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Join us in celebrating over 25 years by making your contribution today!
In 1997 at Asilomar in Pacific Grove, a group of artists, public folklorists, and cultural workers met to imagine a statewide network to animate and grow California’s diverse community of culture bearers and organizations in the folk and traditional arts field. Fast forward more than 25 years, and the Alliance for California Traditional Arts has supported over 1,750 folk and traditional artists and organizations, providing them with over $7.8 million in grants.
For months, we’ve been working on an oral history project documenting over 25 amazing years of the Alliance for California Traditional Arts. We gathered stories from dozens of current and former grantees, staff, board members, partners, and colleagues, and dove into our archives of programming, grantmaking, research, and advocacy to tell the story of ACTA through five individual timelines, which will launch early next year.
From bringing the healing power of traditional arts to incarcerated people to preparing local residents to document the sonic landscape of their communities — join us in looking back on five special moments that we’ve shared in our quarter-century journey to lift up California's extraordinary traditional arts practices.
Click through to enjoy 5 special moments
from ACTA's 25 years.
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