It's springtime in California ... days are getting longer, pollen is in the air, and the California Arts Council has been working hard with back-to-back events and projects since the beginning of the year. Here's some of the things we've been doing, and what's coming up.

Approximately once a year the California Arts Council uses in-house talent and sweat to create a public-value driven PSA on the arts. This year we're proposing a collaborative project, and we need your help.

Assemblyman Mark Leno of San Francisco presented San Francisco Poet Laureate Jack Hirschman with a proclamation at the statewide convening of local California poets laureate during the evening of April 2, 2008, in Sacramento. Here's what Assemblyman Leno had to say.

Roshawnda Bettencourt, a senior at Oakmont High School in Roseville (Placer County), has been actively involved in acting and theater since her sophomore year. She'll be representing California in the national Poetry Out Loud finals on April 29, 2008.

Arts in the Media page keeps up with news, features and editorials on arts-related issues from major news sources

• At home with Crocker Art's Scott Sheilds in Sacramento
  Sacramento Bee
• Maya Lin, D.C. Vietnam Memorial creator, to design environmental memorial in S.F.
  Los Angeles Times
• African American filmmakers who seek to be next in line
  Los Angeles Times
• Show's cancellation a rare case of artists advocating censorship
  San Francisco Chronicle
• California's civic poets convene to share ideas
  Sacramento Bee
• Continental Divisiveness: New York and L.A. Theater
  LA Weekly
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Arts Insider News keeps the arts community up-to-date with arts-related information that might not be included in major news outlets

• Smithsonian Magazine highlights California cities' arts scene for places to retire
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The California Arts Council is often notified of other financial opportunities like grants and initiatives, and we pass the information along to California ArtBeat readers

• Funding for NEH Faculty Humanities Workshops
  National Endowment for the Humanities
  Deadline: 2008-09-15
• NEH Preservation and Access Research and Development Grants
  National Endowment for the Humanities
  Deadline: 2008-07-01
• California Story Fund
  California Council on the Hummanities
  Deadline: 2008-07-01
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Take a look at the vast number of arts-related competitions available for Californians

• Panel for Artists in Schools Program
  CAC offices, Sacramento
• Panel for Creating Public Value Program
  CAC office in Sacramento
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Take a look at the vast number of arts-related competitions available for Californians

• Executive Director
  Virginia Avenue Project
  Santa Monica
• Development Director
  Children's Museum San Diego
  San Diego
• Executive Director
  Films By Youth Inside
  Los Angeles
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Take a look at the vast number of arts-related competitions available for Californians

• Derivative Composition
  
  
• Juried Art Exhibit
  Sequim (Washington) Arts
  Sequim, WA
• Seventh Annual Juried Art Exhibition
  Art Source Gallery
  Boise, ID
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Reports and studies on the arts as they relate to education, the economy, communities, quality of life, and other aspects of our lives

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