This month, we're honored to feature a guest blog from Tracy Hudak, Director of Field Engagement & Advocacy at CA for the Arts.

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We are all feeling it – this sensation of surfing tectonic shifts in technology, government priorities, and civic life. Uncertainty is causing unease while also making room for new possibilities. These possibilities are where we should take our aim. If we think about culture as a means by which we affirm and exchange values, then now more than ever, artists and tradition bearers, dancers and poets, playwrights and percussionists are needed to remind us how precious we each are, how much we matter to one another, and how vital and magical the things are that we create together.

Think of April 2025, California’s Arts, Culture & Creativity Month, as a window of time to take action on creating the America you wish to build… 

Click here to read and share her full piece on Medium.