Each year, the Arts Commission convenes volunteer panelists from across the state to review applications for its grants to organizations and schools.

These meetings are open to the public and offer a prime opportunity for current and prospective applicants to observe the panel review process and learn more about the qualities of successful, competitive grant applications.

May 13, 2015, 10:00am to 5:00pm

Community Investment Grants, Level II, group A: ASU Mercado, Room C131

Arts Learning Grants, group A: ASU Mercado, Room C146

May 14, 2015, 10:00am to 5:00pm

Community Investment Grants, Level II, group B: ASU Mercado, Room C135

Arts Learning Grants, group B: ASU Mercado, Room C146

May 15, 2015, 1:00pm-5:00pm

Community Investment Grants, Levels IV-VI: Arizona Commission on the Arts Conference Room

May 18, 2015, 10:00am-5:00pm

Community Investment Grants, Level III, group A: Arizona Commission on the Arts Conference Room

May 19, 2015, 10:00am-5:00pm

Community Investment Grants, Level III, group B: Arizona Commission on the Arts Conference Room

May 20, 2015, 10:00am-5:00pm

Community Investment Grants, Level I, group A: Arizona Commission on the Arts Conference Room

May 21, 2015, 10:00am-5:00pm

Community Investment Grants, Level I, group B: Arizona Commission on the Arts Conference Room

June 2, 2015, 10:00am-5:00pm

Festival Grants: Arizona Commission on the Arts Conference Room

Arts Learning Grants, group A

May 13, 2015, 10:00am to 5:00pm
ASU Mercado, Room 146

Arts Learning Grants, group B

May 14, 2015, 10:00am to 5:00pm
ASU Mercado, Room 146

Community Investment Grants, Level I, group A

May 20, 2015, 10:00am-5:00pm
Arizona Commission on the Arts Conference Room

Community Investment Grants, Level I, group B

May 21, 2015, 10:00am-5:00pm
Arizona Commission on the Arts Conference Room

Community Investment Grants, Level II, group A

May 13, 2015, 10:00am-5:00pm
ASU Mercado, Room 131

Community Investment Grants, Level II, group B

May 14, 2015, 10:00am-5:00pm
ASU Mercado, Room 135

Community Investment Grants, Level III, group A

May 18, 2015, 10:00am-5:00pm
Arizona Commission on the Arts Conference Room

Community Investment Grants, Level III, group B

May 19, 2015, 10:00am-5:00pm
Arizona Commission on the Arts Conference Room

Community Investment Grants, Level IV-VI

May 15, 2015, 1:00pm-5:00pm
Arizona Commission on the Arts Conference Room

Festival Grants

June 2, 2015, 10:00am-5:00pm
Arizona Commission on the Arts Conference Room

Community Investment Grants, Level I, group A

  • Arizona Bach Festival
  • Arizona Dance Education Organization
  • Arizona Early Music Society
  • Arizona Masterworks Chorale
  • Artists Coalition of Flagstaff
  • Bisbee Community Chorus
  • Casa Libre en la Solana
  • Civic Orchestra of Tucson
  • Desert Voices
  • Fine Arts Association of Arizona
  • Flagstaff Community Band
  • Gila Valley Arts Council
  • Grand Canyon Guitar Society
  • Heritage Square Trust
  • Indo American Cultural Connect
  • iTheatre Collaborative
  • Lake Havasu Regional Orchestra
  • Lake Havasu Symphonic Winds
  • Living Traditions Presentations
  • Movement Source (dba Movement Source Dance Company)

Community Investment Grants, Level I, group B

  • Musica Nova
  • North Valley Symphony Orchestra
  • Orange Theater Group
  • Orchestra Northern Arizona
  • Patagonia Creative Arts Association
  • Patrons of the Arts (dba Hilltop Gallery)
  • Phoenix Institute of Contemporary Art
  • Phoenix Women’s Chorus
  • POG, Inc.
  • Rising Youth Theatre
  • Safos Dance Theatre
  • San Tan Community Performing Arts
  • Scottsdale Neighborhood Arts Place
  • Sons of Orpheus – The Male Chorus of Tucson
  • The Bisbee Women’s Club
  • Tucson Guitar Society
  • Verde Valley Voices
  • VSA Arts of Arizona, Inc.
  • Winding Road Theater Ensemble
  • Young Sounds of Arizona

