African/African-American
Profile
Black Storytellers of San Diego
African American storytelling
June 19, 2019
Organization
Oral Traditions/Language
Southern Border
Profile
Allyson Allen
African American quilting
June 19, 2019
Artist
Visual/Craft/Material Arts
Inland Empire
Profile
Flavio Alvarez
Garifuna Wanaragua traditions
June 19, 2019
Artist
Dance, Folklife/Other
Greater Los Angeles
Profile
Danny “Slapjazz” Barber
African American hambone
June 19, 2019
Artist
Dance, Music
Southern Border
Reporters Tena Rubio and Rubén Tapia from the national Latino public radio network Radio Bilingüe went inside several California state prisons ACTA serves through our Arts in Corrections program.
May 11, 2019
Multi-genre, Music, Oral Traditions/Language
Statewide
It is with a very heavy heart we share the difficult news on the passing of 2018 NEA National Heritage Fellow and California quilt-maker Marion Coleman. Marion has long been a part of the ACTA family, and her impact on the field of African American art, culture, and…
May 1, 2019
Visual/Craft/Material Arts
Bay Area
ACTA is excited to launch a new program: Reentry Through the Arts. Specially designed for individuals who are returning to their communities following incarceration, this 18-week program centers on two traditional arts workshop series in Los Angeles: Mexican son jarocho music, dance, and verse at the Amity Foundation,…
March 27, 2019
Music
Greater Los Angeles
In this Sounds of California Bayview concert on April 29, 2018, our musical artists ponder displacement, migration, and creating a new sense of home. They musicians hail from the Bay Area’s African-American, Vietnamese, Kurdish, and Chicano communities. Sounds of California takes place in the heart of the Bayview-Hunter’s…
April 25, 2018
Bay Area
