October is National Arts and Humanities Month, and the National Endowment for the Arts wants to highlight favorite local arts organizations on its Facebook page -- one a day, for 31 days. Know a fabulous one in your community? Nominate it today! (But no self-nominations, please.) Make a nomination.

National Arts & Humanities Month is a coast-to-coast collective recognition of the importance of culture in America designed to encourage all Americans to explore new facets of the arts and humanities in their lives, and to begin a lifelong habit of active participation.  Now Americans for the Arts has an easy way for the people to learn about your National Arts & Humanities Month event.

CREATE CA:   Core   Reforms   Engaging   Arts   To   Educate
As an inter-agency, broad-based coalition of partners, CREATE CA is more than an initiative. It’s a movement. CREATE CA teams innovative thinkers from multiple sectors of California’s creative economy, public and private, to design an educational environment for all children that features arts education as part of the solution to the crisis in our schools. READ ABOUT THE INITIATIVE'S PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE.

She got a phone call out of the blue: $500,000 – no strings attached.  Uta Barth, Southern California conceptual photographer, was just named one of 2012's MacArthur Foundation Fellows, one of the world's most prestigious honors.