Now, creatives across the state are back in the game and audiences have returned looking for inspiration and entertainment.Each April, Californians for the Arts sponsors Arts, Culture & Creativity Month to underscore the importance of art in the Golden State.
Collective advocacy has led to major victories in recent years, with millions of dollars of relief funding. Each year builds on the momentum of the last to advance the ecosystem of the arts, support the sustainability of the sector, and to encourage Californians to value the arts as a critical component to health and wellness, education, civic life, thriving communities and thriving economies.
Organizations like the commission and other agencies across the county from Coronado to Carlsbad are often the unsung heroes who help keep the doors open and the lights on. In April, we are taking the opportunity of this monthlong celebration to focus on “investment” and, more specifically, the public investment in the arts through the engine of local arts councils and commissions.
The mandated art installations at the Firehouses are exactly what’s wrong with the city and art. The one near me with bronze kids climbing a pole is terrible and must have cost hundreds of thousands of our tax dollars.