2023-2024 Grantees List
Individual Artists (26 total):
- Darren Villegas
- Theodore Meyer (Collective)
- Amanda Dumaguindin
- Audrey Maier (Collective)
- Emilia Ortega-Jara (Collective)
- Tamara Cedre (Collective)
- Cynthia Huerta
- Dean Mayo
- Makeda Kumasi (Collective)
- Adeola Davies-Aiyeloja
- Ben Allanoff
- Christy Roberts Berkowitz
- Cj Jilek (Collective)
- Sarah Wilson
- Jonny Miller Jr. (Collective)
- Adriana Lopez-Ospina
- Maria Gonzalez
- Pat Murkland
- Larry Burns
- Rosy Cortez
- Timothy Dupree (Collective)
- Jose Covarrubias (Collective)
- Bernard Hoyes
- Emmanuel Doublin
- Maisy Kasgnoc
- Benjamin Jeong
(Collective) represents artists who are part of a collective effort
Organizations and Agencies (26 total):
- About Families Inc.
- Academy of Musical Performance
- Akoma Unity Center
- Artists Council
- Bezerk Productions
- City of Moreno Valley
- City of San Bernardino Parks, Recreation and Community Services
- Civil Rights Institute of Inland Southern California
- Culturas Music & Arts
- Green Room Theatre Co. Coachella Valley
- Groundwork Arts
- Inland Congregations United for Change
- Inland Empire Labor Institute
- Inland Futures Foundation KVCR
- Joshua Tree National Park Association
- Lifting Our Stories
- Mil-Tree
- Omnitrans
- Palo Verde Valley Transit Agency
- Power Speaks Louder
- Public Art Advisory Committee (City of Twentynine Palms)
- The City of Ontario, Department of Museum Arts & Culture
- The Garcia Center for the Arts
- The Center for Social Justice & Civil Liberties
- The Pass Chorale
- Youth Mentoring Action Network
Background
The 2021 California State Budget included a 60 million dollar one-time General Fund allocation for the California Arts Council to implement the California Creative Corps pilot program – a media, outreach, and engagement campaign designed to increase:
Public health awareness and pandemic recovery
Public awareness related to water and energy conservation, climate mitigation, and emergency preparedness, relief, and recovery;
Awareness of civic engagement and election participation; and
Community engagement and awareness around social justice.
Goals
- Put artists to work
- This program will address 4 key topics that were identified at the state level. Artists will work with community-based organizations to create new, groundbreaking work and messaging focused on the following topics:
- public health and pandemic recovery
- water & energy conservation and disaster preparedness & recovery
- civic engagement and voter participation
- & social justice and community engagement
- Serve communities in Quartile 1 on the California Healthy Place Index map – or HPI map.
- Regrant directly to artists; and regrant to organizations and agencies to hire artists.
*Creative Corps Inland SoCal partners did not create the California Healthy Places Index map or take part in developing criteria, or deciding on healthy indicators. The intention of California Arts Council funding is to provide a broad geographic reach and to serve all 58 counties in California – while prioritizing communities that demonstrate the highest levels of need as indicated by the California Healthy Places Index.
Healthy Places Index
California Healthy Places Index
The Healthy Places Index – or HPI as we call it – is a project of the Public Health Alliance of Southern California, which is a coalition of 10 local health departments in Southern California. The HPI map uses indicators of health – economic circumstance, education, and social factors to rank census tracts from highest to lowest in the order of their impact as social drivers of health.
On the HPI map, they are shown in quartiles with dark blue representing Quartile 1 – indicating areas of the highest need on the Healthy Places Map. Light blue would be considered high priority and Quartile Bright green is the Quartile 4 – or the healthiest based on the ranking of health indicators.
Find where you live on the map here:
Demo and Tutorial on how to use the HPI :
