The CAC is committed to ensuring a vibrant, inclusive, resilient, and healthy arts and culture ecosystem in California, in which the staff and programs of arts and cultural organizations reflect the diversity, creativity and cultures of their communities. Driven by this commitment, the purpose of this RFP is to contract with new and returning organizations, culture bearers, and teaching artists that center cultural practices and traditional arts to develop and execute a program in at least one CDCR facility within the duration of the contract. Proposals may include professional development, mentorship, curriculum development; or innovative projects that seek to expand or challenge the status quo of arts programming in state