Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana
For General Support Of The Performing Arts Program
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Amount$75,000
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Program
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Date Awarded11/17/2008
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Term36.0 Months
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Type of SupportGeneral Support/Program
Overview
Founded in 1989 in downtown San Jose, MACLA is a multi-disciplinary arts space rooted in the Latino/Chicano experience that engages multiple communities, cultures, and aesthetic approaches. At its performance space/art gallery venue MACLA produces and presents live theater, visual art exhibitions and youth focused literary events ranging from performances by Pulitizer prize winning author Junot Diaz to year-round Teen Poetry Slam workshops and shows. Each year 16,000 people attend low or no-cost MACLA productions and many more use MACLA’s facility rehearsals, community meetings and performances by other local arts organizations, including Hewlett grantees such as Teatro Vision. With a $500,000 annual budget and a two person staff (supplemented by six other part-time staff all in their teens or twenties), MACLA will use renewed support to increase salaries for administrative staff and make improvements to their facility to enhance the performance experience for artists and audiences. ($50/2 ; 5% of organizational budget)
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.maclaarte.org
Grants to this Grantee
for general operating support
Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana, better known as MACLA, is a multidisciplinary contemporary arts space in San Jose, that’s grounded in the Chicano/Latino experience. MACLA’s programming includes performances of theater, spoken word, music, and dance, as well as exhibitions, artist residencies, workshops, community-engagement activities, and digital media education for youth. Through mostly free or low-cost programs, it serves more than 30,000 people each year, including 120 artists who are paid to share their work and talents, and 150 local youth served through media arts training programs. This grant to MACLA advances the Performing Arts Program’s Communities strategy.
for general operating support
Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana (MACLA) is a hybrid urban arts space located in downtown San Jose, and rooted in the Chicano/Latino experience. MACLA intersects many communities, cultures, and aesthetic approaches. Its arts programming stretches across live theater, presenting nationally recognized performers, visual arts exhibits, youth programming that engages participants in activities from folkloric traditions to multimedia productions, and art workshops. With a grant renewal, MACLA would maintain the quality of its performing and youth arts programming, and continue to work with DeVos Institute of Arts Management to ramp up the capital campaign for its multimillion-dollar effort to purchase and renovate its current facilities.
