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3 unusual facts about California Arts Council


California Arts Council

In 1994, through special legislation, the California Arts Council and the California Department of Motor Vehicles began offering the first specialty license plate in the United States to directly benefit the arts.

In addition to detailed information about the California Arts Council's current grants and programs, including application instructions, the website includes links and information to grants from other agencies and foundations, arts jobs postings, arts news and links to articles of interest, information about California Poetry Out Loud, festivals around the state, events such as California Arts Day (which occurs on the first Friday of October, National Arts & Humanities Month), and much more.

Elizabeth Willis

Willis has been awarded fellowships from the California Arts Council and the Howard Foundation and has won the National Poetry Series, the PEN New England Award and the Boston Review Prize for Poetry.


Paul Fericano

Published by Second Coming Press and funded by a grant from the California Arts Council, lawmakers used this as a reason for denying Jane Fonda's appointment at the time to the California Arts Council by Jerry Brown during his first turn as governor of California.

Radio Bilingüe

Its funders include the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, The California Endowment, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the National Endowment for the Arts, the California Arts Council, the California State Health Department - Tobacco Control Section, and many other funding partners interested in informing hard-to-reach, low-income, Latino populations in California and across the U.S.


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Chitresh Das

Pandit Das has also received numerous grants including from the Olympic Arts Festival, National Endowment for the Arts, National Dance Project, California Arts Council, Rockefeller Foundation, Irvine Fellowships in Dance, among others.