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Alliance for California Traditional Arts (ACTA) is a private nonprofit organization that provides advocacy, connections, grants, and other resources for folk and traditional artists in California. Amy Kitchener, a public folklorist, is the co-founder, founding director, and current executive director. [1]
Founded in 1997 by artists, arts administrators, and cultural arts enthusiasts, this organization began with a budget of $15,000, which has since grown to over 1.2 million annually. In 1999, ACTA became recognized as the official partner of the California Arts Council and has the distinction of being the only state organization that focuses solely on folk and traditional arts. [2] ACTA incorporated in 2001 and achieved 501(c)(3) status in December 2002.
The Alliance for California Traditional Arts’ (ACTA's) mission is to “ensure that California’s future holds California’s past.” ACTA is a statewide nonprofit organization that promotes and supports ways for cultural traditions to thrive now and into the future by providing advocacy, resources, and connections for folk and traditional artists and their communities. [3]
ACTA is funded through a diverse network of foundations, arts councils, and philanthropists. There are numerous ways for nonprofit groups to receive benefits from ACTA. Among the simplest is by listing themselves in ACTA's statewide database, by receiving the monthly e-newsletter ACTA publishes on traditional and folk arts, and by using their website as a forum to advertise their events as well as a vehicle to learn about other national and statewide agencies committed to helping the arts.
In a more hands-on fashion, groups in the San Francisco Bay Area can benefit from the Traditional Arts Roundtable Series that ACTA curates. These meetings foster an intercultural environment where tradition bearers and arts advocates can network, exchange ideas, learn from one another, and help each other with fundraising and technical assistance in community-based arts event planning. Recent roundtable discussions have been: “Borderlands: A Conversation about Immigration and the Arts,” “Worksample Laboratory for Traditional and Tradition-Based Artists,” and “Small Business Development for Traditional Artists.”
The crux of the support that ACTA gives to local arts communities is through three separate programs offered every year: The Apprenticeship Program, the Living Cultures Grants Program, and the Traditional Arts Development Program. A fourth grant program, the Traditional Arts Sustainability Grant, was offered for the first time in 2010.
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