What is California Creative Corps?
California Creative Corps is a new workforce development opportunity for artists and cultural practitioners, arts and social service sector organizations. This grant program aims to employ artists to create awareness around public health, water and energy conservation, climate mitigation, emergency preparedness, relief, and recovery, civic engagement and social justice.
The 2021-22 State Budget included a $60 million one-time General Fund allocation for the California Arts Council to implement the California Creative Corps pilot program, a media, outreach, and engagement campaign designed to increase awareness related to issues such as public health, water and energy conservation, climate mitigation, and emergency preparedness, relief, and recovery.
California Arts Council has selected fourteen organizations to administer the California Creative Corps across nine regions with a grant activity period that launched on October 1st. Nevada County Arts Council has been chosen to create a regranting program for Upstate California, putting to work $4,230,216 in workforce development funds for artists, as well as for arts and social service organizations who will employ artists between early 2023 and late 2024. Supporting local outreach with local knowledge, as well as technical assistance for artists, and program development and evaluation, are multiple county arts agencies serving what amounts to the largest, most diverse, geographic area in California, with more counties than any other Creative Corps region.
California Arts Council sees the California Creative Corps program primarily as a job creation and human infrastructure development opportunity. The hope is that, region by region, the program will increase the ways in which artists are engaged in public work, so that they can continue build upon intersectional public interest goals beyond it’s the program’s pilot funding timeline.
More program details available at upstatecreativecorps.org
The 2021-22 State Budget included a $60 million one-time General Fund allocation for the California Arts Council to implement the California Creative Corps pilot program, a media, outreach, and engagement campaign designed to increase awareness related to issues such as public health, water and energy conservation, climate mitigation, and emergency preparedness, relief, and recovery.
California Arts Council has selected fourteen organizations to administer the California Creative Corps across nine regions with a grant activity period that launched on October 1st. Nevada County Arts Council has been chosen to create a regranting program for Upstate California, putting to work $4,230,216 in workforce development funds for artists, as well as for arts and social service organizations who will employ artists between early 2023 and late 2024. Supporting local outreach with local knowledge, as well as technical assistance for artists, and program development and evaluation, are multiple county arts agencies serving what amounts to the largest, most diverse, geographic area in California, with more counties than any other Creative Corps region.
California Arts Council sees the California Creative Corps program primarily as a job creation and human infrastructure development opportunity. The hope is that, region by region, the program will increase the ways in which artists are engaged in public work, so that they can continue build upon intersectional public interest goals beyond it’s the program’s pilot funding timeline.
More program details available at upstatecreativecorps.org
Grant Application Process Opening February 6!
Requests for Proposals will be available early February and open through late March.
Plumas Arts will be holding grant workshops. Dates available soon.
Requests for Proposals will be available early February and open through late March.
Plumas Arts will be holding grant workshops. Dates available soon.
“The grant monies are specifically for hiring artists, but the project ideas are endless,” says Plumas Arts Executive Director Kara Rockett-Arsenault. “I have been to quite a few brainstorming sessions for the grant and have heard many incredible ideas. Everything from public transportation awareness and health care coverage advocacy to issues dealing with voter awareness, wildfire recovery, the housing crisis, watershed health, and issues facing local tribes. Grants will not be restricted to any medium and can include dance, creative writing, music, sculpture, murals, digital art, videography, theatre, photography, storytelling, and more.”
Grant guidelines will be available soon, and the application period should open in early February. Smaller grants will be available for individual artists, mid-sized grants will be available for artist/organization partnerships, and larger grants will be available for multi-county partnerships. Organizations can use the money to hire an artist in residence, produce public works of art, create an awareness campaign, and more.
Plumas Arts will provide several grant workshops once the application process opens, as well as networking opportunities for agencies or organizations that have ideas, but don’t know how to connect with the artists.
Grant guidelines will be available soon, and the application period should open in early February. Smaller grants will be available for individual artists, mid-sized grants will be available for artist/organization partnerships, and larger grants will be available for multi-county partnerships. Organizations can use the money to hire an artist in residence, produce public works of art, create an awareness campaign, and more.
Plumas Arts will provide several grant workshops once the application process opens, as well as networking opportunities for agencies or organizations that have ideas, but don’t know how to connect with the artists.
Ways to Get your Questions Answered
Email or Call Kara Rockett-Arsenault at Plumas Arts: kara@plumasarts.org or 530-283-3402
Upstate California Creative Corps Informational Webinar:
When: Feb 10, 2023 12:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)
Register in advance for this meeting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/.../tZ0qfuCsqT4uGNcuegqfT8jEMrTDz...
When: Feb 10, 2023 12:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)
Register in advance for this meeting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/.../tZ0qfuCsqT4uGNcuegqfT8jEMrTDz...
Upstate California Creative Corps Virtual Office Hours:
Feb 14, 2023 12:00pm
Feb 21, 2023 12:00pm
Feb 28, 2023 12:00pm
Mar 7, 2023 12:00pm
Mar 14, 2023 12:00pm
Mar 21, 2023 12:00pm
Mar 28, 2023 12:00pm
Link to join:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84287582858...
Feb 14, 2023 12:00pm
Feb 21, 2023 12:00pm
Feb 28, 2023 12:00pm
Mar 7, 2023 12:00pm
Mar 14, 2023 12:00pm
Mar 21, 2023 12:00pm
Mar 28, 2023 12:00pm
Link to join:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84287582858...
Interested in serving on the grant review panel?
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Plumas Arts is looking for approximately 5 individuals to serve on a local grant review panel. Please fill out this short application to indicate your interest.
Panelist will be selecting by March 1. Mandatory Panelist Training on March 15. Panelists Must Be:
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January Creative Corps Meetings
Monday January 16 meeting recording and slides available soon.
