Arts Council of San Bernardino County

🌈 CALL FOR ART + FOOD VENDORS 🌈 DTSB Art Walk Celebrates Pride Month! 🗓 Friday, June 26, 2026 ⏰ 5–9 PM 📍 Breezeway + Sole Alley 479 W 4th St, San Bernardino, CA This Pride Month, the DTSB Art Walk celebrates the ongoing contributions of LGBTQIA+ artists and communities. We invite artists, makers, and food vendors to apply. ✨ 🔗 Apply via link in bio 📅 Deadline: Friday, June 5th

🌟 IFF 2026 submissions are officially OPEN from May 1 – June 30! We’re accepting everything from live action fiction, documentary, and animation to music videos, experimental films, and even pilot episodes for film series, plus a full lineup of student categories. Hit the link in bio (FilmFreeway) to check out submission details, fees, and award info 🎬 This is our 3rd year running !! so save the date for October 2026 🥳🌟

Whoa, it’s the end of the school year already?! You know what that means: Arts Avenue is hosting our 5th annual End of the Year Student Art Exhibition. 🧑‍🎨✨ This year, we are honored to work alongside Expanded Learning in hosting the exhibition at the new Páxám Páxám Welcome Center! We are excited to share with you all of the amazing work participating students have created. 🎨🎥  Please join us for our interactive showcase and workshops. 🧶 More details will be shared soon! Location: Páxám Páxám Welcome Center, 746 N E St, San Bernardino, CA 92410 Opening Reception Date & Time: May 8th, 2026 from 4:30 PM - 7:00 PM Closing Reception Date & Time: May 29th, 2026 from 4:30 PM - 7:00 PM

Arts Connection is proud to be part of the statewide Spark Creativity for Brighter Futures campaign led by Create CA in partnership with Peanuts ✨ This campaign celebrates arts education and the educators bringing creativity into classrooms every day. Through Arts Avenue, teaching artists are helping students across San Bernardino City Unified School District build confidence, creativity, and connection through the arts 🎨

We’re back with another Convos with Community, part of Creatives at Work, featuring Jessica Bruny! 🌸 Jessica shares how wellness, ancestral healing, and community care shape her creative practice through mindfulness & sound healing, which centered on restoration for BIPOC communities. Her work reflects on sustainability for artists, collective support, and creating experiences where people feel seen, heard, and connected. 📅 Premiering Thursday, May 21st at 3 PM 📍 Coming soon on YouTube

Inviting all poets! 🎙️ We’d love to invite you to join us this Thursday May 14th for another Open Mic full of poetry and excitement as part of our Open Mic community series. This event is for all community, students, adults, and families that share a passion for poetry. Join us and share your poetry with us, or just listen and enjoy the amazing poems our community of artists have to offer. 📍 Valley College Gresham Gallery 🗺️ 701 South Mt Vernon Ave, San Bernardino, CA 92410 ⏱️ 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM FREE! ALL AGES! See you there!

California Individual Artist Fellowships — Apply Soon! Arts Connection – The Arts Council of San Bernardino County is proud to partner with the California Arts Council, Arts Orange County, and Riverside Arts Council to launch the California Individual Artist Fellowship (IAF) program for Region VII, serving Orange, Riverside, and San Bernardino counties. The program offers unrestricted fellowship awards of: • $5,000 • $10,000 • $50,000 Open to artists and culture bearers across all artistic disciplines. Application Deadline: Friday, May 15, 2026 If you are an artist or culture bearer living in Orange, Riverside, or San Bernardino County, we encourage you to apply before the deadline. Apply Here: /individual-artist-fellowship/ #CaliforniaArtsCouncil #IndividualArtistFellowship #ArtsConnection #ArtsOrangeCounty RiversideArtsCouncil SanBernardinoCounty RiversideCounty OrangeCounty Artists CultureBearers CreativeEconomy CaliforniaArtists

Thank you so much to all the community that came out to our Son Jarocho workshop at @thecheechcenter last Sunday! It was a beautiful moment full of shared stories, music, dance and sones! This program is possible that’s to the support and collaboration from The Cheech museum and team, Dr. Xóchitl Chávez and all of the community that’s comes out to celebrate this tradition with us! Mil gracias! ☀️🙏🏽

