EdSource · Hot classrooms, leaky roofs — one student’s fight for better school facilities (Rebroadcast) California law mandates standards-based instruction from kindergarten through high school in ...

In the warm light of the newly expanded Hilbert Museum of California Art on a recent Wednesday afternoon, Mark Hilbert smiled with quiet pride as patrons passed by. Discussions came and went in hushed ...

She appeared to be a docent, standing in front of a colorful oil painting and chatting with museumgoers at the Hilbert Museum of California Art in Orange on a recent Saturday afternoon. But the woman ...

Press releases are posted on Independent.com as a free community service. (SOLVANG, CA, August 12, 2025) The California Nature Art Museum (formerly the Wildling Museum) is thrilled to announce a very ...

California College of the Arts will close after the 2026–27 academic year, ending 116 years as the Bay Area’s last private art and design school. Vanderbilt University will acquire CCA’s San Francisco ...

Orange — Mark and Janet Hilbert have one of the largest collections of California narrative art, and an expansion of the Hilbert Museum of California Art at Chapman University will create more room to ...

Sculptures by the Meadowsweet Dairy Collective (left) and Mark Di Suvero (right) seen beside the lake at the Di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art in Napa, California (photo John Seed/Hyperallergic) ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif.— California State Parks announced the launch of a new program, Arts in California Parks, to help make California’s parks more inclusive and welcoming. Through this new program, ...

“Visitors have cried and said ‘it feels like seeing old friends again,’” Twyla Ruby, the di Rosa’s curator of exhibitions and programs, told me during a tour of the show. “People really seem to be ...

California for the Arts has announced a $12.5 million grant program for small nonprofit performing arts organizations to help pay employees. The Performing Arts Equitable Payroll Fund, funded by the ...

Readers recommend their favorite museums and art destinations, including several hidden gems. By Soumya Karlamangla The exterior of the northern corner of the Oakland Museum of ...

Peter Merts, 72, is a photographer who captures arts programs in California prisons. Merts lives near San Quentin prison, located north of San Francisco, where his photo project began in 2006. Over ...