California Humanities and Grantees Report 2015 Projects and Activities
Each June, our major funder and federal partner, the National Endowment for the Humanities, requests from all 56 humanities councils a report outlining the past year’s activities. The report includes […]
Halfway Mile Marker for Our On The Road Discussion Series
Journalism and Democracy in California San Jose State University Student Union Héctor Tobar, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author, moderator Rob Kuznia, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and writer Frances Dinkelspiel, author and […]
California Humanities Staff Explores Rosie the Riverter WWII/ Home Front National Historic Park
Recently, California Humanities staff had a chance to listen to and meet with Betty Reid Soskin, who at the age of 94 is the oldest full-time National Park Ranger in […]
National Steinbeck Center’s Susan Shillinglaw Talks About the Importance of Water in Salinas
“I am a water fiend . . .Water is everything to me.” – John Steinbeck, 1948 As part of a national celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Pulitzer Prize, California […]
California Humanities Launches the Art of Storytelling
California Humanities is celebrating its first year in historic Swan’s Market in Oakland by launching The Art of Storytelling Exhibit Series, sharing the work of artists with a humanities twist. […]
California Reads The Grapes of Wrath (2002)
“This is the beginning—from ‘I’ to ‘we’” is how Steinbeck describes the Joad’s family journey along route 66 to California, that “western land nervous under the beginning change,” in The […]
Message from the President: New Directions at California Humanities- Come Join Us!
What is it about California that excites the imagination of people around the world? We are expansive in many ways: we have the sixth largest economy in the world, driven […]
California Humanities Announces 34 Awards for First Round of New Quick Grants Program
We’re very pleased to conclude another year of grantmaking by announcing the awards for our first Humanities for All Quick Grant round.
A State of Open Mind Leads to the Strong Connection Between Arts and Humanities in California
California Humanities’ President & CEO Julie Fry, along with Craig Watson, the former director of the California Arts Council speak with Dennis Mangers, former California Assemblymember and arts champion in an exclusive California Channel interview.
Japanese Americans on the Peninsula, Project Director Interview
In recognition of Asian Pacific Heritage Month, California Humanities interviewed Laura Ishizaka and Lessa Kanani’opua Pelayo-Lozada, project directors of Japanese American on the Peninsula: Learning from Our Past to Look to Our Future.
