Master Yurok basketweaver Margaret Lee Peters (right) and her cousin and 2014 apprentice Kristen Rose Raymond.
Photo: Russell Rodr�guez 

New Funding Opportunities: Living Cultures Grants Program and Apprenticeship Program

This month, ACTA announces new funding opportunities for folk and traditional artists:

Living Cultures Grants Program
Deadline: July 15, 2015

Apprenticeship Program
Deadline: July 15, 2015

Join us for a webinar on May 28 or June 11 (English) or June 4 (Spanish) to learn more about ACTA's programs.

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Eastern Coachella Valley residents at a tejido (embroidery) workshop taught by local master artist Natividad Morales Gonzalez and her daughter Conchita Pozar Gonzalez.  Photo: Marco Luna

Celebrating Purepecha Tejido in the Eastern Coachella Valley

Join ACTA in Coachella on Friday, May 8th as we celebrate the culmination of a 14-week Purepecha tejido (embroidery) workshop series.  Workshop participants will be displaying their collective work, sharing testimonies about their class journey, and sharing traditional Purepecha food and music. Taught by local master artist and cultural treasure Natividad Morales Gonzalez and her daughter Conchita Pozar Gonzalez, the workshops were held as part of ACTA's ongoing work with The California Endowment's Building Healthy Communities initiative.

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 Photo: Lily Kharrazi

ACTA Bids Farewell to Nayamin Martnez

This past month Nayamin Mart�nez, ACTA program manager and bilingual outreach specialist, left to take a new job in her chosen field of public health.  Nayamin worked at ACTA for over four years and quickly became an integral member of our ACTA family.  ACTA is grateful to Nayamin for her great work.  Nayamin's energy, commitment, talent, wit, and delicious lunches will be greatly missed by all of us here at ACTA.

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City of Oakland's Cultural Funding Program
Deadline: May 4, 2015

National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures' Transnational Cultural Remittances
Deadline: May 21, 2015

National Endowment for the Humanities' Common Heritage Grant Program
Deadline: June 25, 2015

ACTA's Living Cultures Grants Program
Deadline: July 15, 2015

ACTA's Apprenticeship Program
Deadline: July 15, 2015