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Ventura County Arts Council — What’s New in 2021

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January 2021 | Vol. 2, No. 1
Recent Funds Provided to Local Arts Groups Serving Communities of Color
Greetings and Happy New Year! We are happy to share that in December 2020, with support from the California Arts Council, we were able to distribute CARES funds to 17 local arts and culture organizations who represent and serve communities of color disproportionately affected by COVID-19.
This money was allocated from a portion of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES) funds initially given to the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) who granted a portion of the dollars to the California Arts Council to be distributed by their State and Local Partners. As CAC’s Ventura County SLP, we were able to help the following groups with support for core operations and special projects:
  • Ballet Folklorico Bell Arts
  • Ballet Folklorico Cielito Lindo de Simi Valley
  • Bell Arts Factory
  • Club Flor Bonita
  • The CreArtive Freedom Family
  • Danza Tonantzin
  • Dr. Manuel M. Lopez Community Garden
  • Fork Space
  • Get Loud Movement
  • Inlakech Cultural Arts Center
  • Our Town. Our Children.
  • Oxnard Performing Arts Center Corporation
  • Redbird
  • Spectrum Collaborative
  • The Showtime Project
  • Teatro De Las America
  • Ventura County Chinese American Association
TEEN CENTRIC
Quiet by Nature
Locked Up For the 14th Time
In this episode, a girl inside the Juvenile Justice Center tells her story through confessional poetry.
TEEN CENTRIC - "Quiet By Nature" Locked Up For the 14th Time
CALLS TO ARTISTS
VC Artist Showcase:
Experiencing 2020
2020 was a year of challenge, grief, longing, questioning, reflection and, hopefully, insight. To kick off the new year, we are looking for artwork that represents the experience of local artists’ during this time, for exhibition in our storefront window exhibition space at Victoria & Moon in Ventura.
“Oh, How The Spirit Sings & Soars” by Kathy Copsey, from our current exhibition.
Atrium Gallery:
Message | Communication
Explore and reflect on events of the recent past or project your visions of the future. How will you send this message, how will you communicate your concept? What is your truth, your reality? This is an opportunity to exhibit online hosted by the Ventura County Arts Council Atrium Gallery.
“Alice’s Walk on the Avenue” by Richard Peterson, from our recent online show, “Origin.”
GRANT OPPORTUNITY
The California Arts Council recently announced the historic return of direct funding for California’s individual artists, for the first time in nearly two decades! Apply by April 1 for the Individual Artists Fellowship grant, supporting emerging, established, and legacy artists through unrestricted grant awards ranging from $5k to $50k.
Ventura County Arts Council in the News

TAKING ART TO YOUTH | Artists in the Classroom program…

“Art in any medium is so powerful as a tool to heal us, to provide comfort and groundedness … with children … [we] can offer them not just lessons in creativity but allow them to feel comfortable, and the space to express what they are feeling.”

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Local Artists’ Work Goes On Display In Outdoor Gallery…

“Artists … are getting the opportunity to showcase their work, in a COVID-compliant way. Ventura County Arts Council has come up with a way to create an art gallery for local artists, by displaying them in the window of an empty building.”

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Artists in the Classroom Online
Ask your school or PTA about hiring our teaching artists as part of their distance learning curriculum.
SPONSOR SPOTLIGHT
GWCProductions
‘Putting Eyes on Your Music’
Offering Pre-production /
Production / Post-Production
VCAC would like to acknowledge our sponsor, GWCProductions, for producing program videos that we are able to provide as content for our community, and to use in support of our grant application activities. Check out some of their recent work on our TEEN CENTRIC show on our YouTube channel.
Jeff Donovan is the owner of GWCProductions, and Michelle Hoover is the production manager. Michelle is also director at Our Ventura and producer of VenturaRockSpot Episodes for CAPS Media.
GWCProductions specializes in offering visual media services to artists and musicians. GWCProductions takes your concept and lifts it up with focus and direction to show what you have to offer. With over 25 years of experience and dedication, all projects receive an obsessive attention to detail, logistics and budget. References, reviews and more can be found on gwcproductions.com.
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