RESOURCES
OPPORTUNITIES FOR ART
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Smart Entry is a great resource when looking for shows and competitions to enter.
Smarter Entry is an economical, fully integrated, web-based competition and call-for-entry management system.
https://www.smarterentry.com/CallsForEntry
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CAREER AND STUDY RESOURCES
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The Art Career Project
The most comprehensive resource for aspiring artists on the web. Search hundreds of career profiles and top art programs across the country.
Student Art Guide
An art education website dedicated to helping high school art students excel, and which provides art project ideas, motivation and tips to help students reach their potential. www.studentartguide.com
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Student Art Guide's How to Make an Art Portfolio for College or Univeristy
PROGRAMS AND COMPETITIONS
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California State Summer School for the Arts (CSSSA)
CSSSA is a rigorous pre-professional training program in the visual and performing arts, creative writing, animation, and film for talented artists of high school age. CSSSA provides a supportive environment in which students hone acquired skills and explore new techniques and ideas for an intense and exciting learning experience.
National YoungArts Foundation
The National YoungArts Foundation identifies and nurtures the most accomplished young artists in the visual, literary, design and performing arts and assists them at critical junctures in their educational and professional development.
LOCAL YOUTH ARTS ORGANIZATIONS
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6th Street Playhouse — education@6thstreetplayhouse.com
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A Theater For Children — admin@atheaterforchildren.com
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Alchemia — liz.jahren@alchemia.org
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Alexander Valley Film Society — kathryn.hecht@avfilmsociety.org
Art Escape — info@artescapesonoma.com
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ArtStart Santa Rosa — jennifermygatttatum@gmail.com
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California Indian Museum and Cultural Center — lauracimcc@gmail.com
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California Poets in the Schools — margo@margoperin.com
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Cazadero Performing Arts Camp — EWainacht@Cazadero.org
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Children's Museum of Sonoma County — Lauren@cmosc.org
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Chimera Art Space — will@chimeraarts.org
Cinnabar Theater — nathan@cinnabartheater.org
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Cloverdale Arts Alliance — info@cloverdaleartsalliance.org
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Fire Circle Theater — rush.cosgrove@firecircletheater.org
Green Music Center, Sonoma State University — becky.cale@sonoma.edu
Healdsburg Center for the Arts — artclass@healdsburgcenterforthearts.org
Healdsburg Jazz Festival — jessicafelix.ap@gmail.com
La Luz — angie@laluzcenter.org
Luther Burbank Center for the Arts — aworley@lutherburbankcenter.org
Museum of Sonoma County — lcleipzig@museumsc.org
Music to My Ears, Inc. — christa@funmusiclessons.com
Petaluma Arts Center — lgoodwin@petalumaartscenter.org
Play It Forward Music Foundation — nicksimmonsmusic@gmail.com
Play Marimba — sparkstobias@gmail.com
Pulse Arts — erobertson@wusd.org
Railroad Square Music Festival / The Lost Church — Josh.windmiller@thelostchurch.org
Raizes Collective — raizescollective@gmail.com
Raven Performing Arts Theater — tom.brand@raventheater.org
Roustabout Theater — clark.lewis@roustabout-theater.org
Santa Rosa Arts Center — info@santarosaartscenter.org
Santa Rosa Symphony — wcilman@srsymphony.org
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Sebastiani Theatre Foundation — info@sebastianitheatre.com
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Sebastopol Center for the Arts — anneo@sebarts.org
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Sirens Studio — Terriannegutierrez@yahoo.com
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Sonoma Bach — dianna@sonomabach.org
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Sonoma Community Center — liz@sonomacommunitycenter.org
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Sonoma Conservatory of Dance — info@sonomaconservatoryofdance.org
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Sonoma County Taiko — info@sonomacountytaiko.org
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Sonoma Valley Jazz Society — info@SonomaValleyJazzSociety.org
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Sonoma Valley Museum of Art — mmaynard@svma.org, sparker@svma.org
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The Imaginists — amy@theimaginists.org
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The Theater School, Inc. — libby@thetheaterschool.org
Transcendence Theatre Company — nkimzin@ttcsonoma.org
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Valley Vibes — kcrean@sonomaschools.org
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Windsor Bloco — windsorbloco2005@yahoo.com
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Windsor Performing Arts Academy — tyrdnhappy@yahoo.com
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Young Actors Studio / Left Edge Theatre — Argo@leftedgetheatre.com
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Art & Soul School of Creative and Performing ARTS — teaching@artandsoulmusic.com
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Artstart SR — info@artstart.us
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Creative Sonoma — debbie.yarrow@sonoma-county.org