At the Alliance for California Traditional Arts, we join our colleagues at the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation in excitement to share with you this year’s recipients of the Hewlett 50 Arts Commissions in Folk and Traditional Arts. Over the past year, ACTA has been honored to serve as the program administrator for these commissions, stewarding a rigorous grants process—including designing the application guidelines and criteria, as well as developing and facilitating the panel review process—on behalf of the Hewlett Foundation.

See the awarded artists and organizations here.

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Based in ACTA’s Fresno office, the Operations and Finance Manager will serve as a critical element in the effective administration and smooth implementation of ACTA’s work. They will interface between three outsourced department functions: finance, human resources (HR), and internet technology (IT). In addition, the Operations and Finance Manager will work collaboratively with both program and development staff in fund development; tracking, coding, and reporting on grant expenditures; and in deploying grant resources toward their proper purposes.

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The Program Coordinator is in charge of coordinating ACTA’s Arts in Corrections Program (AIC) in California correctional facilities, along with administrative program tasks. ACTA’s Arts in Corrections program began in 2013, as a pilot program placing traditional artists as teachers of multi-week courses in 3 facilities. Today, the program works in 18 facilities via a staff of 35 teaching artists. This staff member will work closely with and report to the AIC Program Manager to implement an impactful Arts in Corrections Program in California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) Institutions. We are seeking a job candidate to work out of ACTA’s Fresno office, but other Central and Southern California locations (with proximity to the CDCR sites) will be considered.

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The Los Angeles County departments of Arts and Culture and Workforce Development, Aging and Community Services, and the LA City/County Native American Indian Commission (LANAIC), seek a consultant to facilitate stakeholder engagement sessions with local tribal leaders and American Indian and Alaska Native community members to: gather information that will inform updates to LA County’s official record on the history of the region to more accurately reflect and honor the history and contributions of local tribal nations, and gather input on the ways in which the County has harmed local tribes; develop a proposal for a set of Land Access policies, protocols, and toolkits for Los Angeles County; and develop a proposal for a Land Acknowledgment policy, protocol, and toolkit for Los Angeles County, in accordance with the Countywide Cultural Policy.