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

The California Arts Council takes great pleasure in offering the second set of tours for American Masterpieces-California, a statewide initiative for the citizens of California. This particular part of the American Masterpieces-California initiative is titled "Musica Festiva de las Misiones (Festive Music of the Missions), music from the California's Hispano-Mexican Era." Click "more" to see the scheduled dates for performances this spring.

The California Arts Council's Artists in Schools program -- the largest program from the agency -- provides support for professional artists as community arts resources, complementing ongoing arts education in California schools. This is the first of two Artists in Schools 2008-09 panels, adjudicating applicants and their applications in the following disciplines: music, literature, and multi-disciplinary fields. Click "more" to see information.

The Dana Foundation recently announced the publishing of a major report on the effects of arts training on brain function. While the report findings were announced on March 4, 2008 (attendees at the California Arts Council statewide conference were some of the first to see it), Dana Foundation Chair William Safire informed audiences of the study in 2006. Take a look at the California Arts Council wrap-up of Safire's speech from 2006 to learn more about this important study.

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

• California playwright's move east
  LA Weekly
• The Los Angeles Problem: perception that success in Hollywood means "sell-out"
  LA Weekly
• Redford, Legend seek more arts funding
  USA Today
• Tax-free poetry
  Sacramento News and Review
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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

• California poet Robert Hass wins Pulitzer
• Two California organizations part of the NEA "Jazz Master Live" program
• Katz on "Arts and the Brain:" an expert's look at new study
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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

• NEH Preservation Education and Training
  National Endowment for the Humanities
  Deadline: 2008-07-01
• Gerbode and Hewlett 2008 Choreographer Collaboration Awards
  The Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation and The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
  Deadline: 2008-08-14
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Take a look at the vast number of arts-related competitions available for Californians

• California Arts Day
  California - Various Locations
• Arts Day at the California State Fair
  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

• Ready to Lead? Next Generation Leaders Speak Out
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