I'm Kenney Mencher. I'm an artist who left a tenured professorship in 2016 to pursue making art full time. This blog is about art, art history, with a emphasis on human rights. I make homoerotic art featuring bears, otters & other gay wildlife.
Serving as a grant review panelist is an opportunity for artists and arts professionals to support the community by participating in cultural policy in action. Share your voice in shaping a creative California! Click here to learn more and apply online.
Healing Arts and Military Partnership Expands to California
This week, the National Endowment for the Arts announced California's Camp Pendleton as a new site for the Military Healing Arts Network supporting creative arts therapies for service members. MORE >>
School Board Candidate Arts Education Survey Responses
The California Alliance for Arts Education invited school board candidates for districts across the state to answer three questions on their views about the role of arts education in local schools. View candidate responses at http://www.artsed411.org/survey.
We're Hiring! Associate Arts Grants Administrator Vacancy
We'll soon be hiring a new staffer to join our programs team. At this time, interested individuals should take the Associate Arts Grants Administrator exam. Could this be the perfect job for you or someone you know? Check out the posting and spread the word. Exam deadline: November 18th. MORE >>
Introducing the California Arts Education Data Project
All students in California deserve to have access to high quality arts education that will provide them with important skills they need to succeed in today's competitive workforce. But up until now, we lacked the tools to show us where (and how) arts education is offered across the state.
Today, Create CA, in partnership with the California Department of Education and the Arts Education Data Project, launched a first-of-its-kind suite of tools designed to help increase participation in arts education across California. This new tool gives you insights on access to and enrollment in arts programming in local schools. You can review school-level, district, county and statewide data on middle and high school arts education course offerings and enrollment. MORE >>