Creative Sonoma

📣 Happening TODAY! Join us at 1:00 PM via ZOOM for an Info Session on Creative Sonoma's Arts Impact Grants for Organizations (AIGO). Learn about funding opportunities and get your questions answered before the October 1 deadline! 🔗 Zoom link in the comments.

Pictured: AIGO grantee Sonoma County Matsuri Festival - a vibrant celebration of Japanese culture, Taiko drumming, food and community.

🚀 Work is underway on Creative Sonoma’s countywide Arts & Culture Benchmark Study! 🎨✨

We’re mapping Sonoma County’s creative ecosystem, from artists and culture workers to businesses and non-profits, to help guide future funding, policy, and programming across our region.

Combined with an upcoming Creative Economy report from the Economic Development Collaborative, and later discussions and visioning held in partnership with Kimzin Creative, this effort will strengthen and invest in our local creative sector.

Want to help shape the process from the ground up? Share your perspective in our quick intake questionnaire and (optional) leave your contact information to stay involved!

👉 Take the survey in the comments to join the process!

Pictured: Creative Sonoma grantee Acorn MusEcology Project performs in the Forest Theater in Armstrong Woods.

Access to arts education shouldn’t depend on a student’s ZIP code.

Real change often starts locally—when families, educators, and community members organize around a shared belief that creativity belongs in schools. Arts Now groups support that kind of work, helping communities advocate for arts education where they live.

As part of Spark Creativity for Brighter Futures, a year-long campaign with Create CA, we’re highlighting ways people can celebrate creativity-together!

Learn how to start an Arts Now group in your community at https://na2.hubs.ly/H07bbxg0.
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NOW OPEN! 🎨
Applications are officially open for Creative Sonoma’s 2027 Arts Impact Grants for Organizations (AIGO)!
AIGO provides general operating support to sustain Sonoma County’s creative and cultural nonprofits and the vital work they do throughout our communities.
Join us for a virtual Application Workshop on Wednesday, August 19 at 1 PM.
Learn more at https://na2.hubs.ly/H078Xqv0.
Pictured: Folklórico dancers present traditional dance through AIGO grantee Museum of Sonoma County’s Art4Kids youth education program.

🎨 AIGO applications open this Friday!

Creative Sonoma’s Arts Impact Grants for Organizations (AIGO) return for a sixth season, providing general operating support to sustain Sonoma County’s creative and cultural nonprofits. Learn More at CreativeSonoma.org/AIGO

Key Dates:
• Applications open Friday, August 14
• Virtual Application Workshop: Wednesday, August 19 at 1 PM
• Applications due October 1 at 11:59 PM

AIGO supports organizations working to expand equitable access, build community cohesion, and create high-quality artistic experiences that celebrate Sonoma County’s cultural identity.

Pictured: Members of the Hmong community celebrate with AIGO Grantee Asian American Pacific Islander Coalition of North Bay as featured in this month’s Arts at Work blog: CreativeSonoma.org/Blog

ARTS EDUCATION NETWORKING! 🎨
Inviting folks who support arts education to come out and enjoy interesting conversation and great food, beverages, and views as part of the Sonoma County Arts Education Alliance!

Attend this Mixer to learn more about what's going on in Sonoma County including the unveiling of the Reggio Emilia Project Plan. The Reggio Project has already involved many arts, education, community, and regional partners who are committed to creative, respectful, inquiry-based education for our youngest learners.

Teaching artists, arts and cultural organizations, arts and general education teachers, school/district/county administrators, parents, community advocates are ALL welcome!

📅 Tuesday, August 25, 2026
🕐 4:30-6:30pm
📍 Waterhawk Lake Club, Rohnert Park, no host bar
✨Learn more and RSVP!
https://hubs.la/Q04n9pfB0

🌟📣GRANT OPPORTUNITY: Extended Deadline!! August 17!

The Alternative Expsoure Grant directly funds visual arts projects that provide frameworks of support for artists to create and continue their work.

Grants of up to $5,000 to foster the development and presentation of artist-led projects and programs that are accessible and open to the public.

Both individuals and groups are eligible to apply on behalf of a project.

Deadline to apply: August 17

Learn more: https://na2.hubs.ly/H077lTH0

📣✨Check out some of these Opportunities offered by our community peers: Job Opportunities, Grant Opportunities and Calls For Artists. https://na2.hubs.ly/H073YqY0

✴️Job Opportunity: Performing Arts Technician III
Green Music Center at SSU

✴️Job Opportunity: Graphic Designer (Remote), Contract position
California Museum

✴️Grant Opportunity: SRTBIA Event Support. Event support for multi-day film productions that generate hotel stays. Apply by Sept 30
City of Santa Rosa

✴️Grant Opportunity: CALI Futures - Apply by August 28
Center for Cultural Innovation

✴️Grant Opportunity: Yéego Action Grant, Ongoing. Due the 10th of each month
First Peoples Fund

✴️Call for Entries: Many Moons Arts Exhibition. Artists of all backgrounds are invited to submit work that reflects personal and collective narratives shaped by culture, place, and lived experience. Submissions due August 11.
Sebastopol Center for the Arts

🔗Learn more here: https://na2.hubs.ly/H073YqY0
OR see Opportunities in our bio.

✨✨Calendar Spotlight: Here's what's happening throughout the County this weekend and upcoming week! Go enjoy something creative! Be sure to post your own events for a chance to be featured here! (https://na2.hubs.ly/H06ZnPX0):

✨July 30 through August 12: "Spirit Guides: Fantastical Creatures from the Workshop of Jacobo and María Ángeles", Sonoma Botanical Garden

✨July 30 through Oct 7: "Suzanne Jacquot Art at La Crema Winery", Windsor

✨Aug 1: "Woodworking 101 Workshop, Presented by Chimera Art Space, Sebastopol

✨Aug 1 "Found Poets featuring Anna Simson", The Big Easy, Petaluma

✨August 4 through Sept 24 "Author Talks Series" - Sonoma County Library, Virtual Series

🔗To learn more about these events and other events in the County, visit the following: https://na2.hubs.ly/H06ZnPX0

✨Jobs are available teaching music, art, theatre, and dance!
Click below to learn more!

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