After seven years of facilitating traditional arts programming in California prisons, we developed two sister programs and accompanying workbooks in 2021: Traditional Arts as Restorative Justice and Traditional Arts as Healing from Trauma.

The two workbooks document dozens of lessons from 10 different artists that have grown out of this history of work, but with an intentional focus on how the traditional arts can create pathways towards healing from trauma and restoration. They were created specifically as a way to deliver curriculum remotely during COVID, and include spaces that invite students to write responses, planting seeds of personal and community restoration and healing on both physical and spiritual levels.

Flip through the two workbooks below, or sign up to receive a free download link for both publications!

Después de siete años de facilitar la programación de artes tradicionales en las cárceles de California, desarrollamos dos programas hermanos y los libros de trabajo que los acompañan en 2021: Artes tradicionales como justicia restaurativa y Artes tradicionales como sanación del trauma.

Los dos libros de trabajo documentan docenas de lecciones de 10 artistas diferentes que han surgido de esta historia de trabajo, pero con un enfoque intencional en cómo las artes tradicionales pueden crear caminos hacia la sanación del trauma y la restauración. Se crearon específicamente para entregar currículo de manera remota durante COVID, e incluyen espacios que invitan a lxs estudiantes a escribir respuestas, sembrando semillas de restauración y sanación personal y comunitaria tanto a nivel físico como espiritual.

¡Hojee los dos libros de trabajo a continuación o regístrese para recibir un enlace de descarga gratuita para ambas publicaciones! (disponible solo en inglés)

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The COVID-19 pandemic has been especially devastating to the folk and traditional arts community. During this time of extreme need among our constituents, ACTA did not close down or downsize operations. Rather, we more than doubled our output of funding for the field, administering several new grant programs and organizing multilingual sessions to share information on available resources through this period. We’ve linked arms with institutional partners and national coalitions to increase the depth and efficacy of our COVID responses, tapping into new skills in online convenings and remote collaboration.

Download ACTA’s Year in Review: (2020-2021)

Our interactive Year in Review highlights how ACTA responded to the pandemic with record-breaking grants, new programs, and creative adaptations to our existing work.

Learn about some of our special programs and new approaches this year by flipping through the report below (or click here to download).

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In 2017, the Alliance for California Traditional Arts marked twenty years of serving California’s folk and traditional artists, from cowboy poetry and African American quilting, to Hmong qeej music and queer voguing dance competitions. Over these two decades, ACTA has built an astonishing and resilient community built with visionary people like you—folks who practice, perform, engage, advocate and admire the rich work of traditional artists and the communities that surround them.

In 2017, the Alliance for California Traditional Arts marks 20 amazing years of serving California’s folk and traditional artists. Over our 20 year history, ACTA has

• invested $5.2 million into the folk and traditional arts field
• awarded grants to 590 traditional arts organizations
• supported 314 master artists and their apprentices
• worked in 50 of California’s 58 counties
• served 17 state prisons with our Arts in Corrections traditional arts workshops

Download our 20th Anniversary Brochure for more details on the last twenty years of ACTA’s work:

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