Ventura County Arts Council — New Grant Opportunities; Teaching Artists Needed!

Voice of the

ARTS

November 2021 | Vol. 2, No. 2

Atrium Gallery is Open

Our Atrium Gallery is again open to the public during business hours in the Ventura County Government Center Hall of Administration on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. Check out our latest show, “Value”, in person through Nov. 16, or permanently on our website.

Right: “Cosmos” by Caroline Biggerstaff

Become a Panelist

The California Arts Council is seeking artists, culture bearers, government employees, and individuals with community-based organizations to participate in community panels for the California Creative Corps, a media, outreach, and engagement pilot program designed to support communities statewide. Apply by November 12.

Teaching Artists Needed

Our Artists in the Classroom (AITC) program is hiring visual, literary and performing artists to teach art residencies in K-8 classrooms across Ventura County. Submit a resume including art, educational background & teaching experience to education@vcartscouncil.org.

Ventura County’s Mixteco Culture in

Photography, Poetry and Traditional Arts

Watch this video about one of our past shows on our YouTube channel.Learn about the lives and experiences of Mixteco people through photos celebrating Central Coast field workers; through poems and art in three variations of the Mixtec language from the Mixteco Indigena Community Organizing Project’s (MICOP) Tequio Youth program; and through the work of master weaver and Zapotecan artist Porfirio Guitérrez.

Support Arts in Ventura County

Your tax-deductible donation will help to provide crucial, sustaining support to our long-running programs which serve students, artists and cultural organizations.