This year marks the ninth annual California Arts Day on Friday, October 2. Slated for the first Friday in October and corresponding with National Arts and Humanities Month, California Arts Day coordinates the creative energy and love of the arts in the state to celebrate the arts as one community. The web form to post Arts Day events just went up this week -- submit your creative plans for California Arts Day!

The California Arts Council will join the California State Fair for the fifth annual "Arts Day at the Fair" on Saturday, August 29, 2009. Festivities include chalk-art murals, performances by talented youth, a visual-arts "treasure hunt" for kids of all ages, plein air painters creating their work live, and a Golden Bear "Artist of the Year" Award presentation and special exhibit for sculptor Clayton Bailey (who builds life-sized robot sculptures) and painter Fredric Dalkey (painter who will have his second retrospective at the Crocker Art Museum in the Fall).

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

• Restoring the Chicano Dream, One Mural at a Time
  Bell Gardens Sun
• Craig Watson Would Like to Speak With You About the Arts
  Long Beach Post
• OPINION: Why music education is important in the valley
  Desert Sun
• Restoration Work on Gifts of Art - Bill in U.S. Senate
  Wall Street Journal
• Arts Groups Consolidate Location in Santa Barbara
  Santa Barbara Independent
• Pamela Hayes takes ballet to big midtown Sacramento retail space
  Sacramento Bee
• Viver Brasil is 'thinking really big,' receives National Dance Project award
  Los Angeles Times
• Mellon Foundation grants Center Theatre Group $1 mil
  Variety
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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

• Riverside Art Museum Names New Executive Director
• Sacramento's Race for the Arts in August -- the 11th Year
• State Parks prepares for closures because of budget cuts, and the Tourism Commission wants to talk about it
• Deadline approaches for the California Writers' Exchange Award from Poets & Writers
• Aesthetica Magazine's Annual Creative Works Competition -- Deadline Aug 31
• Ford Amphitheatre Seeks Proposals for 2010 Summer Season
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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

• America's Media Makers: Development Grants
  National Endowment for the Humanities
  Deadline: 2009-08-26
• America's Media Makers: Production Grants
  National Endowment for the Humanities
  Deadline: 2009-08-26
• DEADLINE APPROACHING NEH: America's Historical and Cultural Organizations: Implementation Grants and Planning Grants
  National Endowment for the Humanities
  Deadline: 2009-08-26
• USArtists International (September deadline)
  Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation
  Deadline: 2009-09-08
• Hearst Screenwriting Grant - DEADLINE APPROACHING
  San Francisco Film Society
  Deadline: 2009-08-26
• John D. Mineck Furniture Fellowship - DEADLINE APPROACHING
  Society of Arts and Crafts
  Deadline: 2009-08-31
• Funding available for dance presenters; Aug 30 deadline
  ODC Theater / Irvine Foundation
  Deadline: 2009-08-30
• Mellon Foundation's Performing Arts Program
  Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
  Deadline: 2011-01-01
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See the different events for administrators, educators and professionals in the arts in California

• Western Art Alliance Conference
  Phoenix, AZ
• Auditions for the CA State Thespian Scholarships
  California
• Community Forum -- Implications of Cultural Engagement in California's Inland Regions
  Fresno
• Resource Seminar for Bay Area Artists from NY Foundation for the Arts (San Francisco)
  San Francisco
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Looking for work? See the different arts-related jobs available for Californians

• Director of External Affairs
  California Council for the Humanities
  San Francisco
• Multiple Positions (Sales Director, Gallery Manager and Gallery Director)
  Thomas & Associates, Inc.
  Los Angeles
• Museum Store Assistant
  Asian Art Museum
  San Francisco
• Membership Sales Assistant
  Asian Art Museum
  San Francisco
• Visual Merchandiser
  Asian Art Museum
  San Francisco
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Artists of all types are always in demand -- see what's available for Californians statewide, nationally and even internationally

• Public Art for Davis Central Park Gardens - RFQ
  Friends of Central Park Gardens
  Davis
• Third Exhibit: Kites Over Vista Public Art
  City of Vista Public Arts Commission
  Vista
• Request for Qualifications for a Public Art Project, Chabot College, Hayward, California
  Chabot College
  Hayward
• The National Drawing & Sculpture Exhibit
  Santa Cruz Art League
  Santa Cruz, California
• 2009 Dunsmuir Art Walk
  HawkMan Studios
  Dunsmuir, CA
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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

• CD-ROM: Arts and Civic Engagement Toolkit
• Cultural Engagement in California's Inland Regions
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