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New Civic Arts Grantees! Plus Artist Showcase video & Cube Space exhibition


 

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Berkeley Civic Arts Newsletter

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 .

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 year.?

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
  • Growing Songs
  • Ho'¨­la N¨¡ Leo: Celebrating Hawaiian Sound Healing
  • La Pe?a Summer Tianguis and Community Block Party
  • Legados II: Grito de liberdade
  • North Shattuck Summer Block Party Series
  • 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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Banner Image Credit: Detail from Michael Arcega¡¯s artwork Wildflowers, Bloom! at San Pablo Park.

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