Create CA

Create CA is the only statewide organization dedicated to promoting, supporting, and advocating for visual and performing arts education for preschool through post-secondary students in California’s public school system. Through a leadership council, Create CA convenes key stakeholders to support statewide efforts to increase arts education in the public school system. Its training, online resources, consulting, and leadership on the Arts Education Data Project support 100,000 artists, K-12 teachers, parents, and educators and advocates in their school-based advocacy efforts. This grant to Create CA advances the Youth strategy, through the Policy and Advocacy substrategy, and will expand the organization’s existing Arts Now advocate training program to build the advocacy skills and capacity of youth-serving arts education organizations.

Create CA is the only statewide organization dedicated to promoting, supporting, and advocating for visual and performing arts education for preschool through post-secondary students in California’s public school system. Through a leadership council, Create CA convenes key stakeholders to support efforts to increase arts education in the state’s public schools. Through training, online resources, consulting, and support of the Arts Education Data Project, Create CA supports 100,000 artists, K-12 teachers, parents, educators, and advocates in their school-based advocacy efforts. This grant to Create CA will support the statewide dissemination of a forthcoming report by SRI on the state of arts education in California public schools, commissioned by the Performing Arts Program. This grant advances the Performing Arts Program’s Youth strategy through its Policy and Advocacy substrategy.