Activate the State
Arts, Culture, & Creativity Month 2025
April is Arts, Culture, & Creativity Month – a month of free events, resources, and advocacy opportunities across the state with the goal of engaging arts advocates and raising awareness of the impact of the arts within communities.
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CA Arts & Culture Summit 2025
Join us for an enriching experience featuring insightful conversations and sessions aimed at exploring initiatives that profoundly impact and shape the lives of all who work in the arts and all that is possible when we center art, creativity, imagination, and inspiration as integral to society.
Arts & Health Initiative
This Initiative recognizes the arts as a powerful tool to enhance the health and well-being of our communities. One of the goals in our Vision 2030 Strategic Plan is to mobilize artists, culture bearers, creative workers, and community-centered arts and culture with other aligned sectors to develop public policies where arts and culture serve as drivers of community health and economic development.
Action Alert
Restore $5m to California Arts Council
In 2024, the California Arts Council budget took a significant hit and was cut by $5 million for two years, reducing its funding to just $21 million to serve the entire state. Assemblymember Chris Ward from San Diego, in his new role as chair of the Arts, Entertainment, Sports, and Tourism Committee, will request to restore that funding in the 2025-26 budget.
Bring Your Voice
Arts Advocacy Day 2025
Join CA Art Advocates and bring your voice to Sacramento for Arts Advocacy Day on Wednesday, April 23rd, 2025.
Let’s build a more creative California
We’re helping every Californian become an advocate for the arts – from raising awareness on why the arts are so important, to providing programs and services that support our state’s creative workforce and economy.
Learn
Learn how the arts advance our economy and society
Guides & Resources
Information for California's arts organizations
Video Library
Webinars and conversations with arts advocates
Research
Reports that drive our programs and services
Arts advocacy news and articles
Recent press releases
Engage
Engage with the creative community
Casemaking Resources
Make a case for the arts to local leadership
Campaigns
Help spread awareness of the arts
Our Programs
Get involved in programs across CA
Creative Opportunities
Change starts with advocacy
Our sister organization California Arts Advocates is hard at work driving policy change and working to increase and allocate funding to the areas that need it the most.
caartsadvocates.org