PRETOMA - Last year CAP partnered with Costa Rican marine conservation and research organization, PRETOMA to develop community art projects that addressed the conservation of the olive ridley sea turtle (Lepidochelys olivacea). CAP’s main location, Punta Banco, is home to PRETOMA’s oldest and most successful community run sea turtle hatchery. We plan to continue this fruitful partnership in the years to come and have big plans for 2009. For more information on upcoming art & conservation workshops, click here.

¡CAREY! - CAP is currently working with marine conservationists Alex Gaos and Ingrid Yañez of ¡CAREY! to develop art and conservation workshops focusing on the near-extinct Hawksbill sea turtle. Recent sightings of this rare animal in the coastal regions around Punta Banco make this a vital topic on which to focus.

Educational Partners

CAP's primary international partner is San Francisco State University's Department of Art Education, where CAP was conceived and lovingly nurtured. In 2009, CAP is looking forward to working with John F. Kennedy University's Department of Arts & Consciousness and the Russian River Charter School. For further information on these partnerships, or to enroll in programs at these universities, click here. If you or your organization would like to work with CAP, we are always open to new partnerships.