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

Voice of the
ARTS
November 2021 | Vol. 2, No. 2
NEW GRANT OPPORTUNITIES
California Venues Grant Program
Operations support for independent live event venues and producers in California affected by COVID-19. Apply by November 19.
Thousand Oaks Emergency Arts & Culture Grant
COVID-19 relief grants for arts and culture nonprofit organizations in the Thousand Oaks community. Apply by November 12.
NEA Creative Forces Community Engagement Grants
Support for arts programming for military and veteran populations and family members. Apply by December 15.
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.
IN CASE YOU MISSED
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.
Ventura County's Mixteco Culture in Photography, Poetry and Traditional Arts
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.
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