How can arts & culture help shape the future of San Bernardino’s economy? Join us for the Creative Economy Mayoral and First Ward Candidate Forums happening May 26th (Mayoral) and May 28th (First Ward) at Garcia Center for the Arts. Hear directly from Mayoral and First Ward City Council candidates as they discuss their vision for: ✨ Arts & culture citywide ✨ Economic development ✨ Neighborhood revitalization ✨ Community identity and Cultural Districts ✨ Creative workforce opportunities and Youth Pathways This forum brings together artists, creatives, educators, small businesses, local organizations, and residents for an important conversation about the future of our city and neighborhoods if we invest in Arts. Mayoral Forum - Tuesday, May 26, 2026 First Ward Forum - Thursday, May 28, 2026 Candidates arrive at 5:30 PM  🕕 6 PM – 8 PM 📍 Garcia Center for the Arts 536 W 11th St, San Bernardino, CA 92410 Hosted by the San Bernardino Arts Collaborative with community partners ICUC (@icucpico ) and Inland Empire Prism Collective (@ieprismcollective ) Free admission • RSVP encouraged SB Arts Collaborative Members: San Bernardino Generation Now • Garcia Center for the Arts • Arts Connection – Arts Council of San Bernardino County • Creative Grounds • Three Little Blue Byrds • Westside Story (Freddy Calderon) • National Orange Show • Relicore • San Bernardino Arts Association • Semilla Sibs • Future First #SanBernardino #inlandempire #creativeeconomy #civicengagement #votearts

Arts Connection is proud to be part of the statewide Spark Creativity for Brighter Futures campaign led by Create CA in partnership with Peanuts ✨ This campaign celebrates arts education and the educators bringing creativity into classrooms every day. Through Arts Avenue, teaching artists are helping students across San Bernardino City Unified School District build confidence, creativity, and connection through the arts 🎨 Arts Avenue is hosting our 5th annual End of the Year Student Art Exhibition 🧑‍🎨⭐️This year, we are honored to work alongside Expanded Learning in hosting the exhibition at the new Páxám Páxám Welcome Center! We are excited to share with you all of the amazing work participating students have created 🎥🫟 Please join us for our interactive showcase, cyanotype sketchbook covers workshop and picture frame fridge magnet workshop 🖼️ Location: Páxám Páxám Welcome Center, 746 N E St, San Bernardino, CA 92410 Opening Reception Date & Time: May 8th, 2026 from 4:30 PM - 7:00 PM Closing Reception Date & Time: May 29th, 2026 from 4:30 PM - 7:00 PM

We were honored with Hannah and Alexa’s presence at the CA Arts and Culture Summit this year 🤩 They’re both artists, advocates, and students at Cal State San Bernardino and they started a club on campus called Arts Advocates!! 🗣️ We brought them along to get a firsthand look at what arts advocacy looks like at the state level. The Summit brought together artists and orgs from across California to talk funding, policy, and how we show up for our communities, so this was their moment to connect that work back to campus and their fellow student advocates🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️ Here’s their POV from day two 🎥 #ACCM2026 #fundCAArts #JoyActionPower #ArtsAdvocacyDay2026

Permanent Sketching: Visual Development with Watercolor Sketching 🖌️🎨 🗓 Thursday, May 7, 2026 📍 Estudio Aire 468 W 5th Street, 1st Floor, Room 102 San Bernardino, CA 🎟️ FREE — RSVP via LINK IN BIO Workshop: 6:00–8:00 PM IFF Networking Mixer: 8:00–9:00 PM (wine + appetizers provided) A follow-up to The Mood Board Room, this hands-on workshop with Ricardo Corona invites you to translate ideas into watercolor sketches. Mood boards will be available if you missed the first session. Working with a medium that resists control, participants will explore what it means to commit to each mark. Through watercolor, you’ll build confidence, intuition, and adaptability in your creative process. Ricardo will begin with a live demo, introducing techniques like wet-on-wet and dry brushing, and offer guidance throughout. Perfect for emerging filmmakers, animators, and artists interested in world-building and design. ✨ Open to all levels. All materials provided. Stick around after for the Inland Film Festival Networking Mixer — connect, share work, and build community.