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Create CA is proud to fully support AB 2440, which has now passed the California Legislature with unanimous support and is headed to Governor Newsom’s desk. The bill represents an important step toward helping Prop 28 deliver on its promise: expanding high-quality arts education opportunities for every California student. By strengthening clarity, transparency, and accountability,...

Create CA is proud to fully support AB 2440, an important step toward helping Prop 28 deliver on its promise: expanding high-quality arts education opportunities for every California student. By strengthening clarity, transparency, and accountability, AB 2440 will help ensure these historic resources are used as voters intended and reach students at every school. Getting...

Create CA believes every student, in every school, should have access to high-quality instruction across all art forms. Prop 28 is a historic investment that has moved California closer to that goal by providing ongoing funding for arts education. We remain deeply committed to ensuring these resources reach all students as voters intended and result...

  Dr. Veronica Alvarez Speaking at the Hearing After several months of collaboration and outreach, along with a coalition letter signed by partners across the state, on February 12th, the Assembly Committees on Education and Arts, Entertainment, Sports, and Tourism convened a joint informational hearing to review the implementation of Proposition 28, the Arts and...

Read Create CA's official statement on the federal education funding freeze.

Read Create CA's official statement on the unwarranted ICE raids and civil unrest in Southern California.

Create CA pilots a new iteration of the Arts Now program, which provides aligned nonprofit organizations technical assistance.

After being impressed with their work during the second Designing Advocacy cohort, Create CA commissioned Tzasná Pérez Espinosa, a queer Mexican-American artist from Tlalpan, Mexico City and Los Angeles! Their powerful designs center learning, healing, and social impact. Learn more about the trajectory of their work and what’s up next for them.

Sol Collective in Sacramento connects California's indigenous history to modern-day activism through their youth-designed digital zine, which explores identity, heritage, and social justice during Hispanic Heritage Month.

The following is part of a series of profiles highlighting various local education agencies' (LEAs) efforts to develop quality arts education programming for their students. These profiles intend to support LEAs in generating ideas for effective arts programming that school leaders could implement with Prop 28 funding in different contexts.

The following is part of a series of profiles highlighting various local education agencies' (LEAs) efforts to develop quality arts education programming for their students. These profiles intend to support LEAs in generating ideas for effective arts programming that school leaders could implement with Prop 28 funding in different contexts.

Create CA, California’s advocacy organization for equitable arts education, is thrilled to announce the appointment of Dr. Veronica Alvarez as its next Executive Director.