Turnaround Arts: California is celebrating a decade of creativity and opportunity! Join us as we mark ten years of working in California’s public schools, ensuring more students have access to the arts to support their success in school and life.
Together with national and local partners that strengthen the impact of our work, Turnaround Arts: California uses the arts as a tool to fuel growth efforts in elementary and middle schools across the state. Initiated with financial support from Berta and Frank Gehry and the California Arts Council, Turnaround Arts: California is supported by a variety of public and private funders including the National Endowment for the Arts, Herb Alpert Foundation, Stuart Foundation, Eisner Foundation, Clarence E. Heller Charitable Foundation, Joseph and Vera Long Foundation, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, The Segerstrom Foundation, GRoW @ Annenberg, Henry T. and Elizabeth Segerstrom Foundation, and many generous individuals.
Our program coach partners include Collaborations: Teachers and Artists, Creative Coaching for Arts & Equity, P.S. ARTS, Sandy Seufert, and Dr. Akida Kissane Long. Collaborators include The Actors’ Gang, Beat the Odds®, Focus 5 Inc., Get Lit: Words Ignite, KID smART, Studio Pathways, and Visual Thinking Strategies.
Turnaround Arts: California builds a network of support around our partner schools, connecting them with regional community arts organizations, teaching artists, arts and cultural institutions, performance venues, professional learning experts, and higher education professionals in order to build community support systems that lead to sustainable change.
During the 2024/25 school year, Turnaround Arts: California is partnering with 21 public elementary and middle schools spread from our state’s southern border to our northern coast, with schools in urban, suburban, and rural communities. All are Title I schools with significant populations of socioeconomically disadvantaged students.
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