The supports a culturally vibrant and diverse arts ecosystem within the City of Berkeley by:
Funding grants to artists, arts organizations, and festivals.
Providing opportunities for artists to create and display work in the public realm.
Ensuring equitable access to high quality arts and culture for residents and visitors alike.
Berkeley Artist Showcase - Past Individual Artist Grantees
Check out the new Artist Showcase video! 10 previous Individual Artist Projects grantees (Fiscal Year 2023) share their Civic Arts grant-funded projects and discuss how this grant impacted their creative practice. This video was created by Berkeley-based
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Featured Artists include: Natalia (Natta) Quintero-Hong, Oona Garthwaite, Paula deJoie, Marlene (Cookie) Segelstein, Hector Salgado, Erica Azim, Mahsa Vahdat, H¨¦ctor Mu?oz-Guzm¨¢n, Elizabeth Rosner, and Emily Onderdonk.
Announcing Our New Grantees
Congratulations to the Fiscal Year 2025 Civic Arts Grantees!
Civic Arts is pleased to announce 11 grantees in the Individual Artists Projects grant category, 34 grantees in the Community Festivals grant category, and 12 grantees in the new Arts Programs grant category. A total of $303,680 has been awarded in this fiscal
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In addition to these FY25 awards, two grants were awarded in the pilot Fiscal Year 2024 Capital Projects grant category totaling $295,000.
Civic Arts thanks the grant review panelists for their diligent work in evaluating 130 applications across four programs.?
FY24 Capital Projects:
Berkeley Ballet Theater
Sense Object
FY25 Individual Artist Projects:
ChingChi Yu
Cordy Joan
Craig Nagasawa
Isaiah Mostafa
Jay Lotus Allen
Mart¨ªn Perna
Milani Pelley
Nur Yavuz
pan ellington
Risa Lenore
Yano Rivera
Community Festivals:
11th annual Bay Area Book Festival
2025 Junior Bach Festival Concerts
32nd Annual Indigenous Peoples Day Powwow and Indian Market
6th Annual California Native Ways - California Indian Arts & Culture Festival
Annual Contemporary Performance Diasporas Festival
Berkeley CA Juneteenth Festival
Berkeley Festival of Choro 2025
Berkeley Maqam Festival: Cross-Roots and Encounters
Berkeley Poetry Festival
Black Women's Roots Festival
Capoeira: Our Life-Giving Waters
Cesar Chavez Dolores Huerta Tribute Site
Community Block Party
Community Music Day
Comunidad En La Placita
DeFord Bailey Legacy Festival
Dia de los Muertos
East Bay Open Studios (EBOS) Berkeley
EBCLC Community Open House & Celebration
Family Empowerment Conference
Forgotten Frontlines: World War II's Asia-Pacific Theater and the Road to Partition
San Francisco Mime Troupe "Free Shows in the Parks" Berkeley
SF Bay Brazilian Day & Lavagem Festival 2024
Telegraph Second Sundays
The Berkeley Aquatic Park Youth Festival: A Bike and Boat Parade
The Front Row Music and Arts Festival (FRMAF)
Watershed Environmental Poetry Festival
West Berkeley Community Print Festival
Winter Jazzschool Community Ensemble Festival
Arts Programs:
ARTogether
California Poets in the Schools
Capacitor
Center for Accessible Technology
Center for Independent Living
Cubacaribe
Fuse Theatre Inc
Jazzline Institute
Mozart Youth Camerata
Options Recovery Services
Pacific Center for Human Growth
South Berkeley Neighborhood Development Corporation
New Cube Space Exhibition!
On the Currents of Inherited Dreams by Kira Dominguez Hultgren is now on view through August 30!
Kira Dominguez Hultgren (b. 1980, she/they) is a U.S.-based artist, weaver, and educator. They studied postcolonial theory and literature at Princeton University, and studio arts and visual and critical studies at California College of the Arts.
Dominguez Hultgren weaves with the material afterlife of a so-called multiracial family: Chicanx-Indigenous-Indian-Hollywood Hawaiian-Brown-Black. Instead of being passed down, weaving and textile processes are brought up, resurrected from family stories and
fabrics. Questions about cultural appropriation and codeswitching, exoticism, and performing cultural misrecognitions occupy their practice.
Dominguez Hultgren has exhibited their work broadly including shows at the Museum of Arts and Design in NYC, Lehmann Maupin Gallery, Ballroom Marfa, the San Jose Museum of Quilt and Textile, the Roswell Museum, Montgomery Museum of Fine Art, and Eleanor Harwood
Gallery in San Francisco.
Recent residencies and fellowships include the Basque BioDesign Center in Bilbao, Spain, Gensler, Facebook, and the Headlands Center for the Arts.
For more information on our Cube Space artist visit:
Upcoming Civic Arts Commission Meetings
September 13, 2:00 pm ¨C 3:00 pm: Grants Subcommittee
September 17, 3:30 pm ¨C 5:30 pm: Public Art Subcommittee
September 25, 6:00 pm ¨C 8:00 pm: Civic Arts Commission
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