigrant whose face is tattooed with maps of border crossings.  The word MIEDO (Fear) is stenciled on the wall asking the viewer to reflect on the effect of immigration on the migrant and the host communities.  In order to create the mural, Cartagena met with members of the downtown San Jose community, to gather stories of immigration and the mural is a response to those meetings.

“In keeping with the mission of MACLA, ‘to incubate new visual, literary and performance art in order to engage people in civic dialogue and community transformation,’ this multi-layered project incorporates all of the values for which MACLA stands,” said Anjee Helstrup-Alvarez, Executive Director of MACLA.

Since its founding in 1989, MACLA has developed projects that use an ethnographic approach to art making as a means to cultivate new audiences and creates programs that examine cultural intersections.  Through artistic practices and dialogue about our work, MACLA cuts through social and economic barriers to reach a broad range of the local community.

Exhibition: August 31 – October 16, 2011

Reception & Artist Talk: September 2 at 7:00pm

Victor Cartagena will provide an engaging walk-through of the exhibition.

Violeta Luna and David Molina will provide a micro-performance immediately following. Roberto Varea and Antigone Trimis will engage the public in conversation.

Gallery Hours:
Wednesday & Thursday, 12pm – 7pm and Friday & Saturday, 12pm – 5pm. And by special appointment. Free Admission

Secos y Mojados Performances

Friday, September 23 7:30 PM doors open, 8 PM performance

Saturday, September 24 7:30 PM doors open, 8 PM performance

Sunday, September 25   1:30 PM doors open, 2 PM performance

$10 at the door; $9:00 in advance; $8:00 with student ID

To purchase tickets please visit

Please call (408) 938-3594 for more information.

Visual artist, Victor Cartagena has been making art in the Bay Area since fleeing his homeland of El Salvador in the late 80’s. His artistic practice includes printmaking, fine art, the world of theatre, public art and video production.  His work has explored his memories of the violence in El Salvador and his experience of relocating to the United States as well as a range of issues including consumer culture, homelessness, material waste, the death penalty, immigration, exile, identity, perception and the use of power.  His work has been exhibited at such Bay Area spaces as Southern Exposure, Palo Alto Cultural Center, the Museum of Oakland, the University Art Museum at UC-Berkeley, Intersection for the Arts, SOMARTS, Galeria de la Raza, New Langton Arts, Catherine Clark Gallery, to name a few. He has exhibited in New York, Philadelphia, Honolulu, and throughout California, and internationally in Mexico, Argentina, Chile, Japan, El Salvador, Spain, Belarus, Ecuador, Greece and France. His work is included in many private and institutional collections, and he has been the recipient of numerous grants and awards, most recently receiving a Creative Work Fund grant in 2010 and a Cultural Equity Grant in 2005.

Roberto Varea began his theater career in his native city of Cordoba, Argentina. He has directed numerous productions and workshops associated with new play development, particularly with Latin@-Chican@ artists in the United States. Varea is the founding artistic director of Soapstone Theatre Company, a collective of male ex-offenders and female survivors of violent crime, and of El Teatro Jornalero!, a performance company that brings the voice of Latin American immigrant workers to the stage. Roberto is Associate Professor of Theater at the University of San Francisco, where he is co-founder of the Performing Arts and Social Justice Major, and Director of the Center for Latino Studies in the Americas (CELASA). The first book of his two-volume anthology Acting Together: Performance and the Creative Transformation of Conflict was just published by New Village Press.

Violeta Luna’s (Performance Artist / Activist) work explores the relationship between theatre, performance art and community engagement. Working within a multidimensional space that allows for the crossing of aesthetic and conceptual borders, Luna uses her body as a territory to question and comment on social and political phenomena. Born in Mexico City, Luna obtained her graduate degree in Acting from the Centro Universitario de Teatro, UNAM and La Casa del Teatro. She has performed and taught workshops extensively throughout Latin America, Europe, Africa, and USA. She is currently a Creative Capital Fellow, a member of the Magdalena Project of International Women Performance Artist, and an associate artist of the San Francisco-based performance collectives La Pocha Nostra and Secos & Mojados. Her current work explores the relationship between theater, performance and community engagement.

