Collaborative Institute of Cultural Arts

Collaborative Institute of Cultural Arts (CICA) is a 501c3 non-for profit organization that focuses on providing quality art education to children, youth, and adults following a given set of strands (Art making, Art literacy, Cultural understanding, Social justice, Critical thinking and Community/family engagement). CICA’s main objective is to provide a well-rounded, ongoing cultural and social youth development program through cultural folkloric arts such as dance and music, in harmonious congruency of a rigor discipline and adherence to assure the fulfillment of each participant’s set of artistic, academic and future career goals. 
CICA counts with a professional and international Mexican folkloric dance company that focuses on the teaching, preservation and diffusion of Mexican folkloric dance, music and culture. The folkloric dance company serves as platform for youth to practice and feel proud of both cultural identities as multi-cultural American.