CLA's Educational Program offers over 50 workshops, seminars and special events a year on a variety of legal and business topics that affect the creative community. 

Workshops topics include:

• basic copyright
• trademark 
• licensing 
• publishing 
• mediation 
• fashion
• artists/gallery agreement
• forming a non-profit
• contract basics
• music publishing

LEGAL REFERRAL & INFORMATION SERVICES

Are you a creative artist, arts organization, or independent inventor and have a legal matter? 

CLA is a State Bar of California Certified  Lawyer Referral and Information Service (LRIS) and can match you with a qualified attorney.

 We also help inventors through our California Inventors Assistance Program (CIAP). Apply online HERE

Need financial assistance? Qualifying applicants may apply for pro bono or modest means low cost legal advice. Click  HERE begin a financial screening. 

Call (888) 775-8995 or apply online

Need help resolving a dispute?

CLA's Arts Arbitration and Mediation Services (AAMS) has been providing alternative dispute resolution services for the creative arts community since 1980. 

AAMS provides:

• counseling 
• conciliation 
• mediation 
• arbitration
•  neutral evaluation 
• meeting facilitation 

Call (510) 990-6030 or apply online AAMS Assistance Form

Thank You to the participants of the

2019 Arts in Corrections: Reframing the Landscape of Justice conference!

Over the five days, 337 artists, educators, arts administrators and advocates from 23 states in the US, as well as the UK, Canada, France, India and Mexico convened at Santa Clara University to participate in over over 75 presentations, workshops, panels, art classes and break-out sessions led by 130+ presenters. The conference culminated on Alcatraz Island for the Future IDs Exhibit and Prison Arts Collective workshop.

We were honored to have Jimmy Santiago Baca as the conference artist in residence who gave a keynote address and conducted two workshops. The week was also highlighted by keynote addresses from Nicole Fleetwood, Rutgers University; Damieon Brown, Marin Shakespeare Company; and Rhodessa Jones, Idris Ackamoor and Felicia Scaggs, The Medea Project and Cultural Odyssey. 

Conference workshops and classes facilitated the spread of teaching methods, program development, and best practices that illuminated the power of art in carceral settings and called on the participants to support arts in corrections alumni during re-entry. 

Linocut print by Samuel Marquez, Gary Harrell, and Katya McCulloch, San Quentin Printmakers | photos by Peter Merts

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