Programs & Services
Arts Council Napa Valley (ACNV) was founded in 1980 to provide leadership that unites our exceptional arts and culture community of Napa County. Through innovative programming and continuous advocacy, ACNV works to unify and strengthen the voice of the local arts sector. Because of our diversified role in the nonprofit arts community, ACNV is uniquely suited to foster collaboration and communication between varied creative individuals, organizations, businesses and government. We are the stable foundation for our arts community to be built upon.
ARTIST OPPORTUNITIES Calls for artists, grant postings, audition notices, and residencies are updated bi-weekly on the Arts Council Napa Valley website, giving artists a viewfinder into the world of local creative opportunities. Artist members may additionally opt to view opportunities via Arts Council Napa Valley’s quarterly e-newsletters.
Artist Opportunities
Napa Valley ARTS
A month-long, valley-wide festival showcasing the vibrant, multi-disciplinary creativity alive in the Napa Valley.
Program is to take place November 2012.
Geared for the community and visitors alike, this celebration includes dance, theatre, music, literature, visual arts, film, cultural and heritage programs, new media and arts education. The backbone of Napa Valley ARTS is ACNV's Master Online Arts & Culture Calendar, nvarts.org. This free community calendar is a one-of-a-kind events hub, providing information on all of Napa Valley's daily cultural activities in a single click. Long after this second annual celebration ends, we invite patrons to continue to discover countywide events using this growing resource.
October ARTS '11 Celebration
ARTS EDUCATION Our longest-running program, Arts Education provides matching grants to local schools and community organizations to help fund in-school and after-school arts programming. With the goal of diversifying creativity in the classroom, we conduct professional development workshops and support mentoring programs for artists who want to learn how to bring their creative skills to students. As of 2010, Arts Council Napa Valley is the official arts education contractor to the Napa County Office of Education (NCOE), providing teaching artists for after-school and special programs.
www.artsednapa.org
ARTS IN APRIL Legendary Napa Valley Arts in April™ celebrates the elemental synergy between art and wine, showcasing arts programming in wineries, galleries, museums and performance venues while giving visitors reasons to come and stay longer during a low-occupancy period.
Arts in April
Patrons enjoying Sabine Reckewell's installation entitled, "Flow" on launch night located to the left of the Merrell's building. Photo by Israel Valencia.
ART ON F1RST Through a partnership with the Tourism Improvement District (TID) and the Property Based Improvement District (PBID), Arts Council Napa Valley coordinates and maintains art installations exhibiting in vacant retail spaces in Downtown Napa. Each year, ART ON F1RST's installations are selected by a committee of arts professionals. Work is displayed in eight-month cycles to revitalize and drive foot traffic to Napa's downtown retail corridor.
ART ON F1RST
FISCAL SPONSORSHIP Providing a responsible, financial structure and oversight, our Fiscal Sponsorship program supports creative community programming for start-up organizations, volunteer groups and individual artists in a transparent and strictly monitored process.
Fiscal Sponsorship
MEET THE MAKERS For this annual photograph exhibition and fundraiser, professional and emerging artists are selected to represent a particular sector of Napa's expansive arts and culture community. The quarter-length group exhibition, taking place in January , is showcased at an exclusive cultural venue. A total of sixty photographs are featured to represent the year's theme. Completed with an artist reception, Meet the Makers is a unique event where diverse generations come together to celebrate the talent living in the world-renowned Napa Valley.
Meet the Makers
One of ten sculptures "Fish On" by Terrence Martin of located at the corner of Main and Third Street in Napa.
NAPA ARTWALK A rotating, temporary, outdoor sculpture exhibition showcasing a variety of three-dimensional artwork throughout Downtown Napa. Launched in 2010 in partnership with the City of Napa, ARTwalk was created to increase foot traffic in our downtown retail sector while providing an educational vehicle for understanding and appreciating the power of public art in our community. Complete with an audio tour (created with QR Codes, a new communication tool using Smart Phone technology), the self-guided tour creates unique interactions with the sculpture and viewer.
www.napaartwalk.org
MASTER ONLINE ARTS & CULTURE CALENDAR (WWW.NVARTS.ORG) & SOCIAL MEDIA SUPPORT
A comprehensive online calendar listing information, ticket information, web links and maps, ACNV’s Master Online Arts & Culture Calendar is Napa’s source for local visual, literary, theater, music, dance, historical, and cultural events. This all-embracing resource also features workshops, classes, benefits, and lectures as well as a new section devoted to community resources for parents and educators. The calendar also links to the "Underground Calendar", featuring alternative events for youth. Maintained by staff and diligent volunteers, the NVarts.org Calendar also includes event reminders and updates the Napa community on events a minimum of four times daily via Facebook and Twitter.
MASTER ONLINE CALENDAR CONFIRMATION PROGRAM (Beta)
The Master Online Calendar Confirmation Program offers Napa Valley’s flourishing hospitality industry a way to inform their guests about arts and culture events happening in the Valley. By posting an RSS data feed from nvarts.org directly onto a hotel's website, this new ACNV program makes it easy for hotel staff to include upcoming events in their guests’ confirmation emails, as well as provide visitors with up-to-the-minute event information during their stay.
ONLINE ARTIST REGISTRY
Our Online Artist Registry showcases the work of local artists, writers, designers and musicians in an online menu format available as a free community resource. It includes detailed information on all participating member artists, including resumes, biographies, artist statements, web links, contact information, and features up to ten images per artist.
View Registry
Stella Palado, 2010 Napa County Poetry Out Loud Winner. Photo by Kristine Cummins.
POETRY OUT LOUD
In partnership with the CAC, the NEA and the Poetry Foundation, Poetry Out Loud annually spotlights the importance of poetry and recitation in our high schools. Collaborating with Napa Valley High Schools, ACNV plans a countywide recitation competition, whose winner goes on to compete at the state level in Sacramento. The national competition that follows offers the winner college scholarship funds.
Poetry Out Loud
Photo by Kristine Cummins.
STUDENT ART EXHIBITION AT NAPA CITY HALL
This quarterly, rotating student art exhibition showcases the incredible arts education happening in classrooms throughout Napa County. With work chosen by a local educator, ACNV coordinates the framing, presentation and exhibition of up of to 25 pieces. The young exhibition artists, their families and teachers are honored at a special reception held at a regular City Council Meeting, with presentations by the Mayor, City Councilmembers and ACNV staff.
Student Art Exhibition
