MACLA/Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana

MACLA is a community-based arts organization identified as Santa Clara’s “most practiced and mature site of cultural-citizenship-building through participatory arts” by Cultural Initiatives Silicon Valley in 2003. More than 30,000 children, youth, young adults, families and community residents participate in the 50 programs MACLA produces each year in San Jose, CA covering four core program tracts: visual arts; performance and literary arts; youth arts education; and community development through the arts.