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Celebrating Cultural Treasures in Merced, California
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By Russell Rodr�guez, Program Manager
As part of the Activating Cultural Assets Project supported by ACTA and The California Endowment's Building Healthy Communities Initiative, a task force of Merced community members spent six months seeking, identifying, locating, and interviewing their community's cultural treasures -- the people, places, events, and groups that are culturally valued by the community. On January 25, 2014, the task force invited members of the Merced community to gather and celebrate these cultural treasures.
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Gran Mujeres: An Apprenticeship in Mexican Deshilado
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By Russell Rodr�guez, Program Manager
In the 2013 round of ACTA's Apprenticeship Program, we were honored to support artistic and cultural transmission between a mother and daughter pair of traditional artists, Patricia Zavala de Arias and Maria Arias, who live in the town of Firebaugh, California. These two women are invested practitioners of the Mexican form deshilado (des-ē-lah'-do), open work embroidery, in which strands of threads are pulled from the weave of material to create designs and patterns.
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Legislation Announced for $25 Million California Arts Council Budget
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By Amy Kitchener, Executive Director
This month, ACTA joined dozens of other arts organizations from around the state to participate in a hearing convened by Senator Ted Lieu (D-Torrance), Chair of the Joint Committee on the Arts, to examine the role of the creative sector in the state's economy. During the hearing, Senator Lieu announced his intent to introduce legislation that would restore state funding for the California Arts Council to $25 million.
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