Community Investment Grants, Level II, group A

  • Arizona Art Alliance
  • Arizona Choral Arts Association
  • Arizona Repertory Singers
  • Borderlands Theater
  • Central School Project
  • Chandler Children’s Choir
  • Desert Sounds Performing Arts
  • Detour Company Theatre
  • Dry Creek Arts Fellowship
  • Flagstaff Master Chorale
  • Gold Canyon Arts Council
  • Grand Canyon Music Festival
  • Kore Press
  • Pan Left Productions
  • Prescott College Art Gallery at Sam Hill Warehouse

Community Investment Grants, Level II, group B

  • Red Rocks Music Festival
  • Salt River Brass Band
  • Scottsdale Philharmonic
  • Sonoran Desert Chorale
  • Stray Cat Theatre
  • The Rag Collection
  • The Symphony Women’s Association
  • Tucson Pops Orchestra
  • Verde Valley Sinfonietta
  • West Valley Youth Orchestra
  • Wickenburg Cultural Organization (dba Wickenburg Children’s Cultural Organization)
  • WomanKraft
  • Young Arts Arizona
  • ZUZI Inc.

Community Investment Grants, Level III, group A

  • Act One Foundation
  • Actor’s Youth Theatre
  • Arizona Classic Jazz Festival
  • Arts Express
  • Black Theatre Troupe
  • Canyon Movement Company
  • Center Dance Ensemble
  • East Valley Children’s Theatre
  • Flagstaff Friends of Traditional Music
  • Grand Canyon Men’s Chorale
  • Literacy Connects (Stories that Soar)
  • Many Mouths One Stomach
  • Mesa Encore Theatre
  • Metropolitan Youth Symphony
  • Northern Arizona Celtic Heritage Society

Community Investment Grants, Level III, group B

  • Odaiko Sonora
  • Orpheus Male Chorus of Phoenix
  • ProMusica Arizona Chorale and Orchestra
  • Roosevelt Row Community Development Corporation
  • Shemer Art Center and Museum
  • Southern Arizona Symphony Orchestra
  • Spotlight Youth Theatre
  • The Bisbee Radio Project
  • The Drawing Studio
  • Theatrikos Theatre Company
  • Weavel Inc.
  • White Mountain Apache Tribe Nowike’Bogowa Cultural Center and Museum
  • Willcox Historic Theater Preservation
  • Yavapai Symphony Association

Community Investment Grants, Levels IV-VI

Level IV

  • Desert Foothills Theater
  • Smoki Museum
  • Xico Inc.

Level V

  • Sedona Arts Center
  • The Mini Time Machine Museum
  • Tucson Children’s Museum (dba Children’s Museum of Tucson)

Level VI

  • Phoenix Office of Arts and Culture

Festivals

Level I

  • A3F Incorporated
  • Agua Fria High School Band Parent Organization, Inc.
  • Arizona Dance Coalition
  • Arizona Wind Symphony, Inc.
  • Casa Grande Friends of the Arts
  • Many Farms High School
  • UA Fred Fox School of Music

Level II

  • Arizona Aloha Festivals, Inc.
  • Arizona Asian American Association
  • Arizona Matsuri
  • CONDER/dance
  • Corazon De Latinos Unidos
  • Cultural Coalition, Inc.
  • Flagstaff Music Festival
  • Friends of Big Band Jazz – Prescott Jazz Summit
  • Grand Canyon Salsa Festival
  • Greater Phoenix Jewish Film Festival
  • India Association
  • La Frontera
  • Mesa Martin Luther King Celebration, Inc.
  • Phoenix Chinese Week
  • Prescott Chamber of Commerce
  • Prescott Film Festival
  • Sidepony Music
  • Southern Arizona Blues Heritage Foundation
  • The Carpetbag Brigade
  • Town of Payson
  • Tsunami Arts Festival
  • Tucson Jewish Community Center
  • Tucson Kitchen Musicians Association
  • West Yavapai Guidance Clinic Foundation
  • Wham Arts Association

Panel Locations

Arizona Commission on the Arts

417 West Roosevelt
Phoenix AZ 85006

ASU Mercado

502 East Monroe 
Building C
Phoenix AZ 85004

image of ASU Mercado via Wikimedia Commons