An overview of the #MyCreativeCA series, from the California Art Council’s 40th Anniversary Celebration. From the role of art in STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art and math) to preserving traditional and folk arts, the series of videos show the wide reach of California Arts Council’s grantees and partnerships to advance arts in California for everyone. Videos were produced by Los Angeles-based For Example Media.

Oakland-based dance organization Destiny Arts first received a California Arts Council grant in 1989.

Fact: Most prison inmates are eventually released. Tim Robbins’ Actors Gang Prison Project is sending them home with changed attitudes and new problem-solving skills.

California is home to 2 million veterans, more than any other state. Here’s one example of how veterans and local artists are collaborating to create a large-scale, community art installation telling the story of the veteran experience in the town of Marysville, California.

The work of the Alliance for California Traditional Arts preserves the unique art forms of California’s diverse cultures. Some of these art forms are native to our state; others have traveled here from every corner of the globe.

STEM + ART = STEAM. See how San Diego’s Malashock Dance Company is teaching students math through movement at a local Title 1 elementary school. 

Piece by Piece combines the dignity of work with the focus and joy of art, employing Skid Row residents in mosaic projects large and small.