“The Arts” Facet works to increase and expand art activity and to elevate art programs through arts integration.
- Fresno Links focus on supporting and showcasing the achievements of visual and performing artists of color. “Expressions in Black” was a week-long exhibit of major works of art by local artists in an elementary school. Financial assistance has been provided to enable school-age students to participate in dance seminars and technique classes when the Dallas Black Dance Troupe is on tour in Fresno.
- Fresno Links also supported events where several authors have been presented to the Fresno community; including:
- Dr. Alvin F. Poussaint, a renowned African American psychiatrist, Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, and an expert on race relations in America; and
- Carlotta Walls LaNier, the youngest of the Little Rock Nine, a group of African American students who, in 1957, were the first African American students ever to attend the then all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas under a court ordered mandate. She became the first African American female to graduate from Central High and, later in 1999, was awarded the ‘Congressional Gold Medal’ presented by President Bill Clinton to each member of the Little Rock Nine.