David Molina is an award winning composer, musician, and sound designer. For the past sixteen years, he has been creating music and sound for theatre, dance, film, radio, installations, and multimedia productions. With Secos y Mojados he taps into his own Salvadoran and SoCal cultural roots, as he composes music and soundscapes that reflect his contemporary,

urban identity, exploring mediums ranging from acoustic to electronic
instrumentation and field recordings. More info at drmsound.com

Antigone Trimis’ directorial work has been seen at Brava! for Women in the Arts, the Bay Area Playwrights Festival and the Climate Theatre.  As Assistant Director at the Magic Theatre and as dramaturg for the acclaimed production of Playland by Athol Fugard.  Ms. Trimis was a TCG observership grant recipient, has a background in music and has curated visual arts exhibits for the Magic Theatre and the Bay Area Playwrights Festival. She holds a BA in Classics from Aristotle University (Greece) and a MA in Theatre from Brown University.  Since 2006 Antigone is the Implementation Manager of San Francisco Unified’s groundbreaking Arts Educaiton Master Plan, promising equity and access in arts education for every student, at every school.

This project is made possible in part by the following: The Creative Work Fund, a program of the Walter and Elise Haas Fund supported by generous grants from The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and the James Irvine Foundation.  This is part II of the trilogy BORDER TRIP(tych) / TRIP(tico)  de la frontera, a project of Creative Capital.  A Body Parted is a Creative Capital Premiere.  This activity is funded in part by the California Arts Council, a state agency, as well as the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency. Secos y Mojados is a Member of the Intersection Incubator, a program of Intersection for the Arts providing fiscal sponsorship, incubation and consulting services to artists. Visit www.theintersection.org. A Body Parted was supported by CounterPULSE’s Artist Commissioning Residency.

Additional support provided by:

Arts Council Silicon Valley, in partnership with the County of Santa Clara, a Cultural Affairs grant from the City of San Jose, the David & Lucile Packard Foundation, the Castellano Family Foundation, The Institute of Museum and Library Services, Silicon Valley Community Foundation, The James Irvine Foundation, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, and MACLA donors. MACLA is a participant in the grantee network of Leveraging Investments in Creativity, funded by the Ford Foundation.

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About MACLA:
MACLA/Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino America is an inclusive contemporary arts space grounded in the Chicano/Latino experience that incubates new visual, literary and performance art in order to engage people in civic dialogue and community transformation. MACLA intersects many communities, cultures, and aesthetics approaches. MACLA produces 50 programs annually in four program tracts: visual: performance and literary arts; youth arts education; and community development through arts.  www.maclaarte.org

About The Creative Work Fund:
The Creative Work Fund invites artists and nonprofit organizations to create new art works through collaborations. It celebrates the role of artists as problem solvers and the making of art as a profound contribution to intellectual inquiry and to the strengthening of communities.  Artists are encouraged to collaborate with nonprofit organizations of all kinds.

Since its inception, the Fund has awarded $7.4 million in grants for collaborations between artists and organizations to create new art works.

More recently, the Creative Work Fund has been a program of the Walter and Elise Haas Fund that also is supported by generous grants from The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and The James Irvine Foundation.  For more information visit: www.creativeworkfund.org

About Creative Capital:

Creative Capital is a national nonprofit organization dedicated to providing integrated financial and advisory support to artists pursuing adventurous projects in five disciplines: Emerging Fields, Film/Video, Innovative Literature, and Performing and Visual Arts. Working in long-term partnership with artists, Creative Capital’s pioneering approach to support combines funding, counsel, and career development services to enable a project’s success and foster a successful and sustainable practice for its grantees. In its first decade, Creative Capital has committed more than $20 million in financial and advisory support to 325 projects representing 406 artists, and has reached an additional 3,000 artists through its Professional Development Program. For more information, visit www.creative-capital.org.

About the California Arts Council:
The California Arts Council is the state agency with the mission to advance Californians through the arts and creativity, with a key focus on arts education and arts in local communities. The agency is governed by an 11-member, policy-setting Council appointed by the Governor and the state Legislature.   www.cac.ca.gov

Images available upon request.

Contact Information:

Jill Arnone

The Arnone Group

408 315 5121

jilla@thearnonegroup.com

Lisa Ramirez, Curator & Visual Arts Coordinator

408-938-3403
Lisa@maclaarte.org