In the Field

The Wallace Foundation is launching a five-year, $53 million initiative focused on arts organizations of color.​ Aimed at fostering equitable improvements in the arts, the initiative begins with this guiding question: Facing strategic challenges, how do arts organizations of color leverage their experience and community orientation to sustain their relevance …

Offered by the Los Angeles Preservation Network, learn how to start an oral history program! Mon, August 23, 2021 11am – 12:30pm Registration, $15 suggested donation In this 90-minute online session, Oral Historian Jenni Matz (Director, Television Academy Foundation Interviews) will cover a basic overview of starting an oral history …

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation invites community-based archives in the United States and its territories to submit applications for its 2021 Call for Proposals to Community-Based Archives. These grants will provide support to archives in one or more of the following areas of need: Operational costs, including staff, space, and …

As part of a new, five-year, $100 million initiative dedicated to Black power-building and organizing in California, Akonadi Foundation joins other funders for the California Black Freedom Fund to provide grants to Black-led organizing efforts working to eradicate systemic and institutional racism. In its second round of grantmaking, California Black Freedom Fund will prioritize …

Poets & Writers is pleased to present the next California Virtual Town Hall Meeting, which will be held via Zoom, Tuesday, April 6, 4:30 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. Join Poets & Writers for a special presentation by Lucille Lang Day and Ruth Nolan, co-editors of Fire and Rain: Ecopoetry of …

On Friday, February 26th, the California Association of Museums is co-sponsoring a webinar with the California Department of Education (CDE). This two-hour event will launch the call for applications for the 2021 Superintendent’s Award for Excellence in Museum Education and serve as a primer on California’s academic standards and curriculum …

Unladylike2020 is convening the Where Are the Women? Summit, in partnership with PBS American Masters, WNET, National Women’s History Museum, National Council for the Social Studies, National Council for History Education, National Women’s Hall of Fame, and National Women’s History Alliance, and in collaboration with PBS LearningMedia, with funding from the Corporation …

The Bay Area Video Coalition (BAVC) seeks candidates who have the potential to impact our understanding of how documentaries can transform the world, as well as expanding the quality of the art of nonfiction. The cohort is a collaborative, community-driven space that places diversity, representation, and ethical relationships with storytelling …

Imaging America Collective Creative Engagement Opportunity

Imaging America Collective Creative Engagement Opportunity