Organizations Filed Purposes:
ACTA's mission is to ensure that California's future holds California's past. ACTA promotes and supports ways for cultural traditions to thrive now and into the future by providing advocacy, resources, and connections for folk and traditional artists.
The Arts in Corrections Program provides traditional arts residencies in California state prisons. ACTA coordinated 65 residencies serving program participants in 18 state correctional institutions. Residencies consisted of two 13-17 week courses in traditional arts forms such as Native American bead work, Chicano murals, illustration, son jarocho, Afro-Colombian percussion, Mexican folk guitar, djembe, collective songwriting and storytelling. ACTA worked closely with the artists and correctional staff to coordinate the residences and document the impact through site visits, photographs, videos, and coordination of an outside evaluation project. Net difference includes the final payroll of the fiscal year; all funds were spent at the beginning of the next year.
Programs including discovery research to identify traditional artists and culture-bearers; Apprenticeship Program, which contracts master artists to work one-on-one in an intensive period of learning with experienced apprentices over the course of six months to one year; special initiatives, such as the current Traditional Arts and Health multi-year project in which cultural asset mapping inventories, videographic documentation and public programs are developed with community partners in efforts to "Build Healthy Communities;" redesigned an relaunched its website, publishing a monthly e-newsletter (The New Moon), maintaining an extensive database of artists; holding Roundtable gatherings for networking, technical assistance and artistic sharing; and leading advocacy efforts, both statewide and nationally.
The Living Cultures Grant Program funds non-profit organizations statewide to support projects in the traditional arts. Grant awards range up to $5,000 for projects that nurture, sustain, and engage participation in the traditional arts in California. Examples of projects include workshops, gatherings and classes that lead to cultural continuity of traditional practices; support for needed purchases, services, or acquiring new skills that sustain future traditional arts practices, and activities that engage and strengthen communities as well as engage with others, such as public presentations, festivals or community based events. Approximately 40 grants are awarded annually. ACTA staff makes in-person site visits and documents cultural practice, where appropriate.
Executives Listed on Filing
Total Salary includes financial earnings, benefits, and all related organization earnings listed on tax filing
| Name | Title | Hours Per Week | Total Salary |
|---|
| Amy Kitchener | Executive Dir. | 50 | $110,058 |
| Daniel Sheehy Phd | President | 1 | $0 |
| Carly Tex | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Libby Maynard | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Malcolm Margolin | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Peter Pennekamp | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Russell Rodriguez | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Jennifer Bates | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Josephine Talamantez | VP/Finance | 1 | $0 |
| Chike Nwoffiah | VP/Development | 1 | $0 |
| Joel Jacinto | VP/Governance | 1 | $0 |
| Charlie Seemann | Director | 1 | $0 |
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