Amador County Arts Council
The Amador County Arts Council (ACAC) is the official Amador County Amador County () is a county located in the U.S. state of California, in the Sierra Nevada. As of the 2020 census, the population was 40,474. The county seat is Jackson. Amador County, located within California's Gold Country, is known as "The ..., United States, arts council. A non-profit, local partner of the California Arts Council. Mission The Amador County Arts Council's mission is to Support Promote and Encourage the Arts in our Schools and Community. Programs ACAC Arts in Education Program To help local schools maintain the arts as an integral part of their children's curriculum. External linksAmador County Arts Council website Arts councils of California Amador County, California {{AmadorCountyCA-geo-stub ...
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Amador may refer to: People *Amador (name) Places *Amador County, California * Amador City, California * Amador, Panama * Lake Amador, a reservoir * Amador Valley, Alameda County, California *Dougherty, Alameda County, California, formerly called Amador's *Dublin, California, formerly called Amador *Amador Township, Minnesota *Fort Amador, a former U.S. Army post in Panama Other * ''Amador'' (film), a 2010 Spanish film * Amador, a fictional city in the Wheel of Time fantasy novel series * Amador (football club), São Tomé and Príncipe * USS ''Amador'' (AK-158), U.S. Navy cargo ship See also * Amador Central Railroad The Amador Central Railroad was a standard gauge railroad that operated between a connection with the Southern Pacific Company (SP) at Ione and Martell near the town of Jackson, California. The carrier served the Sierra Nevada Foothills gold ...

Amador County, California
Amador County () is a County (United States), county located in the U.S. state of California, in the Sierra Nevada. As of the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census, the population was 40,474. The county seat is Jackson, California, Jackson. Amador County, located within California's Gold Country, is known as "The Heart of the Mother Lode". There is a substantial Viticulture, viticultural industry in the county. History Amador County was created by the California Legislature on May 11, 1854, from parts of Calaveras County, California, Calaveras and El Dorado County, California, El Dorado counties. (historical marker placed by Board of Supervisors and Amador County Historical Society, 1954) It was organized on July 3, 1854. In 1864, part of the county's territory was given to Alpine County, California, Alpine County. The county is named for José María Amador, a soldier, rancher, and miner, born in San Francisco in 1794, the son of Sergeant Pedro Amador (soldier), Pedro A ...
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California Arts Council
The California Arts Council is a state agency based in Sacramento, United States. Its eight council members are appointed by the Governor and the state Legislature. The agency's mission is to advance California through arts, culture and creativity. History The California Arts Council was established in 1976 and signed into law by Governor Jerry Brown, who dissolved the existing 15-member California Arts Commission, which had been in existence since 1963. Brown appointed Eloise Pickard Smith as the Council's first director. Smiith established Arts in Corrections, which is still an active branch of the Council as of 2022. Purpose of state arts agencies When Congress created the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) in 1965, it required the NEA to apportion funds to any state that established an arts agency. The given reason was that arts agencies increase public access to the arts and work to ensure that every community in America enjoys the cultural, civic, economic and education ...
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The arts are a very wide range of human practices of creative expression, storytelling and cultural participation. They encompass multiple diverse and plural modes of thinking, doing and being, in an extremely broad range of media. Both highly dynamic and a characteristically constant feature of human life, they have developed into innovative, stylized and sometimes intricate forms. This is often achieved through sustained and deliberate study, training and/or theorizing within a particular tradition, across generations and even between civilizations. The arts are a vehicle through which human beings cultivate distinct social, cultural and individual identities, while transmitting values, impressions, judgments, ideas, visions, spiritual meanings, patterns of life and experiences across time and space. Prominent examples of the arts include: * visual arts (including architecture, ceramics, drawing, filmmaking, painting, photography, and sculpting), * literary arts (includin ...
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