The California Arts Council has announced a grant award of $42,000 to Arrowhead Arts Association as part of its Arts and Cultural Organizations General Operating Support program during its 2023 grant cycle.
The Arrowhead Arts Association fulfills its mission by supporting the aspirations of young musicians who live in the mountain communities through music education programs, support for local ensembles and concerts, and by providing direct funds to students for instruments and private lessons.
Ken Camarella, president of the Arrowhead Arts Association, is very pleased with this outstanding award and thanks the state of California and the California Arts Council for their emphasis on promoting arts education for the community’s aspiring young musicians. The study of music creates and instills a lifelong discipline in learning that transitions into any other endeavor that the student eventually embraces.
The Arrowhead Arts Association was featured as part of a larger announcement from the California Arts Council, with more than 850 grant awards totaling more than $32.75 million in projected funding and investments for operational and project support to nonprofit organizations and units of government throughout the state of California.
The nearly $33 million in awards for the 2023 grant cycle sets a new record for the state arts agency’s investment in California’s arts and culture workforce via permanent state and federal allocations for local assistance funds, upwards of $2.8 million more than its last record-setting year in 2020.
“In this last year, the California Arts Council has been working diligently to listen to our field, to be responsive to the moment and to do our best to make our investments strategic and equitable,” said California Arts Council Executive Director Jonathan Moscone. “I am proud that we are able to disperse more than 850 grants throughout the state so that the arts can continue to have a deep and positive impact on the vast and diverse communities of California.”
Organizations were awarded grants across six different program areas designed to benefit the whole of California’s arts and culture ecosystem, with focused considerations for first-time applicants, small and mid-size arts and organizations, folk and traditional art forms, county local arts agencies and arts service organizations, and opportunities with deep investment for both general operating and project-based support.
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